Digital Asset

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Back Above $30K in Volatile Trading Session

Bitcoin’s near 50% decline from all-time highs surprised analysts as China’s crackdown fueled bearish sentiment.

Markets  ·  22 June 2021

Bitcoin Fund Outflows Slow but Investors Start Exiting Ether Funds

The amount of money leaving was significantly less than the previous, record week of $141 million.

Markets  ·  14 June 2021
Funding Rounds

Coinbase Joins $5M Funding Round for Digital Transfer Agent Vertalo

The four-year-old company helps to digitize assets from real estate to equity in the form of security tokens using blockchain.

Markets  ·  19 May 2021
Funding Rounds

VMware Joins Samsung, Salesforce as Investor in Digital Asset’s Series C Funding Round

Enterprise blockchain maker Digital Asset says VMware has joined its Series C funding round, though it didn't say how much has been raised.

News  ·  14 July 2020
ConsenSys

Staying Alive: Why the World of Enterprise Blockchain Has Turned to Collaborations

Enterprise blockchain isn’t dead, but survival has meant more collaboration and some smart pivots. A dispatch from this week’s Consensus: Distributed.

Business  ·  14 May 2020
Australia

ASX Sees Industry Benefits Arising From Blockchain Upgrade as July Tests Approach

The chief of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) said the company's approaching shift to blockchain tech could bring opportunities to the wider securities industry.

Business  ·  14 February 2020
Digital Asset

Australia’s Stock Exchange Backs $35M Round for DLT Survivor Digital Asset

Digital Asset has raised $35 million in Series C funding, signaling a comeback for the seminal enterprise blockchain startup.

Business  ·  11 December 2019
Australia

ASX Is Letting Clients Test Its In-the-Works Blockchain Settlement System

The Australian Securities Exchange now has a customer testing environment for its blockchain-based clearing and settlement system, due in 2021.

Business  ·  7 May 2019
Hyperledger Fabric

Digital Asset’s Smart Contract Language Now Works on Hyperledger Blockchains

Digital Asset is integrating its smart contract language into the Hyperledger Sawtooth enterprise blockchain platform.

Business  ·  16 April 2019
Smart Contracts

Digital Asset Scores Partnership With Cloud Computing Giant VMware

Software virtualization giant VMware is integrating Digital Asset's smart contract language into its blockchain platform.

Business  ·  11 April 2019
Derivatives

Digital Asset Is Writing Code to Help ISDA Standardize Derivatives Data

Digital Asset is developing software to ease adoption of derivatives group ISDA's potentially cost-slashing data standards.

Markets  ·  10 April 2019
Digital Asset

Blockchain Financial Plumbing Is Still Years Away, Says LSE Spinoff Exactpro

Exactpro, which tests software for stock exchanges, says it could be years before blockchains can safely connect to existing post-trade systems.

Business  ·  25 March 2019
Hires

Digital Asset Names New CEO to Succeed Blythe Masters

Enterprise blockchain startup Digital Asset has named co-founder Yuval Rooz as the company’s new chief executive officer.

Business  ·  19 March 2019
Digital Asset

Digital Asset Loses a Manager and a High-Profile Board Member

Wall Street superstar Sallie Krawchek has quietly left the board of Digital Asset, and the manager of the firm's DAML product has returned to banking.

Business  ·  14 March 2019
Digital Asset

Digital Asset’s Europe Head Is Latest to Leave Enterprise Blockchain Startup

The upheaval continues at Digital Asset, with the news that Gavin Wells will step down as head of Europe.

Business  ·  21 February 2019