OKCoin Joins Square's Crypto Patent Alliance

The cryptocurrency exchange joins prominent members such as Coinbase, Square, and Blockstream in the fight against patent trolling.

This Radix-Inspired Alliance Wants to Bring DeFi to 100 Million New Users

Decentralized finance has shown the 1% that the masses do not have to remain subjugated to the wills of the financial ruling class.

Chinese lottery service 500.com acquires Bitcoin mining pool BTC.com

Chinese sports lottery service 500.com has entered a share exchange agreement to acquire maror Bitcoin mining pool BTC.com. Chinese sports lottery service 500.com has acquired a major Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool, BTC.com. 500.com has entered into a share exchange agreement with Blockchain Alliance Technologies Holding Company in the Cayman Islands, according to a Feb.

Chainlink, Aave, Messari and others launch GoodFi crypto alliance

GoodFi claims to be the first cryptocurrency alliance focused on furthering education and research into decentralized finance.

Crypto Patent Alliance Questions Craig Wright’s White Paper Copyright Claim

Back in January, the notorious Craig Wright who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto had his lawyers send letters to a number of websites like bitcoin.org telling them to remove the Bitcoin white paper hosted on their web portals.

Colombian Banks to Work with Exchanges on Year-long Crypto Pilot

Colombian banks are set to form an unlikely alliance, with some of the nation’s biggest crypto exchanges set to work together on a cryptoasset transactions pilot. Per Semana, the pilot will, in most cases see crypto exchanges join forces with a bank to test how financial institutions can use crypto to conduct transactions – and whether it can indeed speed

Tron, NEM, Zcash Price Analysis: 19 January

As Bitcoin closed in on the $37,000-mark, the altcoin market looked to move in alliance with the king coin.

DEXs launch ‘L2 Squared’ alliance to promote Ethereum scalability

DeversiFi and Loopring partner up to improve scalability solutions based on layer two technology. Layer two decentralized exchanges Loopring and DeversiFi are joining forces by forming a committee dedicated to promoting usage of layer two solutions, named “L2 Squared” or just L². Announced on Monday, the alliance wants to ease the transition for users into these higher performance on-chain exchanges.

Coinbase becomes a founding member of Square’s crypto patent group

Coinbase will help COPA on its journey of defending against patent overreach. The Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance, or COPA, headed up by finance company Square, recently picked up Coinbase as a cornerstone participant.

Polkadot launches DeFi alliance with Chainlink and will let 1000 nodes bloom

Polkadot is making moves to expand its ecosystem, announcing a new DeFi Alliance alongside a new support program for validators. Polkadot has become the latest Ethereum competitor to launch a decentralized finance alliance. Announced on Dec.

Polkadot DeFi Alliance Formed By Key Teams

Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com. Alliance to organize and promote discussions around crucial topics for DeFi on Polkadot Initial membership to include core parachain, oracle, and application builders December 3rd, 2020, Polkadot Decoded: While the excitement around the Polkadot Network’s potential for Decentralized Finance has been palpable

Alliance Bernstein Tells Clients Bitcoin Has a Role in Asset Allocation

Alliance Bernstein has told its clients that bitcoin has a role in investment portfolios.

World's first tradable carbon token launched by Universal Protocol alliance

The Universal Protocol Alliance [UPA] which included prominent blockchain companies like Bittrex Global, Ledger, CertiK, InfiniGold, and Uphold launched the Universal Carbon [UPCO2] on a public blockc The post World's first tradable carbon token launched by Universal Protocol alliance appeared first on AMBCrypto.

Universal Protocol Alliance introduces tradable carbon token

“Combine a digital asset with a rainforest carbon offset and give everyone in the world access." An alliance of crypto firms is introducing tokenized carbon credits for individuals to offset the amount of carbon dioxide they contribute.  According to a Dec.

Shotguns, dragons, and Doctor Who: The Blockchain Game Alliance's Game Demo Day

The two-part Game Demo Day event highlighted the diversity and innovation in the blockchain gaming sector. For an industry starved of end-users, few apples look juicier to the blockchain world than gaming.

Ripple Joins Business Alliance Advocating ‘Safe and Accessible’ US Election

Blockchain payments startup Ripple has joined an alliance comprising of almost 1,000 major US companies and CEOs calling for calm and fairness in Tuesday's presidential election.

Paxful launches crypto debit card in Mexico

The debit card was made possible thanks to an alliance with a Spanish neobank Bitcoin (BTC) P2P marketplace Paxful has partnered with Spanish neobank Bnext to launch its first crypto debit card in Mexico. The partnership will allow Paxful’s Mexican customers to use their crypto funds to pay with a debit card in any national and foreign point-of-sale, or PoS, and even withdraw cash from ATMs without fees. Bnext customers will also have direct access to the P2P marketplace to buy and sell crypto.

East meets West as eight top projects join global DeFi alliance

Eight of the western world’s top DeFi projects have joined an industry consortium that is supported by a Shanghai science and technology institution. The Open DeFi Alliance has announced the launch of a western arm and onboarding of eight new member firms.

Mysterium Network, Sentinel Launch dVPN Alliance to Make Internet Users ‘Untraceable, Unblockable and Unhackable’

Web 3 projects Mysterium Network and Sentinel have today launched an alliance which aims to protect online users from personal data hacks, cybercrime and surveillance.

Binance Alliance With Japanese Crypto Platform Abandoned

A potential partnership between Binance and TaoTao fell through, 10 months after first being revealed.

European Commission to launch blockchain regulatory sandbox by 2022

Crypto and blockchain regulations seem to have become a top priority in the EU. The European Commission in collaboration with the 30-country alliance called the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP) plans to launch a pan-European blockchain regulatory sandbox by 2022. Per an update to the official webpage for the commission’s Digital Innovation and Blockchain team on Sep.

