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The world’s second largest stock exchange, Nasdaq, has taken its strategic technology infrastructure to new heights by procuring a partnership deal with Cinnober. Nasdaq Adds Cinnober’s Fintech Knowledge Cinnober has spent two decades polishing its brand as a luminary multi-asset class solutions technology service. The Swedish company has firmly planted its roots, providing trading system […]

One of the goals of CryptoSlate is to create a comprehensive directory of the world’s cryptocurrency and blockchain information– which includes news pertaining to cryptocurrencies, blockchain events, crypto products and now Blockchain Companies. CryptoSlate is pleased to announce the launch of our new Blockchain Company Directory, which will facilitate our mission to streamline the realm of cryptocurrency […]

Nouriel Roubini, a well-recognized economist and a professor at Stern School, believes a financial crash worse than the 2008 recession will hit US markets by 2020. On Project Syndicate, Roubini outlined 10 major factors that will fuel the next financial crisis, with one of the main factors being the rising inflation rate dictated by the […]

Ben Horowitz, the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, said that the company has not seen the level of developer activity the cryptocurrency sector has demonstrated in recent years since the rise of the Internet in the nineties. According to Horowitz, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology can be considered as a new computing platform that allows the development […]

Billionaire venture capitalist and early Bitcoin proponent Tim Draper has cooked up his most extravagant forecast for the cryptocurrency market yet, predicting it will skyrocket to a whopping $80 trillion valuation within 15 years—approximately the value of all global currency in existence. Making the claim at Deal Street Asia’s VC Summit, Sept. 11th, Draper predicted […]

A series of smart contract exploits have seen hackers abscond with over $600,000 worth of EOS over the last week, raising questions regarding the security of the $4 billion “Ethereum killer” EOS blockchain. Smart contract weaknesses in EOS-based gambling dApp EOBet have allowed hackers to manipulate the outcome of blockchain dice rolls, capturing 126,000 EOS […]

ETH, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain network, has surged by more than 33 percent in the past 4 days, despite the expectations of investors for ETH to continue its downtrend below the $200 support level. Since Sept. 12, the price of ETH has increased from $167 to $223, achieving a monthly peak at […]

Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), said that the authority does not see a “concrete need” for a digital token alternative to the euro, according to Reuters. No Time for Crypto Highlighting the stability of fiat money and the infamous volatility of cryptocurrencies, Draghi told parliament members that a lack of robustness […]

For businesses seeking decentralized enterprise solutions, the number of emerging blockchain projects is almost too overwhelming. Helping to organize a decentralized list of blockchain companies, IBM has joined the Hacera Unbounded Registry as a founding member. ‘Yellow Pages of Blockchain’ Launched The Hacera Unbounded Registry acts as a “yellow pages of blockchain” for projects built on distributed […]

When it was authorized as the first established bank in Saudi Arabia, the National Commercial Bank (NCB) was slated to become the largest financial institution in the Middle East. Sixty-five years and 400 branches later, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has joined forces with Ripple’s cryptocurrency enterprise. Saudi Arabia to Benefit from Ripple Technology […]