New IOTA partnership eases out business woes in East Africa

The IOTA Foundation, the non-profit foundation driving open-source distributed ledger technology for a new digital economy, today announced the initial success of its ongoing collaboration with Trademark East Africa (TMEA).

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IOTA Foundation Announces Two New Hires, Including a New Head of Strategic Projects

The IOTA Foundation announced today its newest hires this December.  Mariana De La Roche Wills, Colombian human rights and social entrepreneur has been appointed to the Social Impact and Regulatory Affairs team of the Foundation.

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Bitcoin's White Paper Isn't Just Words – It's a Constitution

The foundation of a new and better governance?

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Tron Moves Towards New Revolution Web 3:0

Tron foundation has been a crusader in changing the face of the internet, from the level where it is currently to where they think it should be. Web 3:0 is a revolution and Tron is in the forefront with its innovations via blockchain technology to decentralize the whole internet system.

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Op Ed: Why Satoshi Nakamoto Deserves a Nobel Prize

Alfred Nobel died with regrets. After making a fortune off of explosives, he indicated in his will that his fortune should be used to make a prize awarded each year to those who “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bets on Ripple and Coil to Bring Financial Services to the Poor

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s efforts to extend financial services to billions of unbanked and underprivileged people around the world gained new momentum after it struck a deal with San Francisco based blockchain firm Coil.

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With a Functional Mainnet, Baidu Might Be the First of Many Partnerships For TRON (TRX)

‘Where there is smoke, there is fire’ is a saying that is very applicable to the breaking news that Baidu has been confirmed as the newest partner of the Tron Foundation. Speculation was high after the online publication of Coinness announced that the new partner was Baidu and based on its own credible sources.

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Ethereum Foundation Completes Fourth Leg of its Grants Program

Living up to its new year’s resolution to support promising projects that were developed on their blockchain technology, the Ethereum Foundation announced that it has completed grants of its fourth leg of its Grants programme Wave IV, by providing nearly $3 million to over 20 projects.

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IAMPASS Biometric Palm Vein Authentication to Be Powered by IOTA Tangle

The IOTA Foundation has struck a new partnership that will enhance its Smart City initiative. Its open-source Tangle technology will now be used to power a biometric authentication system that will use a person’s palm vein pattern to establish a digital identity.

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S. D. Nelson Joins IOTA Foundation as Technical Writer

It could be difficult for blockchain and cryptocurrency companies to explain their ideas and concepts to the general public. Inability to put their thoughts into words properly could have serious consequences for a project.

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Ethereum Foundation Issues $3 Million in New Grants

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Daily Byte: 10.16.2018

Mumbai crypto scam case hits a wall, Coinbase preps for Brexit, and the Ethereum Foundation awards new development grants.

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Tether ‘Bank Run’ Concerns Reach New Heights, USDT Falls 4% Below Peg

Tether ‘Bank Run’ Concerns Fuels Crypto Boom Crypto investors were in for a shock on Monday morning, as Bitcoin temporarily popped above $7,000, while crypto assets somehow posted 7%+ gains, amid a growing fear that the Tether Foundation didn’t have the U.

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IOTA’s Tangle to power IAMPASS biometric authentication for digital ID

CryptoNinjas IOTA Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and permissionless ecosystem development, announced today that its open source Tangle technology will power a new biometric authentication system that uses a person’s palm vein pattern.

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NEM.io Foundation to launch Blockchain Hub in Melbourne

CryptoNinjas The NEM. io Foundation has set its sights on expanding Australia’s thriving blockchain ecosystem by launching a new blockchain hub in Melbourne. The new hub in Melbourne will serve as a central location for blockchain innovation where dedicated.

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Tron Releases New Developer Suite, TRX Surges by over 5%

Recently, the Tron Foundation announced the launch of the new Tron Developer Suite. This is a special kind of all-in-one toolkit created to help TRON developers make progress on the mainnet faster and with more efficiency.

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Baidu Speculated as Tron’s New Secret Partner as TRX Thrives in the Markets

The team at CoinNess. com have informed the crypto community that the secret partner of the Tron Foundation is Baidu. In the twitter announcement by the team at the online publication, they stated that they had received exclusive information that had revealed Baidu as the secret partner.

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TRON New Payment System To Bring TRX To Mainstream

The use of digital currency in payments for goods and services has hit various hurdles as was seen with LitePay closing as did FuzeX recently delaying the launch of their highly anticipated debit cards.

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Tron’s Marcus Zhao Reveals Foundation is Working on Anonymous Transaction Feature for TRX

In A Recent Interview with NakamotoJedi , Tron’s top Tech Manager, Marcus Zhao gave insights on what’s going on in the Tron Community and New Incoming updates and features on the TRX Blockchain.

