PR Wire

San Francisco, United States, 21st September, 2021, Portal ,a self-hosted Layer 2 wallet and true cross-chain DEX on Bitcoin that makes atomic swaps between Bitcoin and other digital assets fast, secure, and private, is delighted to announce the closing of an $8.5 million funding round to build a self-sovereign and uncensorable DeFi on Bitcoin.  The funding round saw participation from Coinbase Ventures, ArringtonXRP Capital, OKEx, Republic.co, Shima Ventures, LD Capital, Monday Capital, GenBlock, Taureon, Autonomy Capital, Krypital, B21 Capital as well as the senior executives and founders of Ethereum, DFINITY, MobileCoin, Tether (USDT), Galaxy Digital, Bitcoin.com, Republic, Centre.io, Polymath, Æternity, Hedera Hashgraph, Blockstream, Reef Finance, GlobeDX, FIO, Portion, and 4K. Michae...

Midtown, Gibraltar, 21st September, 2021, Panther Protocol creates private scalable infrastructure for smart contract platforms, DeFi and Web3, and is delighted to announce a strategic partnership with Polygon, the Layer-2 scaling solution often referred to as “the Ethereum’s Internet of Blockchains.” Panther Protocol, who is building their MVP on Polygon, aims to bring interoperable privacy and compliance friendly selective disclosure mechanisms to the Polygon network. Besides providing technical support, Polygon will help Panther collaborate with projects within its ecosystem in the development efforts of privacy features that empower end users. It will also aid our mission in giving institutions and fintechs a clear path into private and compliant DeFi.  Polygon and Panther both acknow...

Xbiex, Malta, 26th September, 2021, Virtue Poker is excited to host The Celebrity Charity Poker tournament that commences tonight, September 26, at 11 pm UTC. The tournament will be live-streamed on Twitch .  Tonight will feature the first of two 6-player tables of the Celebrity Charity Poker tournament. Tonight’s table will include Hall of Famer and Virtue Poker Team Pro Phil Ivey, BA Hall of Famer Paul Pierce, YouTube sensation Mr. Beast, Ethernity’s Nick Rose, Sam Trabucco – CEO of Alameda (FTX), and Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin. All participants will compete for bragging rights and a $100,000 prize pool for charity. The 12 players are spread across seven time zones and various continents. Therefore, the Celebrity Charity Poker tournament will run over multiple days to give everyone a...

Gibraltar, -, 27th September, 2021, Trading volumes soar by 197% on fast-growing European crypto platform affirming rising levels of crypto adoption among global investors  Currency.com, the high-growth European crypto platform, today reported a strong rise in global client numbers and trading activity for the first six months ending 1 July 2021. The number of new clients who opened an account on crypto platform Currency.com increased by 130% in H1 2021 compared to H2  2020. Over the same period,  the crypto platform reported a surge in  trading activity, with the total trading volumes executed on Currency.com across all markets growing by 197%[1]. In the first half of this year,  clients also increased their trading activity on the platform. The total number of trades executed by clients...

Midtown, Gibraltar, 27th September, 2021, Panther, which has set out to provide a private scalable infrastructure for smart contract platforms, Defi, and Web3 applications, teamed up with Firo, the company formerly known as Zcoin, that has been developing privacy technology since 2016 and was responsible for the creation of privacy protocols such as Lelantus and Lelantus Spark. The two companies, which could, to some extent, be viewed as adjacent competitors, decided to cooperate instead and join efforts to accelerate research in the field of privacy. Panther contributes to the partnership with years of experience in the cryptography and cybersecurity space. Panther’s CTO Dr. Anish Mohammed, for example, with over 20 years of experience in security and cryptography, was an early advisor t...

Talin, Estonia, 29th September, 2021,  Leading digital asset wealth management platform sponsors Premier League football club just seven months on from public launch    YIELD App, a FinTech company, is thrilled to announce it has become the Official Digital Asset Wealth Management Partner of top Premier League football club, West Ham United. This exciting partnership comes just seven months after the public launch of YIELD App in February 2021, demonstrating the growing attractiveness of digital assets to a mainstream audience across the world.  YIELD App enables its users to invest in digital assets and earn as much as 20.5% annual interest at the touch of a button. YIELD App is challenging the status quo of the traditional investment system and has seen significant growth since its publ...

Tortola, British Virgin Islands, 9th September, 2021, Gamified decentralized finance platform DeFi Land has completed its first round of investing valued at $4.1 million. Several dozen investors allocated capital to this project in recent weeks. The concept of gamifying investment action can make DeFi much more appealing and accessible.  DeFi Land is a multi-chain agriculture simulation web game designed to introduce the mainstream to decentralized finance. More importantly, it gamifies all aspects of traditional DeFi protocols, creating intuitive and educational solutions for those exploring alternative finance solutions. Making decentralized finance more accessible to a global audience is a crucial priority for the DeFi Land team.  Following the successful first round of investments, th...

Midtown, Gibraltar, 9th September, 2021, Panther Protocol, a decentralize d privacy meta-protocol enabling confidential, trusted transactions, and interoperability with DeFi has now joined forces with Sentinel, a powerful protocol that enables the development of third-party and white-label decentralized Virtual Private Network (dVPN) services, interoperably with DeFi and Sentinel.  A blockchain-based decentralized bandwidth marketplace, Sentinel enables anyone to create a Virtual Private Network and have access to the distributed bandwidth resources where users become both providers and consumers in the network. Users’ web traffic is probably end-to-end encrypted with no company able to access a user’s metadata. The Panther wallet plans to integrate the Sentinel DVPN token to provide user...

London, England, 7th September, 2021, -Wanchain and Avalanche are delighted to announce an integration of Wanchain’s innovative decentralized, non-custodial crosschain infrastructure with Avalanche’s C-chain. Additionally, the two industry leaders are teaming up to further the development of truly decentralised crosschain applications to power the future of DeFi.  This collaboration marries Wanchain’s unique, decentralised, non-custodial crosschain bridges and Avalanche’s unmatched ecosystem of projects and applications. Avalanche and its ecosystem projects will use Wanchain’s crosschain blockchain infrastructure to create new value and use cases for their users by harnessing the power of crosschain technology. “Wanchain has been working for years developing crosschain bridges while empha...

Panama City, Panama, 7th September, 2021, deBridge, a cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol, is delighted to announce the closing of a $5.5 million funding round to bring the new era of cross-chain interoperability. deBridge is thankful to have the support and backing from great partners including lead strategic partner ParaFi. The round also saw participation from Animoca Brands, Huobi Ventures, Lemniscap, Crypto.com Capital, MGNR, IOSG, Fundamental Labs, bitScale, DFG, Chorus, SkyVision Capital, The LAO, GSR, AngelDAO, NeptuneDAO, D64, Axia8 Ventures, Mounir Benchemled, Gabby Dizon, Santiago R. Santos, and others.  deBridge was started as the team experienced problems with cross-chain interoperability and swaps themselves, and there was no unified and convenient s...