Other investors in the round included Seed Club Ventures, North Island Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Zeneca, Mischief Ventures, Sfermion, CMT Digital, Patricio Worthalter, Spice Capital and Sublime Venture, among others. Lore has now raised $7.15 million to date. Source
The seed round was led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Road Capital, AirTree, Standard Crypto, The SALT Fund (part of the Skybridge/Scaramucci family), ParaFi Capital, Distributed Capital, Kraynos Capital, Earlybird, and Mouro Capital (the venture capital arm connected to the Santander Group). Source
The news further narrows the options for people to trade cryptocurrency among themselves. The global peer-to-peer (P2P) market is fast losing popularity and Paxful may be the latest platform to be affected by this reality. According to a blog post by Paxful CEO Ray Youssef, the firm is winding down its operations immediately with no assurance of resuming them ever again. The eye-catching introduction reads: “Today, Paxful will be suspending its marketplace. We are not sure if it will come back.” While Youssef admits that the news may come as…
press release PRESS RELEASE. ProBit Global, a top 20 cryptocurrency exchange, looks forward to continued success in launching exciting and promising crypto projects through its IEO platform, while providing its users with unparalleled profit opportunities. ProBit Global remains buoyant on Initial Exchange Offerings While the past few years have seen significant challenges in the cryptocurrency IEO space, ProBit Global has shown no signs of slowing down as the exchange aims to offer its customers and users outstanding value when it comes to budding blockchain-based projects. Since 2019, ProBit Global has…
“We spent millions on compliance, but even that still wasn’t enough,” Youssef told CoinDesk in an interview. “And then to make things worse, in the middle of January,” he went on, “my co-founder decided to sue the company and myself. The litigation got really nasty and he scared away our best people. My entire chief level staff resigned. I had no operational staff.” Original
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) and Credit Agricole Bank have jointly launched a new digital bond platform called “so|bond.” The platform is built on blockchain technology and enables institutional clients to issue, trade and settle bonds digitally. The platform is set to provide a more efficient and secure process than traditional methods, enhancing the clients’ experience. The so|bond platform is designed to use a validation protocol called “Proof of Climate awaReness” to minimize its environmental footprint while incentivizing participating nodes to improve their environmental impact. Each node will be remunerated according…
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The two banks also assure of plans to allow the platform to accommodate central bank digital currencies in the future. Earlier, Crédit Agricole CIB and SEB jointly announced the launch of a new public blockchain-based platform, so|bond. According to the announcement, the platform will be focused on improving the efficiency of issuing digital bonds, albeit with a little twist of sustainability. That is, while the network is not exactly fixated on green bonds, it still aims to be eco-friendly in its operations. To this end, the platform will look to…
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Two banks from Sweden and France announced the launch of a new digital bond platform built on blockchain technology. The platform will enable institutional clients to issue, trade, and settle bonds digitally, providing a more efficient and secure process compared to traditional methods. The platform, a joint project of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) and Credit Agricole Bank, is called so|bond. According to the announcement from April 3, the blockchain network will be using a validation protocol, Proof of Climate awaReness, minimizing its environmental footprint. The Proof of Climate awaReness protocol…