The Surprising Reason Why Blockstack Could Be America’s First Crypto IPO

You don’t need me to tell you that bitcoin (BTC) has been on a tear. The first and largest cryptocurrency by market cap is up over 6% just in the past 24 hours, after crossing a supposedly psychologically important threshold of $65,000 according to CoinDesk Indices data. It’s now within striking distance of its all-time

news Security token specialist Templum is shifting from public to private blockchains. Announced Monday, enterprise software vendor Symbiont is building a private blockchain and smart contracts system that Templum will use for future security token offerings (STOs) by its clients. Previously, the regulated broker-dealer left the choice of blockchain protocol up to the issuers, but…

TP ICAP, the world’s largest interdealer-broker, announced last week that its Fusion Digital Assets marketplace for spot crypto trading had gone live with its first trade. The traditional finance giant is bringing crypto to more institutional investors during a prolonged bear market and after a number of headline-grabbing scandals rocked the industry.“While the crypto-native landscape…

Dec 6, 2020 at 2:19 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 6, 2020 at 2:20 p.m. UTC(Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)The Fiat Standard and Debt SlaveryOn August 6, 1915, His Majesty’s Government issued this appeal:In view of the importance of strengthening the gold reserves of the country for exchange purposes, the Treasury have instructed the Post Office and all…

Founded in 2013 by Bart Stephens, Bradford Stephens and Brock Pierce, Blockchain Capital is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the blockchain industry. General Partner Spencer Bogart joined the firm in 2017. Formerly known as Crypto Currency Partners, Blockchain Capital has invested in over 55 equities and tokens, including Abra, Kin, 0x, LedgerX, Ripple…

Investment behemoth Pimco, which has over $2.2 trillion in assets under management, has dabbled in cryptocurrencies and plans to invest further, according to Chief Investment Officer Daniel Ivascyn.Ivascyn told CNBC on Wednesday that some of the fixed-income focused firm’s hedge-fund portfolios are already trading crypto-linked securities, which he described as a “starting point.”“We’re trading from…

COLD WORLD: A handful of accounts associated with the Hive hard fork can't move their steem now. (Credit: Shutterstock)Steem Witnesses Freeze $3.2M in Latest Tit-for-Tat With Hard Fork InsurgentsWitnesses on Steem have frozen eight accounts, putting a total of 17.6 million steem (worth approximately $3.2 million) in limbo. The accounts can be seen listed on…

Jun 23, 2020 at 15:25 UTCOil refinery (Susan Santa Maria/Shutterstock)U.S. tech giant Microsoft and universities in Germany and Denmark have released a paper outlining the potential benefits of blockchain technology in building an international carbon credit market. The paper, published Monday and titled “Blockchain Application for the Paris Agreement Carbon Market Mechanism – A Decision…

As part of our special NFT series, we asked the artist EFDOT to make an image of Racer, the Friend.tech co-founder.Click here to view and bid on the NFT created by EFDOT. The auction will begin on Monday, 12/4 at 12p.m. ET and ends 24 hours after the first bid is placed. Holders of a