Category: Blockchain

Ledger Enterprise’s Alex Zinder is all about blockchain, crypto and the future of finance

Alex Zinder, a capital markets veteran who jumped on the blockchain train last year, attended the Paris Blockchain Week Summit, where he sat down with Cointelegraph to discuss blockchain projects, crypto adoption and the traditional financial world’s necessary embrace of digital assets. After almost two decades in capital markets technology, Alex Zinder joined Ledger Enterprise in March 2021. He previously worked at Nasdaq, where he worked as the global software development director and associate vice president of enterprise architecture. Zinder now leads Ledger Enterprise Interact, a suite of solutions that…

Medical Blockchain LEMONCHAIN Token to List on MEXC Crypto Exchange

On April 20, the native token LEMC of LEMONCHAIN ​​Ltd., a project in the medical blockchain industry, announced its listing on the MEXC cryptocurrency platform. LEMONCHAIN ​​is an open data ecosystem that enhances the individual patients’ healthcare data authority through blockchain technology’s decentralisation of EMR (electronic medical record). The trading of LEMC/USDT has been opened officially. This is the first additional token listing on the MEXC virtual currency exchange to the general public within a month, following ProBitGlobal’s global listing on March 18. Kwon Ki-Uk, CEO of Lemon Chain, Co.…

Blockchain games are leading the DApp industry, says latest DappRadar report

Market tracker DappRadar and the Blockchain Game Alliance, or BGA, published the Blockchain Games Report for Q1 2022 on Wednesday. After citing that $720 million was invested into blockchain games and infrastructures in February in a previous report, the latest number for total Q1 investment is $2.5 billion. Venture capitalists and other investors raised $4 billion in 2021. The biggest deals listed in the report include Animoca Brands raising $360 million, bringing its valuation to $5 billion and becoming a leading Web3 brand. Sequoia Capital led a $450 million investment…

Are Experts Using Auto Trading Robots in 2022? – Blockchain News, Opinion, TV and Jobs

Online trading is one of the most lucrative activities, and every day, many traders are signing up for memberships on different platforms to give it a try. Note that succeeding in trading requires extensive skills and solid plans. One of the best approaches is using auto trading robots. The best element about trading robots is that they minimize human trading efforts by executing specific tasks.  We have prepared this guide to take you through trading robots in cryptocurrency trading. Whether you are investing in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, etc., you…

Ukrainian crypto and blockchain firms survive despite ongoing conflict

Many Ukraine-based businesses have had to shutter or suspend operations following the outbreak of the conflict with Russia on Feb. 24, but some in the cryptocurrency space have been able to keep running, albeit with many staff in bomb shelters, scattered across the world and facing an uncertain future.  Speaking to Cointelegraph, Arsenii Hurtavtsov, a Ukrainian national and CEO of nonfungible token service provider Finch, said he managed to get on one of the last flights from Kyiv to Azerbaijan on Feb. 23 before the country began blocking many men…

Blockchain-based Games Rallied Up 2,000% in One Year, DappRadar’s Latest Report Shows

DappRadar, a major online platform that offers information and insights about all the existing blockchain-based decentralized applications (DApps), Wednesday disclosed through its Blockchain Games Report that interest in blockchain-based games has risen by 2,000% since Q1 of 2021. The study shows that blockchain games are leading in decentralized applications, which put them at 52% of all blockchain activities. The report further reveals that blockchain games attracted 1.22 million unique active wallets (UAW) in March of this year. According to the report, Axie Infinity, a platform that offers decentralized games, was…

Blockchain Can Improve Climate Crisis through Smart Contracts, Study Shows

As climate change is considered a desperate issue in modern times. Blockchain technology is expected to act as a stepping stone towards addressing economic complexities and interoperability when transiting to renewable energy, according to a report by Chainlink Labs and Tecnalia. As a leading provider of open-source blockchain oracle solutions, William Herkelrath believes Chainlink Labs will help create a data-driven backend infrastructure required to tackle the climate crisis.  The managing director at Chainlink Labs added: “By using Chainlink to bridge some of the highest-quality climate data in the world…

Banking Infrastructure Needs Blockchain Technology to Meet Rapid Fintech Enviroment, HashCash CEO Says

With the fintech industry making significant strides within a short time, the banking sector ought to integrate blockchain technology to keep pace with this area, according to HashCash CEO Raj Chowdhury.  For a holistic transformation to be witnessed in the conventional financial landscape, Chowdhury believes the adoption of cutting-edge technologies like blockchain should happen even though digitalisation, improved UI/UX, and competitive pricing are happening at the front-end.  Blockchain adoption continues to tick based on various factors, such as improved transparency, better capital optimisation, decreased counterparty risks and errors, instant cross-border…

Crypto Exchange Blockchain.com Expected to Launch IPO This Year: Bloomberg

Cryptocurrency exchange Blockchain.com is expected to go public as soon as this year, according to Bloomberg. It is becoming a trend for crypto firms to seek the public market pursuit. While Coinbase pioneered these growth metrics when listed on the Nasdaq exchange back in last year April, other outfits, including eToro, and Huobi are also notably considering various public entry routes. According to an insider, Blockchain.com is actively conducting interviews with banks for the most likely public offering this year. But the specific IPO time may not happen until next…

Blockchain.com co-founder thinks the EU and UK are ‘progressive’ crypto regulators

Cointelegraph reporter Joseph Hall sat down with Nicolas Cary, the co-founder and president of Blockchain.com at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit, or PBWS, last week. Cary’s other roles include founding the Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development and co-authoring a white paper called “The Future is Decentralised” for the United Nations Development Programme.  Hall and Cary discussed the regulatory landscape of the European Union and the United Kingdom, as well as Cary’s optimism for the evolution of money in the Web3 space. Cary recognized the recent “progressive” momentum of policy makers to…