Sentences with phrase «digital asset»

Now, the Wall Street giant looks set to take the plunge, having just hired a cryptocurrency trader to help the company expand into digital asset markets.

Notable deals in Q1 ’16 included a $ 26M Series C to bitcoin exchange bitFlyer, the $ 55M Series A for smart contracts developer Blockstream, and a sizable $ 60M Series A round to Digital Asset Holdings, the bitcoin startup helmed by ex-J.P. Morgan banker Blythe Masters.

It's the fastest and most scalable digital asset, enabling real - time global payments anywhere in the world.

Perhaps the most hotly anticipated digital asset of 2016, Zcash has a highly regarded development team and investment from major VC firms (Pantera, Fenbushi, and The Digital Currency Group) and Bitcoin VIPs (Roger Ver, Erik Voorhees, Barry Silbert, and Li Xiaolai).

A Smart Media Token (SMT) is a native digital asset on the Steem blockchain that can be quickly launched by anyone to help monetize online content and create incentives to encourage desired user behavior.

Ripple (XRP) XRP is a digital asset for payments.

The new chief of the Bank for International Settlements does not look favorably on cryptocurrencies and in a recent talk, he encouraged regulators to intervene in digital asset markets.

Guy: BTL is developing proprietary technology both for its remittance platform and its digital asset management platform.

While securities trading today relies on a central authority to oversee the transfer of cash for shares, Digital Asset aims to link all the participants in the process on the same database to allow real - time movement of assets.

Singapore - based Kristal.AI, an artificial intelligence - powered digital asset management platform, has raised $ 1.85 million (about...

The acquisition of Glidera in 2017 reinforces Kraken's commitment to mutually beneficial consolidation in the digital asset space and marks the brand's first step towards a global ecosystem of complementary services clustered around its core exchange business.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and IBM are the latest firms to invest in Digital Asset Holdings, the startup led by former JPMorgan Chase & Co. banker Blythe Masters that aims to adapt blockchain technology to financial markets.

A Bitcoin user has gone to court to prevent the Internal Revenue Service from accessing personal data of millions of users on Coinbase, a San Francisco - based digital asset exchange company.

Digital Asset beat 400 applicants for the contract to remake ASX's clearing and settlement system.

The scarce digital asset, named «ShapeShift - The Wanderer,» will have a limited quantity of 100 cards available for purchase via the ShapeShift.io exchange.

GoldMint is a blockchain - based platform powered by the digital asset GOLD, which is 100 % backed by physical gold or delivery futures.

Citing an official involved with the G20, Reuters reported last week that discussions are likely to focus on anti-money laundering steps and consumer protection rather than how the digital asset class could impact the financial system.

Giving real - time and searcher - friendly metrics about initial coin offerings (ICOs) and their return of investment (ROI), ICO Stats is a turn - to site for cryptocurrency venture - starters and digital asset enthusiasts alike.

XRP is a digital asset with a clear use case — it's the best digital asset for payments.

When Bitcoin forks, it creates a new kind of digital asset.

$ 1MM Underscore VC, SparkLabs Global Ventures, Semantic Ventures, Rising Tide, Kindred Ventures, Digital Asset Investment Company, Danhua Capital, CoinFund, Blockchain Capital, Anthemis Group

ComplyAPI is a compliance as a service offering, providing KYC / AML verification and investor accreditation to help digital asset companies and networks run compliant token sales.

Santander, also an investor in Digital Asset Holdings, recently named the startup's CEO Blythe Masters as their senior blockchain advisor.

Kraken's essential question is, «which is the digital asset of the future?»

CoinList is where digital asset companies manage their token sales and investors discover high quality projects.

A self - regulatory organization proposed by the Winklevoss twins (owners of the Gemini digital asset exchange) is also part of the discussion in the US cryptocurrency regulatory arena.

Coinmama recently introduced three new cryptocurrencies to our digital asset lineup as customers can now purchase Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Cardano.

The bank co-led with IBM a $ 60 million investment in Digital Asset Holdings, as well as a $ 50 million fund in Circle, a digital payments startup headed by Brightcove founder Jeremy Allaire.

Blythe Masters turned down an offer to run Barclays» investment bank to stay with her blockchain technology startup Digital Asset Holdings.

Today we are pleased to share we have expanded our partnership with BitGo, which will see XRP listed on several leading digital asset exchanges: Bitso, Coinone, bitbank, and SCI's BuyBitcoin.

Since bitcoin is the world's largest cryptocurrency and because it employs the suffix «coin,» I will define a coin as a digital asset that functions as a currency.

On February 4, a PBoC - linked publication revealed that the country would use its «great firewall» to prevent citizens from accessing offshore digital asset exchanges and investing in foreign ICOs.

This guidance gave pause to many cryptocurrency executives and investors, as it became clear that the US government has begun exploring digital asset regulation.

Former investment banker and co-author of Blockchain Revolution Alex Tapscott has launched a digital asset investment firm.

Frequently, a digital asset can fall into two or more of these categories — and additional categories may not have been invented yet.

There are two dozen entities listed as Founding Members of the BRI, including Accenture, Cosmos, Digital Asset Holdings, IBM, Pepsico, the Province of Ontario, and more.

Tapscott, who last year was appointed to the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Blockchain, is the founder and CEO of NextBlock Global, a new digital asset investment firm.

Ether, the digital asset used on the Ethereum blockchain, functions as a medium of exchange, or «coin,» but also qualifies as a token and even a security.

One of the world's largest digital asset exchanges is expanding its operations to Malta, where the crypto - laws are friendly.

People who believe in the long - term value of the Ethereum blockchain might actually approach the digital asset as a security — though they don't possess any voting rights or a formal investment contract.

A greater inflow of institutional cash, combined with more options to trade the digital asset, could propel the market forward.

A token is a digital asset that allows a user to interact with, or gain utility from, a platform.

These funds will help to position the high - profile startup to be one of the leading institutional investors in the rapidly expanding digital asset economy.

Classification as a coin does not preclude a digital asset from also being a token or a security — which I will get to later.

The incubator already has several startups enrolled in the program, including an American bitcoin exchange, called Cryptos, an Uber like service but with Bitcoin, called LiveryCab, a lightweight Bitcoin ATM machine, called Digital Asset Vending Enterprises (D.A.V.E) and a non-corruptible voting system based on the block chain, called Blockchain Apparatus.

In 2016, Arrington reduced his role at CrunchFund and has since started Arrington XRP Capital, a $ 100 million digital asset management firm in blockchain - based capital markets.

The wallet is a full - fledged digital asset management system, and you don't have to understand it.

So, it's not totally clear whether Ether is a security, but with people pouring record amounts of money into the digital asset, there's good reason to believe that it's been regarded as an investment.

By using a digital asset like XRP that settles in three seconds or less, they can now move money as quickly as information.»

The question at hand is when a digital asset qualifies as a security.