Rizon launches stablecoin app
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Rizon, a fintech startup founded by Lithuanian entrepreneurs Ignas Survila and Laurynas Jokubaitis, has introduced a stablecoin app designed to simplify the use of digital dollars worldwide. The app, which is available in 110 countries, enables users to spend USDC and USDT through Visa-backed payment cards, Apple Pay, and ATMs while maintaining a non-custodial architect...
Gemini launches Australian Arm
Thursday, October 9, 2025 by Richard Harris
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has initiated operations in Australia, expanding its digital currency exchange services to meet increasing local demand. The firm aims to offer a platform tailored for Australian users and institutions, enhancing accessibility and regulatory compliance. The expansion represents part of Gemini’s broader strategy to strengthen its pres...
Developers and brands must make mobile apps far more secure
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 by Austin Harris
The bad guys are still breaking digital windows and kicking down digital doors, so to speak, and will continue well into 2023 and beyond!
Consumers through experience or gut instinct will demand that their mobile app providers deliver key security features including trying to stop the increasingly prevalent "man-in-the-middle" attacks. The latest techn...
Salary payments in Bitcoin could become the new norm
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 by Russ Scritchfield
More than a third of millennials and half of Generation Z would be happy to receive 50% of their salary in Bitcoin and/or other cryptocurrencies, reveals a new survey.
The findings from a global poll carried out by deVere Group, one of the world's largest financial advisory, asset management, and fintech organizations, show that 36% of those born between 1980 and...
Cardano price prediction for 2021
Thursday, August 26, 2021 by Richard Harris
The price of cryptocurrency Cardano will jump to more than $3 in the next month, predicts the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory, asset management, and fintech organizations.
Cardano price predictions for 2021
"WalletInvestor believes the next year will see ADA soar far beyond its current high. The outlet predicts a price o...
NEM Group has launched Symbol
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
NEM Group announced the launch of Symbol, its next-generation Proof-of-Stake+ (PoS+) Public Blockchain. Boasting enterprise-grade programmability and security, Symbol from NEM brings cutting edge technical features which can be leveraged by innovative projects building fintech, healthcare and supply chain products at the heart of the new economy. With the launch co...
Bitcoin reaches new highs in first part of 2021
Monday, February 15, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
The Bitcoin price nears $50,000 and will continue to reach new highs in this first quarter of 2021 – but investors should also expect volatility due to increasing regulatory scrutiny.
This is the warning from Nigel Green, CEO and founder of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organizations.
It comes...
Kadena public blockchain has increased from 10 to 20 chains
Thursday, August 20, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Kadena announced that its scalable layer-1 public blockchain has increased from 10 to 20 chains, becoming the fastest blockchain platform in the world. Kadena’s Chainweb public protocol functions through a braided, parallelized consensus mechanism, a unique architecture that boosts speeds while preserving the security of the Proof of Work consensus utilized by Bit...
Atari partners with Robot Cache
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Atari® announced a partnership with revolutionary PC video game distribution platform Robot Cache to integrate the Atari Token into the Robot Cache digital storefront where customers can buy or resell digital games. Through this partnership, customers reselling and buying digital PC titles through Robot Cache will be able to utilize Atari's blockchain-based cryp...
HedgeTrade announces invitation-only beta
Thursday, December 19, 2019 by Austin Harris
HedgeTrade is happy to announce the launch of the HedgeTrade Invitation-Only Beta. The Beta gives the HedgeTrade community the chance to register on the functioning platform, begin sharing and buying cryptocurrency trading predictions (Blueprints) and earn HedgeTrade (HEDG) tokens.
HedgeTrade is a simple, engaging open market for trading insights that aligns th...
Decentralized technologies solve Illiquidity problems
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 by Richard Harris
Illiquidity is one of the major factors affecting global financial markets. Digitizing new assets and finding corresponding buyers and sellers is difficult and costly. Much has been said about the potential for decentralized technologies to solve these problems, but current offerings fundamentally lack the necessary performance guarantees, feature set, and architectural...
How Ethereum's hard fork could rebound the future of crypto
Thursday, January 17, 2019 by Richard Harris
Ethereum crypto coin speculation can be found in just about every corner of the Internet, right along with many other crypto coins. But what is it about Ethereum that intrigues so many?
According to the deVere Group, Ethereum's ending value could be $2500 sometime in 2019, and it will continue to grow through 2020, because of the use of the platform itself and th...
Mobile Threat Landscape reports steady decrease in blacklisted apps
Friday, June 1, 2018 by Austin Harris
RiskIQ has released its Mobile Threat Landscape Q1 2018 Report, which analyzed 120 mobile app stores and more than two billion daily scanned resources. The findings showed that taking advantage of the popularity and volatility of the cryptocurrency landscape is paying off for threat actors via the mobile attack vector and that malicious apps leveraged by nation-state ac...
How Blockchain is making an impact in healthcare
Monday, April 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Like almost any other sector, the healthcare industry has attracted the attention and interest of blockchain-based product developers in a significant and commendable way. Over the last couple of years, blockchain products aiming at leveraging the healthcare sector have mushroomed from various parts of the globe, with some making a powerful impact and growing speedily. ...
Most cryptocurrency mobile apps are vulnerable
Thursday, November 30, 2017 by Austin Harris
Over 1,300 crypto currencies exist today with over $300 Billion market capitalization. One of the most popular and oldest cryptocurrency - Bitcoin has almost reached $10,000 price after several months of fluctuation, but continuous and steady growth.A wide spectrum of mobile applications for cryptocurrencies were released during the last few years by various startups, i...
The Gates Foundation chats about Mojaloop
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has released new open-source software for creating payment platforms that will help unbanked people around the world access digital financial services. The software, called Mojaloop, establishes a blueprint for connecting today’s financial services sector and can be used to overcome the barriers to interoperability that banks and ...
Bitcoin And Digital Money Challenge The Global Economic Order
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 by Richard Harris
Bitcoin and Digital Money are challenging today’s Global Economic Order. Financial journalists Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey have written in THE AGE OF CRYPTOCURRENCY: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order. THE AGE OF CRYPTOCURRENCY demystifies virtual currency.Bitcoin is a digital currency and peer-to-peer (P2P) payment net...
