Tagged: open source

November 10, 2022 @ 1:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kris Marszalek, CEO of Crypto.com, said that they’ve shared the belief that it “should be necessary for crypto platforms to publicly share proof of reserves” and Crypto.com will be publishing their audited proof of reserves. According to the company CEO, this is “a critical moment… Read More

November 3, 2022 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) Game7 and MetaMask announce HyperPlay, which is described as “an open-source desktop application where interoperability is the default for Web3 games.” HyperPlay claims it is “the world’s first Web3-native game launcher, built to make the user experience free of friction for… Read More

October 30, 2022 @ 10:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ConsenSys, a blockchain technology company, announced the launch of MetaMask Grants DAO. This employee-led, fully-funded Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) structure issues grants “to developers outside of ConsenSys, who are building impactful experiences within the MetaMask ecosystem.” It is “open to any meaningful project that adds… Read More

October 17, 2022 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIAN, the “independent” not-for-profit association, recently announced its Open-Source Specification tool. Through its Open-Source offering, organizations now “have access to a set of message definitions made freely available for modification and redistribution.” The tool has been “developed to further BIAN’s CORELESS BANKING INITIATIVE, which aims… Read More

October 16, 2022 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ZEBEDEE, a Fintech and next-generation payment processor for the gaming industry, announced a new initiative that “contributes open source code and products to the Bitcoin Lightning space.” The new not-for-profit and completely open source initiative “has already resulted in several products and code repositories that… Read More

October 13, 2022 @ 8:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Open Invention Network (OIN), the organization formed to safeguard open source software (OSS) and now the “largest” patent non-aggression community in history, announced recently that The Clearing House (TCH) has joined “as a community member.” As the nation’s “most experienced” payments company, operating U.S.-based payments… Read More

October 11, 2022 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since launching regulated and secure BTC trading in 2015, Gemini says it has been a passionate supporter of Bitcoin and the blockchain ecosystem. Importantly, Gemini provided grants and sponsorships through the Gemini Opportunity Fund to various groups “supporting the Bitcoin Network, including Bitcoin Developers.” In… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aleph.im, the Web3 cloud platform for computing services, file storage and indexing solutions, announced the launch of their open source and “decentralized” indexing solution for the Solana ecosystem, in order “to accelerate the development of decentralized applications through accessible data queries and integrations.” As the… Read More

October 2, 2022 @ 5:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NdcTech, a global IT and consulting company providing transformational services for Banks and financial institutions has announced a collaboration with Red Hat, which claims to be the leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, “to deliver solutions based on cloud-native, open-source technologies in support of… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 12:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA), International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) have announced the appointment of FINOS to “provide a repository, with a view to fostering the growth of an open-source community for the Common Domain Model… Read More

August 25, 2022 @ 3:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capital One joins the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) as “a premier member affirming its commitment to strengthening the open source software supply chain.” OpenSSF is “a cross-industry organization hosted at the Linux Foundation, designed to inspire and enable the community to secure the open… Read More

August 22, 2022 @ 8:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

W3 Storage Lab, a Web3 “decentralized” application company, announced that it closed a pre-seed financing round of $3 million. The investment round was “co-led by Draper Dragon and OKX Blockdream Ventures with major participation from Lingfeng Capital and participation from other investors.” Proceeds from the… Read More

August 14, 2022 @ 3:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Okcoin announced that they’re supporting two new Bitcoin development initiatives: Vinteum and Qala. As mentioned in the update, Okcoin has now “funded $1.5 million worth of Bitcoin open source efforts.” They’re a founding supporter of Vinteum, a new Bitcoin R&D center in… Read More

August 5, 2022 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

App.shapeshift.com is reportedly becoming a one-stop shop for “all things DeFi.” From being able to connect to our app with 200+ wallets (including Metamask, WalletConnect, and xDefi), to having the ability to buy and sell with the industry’s leading on and off ramps一now, it is… Read More

July 25, 2022 @ 3:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ShapeShift is pleased to announce the launch of “Alpha”, a new version of their open-source web app that “provides analytics and user input to the DAO so that we can continue to provide the best user experience.” This new version “utilizes Pendo and allows ShapeShift… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ant Group recently announced that its “privacy-preserving” Computation Framework becomes open source, aiming “to make the technologies more accessible to global developers and speed up the Framework’s application in various scenarios.” The Framework is designed “to address pain points in multi-party collaboration on information flows.”… Read More

July 2, 2022 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fetch.ai, a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence lab building an open-access “decentralized” machine learning network for smart infrastructure, has released DabbaFlow, the “first of its kind” end-to-end encrypted file-sharing platform. Advanced data-sharing and privacy-preserving technologies are “ushering in a new era of data monetization,” the developers claim…. Read More

June 26, 2022 @ 7:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana Mobile, a subsidiary of Solana Labs, recently debuted Solana Mobile Stack, which is described as “an open source software toolkit for Android enabling native Android web3 apps on Solana with the Seed Vault secure custody protocol that facilitates instant signing of transactions while keeping… Read More

June 22, 2022 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TD Bank Group announced that it would offer open-source access to its Equity Resource Hub, a digital platform “created by TD Lab to integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into all stages of product & service design.” By making the Hub, initially a proprietary tool launched… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 7:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ocean Protocol, the open-source, decentralized data exchange protocol to unlock data for AI, announces the launch of OceanONDA V4. The upgrade caters to data publishers, data consumers, and data marketplace operators “with data NFTs for more flexible data management, one-sided staking to solve rug pulls,… Read More