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A new Visa-backed card offers users the prospect of earning rewards in the form of Bitcoin (BTC) instead of traditional reward points. The startup behind the app – Fold – has joined the Visa Fast Track Program to make such an arrangement possible, Fortune reports, April 9, 2020. Earn Bitcoin for
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U.S.-based entrepreneur, Matt Luongo has launched a blockchain protocol dubbed Keep, which aims to bridge the gap between the Bitcoin and Ethereum distributed ledgers through the tBTC altcoin. With tBTC, holders of bitcoin (BTC) will now be able to access Ethereum-based DeFi solutions without having to sell off their BTC
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Australian startup Meld Gold will launch a blockchain-based platform for tokenized gold trading in the third quarter of 2020.Meld Gold said the platform will offer a digital method to buy and sell physical gold that is more efficient and transparent than traditional gold markets.Unlike other gold-backed tokens, the issuer
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The Credits project, a worldwide company engaged in the development of solutions based on blockchain technologies, has recently announced the release of a new line of products. The new developments will be released over the course of 2020 and will help in popularizing blockchain technologies.The decentralized, distributed ledger capabilities of
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The Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator, an incubator program for distributed ledger technology, or DLT, startups run out of UC Berkeley, has welcomed Snark Health into its spring cohort.Snark Health seeks to combat COVID-19 by “building a framework for data-driven discussions and shared learnings” to enable the “rapid dissemination of information
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Sharing is caring!US-based investor Medici Ventures and Dutch KPN Ventures has participated in the €1.9M (USD $2.09 million) investment round of SettleMint, a Belgium based Blockchain Platform as a Service company that has built a low code and infrastructure agnostic blockchain platform solving the major challenges of enterprise-grade blockchain use
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U.S.-headquartered bank Citi has upped its investment in the Ethereum-based decentralized trade financing startup Komgo.Kris van Broekhoven, the global head of commodity trade finance at Citigroup, revealed that the bank has “topped up” its equity in Komgo “to allow the company to continue developing,” while speaking with ConsenSys on
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Sharing is caring!The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has teamed up with their subsidiary exchange in India – WazirX, to announce a joint initiative $50 million (backed by BNB, BUSD, and WRX digital assets) “Blockchain for India” (BFI) fund to support the development and growth of blockchain startups in India. “Let’s
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NEM, one of the oldest peer-to-peer blockchain networks, has partnered with Israeli-Lithuanian telecom startup FIX Network to increase security and data protection for cell phone users and to solve the issue of SIM swapping. FIX Network will implement SYMBOL from NEM’s enterprise-grade blockchain into its existing cellular infrastructure. The goal
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, has ordered that ICO broker ICOBox must pay $16 million after the startup failed to act on previous legal action from the commission.U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer of California sided with the SEC in a default judgement, after the alleged unregistered
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