Payport announced Monday that Miles Esfahani has taken over at the helm of the company on October 1st, 2020. Previously the CEO of a market leading 150M telecoms fund backed by leading European banks, Esfahani brings a wealth of experience to the company with great promise for 2021. His portfolio and contacts will allow Payport® to tackle its ambitious expansion plans and positions itself as the sole provider of realtime settlement solution in the telecoms industry.

With the global patent three-key authentication mechanism (Smartphone, IX wireless eBadge, I.X security platform) along with Blockchain technology, I.X provides the highest level of security control over software combining with physical key and the exclusive 2FA secondary identity login verification with electronic signature as approval process. All communication data and messages are encrypted and protected, and not compromised to ensure data security. Besides, I.X helps enterprises to enhance login security and sensitive data protection, allowing IT or management to audit access records.

Hagens Berman notifies investors in Bit Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ: BTBT) of the firm's investigation into possible securities law violations.  Certain investors with losses may have valuable claims and are encouraged to submit their losses now.  The firm also encourages persons who may be able to assist the investigation to contact the firm.

CCP, powered by Connectus Global, utilizes a mobile app and blockchain technology to connect COVID-19 test results to team officials and medical staff, local healthcare authorities, physicians, and building/venue operators to facilitate a safe environment for participants. The CCP App validates compliance to organizational policies for minimizing health risks, as well as documents and logs all medical testing.

Instimatch Global, the award-winning digital platform for institutional short-term money market trading, and Algorand, a world-class blockchain powering secure and efficient frictionless exchange, are working together to disrupt the regulated payment networks with advanced solutions powered by blockchain. Instimatch and Algorand are both at the forefront of what future financial services and applications will be.

iQSTEL, Inc. (USOTC: IQST) announced a $60.5 million revenue forecast for FY-2021. The 40% revenue growth target is largely driven by the anticipated expansion of the company's new Fintech and IoT (Internet of Things) divisions launched in 2020. After announcing $39,725,507 in revenue through November 2020, Management expects FY-2020 revenues to exceed its $42 million FY-2020 revenue projection.

Distributed Ledger, Inc. (DLI), a blockchain technology service provider, announced the brand and business acquisition of North American-based cryptocurrency mining hardware supplier, Crypto Mining Tools (CMT). Cryptomining.tools is a well-known industry leader in cryptocurrency mining hardware brokerage and the creator of many trusted free online tools for miners.

NEC Laboratories Europe recently demonstrated the effectiveness of its Unikraft technology by doubling the data throughput on a NGINX web server while running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is compared to the same web server running on a Linux-based image. The result is equivalent to reducing server resource costs by half, as it enables the same data throughput (requests/sec.) with a smaller and cheaper instance.

Despite the exponential growth of the DeFi market throughout 2020, the industry is now dealing with a short-term plateau, as the market matures and projects are put to the test. Indeed, innovative use cases like governance, yield farming, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) will play an essential role in the future's economy, but not all of them will survive.

CB Insights has named independent crypto prime broker SFOX as one of the world's top 50 blockchain companies. The firm was given a place on CB Insights' first ever Blockchain 50, a list of the top private companies using blockchain technology to solve some of businesses' biggest problems. Winners were selected from a pool of 2,700 companies. SFOX provides its services in multiple categories including as an Exchange, Custody, Capital Markets, and Wallet services provider, and was honored in the Exchange category.