Companies

In the late 80s and early 90s, it was a standard procedure for the fastest growing companies to IPO (Initial Public Offering) in less than 5 years. The same can be said of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) in the cryptocurrency market in the 2010s -- with ICOs often being one of the first projects to be pursued by many blockchain startups.

The influencer economy, although still considered emerging, is beginning to get the recognition it deserves from major marketing firms, with more advertising budgets redirected towards a focus on influencers and their ability to pull in the masses through creative and unique content.

DATx, a new blockchain platform to create a whole new ecosystem to resolve the issues surrounding the advertising industry, has successfully ended its crowdsale event. The 1.25 Billion DATx Hardcap set by the company was oversubscribed by 1068 times, raising 50,000 ETH from the highly anticipated event.

Pioneering Islamic digital bank – Hada DBank has announced that it has forged a strategic business partnership with leading investment company DE Asset Management Limited.

Seeing the value in an advisor or partnership can often be a difficult area to understand, unless we see a particularly reputable name who appears as more of a ‘celebrity endorsement’ it’s hard to tell where the actual value of the advisor or partnership comes from. Sometimes, a Blockchain startup hires names that may not immediately jump off the page but instead transform the company.

Blockchain company BitCar.io has announced a gear change in its business model, giving BITCAR token holders the chance to trade their way to full ownership of the platform’s top-end exotic vehicles.

German automobile company BMW plans to install the world’s leading financial technology for digital assets, Blockchain, into its business. It is now cooperating with English start-up Circulor, whose CEO informed that the main purpose of this teamwork is to confirm that batteries for electric vehicles, produced by BMW, will contain only clean cobalt.

Datx is an advertising centric blockchain company, and part of the Cosmia foundation. Datx has successfully completed their TGE achieving 50,000ETH.

Rakuten, a large Japanese e-commerce company, is considering the creation of its own cryptocurrency Rakuten Coin, Hiroshi “Mickey” Mikitani, the CEO of the company, declared at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Their customers can get crypto coins for following the rules of a loyalty program.