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Crypto startup Knabu is piloting bank regulatory reporting with Factom, one of the earliest enterprise blockchain companies. Advertisements Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, the London-based firm is launching the 30-day pilot today. Knabu is best known as a payments company with a smart-deposit product meant to help companies mitigate the risks of self-custodying assets on a […]

Summa co-founder James Prestwich wants to bridge the great divide: bitcoin vs. ethereum. Advertisements Now his firm is teaming up with fellow blockchain startup Keep to launch the Cross-Chain Working Group, which aims to create a protocol for using bitcoin on ethereum-based systems. The group hosted its first meeting on Thursday with more than 40 […]

This week, we discuss kidnappings & gunpoint attacks demanding cryptocurrency. We often say that cryptocurrency is unseizable. But in one sense, it’s actually more seizable than dollars in your bank account: Kidnappers’ crypto accounts, unlike bank accounts, are unfreezable and are themselves unseizable — making stolen funds completely unrecoverable. Advertisements What can we do to be safe […]

Q&A With qiibee How does the qiibee token function within the platform and why is it needed? qiibee: qiibee’s token economics are designed so that brands can easily issue their own tokens with the LoyaltyToken Protocol. To do so, they first need to specify their own loyalty tokens suited to their needs. After defining these parameters, the […]

Christian Kameir, the Managing Partner at Sustany Capital and member of the Forbes Finance Council, joins the ICO Alert Podcast to offer sweeping commentary on the cryptocurrency space, including the need for good tools in the space, including custody, and why every company should be investigating blockchain (though perhaps not launching a token). Advertisements Kameir […]

What is Block66? “Block66 is building a new blockchain-enabled marketplace for mortgages. Institutional and private lenders can use the service to offer loans to a wide range of borrowers, introduced by Block66 broker partners. Through the practical use of smart contracts, loans can be taken from origination to facilitation, quickly and efficiently.”— CEO Joe Markham ICO Alert […]

Ryan Dennis: Welcome back to the ICO Alert podcast, I’m here, joined by the one and only Adam Curry of Dench music. We’re so excited to actually get another project,We’ve seen a few different music-oriented projects, but I think you’re not going to see many that have this level of partnerships and influencers who are […]

Wise words from Nick Spanos of Zap.org always remind me why I love our industry. When I sat down with Nick, I knew I had to cover two things. One, his awesome oracle-based blockchain project which is allowing people to stake and bond their subtokens to another token. Advertisements The other topic I had to […]

Q&A with ClinTex’s Team Neill Barron, Director of Clinical Data Analytics & Brendan O’ Mainnin, Director of Operations ICO Alert: How does the CLX token function within the platform and why is it needed? What are the major dApps that users should look forward too? Advertisements ClinTex: The CLX token will primarily be used for […]

Ethereum dominated the crypto market in 2017 as the smart contract platform of choice for ICOs and blockchain projects. In 2017, over 95% of projects decided to run their token sale and/or build their decentralized application using Ethereum’s ERC20 standard (or some form of it). Advertisements While Ethereum clearly has first mover advantage, it seems […]