Cole Kennelly

Elevated Returns, a pioneer of Trophy Real estate Tokenization, has recently announced a partnership with Securitize, a compliance platform, and protocol for issuing and managing digital securities on the blockchain. This partnership will allow Elevated Returns to spur their...

According to a post on the Radar Relay Medium, Short Ether or sETH, the first short token, is now available for trading on Radar Relay. sETH is a short position in Ethereum abstracted in an Ethereum token built on...

The Lightning Network is an open protocol layer that leverages the power of blockchain and smart contracts to enable instant payments across a network of participants. The Lightning Network enables instant payments at exceptionally, low fees with millions to...

Welcome to this week in Blockchain Venture Capital. dYdX dYdX, a San Francisco-based startup building open-source protocols for decentralized margin trading and derivatives, recently closed a $10 million Series A round. Participants in the round included a16z crypto (lead),...

Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are often touted as exchanges of the future. Some of the benefits of decentralized exchanges are the absence of a third-party or intermediary, anonymity, potentially lower fees, and more. Some of the disadvantages of decentralized exchanges...

According to a blog post, Coinbase and Circle have partnered to bring the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin to Coinbase. Starting today, Oct. 23, Coinbase customers in supported jurisdictions can buy, sell, send, and receive USD Coin on the Coinbase website,...

Before discussing specific stablecoin names, it is important to understand the three types of stablecoins that currently exist: centralized IOU stablecoins, crypto-collateralized stablecoins, and non-collateralized stablecoins. Centralized IOU stablecoins are backed with fiat money or precious metals, such as the...

Welcome to this week in Blockchain Venture Capital. Cobo Cobo, a Beijing-based cryptoasset wallet startup, recently closed a $13 million Series A round with participants including Wu Capital, DHVC, and the NEO Foundation. Cobo was founded in November 2017...

OKEx, a Malta-based cryptoasset exchange, recently listed TrueUSD (TUSD), USD//Coin (USDC), Gemini Dollar (GUSD), and Paxos Standard Token (PAX). At the time of the announcement, OKEx was the fifth-largest Bitcoin exchange by volume and the third-largest exchange in terms...

According to a recent report, the endowments of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, and the University of North Carolina have all invested in one or more cryptoasset funds. While institutional money has not yet...