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Asensys unveils high-performance blockchain designed to solve scalability problems
Asensys, a high-performance distributed ledger blockchain platform startup, today emerged from stealth mode to launch its new website and announce new technology to deliver greater scalability to blockchain networks. Blockchain technology is the same infrastructure that makes globally traded cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and Ethereum function. Bitcoin now has an approximate market cap of $170 ...
Enterprise AR remote holographic collaboration firm Spatial raises $14M
Spatial Systems Inc., a holographic collaboration platform that uses augmented and virtual reality to turn any room into a 3D workspace, today announced $14 million in new funding. The Series A funding was led by WhiteStar Capital, iNovia and Kakao Ventures and was joined by existing investors including Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger, and Zynga Founder ...
Blockchain search engine Presearch launches ‘keyword staking’ for advertising transparency
Presearch, the open, decentralized search engine that rewards community members with distributed ledger blockchain-based tokens, today announced the launch of “keyword Staking,” a new keyword advertising model with a different approach. According to the company, the concept was inspired by a need to rethink the search engine advertising industry pay-per-click methodology — one still dominated by ...
SettleMint raises $2.1M to build out enterprise blockchain-as-a-service
Belgium-based blockchain platform-as-a-service distributed ledger technology company SettleMint NV today announced the procurement of $2.1 million in funds backed by KPN Ventures and existing U.S. investor Medici Ventures. Founded in 2016, SettleMint provides infrastructure and developer tools for enterprise-grade blockchain projects using a low-code solution. SettleMint’s vision with its proprietary scalable, low-code, chain and infrastructure agnostic ...
Clubhouse raises $25M for DevOps enterprise software management
Collaborative software development project management tools developer Clubhouse Software Inc. announced today it has raised $25 million in a Series B funding led by Greylock Partners. Clubhouse is a maker of software management tools for development teams, such as DevOps teams, with enterprise-scale tools available for any size of team. Launched in 2016, Clubhouse has overseen ...
Blockchain game startup SuperTree nets $2.5M in early-stage funding
South Korea-based distributed ledger blockchain game developer SuperTree Co. Ltd. announced today that it has raised $2.5 million in a Series A investment led by Korea Investment Partners, the country’s largest venture capital firm, and SBI Investment Korea. SuperTree develops games that use blockchains, the underlying technology that makes cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and Ethereum. ...
CircleCI launches DevOps integrations with 20+ partners including AWS, Google
Continuous integration and delivery platform for DevOps teams Circle Internet Services Inc. today announced the release of a suite of configuration integrations, known as orbs, with 20 partners including Amazon Web Services Inc., Google LLC and Salesforce.com Inc., among others. These orbs allow developers to automate the deployment of software builds directly from the continuous integration pipeline. ...
Darabase and Zappar launch AR solution for location-based ads
Darabase Ltd., a platform for managing and making money from augmented reality permission in the physical world, and AR developer tools company Zappar Ltd. today announced a partnership to deliver location-based permission-controlled AR content. The objective of the partnership is to allow an AR advertisement platform that would enable property owners to register rights to AR content ...
In a first for precious-metals industry, Tradewind uses blockchain to trade $7.4M in gold
Financial technology firm Tradewind Markets Inc. announced Tuesday the first-ever trade of high-grade precious metals using its Tradewind Origins distributed ledger blockchain provenance management service. The trade between Agnico Eagle Mines and Bank of Montreal, confirmed by the Royal Canadian Mint, consisted of 5,000 ounces of London Bullion Market Association quality-verified gold, valued at about ...
Kadena completes launch of scalable public blockchain with full smart-contract support
Extending its reach into the distributed ledger blockchain service market, Kadena LLC today announced the full launch of its public blockchain. The Kadena public blockchain will now be fully accessible, including transaction and smart-contract support. Genesis mining, the beginning of the chain when the first block is completed and transactions begin, on Kadena’s hybrid blockchain ...