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TRX Won’t Slow Down, Check Out TRON’s Latest Announcements

 Listen Here – https://soundcloud. com/cryptodaily/trx-wont-slow-down-check-out-trons-latest-announcements TRON and the TRON Foundation have made very exciting progress through the start of October and continue to impress the crypto community.

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TRON Could Bring More Games To Blockchain

Earlier this week, the teams behind the TRON Foundation and BitGuild announced their first game to be added onto the TRON blockchain called Magic Academy. The fiction game will allow users to barter and haggle gaming items as well as buying upgrades for their items and so much more.

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Blockchain Business in Crypto Valley Has Doubled Since Last Year: Report

The number of blockchain-related companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein has doubled in the last year, according to a new study published by CV VC. The Zug-based firm, in partnership with Strategy& (PwC’s global consulting arm) and inacta, compiled information about the top 50 blockchain and digital asset companies between the two countries.

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Binance Is Feeling Very Charitable

Ethereum World News published a report in early August regarding Chris Franko (Expanse) who claimed that he was ordered to pay 400 Bitcoin – which is equal to around $2. 5 million – for a listing position on Binance.

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Binance to Make Listing Fees Transparent, Give Proceeds to Charity

Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, said that it will make new cryptocurrency listing fees transparent and donate 100 percent of those fees to charity.

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IOTA Appoints Daniela Faustino as Director of Human Resources

The IOTA Foundation is continuing with its mission of quality talent hiring. It recently appointed a new Director of Human Resources — Daniela Faustino. She will handle all 360 HR matters in the IOTA Foundation.

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Southeast Asia Crypto Market Is Booming – Three Interesting Projects To Keep An Eye On

Crypto is one of the most happening industries out there. Even Southeast Asia appears to be in the race with new crypto-based businesses popping up every now and then. Let’s have a look at three blockchain-based projects in Southeast Asia that you must be aware of: HelloGold Foundation The foundation aims to target the unbanked and under-served by trying to push blockchain-based projects towards mass adoption with its tools.

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Binance vows to donate all cryptocurrency listing fees to charity

Soon after being forced to defend accepting money for new listings, Binance has announced it will donate all the fees paid by cryptocurrency projects to charity. The new initiative will see previously kept funds being diverted to its Blockchain Charity Foundation, which claims to be “decentralizing worldwide poverty alleviation” – whatever that means.

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Honeycomb Blockchain Mining Software Gets ONA18 Award For ‘Smartest’ And ‘Most Clever’ Startups

The blockcain and technology startup Honeycomb has been selected as one of the ‘smartest’ and most ‘clever’ by the Online News Association Conference (ONA18). In the last years, new companies and startups started to grow offering very interesting products and services.

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Tron (TRX) To Host a 2 Day Developer Conference in San Francisco, January 2019

Justin Sun and the Tron (TRX) Foundation, had earlier on in the year hinted at the possibility of hosting developer conferences as soon as the project was Independent from the Ethereum platform. The team at the foundation have kept their word for they have launched a new website for the first ever TRON Developer Conference […] The post Tron (TRX) To Host a 2 Day Developer Conference in San Francisco, January 2019 appeared first on Ethereum World News.

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Stackr: The Dawn of a Digital Asset Savings Solution - [BTC Media Sponsor]

Financial savings have long been the foundation of wealth and asset building. However, we are now in a time when the growing obsolescence of financial institutions has forced certain technologies out of date, created high fees, revealed structural inefficiencies and, ultimately, meant that some standard investment solutions now fail to place consumer needs first.

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IOTA Foundation Appoints Cara Harbor as New Head of Communication

IOTA Foundation recently announced the appointment of Silicon Valley veteran Cara Harbor as the head of communication. She will be leading the development of IOTA’s internal and external communication.

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Bitcoin Foundation Challenges “French BitLicense” Proposed in PACTE Bill

On September 23, 2018, the Bitcoin Foundation sent a letter to the French Parliament asking that they reject a new crypto asset amendment being proposed in the PACTE Bill, which deals with the growth and transformation of France’s businesses and the country’s employee savings.

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Brave CEO Pens Letter to Senate Committee Asking for GDPR-Like Privacy Regulation

Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written a letter to the U. S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation urging them to implement GDPR-like legislation in the United States.

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Tron Reveals New Details About Project Atlas, Its Ambitious Blockchain Initiative

The year 2018 has been very important for Tron Foundation. From leaving the Ethereum blockchain behind to migrating to its own mainnet smoothly and from acquiring businesses to electing Super Representatives, the blockchain has continued to stay in the news throughout the year.

