Over $1.2 trillion USD – this is the global banking system’s potential crypto assets growth capacity over the next few years. Experts from ICOBox’s Blockchain Research Center (IBRC) came up with their estimate based on the recommendations from international regulators to banks interested in trading cryptocurrency assets.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a statement regarding its position on what tokens constitute securites and require registration.
In recent years, we have seen significant advances in technologies – including blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies – that impact our securities markets.
Venture capital firm Outlier Ventures has published the Q3 report in its State of Blockchains series, which provides an overview into blockchain investment and market trends worldwide. Predictably, the report saw venture capital taking over the money action in the space.
Three major conclusions:
Blockchain startup AERGO has raised $30 million in its private token sale led by Sequoia Capital China. Other investors in the private token sale include FBG, GBIC, Arrington XRP, Dekrypt, Rockaway, Neo Global, Divergence Digital, JRR Crypto and Block Crafters Capital.
AERGO is a blockchain ecosystem supported and developed by Samsung-backed Blocko,
Blockchain racing platform RaceCoin and its CEO, Joachim C. Baron von Behr-Baerwald, aim to revolutionize the motor racing space.
Despite a global fan base and the industry being worth more than $5 billion dollars, motor racing as an industry has remained relatively unchanged for decades.
Equibit Group AG, a developer of a peer-to-peer securities trading protocol for equity and debt, has announced it will fund late-stage development and launch of its mainnet through a final sale of pre-mined cryptocurrency, EQB.
The sale is available to residents in eligible jurisdictions, Read more »
The SEC is investigating a $50 million cryptocurrency sale and are looking at whether bitcoin entrepreneur Erik Voorhees broke the law.
The Wall Street Journal reported today that Voorhees, CEO of the ShapeShift AG exchange, is under investigation for allegedly abetting money laundering by criminal elements.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against two companies that sold digital tokens in initial coin offerings (ICOs). These are the Commission’s first cases imposing civil penalties solely for ICO securities offering registration violations. Both companies have agreed to return funds to harmed investors,
RatingToken has launched a new sentiment analysis tool designed to quantify and grade online sentiment towards blockchain projects.
By using textual analysis technology to study publicly available content across Facebook, Twitter and Telegram, RatingToken is able to produce a “Sentiment Score” for individual blockchain products.
The BitInka crypto exchange platform has integrated with ICOBench, a free initial coin offering (ICO) qualification platform. The community, backed by a wide range of experts, provides ratings and business perspectives related to blockchain.
Through this partnership, ICOBench will offer ICOs a series of services and benefits which will enhance the campaigns of each project in social media marketing,
