tZERO, a subsidiary of overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK), launched an ICO on December 18th last year, attracting over 10,000 registrations for accreditation verification, a requirement to subscribe. The token sale raised over $100 million USD in a mere 12 hours. The ICO was intended to fund the future development of the proposed tZERO tokens and a security token trading system and platform. The vision...
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has published the country’s first official guiding document on blockchain technology and its applications in the country. China, which sees a significant majority of the world’s bitcoin trading, is a notable example of a major government’s foray into understanding cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, and its underlying technology, the...
Financial technology solutions company D+H has provided a whitepaper on what they consider to be the top milestones that blockchain technology must hit before it will be an accepted addition to the world of fintech. At large, international scale conferences, executives and those heavily involved in the financial and banking sector have painted with broad strokes on their opinions about blockchain...
Factom, a new system for leveraging the Bitcoin blockchain for use has released their much anticipated Whitepaper, today. The community has been talking about Bitcoin 2.0 smart contracts for years now; however, many have forgotten that a decentralized/distributed layer for "trust-able" information sources is a necessary prerequisite to smart contracts functioning the way idealists want them to...