Digital Assets

SETL, a London-based firm that develops blockchain-powered institutional payment and settlement infrastructures, has unveiled its first commercial offering, a new platform that allows market participants to commission and run permissioned registry service for payments,...

“Lending bubbles usually look the same. Credit criteria is loosened. Verification standards are relaxed. The people selling the loans make money when the loans are booked, but do not suffer from losses when the...

This year, two improvements to Bitcoin network will permit the "colored coins" implementation, Open Assets Protocol (OAP), to also scale, according to Nicolas Dorier, CTO at Metaco. The two improvements, Segregated Witness and the new...

Noah Thorp is the co-founder and CEO at CoMakery. CoMakery is a blockchain distributed application (DApp) that can change the way people work, enabling them to collaborate freely with each other and be rewarded. The DApp is...

Bitmark Inc., a Taiwan-based blockchain start-up for digital property, has announced a seed funding round of $1.7M led by Cherubic Ventures, with other investors including WI Harper and Digital Currency Group. Bitmark aims to...

Chain-Finance had a chance to discuss EY's distributed ledger strategy with Angus Champion de Crespigny. Angus is a Senior Manager in EY’s Financial Services Office where he leads the firm’s distributed infrastructure strategy for...

Professional services network PwC Australia has launched a new fintech capability called ‘Vulcan Digital Asset Services’, to enable digital assets to be used for everyday banking, commerce and other personal currency and asset related...

Taiwan-based start-up Bitmark Inc., which raised $1.7 million in seed funding last week, has announced the release of a new white paper titled ‘Defining Property in the Digital Environment’. The company utilises blockchain technology...

Last week WAVES, the decentralized platform which uses blockchain tokens represent any value, ended its ICO with a reported 29,634 bitcoins raised – then worth close to $16 million. Tokens can be customized to...

Chainreactor is developing and commercializing a permissioned blockchain platform for private, commercial grade solutions. The startup is the brainchild of former Capital One database specialist, Jonathan Nelson. Nelson conceived of Chainreactor while building blockchain proofs-of-concept at...