Blythe Masters Looks Beyond Finance for Next Wave of Blockchain Growth

Jun 16, 2020 at 11:00 UTCCEO Mason Borda (right) and CTO James Poole (left) at work. (Credit: Tokensoft)Tokensoft, a digital securities platform for enterprises and financial institutions, has partnered with New York-based Signature Bank in a bid to make security tokens click for real estate investors. Most platforms for trading security tokens consist of alternative…

news French President Emmanuel Macron has called for increased use of data technologies such as blockchain in the EU to boost the agriculture industry and address concerns over food traceability. Inaugurating the 56th International Agricultural Fair in Paris at the weekend, Agridigitale.net reports, Macron spoke of the need to authenticate and track agricultural products amid…

Insurance companies have historically shaped standards and promoted safer practices throughout society. In the automobile industry, they drove the development and adoption of now-ubiquitous safety measures – like seatbelts and airbags. By reducing premium payments for vehicles equipped with safety features, insurance companies helped align incentive mechanisms for car manufacturers and drivers and enforce higher

Famed economist Nouriel Roubini plans to strike a fiery tone on cryptocurrency and blockchain before a group of U.S. senators on Thursday. Roubini will testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs alongside Coin Center director of research Peter Van Valkenburgh in a hearing entitled "Exploring the Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Ecosystem."…

(FTT), the native token of defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has surged by 90% following comments from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Gary Gensler in relation to a potential reboot of the exchange.In response to questioning over whether Tom Farley, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, was looking to buy FTX, Gensler

With all due respect to Molly Jane Zuckerman and Jeff Albus, the co-authors of a recent Blockworks column discounting the idea of voting for pro-crypto politicians in the upcoming election in the U.S., voting your conscience is a good thing. Despite the headline (“Only a fool would vote on crypto alone”), the piece was fairly

Jun 18, 2020 at 16:21 UTCUpdated Jun 18, 2020 at 16:26 UTCMichael Novogratz of Galaxy Digital (CoinDesk Consensus archives)Novogratz: Galaxy Digital Will ‘Suck’ if Bitcoin Fails to Become an Institutional AssetWith Galaxy Digital now working on an educational course for financial advisers, founder Mike Novogratz told CoinDesk he hopes it will help finally kick-start the…

"You can buy a gift on Venmo and send it out. You can invite people and send it to another Venmo user, you can send it to a PayPal user. You can send it to an external wallet, you can send it to the hardware wallet, which we think is something fundamentally important," da Ponte…

Digital asset funds attracted net inflows of $346 million last week fueled by anticipation for a spot bitcoin ETF, CoinShares reported.Bitcoin fund inflows surpassed $1.5 billion this year amid signs of short-seller capitulation.Ether and Solana led among altcoins fund inflows.Crypto investment funds last week attracted their largest net inflows this year, extending their strongest run