WORBLI, an enterprise-grade blockchain platform, will offer Compliance as a Service (CaaS) through strategic partner Agenix to help companies navigate increasingly difficult regulatory requirements. Agenix, made up of founding WORBLI team members, will provide key services around financial compliance and risk management, aimed at significantly reducing development time and costs for companies looking to operate within mandatory regulations.
Blockland, a community-wide movement to establish a blockchain and cybersecurity ecosystem in Cleveland and make Northeast Ohio one of the top technology centers in the United States, today announced details for its 2019 Blockland Solutions Conference. The conference, presented by KeyBank and MCPc, will take place at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland from December 9 to 11, 2019. A special 33-percent-off ticket discount is currently being offered until December 2.
Nucleus Vision, an IoT & Blockchain technology company serving the retail industry, launches GIDC (Global Identity and Consent) blockchain network for consent-based data access management. The private multi-node blockchain network gives power to users to control who can access their data. Nucleus Vision announces the launch of this network at Genesis DevCon, a blockchain conference held in Bangalore, India, on 24 & 25 November.
MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI), a global provider of innovative money transfer services, today announced that Ripple, a provider of leading enterprise blockchain solutions for global payments, has made the final $20 million investment in MoneyGram equity pursuant to Ripple's original $50 million equity investment commitment made earlier this year. Ripple purchased the newly-issued equity from MoneyGram at $4.10 per share, which represents a significant premium to MoneyGram's current market price.
"The true potential of blockchain is more exciting by far than that of cryptocurrencies," said Jun Lu, head of Lufax Technology Center, at CNBC's East Tech West conference in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, China. When people talk about blockchain, Lu ventured, they are often only thinking cryptocurrencies. "Cryptocurrency is but one application of the blockchain technology, which in comparison has vastly more untapped potential and considerably more value to offer," considered Lu.
The Algorand Foundation today announced the availability of a protocol upgrade that significantly expands the range of decentralized applications (Dapps) and processes that can be built on the Algorand platform. For the first time, enterprise-scale Dapps can be built on the world's first pure proof of stake (PPoS) blockchain without sacrificing performance.
The "Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and the Future of Monetary Policy - 2019 Report" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The rise of cryptocurrencies offers an important perspective on the successes and the failures of monetary policy, as we detail in our report. Cryptocurrency seems to offer the promise of currency secure from compromise, safe from manipulation by financial institutions and increasing in value at a rapid pace. But, does it really?
TradeStation Crypto, Inc., a subsidiary of TradeStation Group, Inc., today announced the launch of its crypto brokerage platform, TradeStation Crypto. TradeStation Crypto believes it will be the first crypto offering which uses the true online brokerage model that self-directed traders have come to expect for equities, options, futures and foreign currency markets.
MakerDAO, the protocol behind Dai, the world's first decentralized stablecoin built on the Ethereum blockchain and the leading stablecoin of decentralized finance, today enabled Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD). In a vote held November 15, MKR holders approved the addition of the Basic Attention Token (BAT), opening the door to countless additional collateral types in the future.
The Minter Development Foundation announces that FLAT.FM, an electronic music streaming service that brings together artists and listeners from all over the world, issued its own cryptocurrency on the Minter network under the name "FLATCOIN." Aside from accepting FLATCOIN for payments and offering a 50-percent discount on the subscription plans, the platform also aims to start paying all authors a certain fee each time someone listens to one of their mixes.