Despite renewed efforts
to regulate them worldwide and a decline in popularity since their
"boom" in 2017, Initial Coin Offerings remain a highly efficient way
to raise funds for a blockchain project if certain conditions are met. And if
the team...
The objective is that smart contracts
have the same legal validity as physical contracts. The technical regulations
will be established in no more than 90 days
Through an amendment
approved this Wednesday, January 23rd, the Italian...
The market has not been kind or pretty for
Bitcoin and altcoins for the last year. For the former, going from $20,000 to
all the way down to less than $4,000 has affected every sector of the
cryptocurrency industry, including...
Regulators ask for international cryptographic rules
to be implemented. In the Netherlands there are less than 30 cryptographic
service providers
Pete Hoekstra, Minister of Finance of the Netherlands,
received official advice for the introduction of a...
Blockchain technology adoption has taken off in
the last year due to increased levels of awareness and familiarity. However, it
still has lots of room to grow, and has to achieve its potential in that regard
for us to say...
The
Government of Canada will hold public consultations to address issues related
to national banking
The
Canadian banking sector is studying how to introduce blockchain technology to
protect its customers' data and optimize the handling of information...
The
Swiss banking giant Vontobel Bank has been developing the project "Digital
Assets Vault", during some years
The
important Swiss bank Vontobel recently announced it is going to offer custody
of digital assets services for all its...
As the cryptocurrency is still showing volatile tendencies, the mining
business has been one of the most affected ones: the activity, once very
lucrative and attractive when, say, each BTC was worth nearly $20,000, is now
less enticing as the...
Both
companies also work on blockchain projects to prevent cyber attacks and
contribute to the preservation of the environment
The Swiss
cybersecurity firm WISeKey and Censof, a subsidiary of the technology group
originally from Malaysia, announced an...
People
who are dedicated to the investigation of Distributed Ledger Technology may ask
the government for credits and tax reductions to sustain their research
As
a measure of support for the development of new technologies, the...
