CoinMetro, a crypto exchange, today announced that PARSIQ is the first project on its IEO platform, CoinMetro Direct. The Direct platform is a new way of conducting Initial Exchange Offerings (IEO). It protects participants, and holds projects accountable to pre-agreed milestones and timelines – with investor refunds possible if a startup doesn’t deliver. CoinMetro estimates […]
Reading Time: 13minutes Software and the internet have had a relatively low disruptive impact on the financial services industry. Sure — consumer expectations have changed, and banks are doing what they can to match the online experience of the highly customizable, on-demand internet services people have grown accustomed to — but businesses models have persisted. This is in […]
Reading Time: 7minutes 2019 is the year we can finally say “institutions have arrived,” in the blockchain / crypto industry and in a big way. Despite being a commonly cited catalyst within the crypto space, progress has felt slow. After all, these are large organizations with significant value at risk, so they want to be careful and deliberate […]
Fidelity Digital Assets Services (FDAS), a crypto trading and custody division of investment giant Fidelity Investments, will likely delay support for Ethereum (ETH) for a while, a senior executive of the platform has said. Fidelity’s digital asset subsidiary launched this quarter, with its initial plans being to support bitcoin and then ether. However, according to […]
ETC Labs, an Ethereum Classic core development team, today announced that Ether (ETH) is getting closer for integration on the Ethereum Classic (ETC)...
Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative.
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By David Drake
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the leading Science and Technology institutes in the US, has predicted that blockchain...