Elite Investment Company Blog

Weeks after the launch of the first "production version" of Ethereum, blockchain investors are taking a deeper look at the ecosystem's startups.

Digital Asset Holdings has acquired Swiss FinTech startup Elevence to build out a system of smart contracts designed to preserve privacy.

Russian payments provider Qiwi has revealed it wants to launch a domestic blockchain consortium.

Insurance provider John Hancock has begun work on proofs-of-concept using blockchain in partnership with ConsenSys Enterprise and BlockApps.

The French central bank has called for more investigation into distributed ledger applications as the technology catches wind in the finance world.

Barclays demonstrated a smart contract platform built on Corda, R3's new distributed ledger project, in London today.

ShapeShift has published new details about recent digital currency thefts from the online exchange following an investigation.

As the state of New York works to distribute its energy grid one company, Transactive Grid, hopes to be its blockchain-based payments network.

Beijing-based mining giant Bitmain has invested $1.6m in bitcoin data and trading services provider BitKan.

Digital currency exchange ShapeShift says it now believes that a hacking incident announced last week involved a former employee.

A new investment fund is seeking to raise as much as $100m over the next two years to fuel investments in the blockchain space.

A number of employees from the company behind bitcoin tipping service ChangeTip have been hired by travel lodgings startup Airbnb.