Crypto firm backed by real-world assets plans to go public this year

Despite challenges in the current DeFi and metaverse landscape, the reports highlight potential growth and innovation in these emerging sectors.

U.S. software company Salesforce has won a patent to detect spam emails using blockchain technology. The patent filing was published on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website Tuesday, Nov. 4.Salesforce, which offer its customers is a cloud-based mailing platform, patented a solution that allows for the detection of whether an initial email was…

Blockchain entrepreneur Alex Tapscott is paying a $148,000 fine and will lead ethics seminars at three Canadian business schools per his settlement agreement with the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), according to a report by The Globe and Mail on May 13.Tapscott, the CEO of blockchain firm NextBlock Global Limited initially filed for a public settlement…

South Africa has taken another step closer to implementing its central bank digital currency (CBDC) as the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) concludes a technical proof-of-concept for the project.The project, titled Project Khokha 2 (PK2), is the second phase of SARB’s Project Khokha (PK1), launched in 2018. It experimented with distributed ledger technology (DLT) for…

Bitcoin (BTC) will continue to grow but altcoins will not feel the benefits, veteran trader and author Peter Brandt predicted in a new market forecast on June 27.Writing on social media, Brandt, who has become a vocal source on cryptocurrency prices, said that unlike the previous bull market cycle in 2017, bitcoin’s gains would not…

Tuesday, April 2 — Bitcoin (BTC) has pushed over $4,500 for the first time this year, while top crypto markets are solidly in the green for the second day in a row, some seeing major 24-hour growth.Market visualization from Coin360The price of BTC skyrocketed, gaining more than 14 percent in the space of one hour…

A study by risk solutions provider, Kroll, indicated that a group of hackers from Russia managed to file fraudulent unemployment claims with the Washington State Employment Security Department, or ESD, through a ransomware attack against a healthcare provider in the US.According to research published on June 17, the firm investigated browser history logs that the…

The Ethereum layer-2 scaling solutions provider is going up against StartWare’s tech stack Starknet.

Ant Group remains the world’s biggest blockchain patentee, while IBM is considered to be the most cited developer of patents in the industry. 1662 Total views 21 Total shares Chinese holding conglomerate Ping An Group filed the largest number of blockchain-related patents in 2020, according to a new report.Intellectual property-focused magazine Intellectual Asset Management has…