With venture capitalists injecting a record $40bn into FinTech companies in 2018, the sector is booming as startups create the technology capable of disintermediating traditional financial institutions and breaking up decades-old monopolies. In 2019, 5 core areas of focus are catalyzing the shift to Finance 3.0. 1. Digital Banking Digital banks have positioned…

1. St. Regis Aspen Luxury Hotel (Colorado, USA) Raised $18m of digitised equity at $224m valuation Tokenized 18.9% of the internationally renowned St. Regis Aspen 179-room luxury hotel worth of tokenized securities via Securitize First of its kind in the blockchain, finance, and real estate industries for a single-asset real estate investment trust (REIT) 2. 436 & 442 E 13th St, Manhattan (New York, USA)

1. Determine your investment strategy It is important to determine your investment strategy. Cryptocurrency is one of the most volatile asset classes on earth. Determining your risk profile will also help to drive investment decisions. Graham’s Five Strategies In 1949, Benjamin Graham identified five strategies for common stock investing in “The Intelligent Investor.” General trading. The investor predicts…

Reverse ICOs are the new ICO More and more Korean companies with large user bases are issuing tokens. (e.g. Gifto, Passport, Carry) to create token economies. Frequently, these companies already have millions of users, which leads to a higher chance of the token being adopted with greater velocity and viral…

Handshake is a decentralised naming system to conduct wide-scale co-ordination. It is powered by incentives across millions of people without authorities or contractual obligations. The handshake project aims to distribute around 70% of the coin supply to open source developers, projects and non-profits without any contractual expectation of work. …

Private sales, tier 1 projects, ICOs, retail buyers and OTC trading Private sales are becoming the new ICO There is increasing demand for seed rounds of top blockchain projects. Seed rounds for top projects are providing much better for ROI especially in bear markets. In order to get 10x +returns, investors are needing to invest early. This is generally where the highest risk is for a project, although…

Positioned to become the backbone of the data storage economy, Arweave’s next-generation blockchain is disrupting the data industry — a sector projected to reach a $144 billion by 2022. Through Arweave, consumers will be granted permanent, low-cost, censorship-free data. To execute this vision, Arweave has created Blockweave blockchain — facilitating…

Stablecoins are quickly becoming the holy grail in cryptocurrency, promising both a safehaven where value can be stored during volatile periods in the market, and a trustworthy means to transact. Volatility hinders both the mainstream and decentralised economies, where rapid price fluctuations nullify the utility of cryptocurrency as a means…

What is Ontology? Ontology is a blockchain for building decentralised identity applications. Bridging the gap between real world and distributed data systems, Ontology will enable businesses, individuals and institutions to create their own specialised trust networks.. The core value of Ontology is to provide the tools necessary for institutions to…