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我是 Jonathan，在美國 University of Rochester 取得光學工程與金融經濟雙學位後，就職於日本三大投資銀行之一的 SMBC Nikko。之後在創投 SBI 負責海外投資，主要專注於區塊鏈，金融科技，人工智能等領域的成長期新創。2020 年加入基石創投。
英文版
- TOP NEWS
- China Construction Bank, the world second-largest bank, is to issue $3B blockchain-based bond through Malaysian branch. The bond will be traded at a licensed security exchange at Labuan, the Malaysian offshore financial center. (Details)
- PayPal has officially launched its new service enabling users to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency. The customers will further be able to use their cryptocurrency to pay at PayPal’s 26 million merchants around the globe from the early beginning of 2021. (Details)
- US regulator approves Mastercard’s $825M acquisition of Finicity, but still blocks Visa’s $5.3B acquisition of Plaid. (Details)
- HARD FORKS
- Ethereum infrastructure provider Infura is experiencing a service outage for its Ethereum mainnet API. Some Ethereum-based services was halted by Infura’s users including Metamask and Binance. (Details)
- The Bitcoin Cash network, a result of a hard fork from Bitcoin, has split into two new blockchains. (Details)
- APPLICATION OF CRYPTO & BLOCKCHAIN
- BitPay, the crypto payment provider, has launched a new service enabling businesses customers to pay with cryptocurrency without having to buy, own or manage cryptocurrency. (Details)
- One of the two major oil futures, Brent Crude Oil, will be listed as Synthetic Oil (sOIL) token in the DeFi platform, Synthetix, with pricing data supplied by Chainlink. It is one of the first one of the first real world assets to enter DeFi trading. (Details)
- The blockchain platform, ShareRing, is bringing its self-sovereign identity app to Rakuten Travel Xchange, the online travel booking platform of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten. (Details)
- The blockchain marketplace, Texture Capital is awarded the US FINRA license to trade security tokens, further prepare to launch a digital securities trading hub for private capital markets. (Details)
- The US passport and visa processing firm Peninsula Visa is providing customers the option to pay for select passport services using Bitcoin, which would be facilitated by Coinbase. (Details)
- CYBER ATTACKS
- Japanese gaming giant, Capcom is encountering ransomware attack, with 1 TB of confidential information leaked. The hackers demand $11M Bitcoin in exchange for not disclosing the information to public. (Details)
- DeFi platform Akropolis has suffered a $2 million loss following a re-entrancy attack utilizing a flash loan, an uncollateralized lending service which provides an arbitrage opportunity. The $2 million stablecoin was collected by hackers in this attack. (Details)
- Value DeFi, the DeFi protocol, was attacked by hackers through utilizing flash loan, right after its tweet claiming its safety of users’ asset. Value DeFi reported to loss $6M in this attack. (Details)
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中文版
- TOP NEWS
- 硬分叉
- 區塊鏈與虛擬貨幣應用
- 加密支付服務商 BitPay 推出了一項新服務，使企業客戶能夠在無需購買、擁有或管理虛擬貨幣的狀態下，使用虛擬貨幣支付. (Details)
- 全球兩大石油期貨之一的布倫特原油將以合成代幣 sOIL 形式上架 DeFi 交易平台 Synthetix ，其定價數據由 Chainlink 提供。這將是首批列入 DeFi 交易的實體資產之一 (Details)
- 區塊鏈平台 ShareRing 將與日本電商巨頭 – 樂天旗下的在線旅遊預訂平台 Rakuten Travel Xchange 合作 ，應用其區塊鏈身分認證系統 (Details)
- 區塊鏈市場公司 Texture Capital 獲得美國金融業監管局 （FINRA）核發的證券代幣交易牌照，並將進一步推出面向私人資本市場的數字證券交易中心 (Details)
- 美國護照和簽證辦理公司 Peninsula Visa 將為客戶推出使用比特幣支付特定護照費用的服務，此支付將透過加密支付公司 Coinbase 進行 (Details)
- 網路攻擊事件
The Future Is Unwritten.
