Sentences with phrase «new blockchain venture»

Months after his release from prison for money laundering violations, entrepreneur Charlie Shrem has announced a new blockchain venture.

The Waves Platform, a Moscow, Russia - based developer of a global public blockchain platform, is launching a new blockchain venture capital vehicle.

New blockchain ventures can raise working capital by minting their own tokens based on more liquid currencies like Ethereum, and those who purchase these tokens can use them to engage in these companies» services and speculate on their relative value.

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Others have speculated that Durov is not really raising money for a new blockchain - centric venture, but simply to keep Telegram afloat.

Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, the venture arm of the telecommunications giant is leading a $ 3.3 million seed investment in Blockdaemon, a New York City - based startup that creates enterprise software for interacting with a wide range of blockchains.

Blockchain startup Wyre has just raised new venture capital funding and is now claiming to operate the fastest cross-border blockchain paymentBlockchain startup Wyre has just raised new venture capital funding and is now claiming to operate the fastest cross-border blockchain paymentblockchain payments network.

We have also seen the formation of a number of new venture capital firms dedicated to investing specifically in blockchain technology.

Bitcoin crimes have traditionally had a fraudulent high - yield, but with new safety features such as blockchain, P2P payments, investment plans, and more are saving the venture.

Tom Light, Senior Vice-President of Business Development at SBTech, is to leave the group to establish a new business venture that will unite blockchain and gambling and leverage the power of the crypto - currency in a gaming and betting environment.

The new fund will have Xu Xiaoping - founder of Zhenfund, a venture capital firm that has invested in blockchain projects such as Stream and Lino - as its advisor.

Clayton's testimony is pretty convenient timing for Harbor, a new blockchain technology company that just raised $ 10 million from an interesting group of investors, including Chicago - based Valor Equity Partners; the real estate tech - focused venture firm Fifth Wall Ventures; the Dubai venture firm Vy Capital; and Craft Ventures, a new venture fund created by serial entrepreneur David Sacks — who also helped incubate Harbor.

So - called «initial coin offerings» (ICOs) are the current rage among startups in the blockchain space, enabling new companies with a technology idea to skip banks and venture capital firms when raising capital.

Jones is also the inaugural member of SNAP's new Blockchain Advisory Board, followed by Wall Street crypto expert and venture capital veteran Lou Kerner later in the month.

A.P. Møller — Mærsk in connection with the formation of a joint venture with IBM, the new joint venture will provide more efficient and secure methods for conducting global trade using blockchain technology

The new joint venture will provide more efficient and secure methods for conducting global trade using blockchain technology.

When ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, New York — based firm that builds decentralized applications and blockchain ecosystem tools on Ethereum, launched a $ 50 million venture arm, it turned to Kavita Gupta to run it.

An initial coin offering, also known as an ICO, a token sale, a crowdsale or a token generation event, is a new form of funding that (predominantly) blockchain startups are using to raise capital for their venture.

Interest in blockchain technologies in Canada is growing rapidly as new fintech startups and blockchain ventures are launched and governments indicate they are interested in the possibility of Canada becoming a global fintech / blockchain...

SparkLabs Group, a network of accelerators and venture capital funds, has launched a new $ 100 million early - stage fund, SparkChain Capital, focused on innovations in blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

But news of the browser's release, revealed today at CoinDesk's Consensus 2017 blockchain conference in New York, represents just a piece of the progress made by the venture funded startup.

Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has partnered with a well - known economist on a new blockchain land registry venture, and might sell the firm to fund it.

It also differs in its strategy: Whereas Polychain specializes in investing in other blockchain companies through what's known as an initial coin offering (or ICO)-- an investment style that has been likened to venture capital — MetaStable invests directly in digital currencies that it believes could become a new form of money.

The company revealed last fall that it was devoting tens of millions of dollars to its mining venture, with the aim of building a site for pursuing the energy - intensive process by which new transactions are added to a blockchain and new coins are minted as a reward.

By the end of 2018, people should expect to see groundbreaking new ventures for shared, digital infrastructure where competing corporations use the same blockchain networks.

«Already we're seeing that blockchains, especially Ethereum, because of its ability to facilitate these token launches, is providing access to liquid capital for the purpose of building new businesses that far exceeded what existed before, be it in investment banking, venture capital or private equity,» he said.

Bankers admired the idea of decentralized lending on the public blockchain, Venture Capitalist groups showed interest to initiate funding in our working concept, and traditional P2P lending companies were willing to collaborate with ETHLend in order to provide new lending services.

Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper told Reuters he is joining the ICO of a new blockchain platform called Tezos on Monday, which raises the question: What are the benefits of tokenized investing?

Bitcoin Growth Fund, a new venture capital fund which invites and allows a common man to invest in high - return fetching Blockchain startups.Non - High Networth...

