The Imminent Synergy Between The Insurance Industry And Bitcoin
Given current monetary policy, the insurance industry and bitcoin are a match made in heaven. Here’s why.Early on the morning of March 10, NYDIG, a financial services firm dedicated to Bitcoin and built specifically for institutional clientele, announced that Ted…
Chinese holding firm Ping An overtakes Tencent in blockchain patents race
By Helen Partz
Ant Group remains the world’s biggest blockchain patentee, while IBM is considered to be the most cited developer of patents in the industry. Chinese holding conglomerate Ping An Group filed the largest number of blockchain-related patents in 2020, according to…
Why Insurance is the Next Big Thing in DeFi
By Bitcoinist
Thanks to the innovation of blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies and many of the applications built around them benefit from incredible security that most traditional financial products struggle to match. This has led to the development of a huge range of decentralized…
‘Better as friends’: DeFi protocols Yearn and Cover announce cessation of merger
The relationship is “c-over” between Yearn Finance and Cover, an emotional split related to a new protocol from Cover developers. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols Yearn Finance and Cover have announced today the end of a protocol merger process initiated in…
Global Insurance Heavyweight Launching Blockchain Pilot
Aon is joining forces with Nayms and Teller Finance to conduct a distributed ledger technology (DLT) pilot on the public Ethereum blockchain. The first-of-its-kind pilot aims to create robust insurance cover for decentralized finance platforms, according to a press release…
Unslashed Finance raises $2M for crypto insurance platform
By Sam Bourgi
Investors include Lemniscap, P2P capital and others. Unslashed Finance has sold $400 million in coverage since its private launch last month. Unslashed Finance, a decentralized insurance protocol built on Ethereum, has raised $2 million to fund its tokenized insurance product,…
3 reasons why Reef Finance, Bridge Mutual and Morpheus Network are rallying
Strong fundamentals and new partnerships back the strong rallies in Morpheus Network, Bridge Mutual and Reef Finance. As new institutional and retail investors enter the cryptocurrency space on a daily basis, large-cap top performers like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH)…