Coinalytics Rebrands As Skry, Hires IBM Vet to Go ‘Blockchain’
Coinalytics today announced it has rebranded as Skry, unveiling a new logo and revealing two new hires as part of its move to expand beyond services for the bitcoin blockchain. In an interview with CoinDesk, Skry co-founder and CEO Fabio Federici said the company is working to merge blockchain, big data and artificial intelligence in to a single product. Federici said: "The company itself wants to move beyond bitcoin, so sending out that clear message was important. But in order to do so, and to make it applicable to any blockchain, we needed that expertise to go from a bitcoin....
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Coinalytics, the blockchain analytics company has recently rebranded itself to Skry and added new members to the team as well. Coinalytics, the blockchain analytics and intelligence company has now started to call itself Skry. The company started in Palo Alto, California by the trio- William Gleim, Fabio Federici, and James Edwards has made its name change public in a recent press release. The company has been offering blockchain, big data, and artificial intelligence services to financial institutions since the past two years. The company started in April 2014 is one of the few companies....
Two tech firms are joining forces to improve cryptocurrency security and curb cyber crime. Skry and Terbium Labs announced their partnership to monitor public key transactions over the dark web. Skry & Terbium Labs Partner To Analyze Permissionless Blockchain Activity. Back in April, blockchain analytics firm Coinalytics rebranded to Skry, Inc. The....
Coinalytics has raised $1.1m as part of a seed round led by Palo Alto-based incubator The Hive. Founded in April 2014, Coinalytics describes itself as a "real-time intelligence service" for blockchain platforms. Today, the startup enables clients in the bitcoin industry, including undisclosed payment processors, wallet providers and exchanges, to conduct risk assessment through blockchain analysis. Coinalytics CEO Fabio Federici told CoinDesk: "We're not building the infrastructure. But, if someone is accepting bitcoin, we can provide them ways to understand their users better." Federici....
Financial compliance authority Juan Llanos is joining blockchain analytics firm Coinalytics as the executive vice president of business development. There, Llanos will be charged with establishing partnerships for the blockchain intelligence startup and working with customers at all stages, from initial engagement to onboarding to developing new solutions on top of the platform. The role “is a convergence of my passion with an opportunity,” Llanos said, noting he has been studying data mining and machine learning for transaction monitoring, even helping to build some of these monitoring....
Dream Market is now the most popular bitcoin-enabled dark market. The finding is the result of a new collaboration between blockchain analytics startup Skry and information security firm Terbium Labs, one that analyzed millions of URLs to identify the most popular sites for illicit bitcoin commerce. The case study, released today, is being positioned by the companies as a countermeasure against the rise of new proposals from the bitcoin community, including those such as CoinJoin and MimbleWimble, both of which seek to increase user privacy on the public blockchain. Specifically, Palo....