While initial coin offerings (ICOs) have fast become the breakout method for blockchain fundraising, at least one industry startup thinks there's still a place for traditional venture capital in this new economic movement.

Antivirus pioneer John McAfee is taking on a new venture: producing white papers for cryptocurrency and blockchain developers without «the time or talent.»

With the success of the Collider, Berkeley set out to launch a new venture called the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, and Chen at the EchoLink project was appointed the industry co-lead.

An equity exchange headquartered in Beijing is partnering with a group of Chinese crowdfunding and venture capital companies to launch a new blockchain research lab.

A $ 50m venture fund backed by Chinese conglomerate Wanxiang has announced a new blockchain - focused grant program.

Blockchain is a powerful tool to solve these structural issues, which are some of the principal causes of poverty and conflict,» de Soto said of the new venture.

At a minimum, enterprises have an opportunity to learn from the unorthodox new ventures emerging in the blockchain world — either via a post-mortem review of the successes or missteps of a blockchain startup, or (preferably) by observing what's going on during the life cycle of the startup.

While 2016 traditional blockchain venture capital investment reached $ 496m (near - stagnant growth when compared with 2015's figures), a new method of raising money is challenging old norms.

Exchange operator Nasdaq is looking to invest in blockchain startups as part of a new venture initiative.

Revealed to the company today via an internal meeting, Ehrsam told CoinDesk he intends to now «step back» from his daily duties at the end of January, take some time off, and potentially, plot a new venture in the blockchain industry.

The move is part of a new liquidity - enhanced venture capital fund called Blockchain Capital III: a combination of a traditional limited partnership and the BCAP digital token, which will be sold in an upcoming initial token offering (ITO).

Kyber Capital (源鉑資本) makes venture investments in high - growth companies focusing on Blockchain applications, advanced risk analytics and innovative financial technologies and new financial services.

A new, Seattle - based, blockchain technology fund, Reflective Venture Partners, has sprung from third generation blockchain project RChain Cooperative, with plans to fund and incubate a minimum of 12 early - stage blockchain startups in 2018, according to a statement released on Wednesday.

Many of these new decentralized venture capital alternatives have a wide variety of services they offer, but there are similarities between them all that are worth comparing, such as an idea hub, a decentralized funding mechanism, professional blockchain startup assistance, and even businesses built solely to create more businesses.

For a relatively new venture, Zilliqa promises to increase our blockchain transactions by facilitating blazing speeds.

After working in almost complete secret on what founder and CEO Robert Sams calls «foundational technology,» venture - backed blockchain startup Clearmatics will soon begin a rather unusual roll - out of new offerings for the open - source community.

The emergence of a new venture fund from China may help blockchain startups to stand the pace.

Life.Sreda, a Singapore venture fund of Russian origin, is launching a new venture fund called Banking on Blockchain Fund (BB Fund) that will focus on investing in early stage blockchain Blockchain Fund (BB Fund) that will focus on investing in early stage blockchain blockchain companies.

New EEA members include: 2Advise; Amalto Technologies; Antibiotic Research UK (ANTRUK); Aquilon Energy Services, Inc.; ASSETH; BLOCKO Inc.; Bloq; Cisco Systems; Cybersoft Digital Services Corp.; Enter Corporation Co., Ltd.; Equities.com, Inc.; Finclusion Labs, Inc. (WeTrust.io); Government of Andhra Pradesh; HashCash Consultants; HEAL Alliance; iEx.ec; Lazarski University; Loyyal Corporation; MadHive; Mattr; NetObjex Inc.; OTP Bank Plc.; QIWI Blockchain Technologies LLC.; Revelry; RISKebiz; Scotiabank; Streami Inc.; Talkcrypto.org; Technical University of Munich; Texcent Asia Pte Ltd; TIS R&D Center, Inc.; TokenCard / Monolith; Ventured and Ypse IT Solutions.

The New York - based Agentic Group includes such companies as encrypted messaging provider Blockchain Clearing Corp., mobile payments provider Boloro, real estate firm Brickcoin, venture production studio ConsenSys, blockchain apps developer Credits, software lab Fermat, personalising platform Joox, social messaging provider Peeem, transaction platform Stash Crypto, smart contract constructor Tendermint aBlockchain Clearing Corp., mobile payments provider Boloro, real estate firm Brickcoin, venture production studio ConsenSys, blockchain apps developer Credits, software lab Fermat, personalising platform Joox, social messaging provider Peeem, transaction platform Stash Crypto, smart contract constructor Tendermint ablockchain apps developer Credits, software lab Fermat, personalising platform Joox, social messaging provider Peeem, transaction platform Stash Crypto, smart contract constructor Tendermint and others.