VeChain Joins Leading Health and Safety Alliance in China, Will Be Sole Blockchain Provider

Enterprise blockchain platform VeChain is joining hands with the China Animal Health and Food Safety Alliance (CAFA) to become the consortium’s sole blockchain provider.

This DeFi Group Wants to Bring Maturity to the Yield Farming Craze

The Chicago DeFi Alliance, launched in April 2020, is now poised to help members profit from yield farming and the liquidity mining craze.

Binance’s US arm joins Chicago DeFi alliance

Binance’s interest in DeFi expands globally. The United States arm of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange,  has entered a major organization focused on decentralized finance, or DeFi. According to a Sept.

VeChain to Supply Blockchain Tech for Chinese Food Safety Group That Includes McDonald’s

The VeChain Foundation has become the first blockchain-based entity to join the China Animal Health and Food Safety Alliance (CAFA) and will work with members to trace supply chains in the country.

VeChain offers services to 130 firms in China as food safety alliance member

The platform plans to assist in "building a from-farm-to-table traceability system" across China. The VeChain Foundation has joined the China Animal Health And Food Safety Alliance as a council member.  According to a Sept.

Curve, Aave, Synthetix and 7 others join Global DeFi Alliance

Huobi's Global DeFi Alliance has announced 10 new members, including sector heavyweights Aave, Curve Finance, and Synthetix.

Hong Kong’s BTC association pushes ‘Bitcoin Tram’ ad campaign

Another massive Bitcoin ad rolls out in Hong Kong, urging citizens to “be their own bank.” The Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong, a major local alliance promoting crypto awareness and education, is launching the “Bitcoin Tram” ad campaign in Hong Kong; one of the world’s main global financial centres. According to a Sept.

Square Inc. Launches Alliance for Crypto and Blockchain Companies to Fight Patent Trolls

Square has announced that it has successfully launched COPA to empower blockchain and crypto companies and to protect them from patent hoarding trolls.

Square launches cryptocurrency patent alliance to fight the trolls

Square is launching a consortium to pool patents and democratize access to innovative blockchain technologies Square, the US-based financial services company headed by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, is establishing a consortium to fight patent trolling and ensure open access to technology in the crypto sector. The ‘Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance’ (COPA) seeks to democratize access to innovative technologies in the crypto sector, asserting that “open access to patents covering foundational cryptocurrency technologies is necessary for the community to grow, freely innovate, and build new and better products.” Square is putting all of our crypto patents into a new non-profit org we’re calling the Crypto Open Patent Alliance, which will maintain a shared patent library to help the crypto community defend against patent aggressors and trolls.

Square calls for open patent alliance in crypto communities 

Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, Jack Dorsey today announced in a blog about the launch of a Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a non-profit meant to address the concerns regarding the off The post Square calls for open patent alliance in crypto communities  appeared first on AMBCrypto.

Square Aims to Stop Patent Trolls From Killing ‘Bitcoin Adoption’

The alliance aims to minimize litigation and ward off patent trolls by bringing together crypto companies large and small.

Square Forms Group to Stop Patent Hoarding From Stifling Crypto Innovation

Square said the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA) will allow companies to access and share tech innovations with one another.

Minecraft is set to launch its own NFTs before the year is out

This will be made possible thanks to an alliance between a number of top industry players. Minecraft, a best-selling game and worldwide phenomenon, is about to make its debut in the non-fungible token, or NFT, business thanks to a partnership between two players in the blockchain industry. According to the announcement, Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck and blockchain asset issuer Enjin have entered into a deal with Minecraft’s parent company, Mojang Studios, which will allow them to create NFTs for the popular game.

New DeFi alliance to connect Eastern and Western DeFi markets

The Chinese government is supporting a new global DeFi association. Amid the ongoing craze around decentralized finance, or DeFi, a blockchain startup in China is launching a global DeFi initiative. Conflux Network, a permissionless blockchain startup, has launched a new DeFi-focused association focused on international cooperation of major industry players. Called “Open DeFi,” the new alliance aims to connect Eastern and Western DeFi markets, uniting China-based blockchain leaders and global DeFi startups to streamline cross-border market growth, sustainability and innovation.  According to a Sept.

DeFi Alliance to Bridge Western, Asian Crypto Markets Launches

Open DeFi is a consortium to help the East meet the West.

Binance and Oasis Labs launch intelligence sharing platform for exchanges

Binance and Oasis Labs are building a platform to facilitate threat intelligence sharing among exchanges. The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has teamed up with privacy-centric blockchain-powered cloud computing developers Oasis Labs to fight fraud in the crypto sector. Oasis was announced as the inaugural member and primary infrastructure provider for the Binance-led CryptoSafe Alliance on August 27. Oasis Labs’ “confidential smart contracts” will be utilized in building the decentralized CryptoSafe Platform which is designed to share threat intelligence data among crypto exchanges.

Partnership News of the Day: Binance, Oasis Labs, Coinbase Custody, Bison Trails

While major crypto exchange Binance is teaming up with data privacy software company Oasis Labs to launch the CryptoSafe Alliance, Coinbase's custody outfit is bringing its clients staking on Solana (SOL) tokens to enterprise-grade validators on the Bison Trails platform. Per an emailed announcement, the CryptoSafe Alliance is an effort to bring together a global ecosystem

Binance and Oasis Labs Launch Alliance to Combat Crypto Fraud and Hacks

The aim is a comprehensive database of information gleaned from previous hacks and fraud used to proactively fight future ones.