Digital Asset Holdings to Acquire Blockchain Startup Blockstack
San Francisco-based blockchain startup Blockstack.io has entered into an acquisition agreement with Digital Asset Holdings. The deal, announced this morning, marks the latest acquisition by Digital Asset, which announced it had purchased blockchain startups Bits of Proof and Hyperledger earlier this year. Launched in June, Blockstack is one of a number of startups seeking to offer private blockchain services to the world's finance industry. In August, CEO Peter Shiau told CoinDesk his company was working with prospective clients to better understand how the technology can be applied to....
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In yet another blockchain related investment, Blythe Masters' Digital Asset Holdings has announced the acquisition of Blockstack.io. Digital Asset has been on a blockchain-startups purchasing spree lately, with the Bits of Proof and Hyperledger acquired earlier in June this year. The New-York based company headed by CEO Blythe Masters has today, announced the purchase of another blockchain startup Blockstack. The deal was concluded for an undisclosed sum. Blockstack, based in San Francisco offers financial institutions the means to develop applications using APIs and SDKs on a private....
Digital Asset Holdings has announced that it has acquired the assets and senior leadership of a Zurich-based technology startup. Elevence CEO Vincent Peikert will lead Digital Asset's Switzerland office, and serve as head of product for Europe. Further, James Litsios, Elevence's CTO, will serve as head of development in Switzerland. The terms of the acqui-hire were not disclosed. In the statement posted to Digital Asset’s website, CEO Blythe Masters described how she sees Elevence’s eight-person team fitting into the company. Masters said: “The resulting Digital Asset platform is....
The blockchain-based domain name service (DNS) Blockstack, formally known as Onename, has announced a partnership with the Microsoft Azure platform. Developers will work with Microsoft to provide identity solutions, authentication, and storage services without the need for third-party arbitration. Blockstack: Self-Sovereign ID on the Blockchain. The....
Bitcoin and blockchain enthusiasts may recall an application called Onename, which was built on top of the identity- and storage-providing blockchain platform called Blockstack. In an announcement earlier today, the company announced they will be changing their name to Blockstack Labs. Onename Becomes Blockstack Labs. Now and then, Bitcoin companies will go through a rebranding without affecting their customers all that much. In the case of Onename, which will keep the name as a consumer product, the parent company name will change to Blockstack Labs. Onename will continue as it has....
Blythe Masters has a clear plan for Digital Asset Holdings, as the company has been on an acquisition streak as of late. Digital Asset Holdings keeps making a name for itself and expanding their reach all over the world. Now that they have acquired Elevence Digital Finance, the future of distributed ledgers looks a lot more bright in Switzerland and other European countries. Aficionados may have heard of Elevence Digital Finance before, as this startup is focusing their attention of a modeling language to determine rights and obligations in blockchain collaboration agreements. This Swiss....