DeFi lending protocol Aave has raised $3 million from Framework Ventures and Three Arrows Capital through Aave’s native LEND token sale  in place of their upcoming Aavenomics Upgrade. Both the investment firms had purchased $3 million of LEND at $0.10 per token, a stake now worth around $7 million. AAVE staking comes alongside with yield farming rewarding from protocol usage, similar to COMP and BAL liquidity mining schemas which have driven exponential growth in recent weeks

The Singapore Fintech Association and R3 have formed a partnership to provide startups in the SFA network with access to R3’s Corda blockchain. On July 14 an announcement was made stating that the SFA said that startups would receive support from R3’s Venture Development program. We are delighted to collaborate with the Singapore FinTech Association [@sgfintech] to help grow the Singapore #blockchain ecosystem and introduce the value of @Cordablockchain to more #startups. R

While Blockchain technology is democratizing capital for startup companies. Blockchain-based crowdfunding could reshape the entire crowdfunding sector. Crowdfunding allows businesses with really great products and services and ideas to raise funds from the regular people in small investment amounts. The crowdfunding sector exploded as new crowdfunding platforms rose all around the world across a variety of fields and niches. The crowdfunding industry today represents a $1 bil

A new startup called Braintrust wants to change the way freelance talent and respective clients find each other through a community-run platform. The project will feature its own governance token. The core premise of the platform is to remove middlemen from the process of hiring highly skilled talent for contract and freelance work, primarily in the IT industry. Business and employees across all industries are realizing that it's possible to innovate from anywhere 🌎 We are

Thailand-based fintech company SYNQA has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round for new cashless payment ventures. In a June 22 announcement, SYNQA stated it had raised $80 million in a Series C funding round led by Siam Commercial Bank subsidiary SCB 10X and the Asia-based venture capital group SPARX. Have you heard the news? After a lot of work, we closed our Series C and raised $80M! We're excited to deepen our footprint in the cashless societies in Asia by buildin

Eight tech startups from seven different developing economies will receive an investment of Ethereum cryptocurrency from the UNICEF Cryptocurrency Fund. UNICEF’s crypto-enabled investment vehicle has given these companies 125 ETH, worth approximately $28,600. UNICEF #Cryptocurrency Fund announces its largest investment of startups in emerging economies. Among the awardees are companies expanding work to use their technologies to mitigate the hardships of #COVID19 on childre

Blockchain development platform, Alchemy is going live with Alchemy Notify. Alchemy Notify is a push notification for developers that could end to repeated refreshing of block explorers while waiting for confirmation of transaction. Excited to announce Alchemy Notify – bringing notifications to blockchain apps! ⚡️ In 2020, app notifications are crucial for a great user experience. Now developers can enable notifications for blockchain products with just a few lines of code!

Ontology recently partnered with German digital identity and cloud wallet provider, Spherity on advancing development on digital identity solutions for products and enterprises. Spherity’s Cloud-Edge wallet will integrate with Ontology’s (ONT) blockchain. Ontology will use Spheriy’s Decentralized Digital Identity solutions through the partnership. "オントロジーがSpherityと提携し、デジタルIDソリューションを推進"　日本語記事を更新☝ オントロジーは、ドイツの分散型デジタルIDを専門するSpherityとの業務提携を発表しました。 詳細はこちらよりご覧ください☟✨https://t.co/H

A new cryptocurrency investment and portfolio management app for Android and iOS B21 promises to lower both the technological and financial barriers to entry for new investors. The app was launched on May 7 allowing users to easily create and manage their own portfolio of cryptocurrencies with a minimum fiat deposit of just $25. Create your own #cryptocurrency #portfolio with @B21Official. Start #investing using #paymentcard or #banktransfer.@nityn @yolobro @B21Official pic.t

Bison Trails has announced support for the Celo open network enabling smartphone users to send crypto directly to a phone number instead of a blockchain address. Users will now be able to transfer value using Celo’s stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar on the Bison Trails platform. Aaron Henshaw, co-founder and CTO of Bison Trails stated: “Bison Trails has strong relationships with the Celo team: we’re members of the Celo Alliance for Prosperity and are very familiar with Cel

Cypherium blockchain joins the Microsoft for Startups program as a part of becoming the company’s blockchain-as-a-service, or BaaS, offering in the coming months. Cypherium blockchain uses a combination: Proof-of-work or PoW HotStuff consensus algorithms (used by Facebook’s Libra project) Proud to be partnered with @Microsoft to explore new #blockchain use cases with @Azure @msft4startups . Read more @Cointelegraph : https://t.co/o30gXfLuXT — Cypherium Blockchain (@CypheriumC

Chinese multinational conglomerate company Tencent is launching a blockchain accelerator. On April 29 Tencent announced that that the “Tencent Industrial Accelerator” is open to both early-stage and mature blockchain startups, with a total of 30 places available. Applications are being accepted until June 6. #Tencent Industrial Accelerator is launching a Blockchain-specific session. Open for applications from startup or established companies with at least one round funding i

Hong-Kong based artificial intelligence (AI) startup SenseTime has partnered with the People’s Bank of China’s (PBoC) Digital Currency Research Institute to provide its AI expertise. On April 17. South China Morning Post reported that the government taps another tech partnership to continue the development of China’s digital yuan amid the reported trials of the central bank’s digital currency (CBDC). National AI champion SenseTime enters pact with China’s central bank amid di

Indian tech startup Smart Sight Innovation (SSI) develops an app designed to improve maintenance and inspection of vehicles. According to an April 27. announcement SSI built the mobile app for an unnamed American client specializing in the development of AI, IoT and other blockchain-based platforms. The app is currently available on Android devices. The app creates a summary of issues such as repair work and compliance with inspection criteria. SSI says that the app sends ale

Blockchain investment company Eterna Capital and venture capital fund Borderless Capital partners to launch Eterna Borderless Venture Studio, to support projects on the Algorand platform. The partnership aims to accelerate adoption through providing tools and resources to dapp developers and entrepreneurs. We are excited to announce our first Venture Studio in partnership with @eternacapital focusing on @Algorand projects. We welcome to the first batch of companies joining th

Australian fintech unicorn Airwallex, raised $US160 million in a fundraising round led by the investors such as ANZ and Salesforce. Existing investors such as Tencent, Sequoia Capital China, DST Global, and Horizons Ventures also participated in the round bringing the total raised by the startup to $362 million. We are delighted to share that Airwallex has raised another US$160M in additional funding. We continue to believe there is a strong need for an alternative financial

Open-source project Celo is calling on blockchain innovators to participate in CeloCamp, an entrepreneurial initiative that seeks to highlight the potential of global financial inclusion, mass adoption of digital money and the acceleration of blockchain startups. With its new phase announced on March 20, the initiative is reportedly backed by more than 80 companies, venture firms, experts and individuals. CeloCamp aims to help decentralized technology entrepreneurs, speeding