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New Study Reveals an Increase in Venture Capital Investment in Blockchain Projects

Traditional venture capitalist (VC) investments are leveraging the decline in initial coin offerings (ICO) as the cryptocurrency industry tries to find bearing amid regulatory shifts and losses across the crypto markets.

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BitMEX’s New COO Angelina Kwan Joins the Crypto Space at “An Exciting Time”

Angelina Kwan, former managing director and head of regulatory compliance for Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing, is taking on the position of COO of BitMEX, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, at a time when the challenges facing these exchanges are greater than ever.

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Hyperledger And The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance In Their Latest Partnership

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) are a group that work towards the one goal that unites the blockchain industry – mass blockchain adoption. According to new reports, EEA have announced a new partnership with Hyperledger, a faction of the Linux Foundation, one that provides a platform for open source collaboration within blockchain projects.

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Battle of the Privacycoins: What We Know About Grin and Beam’s Mimblewimble

Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.

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AI Grid Foundation Receives $20-Million in Investment for ELONCITY

Opening new frontiers to a world that runs on safe and sustainable power, the ELONCITY model of AI Grid Foundation provides reliable and affordable energy to all. In a recently closed funding round, the project received $20 million in investment from several prominent companies, venture capitalist firms, and private investors.

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ELONCITY Raises $20M For Blockchain-Based Energy Grid

ELONCITY, a new energy distribution model, is one step closer to becoming a reality. The AI Grid Foundation announced today that it has raised $20 million worth of funding for the project from a number of different investors, including some blockchain capital groups.

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Tron’s TVM To Be Activated By October 8th and other TRX Updates

On the 27th of September, the Tron foundation informed the crypto community that the team would be unveiling more details on the following day about the highly anticipated Project Atlas that will integrate BitTorrnet onto the Tron ecosystem.

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New Impact Ledger to Raise Awareness of Blockchain Projects for Social Good

The Blockchain Trust Accelerator (BTA) has received a six-figure grant from the Social Alpha Foundation (SAF) to build its latest project known as The Impact Ledger, an online registry of blockchain projects designed to assist in the public, nonprofit and for-profit sectors.

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IOTA Introduces bIOTAsphere, Future Proofing Innovation

The IOTA Foundation continue to future-proof not only their own ecosystem, but the entirely of the blockchain too. In their most recent announcement, IOTA have revealed their latest project by the name of bIOTAsphere, an environment built upon the IOTA protocol in order to facilitate brainstorming, discussion and the development of new applications for the IOTA network, Tangle.

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FedEx Joins Hyperledger’s Blockchain Hub to Advance Widescale Adoption

A new press release published yesterday claims that FedEx, the U. S. -based courier delivery service has just joined Hyperledger. FedEx Becomes Hyperledger’s New Partner According to the press release, FedEx has just partnered up with Hyperledger, an open-source blockchain project that aims to revolutionize cross-industry blockchain technologies.

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Apollo Foundation Claims it Can Upgrade its Blockchain Without a Hard Fork

The Apollo Foundation has announced that it has created a tool that can upgrade its blockchain without the need for a hard fork. According to Victor Konovalov, director of Apollo: “This update will allow us to quickly and efficiently integrate smart contracts, as well as add new features to the blockchain.

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Binance’s Blockchain Charity Foundation Partners With United Nations Development Programme to Use Blockchain for Social Good

As new use cases of the blockchain technology are emerging each day, it is becoming increasingly clear that distributed ledgers could help in creating a better future for all. The United National Development Programme (UNDP) also seems convinced that DLT infrastructures could bring good to the world.

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Here We Go Again — Crypto-Community to Deal With Another Foundation

This weekend a new organization was announced at Baltic Honey Badger bitcoin conference called the ‘B Foundation. ’ At the event, Satoshi Labs co-founder Alena Vranova divulged the information of a new foundation that will have a mix of “charitable and commercial” efforts.

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Baltic Honey Badger Conference Announces New Bitcoin Foundation “The B Foundation’

This has been a big year for cryptocurrency. In many ways, 2018 has been a variable crypto winter. The falling prices of both Bitcoin and its many altcoins created during the ICO boom of 2016 and 2017 have contributed to an overall sense of foreboding bearishness.

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Economist Florian Doebler Joins the IOTA Foundation

In a bid to improve its social and technological influence, the IOTA Foundation is adding several new faces to its organization. Most recently, it added economist and entrepreneur Florian Doebler to its team.

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