Announcements

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has announced the development of a “decentralized protocol,” which, in technical speak, means the company is moving its operations to blockchain technology. The crowdfunding site will make use of the Celo blockchain for this purpose. In a blog post by CEO Aziz Hasan and co-founder Perry Chen on Thursday, the crowdfunding platform…

Payments giant Visa is launching new crypto consulting and advisory services aiming to help its clients navigate the world of crypto assets. Visa’s Global Crypto Advisory Practice will sit in its Visa Consulting & Analytics division, Visa said in a press release Wednesday. The payment company said that its advisory group will be for financial…

Dubai-based the Cherry Project has revealed it raised $2.9 million from leading VC firms to launch Cherry Network, a decentralized storage blockchain with smart contracts. The Cherry Project announced on December 4 the successful completion of its private token sale. The funding round raised a total of $2.9 million, securing investments from some of the…

A comprehensive digital transformation of the financial sector in Bahrain includes rolling out a Digital Dinar but does not adopt the crypto sector. The head of the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) warned against cyber-crime and dealing with cryptocurrency, speaking during the press conference on Saturday. Plans of digital transformation of Bahrain’s financial sector include…

A to Z Globe, the all-in-one crypto exchange, announced its launch to buy and sell Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies in Dubai to facilitate crypto trading for cash. A to Z Globe is a Dubai-based OTC crypto exchange store to buy and sell Bitcoin and over 2000 other cryptocurrencies for cash. It is a well-known…

HAYVN, a digital currency trading platform based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, has closed a Series A funding round, which will help the institution become the largest global institutional digital currencies platform. Abu Dhabi-based digital currency trading platform HAYVN has closed a Series A funding round. This round of funding, the amount of which was not…