Chain Ends Its Free Bitcoin API Service
Chain is shutting down its free Bitcoin API service as a part of a wider effort to become an enterprise blockchain technology solutions provider from an API service provider. Chain, a blockchain technology startup has announced the end of its free Bitcoin API service. The San Francisco-based company secured a $30 million investment in a round of funding in September, with investors such as Visa, Nasdaq and Citi. Initially, Chain -through the use of its API and system nodes - offered services as an API services provider to bitcoin platforms. By hitting the kill switch on its free API....
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Blockchain technology startup Chain has announced it will be shutting down its free bitcoin API service at the end of this year. Chain - which raised $30m with support from Visa in September - revealed the news in a email to users yesterday wherein Adam Ludwin, its co-founder and CEO, said it would no longer offer the product as of 31st December. In his remarks, Ludwin noted that the move is part of Chain's pivot from an API services provider for bitcoin services to a digital asset issuance partner for enterprise financial incumbents such as First Data, Nasdaq and Visa. Ludwin wrote: "As....
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