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Fidelity Investments, the world’s fifth largest asset managers with $2.5 trillion under management, is launching a Bitcoin custodial product aimed at institutional investors to expand its “Digital Asset” service. Scheduled for a March 2019 launch, the offering comes after Fidelity announced support for cryptocurrencies in 2018 and introduced trading services for accredited firms and family […]

Binance Launchpad, the token launch platform of Binance, conducted an ICO of TRON’s BitTorrent tokens (BTT) on Jan. 28th., with tokens selling out in less than 15 minutes. Almost 60 billion tokens were sold, raising a total of $7 million. According to Binance’s CEO, the sale’s “demand was astronomical.” BitTorrent’s Token Sale Complete Despite the […]

A Substratum brand ambassador tested the latest SubstratumNode v0.4.2 release, showing outstanding speed and performance. CryptoSlate replicated these tests and was not able to achieve the same results. We received a complaint that this article was defamatory and contained factually incorrect information. We took down the article temporarily to scrutinize and assess these claims. After further […]

Over the past two years, crypto has often been referred to as the Wild West, and for good reason. Cryptocurrency has been an unregulated digital frontier where the fringes of society speculated feverishly—and some prospectors won big. As crypto went mainstream in late 2017, the early adopters (or pioneers, more aptly) saw their small investments […]

Jan Van Eck, CEO of Van Eck Associates, told CNBC’s ETF Edge that he believes many investors who sold gold for bitcoin during its climb to $20,000 are now returning to precious metals. His reasoning: the CBOE’s withdrawal of the Van Eck SolidX Bitcoin ETF on Jan. 23rd. Interest in cryptocurrencies has slumped in line […]

Blockchains are slow and bottlenecked by limited scalability. Meanwhile, decentralized databases maintain many of the benefits of a blockchain while potentially addressing scalability. Are these systems a viable alternative? Blockchains have become more and more mainstream in the enterprise environment. Walmart is testing supply chain solutions to track lettuce, Spotify acquired Mediachain to test content […]

Eleven Indian banks have joined an initiative that may change the way small businesses obtain loans, via blockchain. The blockchain-linked loan system will focus on small and medium enterprises and aims to remove communication barriers between India’s largest banking providers. Blockchain-Linked Funding Aimed for SMEs A consortium of India’s eleven largest banks launched the first […]

The Washington State Senate introduced a bill that would—through amending existing legislation—encourage the development of distributed ledger and blockchain technology. The bill appears to codify blockchain-enabled digital signatures and licenses and provide the legal recognition necessary to enforce these standards. On Jan. 25th, the Washington State Senate introduced SB 5638, an act “relating to the […]

LocalBitcoins detected a security breach that allowed “unauthorized sources” to access and send transactions from a number of affected accounts. So far, there have been six confirmed cases of the breach. The company identified the source of the problem as a “feature powered by third-party software.” In the latest crypto hack, peer-to-peer trading service LocalBitcoins […]

To better understand who invests in crypto and ICOs, why they do it, and how exactly they make trades, in late 2017—at the peak of the crypto mania—I set out to study people behind the billions in investment and speculative trading. Research Background In the run-up market highs in December 2017, seemingly everyone was getting […]