UK Member of Parliament Resigns as Blockchain Startup Advisor

news Cadence, an ethereum-powered marketplace for commercial debt, is out of its test phase. The startup, which recently secured a place on the Bloomberg terminal for its pools of commercial loans, is now open to all institutional and accredited investors. Such users can now contribute funds to packages of short-term loans that help businesses cover payroll, inventory and other…

news Hong Kong graphics card producer Sapphire Technology is launching a new line of miners targeting the privacy-focused “grin” cryptocurrency. Sapphire announced the launch of its RX 570 16GB HDMI Blockchain Graphics Card on Tuesday, saying it would be “the first of a new family” of products designed to mine grin and other cryptocurrencies. The…

news Until now the National Security Agency (NSA) has restricted its activities in the crypto space (as far as we know) to tracking bitcoin users, but now the agency may be working to develop its own. According to a tweet from Bloomberg cybersecurity reporter William Turton, the director of the NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate, Anne Neuberger, said at the…

news The owner of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), is reportedly eyeing a New York license for its long-delayed crypto exchange Bakkt. With Bakkt’s launch having been held up for five months, apparently over persuading the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to approve it to custody bitcoin for its planned physically-delivered futures contracts, ICE apparently…

“With traditional sources of lending restricted by current market conditions, this issuance enables investors to access on-chain bonds and commercial paper at a fraction of the cost and time, within the same secure and regulated framework they are familiar with from the traditional financial markets,” Bruce Jackson, Apex’s chief of digital asset funds and business,…

Oct 19, 2020 at 14:53 UTCUpdated Oct 19, 2020 at 15:17 UTCFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (Wikimedia Commons)Major Meeting of Central Banks Produces Same Old ‘Evaluating’ CBDCs RefrainCentral bankers continued to evaluate the merits, or lack thereof, of a digital currency (CBDC), explaining that digital innovation has its benefits but policy considerations abound, during a…

Jun 25, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Jun 25, 2020 at 13:43 UTC(Mikael Damkier/Shutterstock)Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has donated $150,000 in bitcoin to BTCPay Foundation, the entity managing BTCPay, a popular open-source tool for merchants accepting bitcoin payments. Since BTCPay is free, it relies on donations like Kraken’s to run and to fund developers making improvements to…

Aug 28, 2020 at 09:03 UTCUpdated Aug 28, 2020 at 09:04 UTC(Svetlana Lukienko/Shutterstock)Framework Labs – a new “fintech studio” that incubates and supports projects in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space – has stepped out of the shadows with the announcement of a successful seed funding round. Announced Thursday, the $8 million dollar investment was led…

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