Tagged: iost

October 14, 2025 @ 12:30 pm By Blake Jeong  |  

The crypto discussion remains pinpoint-focused on U.S. enforcement squabbles and city-state experimentation, but no one seems to notice what’s going on in Japan and South Korea. Both of these countries have been building predictable rules, institutional-grade foundations, and establishing consumers who already spend on digital… Read More

September 26, 2025 @ 5:42 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Gold’s continued importance, a significant crypto liquidation, tokenized collateral in derivatives,  and Tether potentially at a $20B valuation had Web3 tongues wagging this week. The importance of holding stable assets in a turbulent market environment “Many investors feel calmer keeping a chunk of their savings… Read More

September 10, 2025 @ 6:27 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Ethereum as the tokenization coin of choice, Clean Core converting into a digital asset treasury company, and interesting market movements comprise v2 of Web3 Thoughts of the Week. Clean Core is converting into a digital asset treasury company “Clean Core recently announced that they were… Read More

September 2, 2025 @ 9:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Web3 community has thoughts on banks missing out on stablecoins and tokenized stocks. This and crypto IPOs, dominate Web3 thoughts of the past week. Banks lobbying against stablecoins “Banks are leaning on regulators because they want to protect their bottom line, but there’s no… Read More

August 9, 2025 @ 10:05 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

From the SEC’s comments on liquid staking to the CFTC spotlighting spot crypto trading on registered exchanges and Trump’s rate cut call, Web3 was busy talking about government affairs this week. And what would a week be without some AI talk? SEC comments on liquid… Read More

January 1, 2024 @ 8:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The mainnet serves as the fundamental backbone of any public chain ecosystem, playing a pivotal role in “shaping its development,” according to an update from IOST. IOST’s mainnet was officially “launched on February 25, 2019. Over the course of the past four years since its… Read More

June 3, 2023 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOST is pleased to announce a collaboration with Professor Emil Chan, a Fintech visionary and digital transformation professional. Together, they will create NextEduDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) dedicated to improving higher education “through innovation.” Their mission is “to establish a leading global education DAO… Read More

April 10, 2023 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Canadian Web3 investment firm BitValue Capital announces a strategic partnership with IOST through a USD 10 million long-term investment aimed at “enhancing IOST’s mainnet capabilities and supporting the continuous development of its ecosystem.” BitValue Capital will also “play an advisory role,” helping IOST with the… Read More

June 20, 2022 @ 10:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Custody recently announced official support for deposits and withdrawals for IOST, “among other tokens.” With this, IOST joins the list of supported digital tokens in the secure, “regulated,” and insured custody service for the safekeeping of virtual assets services for institutional clients “provided by… Read More

June 8, 2022 @ 9:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  As the crucial underlying infrastructure of a public chain ecosystem, the mainnet’s performance “determines its development,” the IOST team notes in an update. Since the mainnet launch, the IOST development team claims it has “maintained an innovative attitude and has released frequent updates and… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 3:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Japanese web app developer Omochi has announced its pre-registration of “tomonity” NFT marketplace on the IOST blockchain. Tomonity’s “unique” benefits for its users reportedly include “free” transactions and a built-in wallet that “eliminates the pain of creating and importing a crypto wallet for new users.”… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 10:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at IOST says that 2021 was a year of “highs and lows” for not only IOST but the entire blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem. They’ve noted that they’re thankful for IOSTIANS for staying with them through this “wild ride.” Now that they’ve got some… Read More

July 7, 2021 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at IOST recently released their Ecosystem Growth Report for H1 2021. As mentioned in an update, dated July 6, 2021, by the IOST team: “Amid the spike in interest, IOST continues to witness important partnerships and asserting our position as a leader in… Read More

May 7, 2021 @ 10:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOST has teamed up with Moonstake in order to support staking functionality for IOST coin on Moonstake wallets. Moonstake began offering services in the staking business in 2020 with the goal to develop the biggest staking network in Asia. Since that time, Moonstake claims it… Read More

March 7, 2021 @ 5:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOST has teamed up with Polkadot for a cross-chain interoperability “breakthrough” and successfully completed the testnet for its cross-chain bridge. With the rise of cross-chain (communicating between different blockchains) technology leader Polkadot in 2021, side-chain and cross-chain technologies are now a “must-have” for public or… Read More

November 5, 2020 @ 11:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOST, an “ultra-fast” and “decentralized” blockchain network based on the “next-generation consensus algorithm “Proof of Believability,” recently connected with the Gravity Network in order to support cross-chain functionality. As mentioned in a blog post by Waves Protocol developers: “As Gravity expands the list of its… Read More

July 18, 2019 @ 1:06 am By JD Alois  |  

The IOST Foundation has “completed an integration” with Eastern European rewards/donation platform Boomstarter, according to a note from the company. The goal is for the two entities to make $IOST a global fundraising currency to support entrepreneurs and builders in an international expansion plan spanning… Read More

November 14, 2018 @ 8:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

IOST, a global enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure, announced on Wednesday the official launch of its Flagship DApp Partnership Program. IOST reported that under the program it will consult and work with organizations across a variety of industries, culminating in the design of “flagship” decentralized applications (DApps)… Read More

November 10, 2018 @ 4:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, a report was circulating about EOS that slammed the ecosystem saying it was not even a true blockchain. There are other people in the blockchain world who would agree with at least some of the statements from the report. According to Whiteblock, the “world’s… Read More

October 1, 2018 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Well-funded speedy blockchain IOST has launched the second release of its testnet to the public. IOST claims to have accomplished one of the highest transaction speeds in the blockchain industry as it seeks to provide an enterprise ready iteration of distributed ledger technology. IOST’s testnet… Read More