Social Media Companies Are ‘Too Big to Fail’
Social media firms are quickly becoming as important to the economy, finance and real life as Wall Street titans. TBTF companies demand special attention.
Social media firms are quickly becoming as important to the economy, finance and real life as Wall Street titans. TBTF companies demand special attention.
Audius, a streaming service built on Ethereum, has raised $3.1 million from Multicoin Capital, Blockchange Ventures, Pantera Capital and Coinbase Ventures.
The new CoinList Pro exchange aims to help institutional traders participate in the platform's dozen or so token sales in 2020.
Dharma, the Coinbase-backed decentralize finance startup, is adding token-exchange protocol Uniswap as its latest in-app offering.
USDC backer Circle is teaming with Genesis Trading in a $25 million deal aimed at pushing the stablecoin to the fintech masses.
Known as Project Harbour, the initiative will use distributed ledger technology as a register for a bond marketplace.
The Microsoft-backed IWA sustainability group is building a tokenization standard that aims to bring transparency to carbon accounting.
DeFi's surge has created an interesting dynamic: Traditional fund managers are beginning to experiment with what decentralization has to offer.
Formed in 2017, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance helped large corporates and tech providers experiment with blockchain.
The protocol, incubated by Binance Labs, sets out to solve some of the issues facing users of decentralized exchanges.
Terra is joining forces with Cosmos, Web3 Foundation and Solana to roll out a DeFi product meant for a wider consumer audience. Meet Anchor.
U.K.-based fintech company Fasset aims to bridge the $15 trillion gap in sustainable infrastructure development with blockchain-backed investments.
The desire for autonomy, self-sufficiency and personalization is driving innovation in personal finance, including the shift to crypto.
BitFarms used high-interest-rate debt with large balloon payments to expand operations. Now it may struggle to pay off its debt, according to CoinDesk Research.
Silvergate Bank continued to add a steady drip of crypto customers in Q2 2020 but its issuance of bitcoin-collateralized loans is what stood out.
BCB Group is launching an instant settlement network for cash and crypto.
Banks across Italy are using R3’s Corda blockchain to vastly speed the process of double-checking transaction logs.
Parts of fintech may be embracing crypto, but Noelle Acheson argues that doesn’t mean crypto is fintech – it’s more than that.
Banxa plans to leverage custody and settlement infrastructure from exchange platform Zero Hash.
The Norwegian browser maker has disclosed its crypto wallet user numbers for the first time.
Wyoming's crypto-friendly Avanti Financial expects to open its doors this October with a new bank-issued digital asset, the Avit.
The addition expands BitGo’s proof-of-stake offerings, first unveiled last October.
Gemini will offer custody on .crypto domains from Unstoppable Domains, which are based on non-fungible tokens much like cryptocurrencies.
Crypto companies building solutions to the FATF "Travel Rule" may be creating a new interoperability problem. Netki is offering a fix.
An Ethereum-based service for privately browsing the web now has a desktop app for Mac users.
Eftpos Australia is using Hedera Hashgraph to trial a micropayments system that could rival traditional online methods.
The U.S.-based crypto custody provider has added support for litecoin, the eighth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.
ErisX, a crypto exchange for institutional investors, has joined the payments network of bitcoin-friendly Silvergate Bank.
Mike Cagney, who co-founded SoFi, is one of fintech's most accomplished entrepreneurs. He talks to ConsenSys's Lex Sokolin about keys to success for blockchain startups.
Samsung’s Blockchain Wallet App now supports the native tokens of Decentraland, LAND and MANA.
