VNX Exchange Completes First Issue On Blockchain
The Luxembourg-based startup operated a 1.1 million euro-fund raise in ERC-20 tokens via its platform, on behalf of Streami a South-Korean blockchain group. Photo: Alexander... Read More
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Scorechain Goes Tezos
Scorechain, a Luxembourg-based company, that provides anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance services for cryptocurrencies, has launched Tezos, its analytics platform. The risk solution and AML... Read More
Tokeny On The ‘Rock’
The Luxembourg-based fintech just opened a subsidiary in Monaco and partnered with the Principality. The technology provider will now support the country’s issuance of tokenized... Read More
Registrations Open For Infrachain’s Blockchain-Focused Hackathon
Infrachain, the Luxembourg-based Blockchain association launched under the Digital Luxembourg initiative, is launching the first edition of the Infrachain Challenge. by: Silicon Luxembourg photo: Infrachain... Read More
STOKR Announced Support For Blockstream’s Liquid Securities Platform
STOKR, the European marketplace for issuing tokenised digital shares, has announced that it will support Blockstream’s Liquid Securities platform. This will enable companies to issue... Read More
bitFlyer Launches ‘Instant Buy’ To Make Buying Cryptocurrency More Accessible
Leading cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer has announced the launch of Instant Buy on its Buy/Sell exchange platform in Europe. The feature, available on desktop and smartphone,... Read More
Buy And Sell Coins Quickly And Easily With bitFlyer’s App
bitFlyer’s Buy/Sell platform is now available on smartphones with brand new iOS and Android apps! The largest Bitcoin and blockchain company in Japan with its... Read More
Blockchain: Phenomenon Or Epiphenomenon ?
If there is one buzzword that has been flourishing in the tech and startup scenes lately, it is « blockchain ». Let’s take a few... Read More
First Real Estate Transaction Via Blockchain In Luxembourg
It’s done! The first real estate transaction using the blockchain technology has just been completed in Luxembourg. This new type of investment should disrupt a... Read More
In Digital We Trust?
How do you rebuild trust in Digital, in an era where breaches are not a matter of “if”, but “when”? Digital developments are undeniably omnipresent... Read More
Tokeny Raised €5 Million From Euronext
Euronext, the leading pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, announced that it has subscribed the entire €5 million capital increase of tokenization platform Tokeny Solutions, resulting... Read More
STOKR: Blockchain Digital Marketplace To Connect SMEs And Retail Investors
STOKR connects retail investors, “everyday humans” as they call them, with SME’s who seek investments in their projects. The Luxembourgish startup commercially launched their web... Read More
Tokeny Wins The Fintech Awards Luxembourg
The winner of the fourth edition of the Fintech Awards Luxembourg is Tokeny, a fintech startup from Luxembourg in alternative finance, followed by runners up... Read More
Tokenization: What Is It All About?
In the tech jargon – and even more fintech or regtech – there is a word that is increasingly used, so called a buzzword: Tokenization.... Read More
5 Tips To Know Before Investing In Blockchain
Yves Benchimol, WeWard‘s founding engineer and a blockchain investor, and Maître Caprioli, a lawyer specializing in new technologies, Vice-President of the FNTC (Federation of Trusted... Read More
STOKR, The P2P Funding Platform
STOKR recently joined the Silicon Luxembourg Business Club. Get to know the company through our interview of Tobias Seidl, Co-founder and Product Strategy Leader. (Featured... Read More
Tokeny Launched Investor ID
Only few months after the announcement of its partnership with Issuance, a deal marketing platform that connects digital securities issuers with prospective investors, Tokeny, the... Read More
Morfin: The New Compliant Digital Bank For The Blockchain Community
Vlad Centea, Senior Manager and Cofounder of Morfin, scheduled a session of interviews with clients to gauge their needs. It allowed the startup to take... Read More
Innovative Initiatives (5/5) — Infrachain: Taking Blockchain Beyond Crypto Conversations
We could spend the next few pages telling you about Luxembourg’s digital transformation. Instead, we want to show it to you. Digitalization is here &... Read More
Tokeny Announces Strategic Partnership With Deal Marketing Platform Issuance
Tokeny, a compliant tokenization platform delivering institutional grade solutions in the issuance, lifecycle management, and secondary trading of tokens today announced its partnership with Issuance,... Read More
GTChain.net, One Of The Top 10 Blockchain Initiatives In Luxembourg
Grant Thornton’s Blockchain as a Service, GTCHAIN.net, has been chosen to be one of the top 10 Blockchain initiatives in Luxembourg. Grant Thornton Luxembourg Technology... Read More
Startup VNX Exchange Partners With The University Of Luxembourg
VNX Exchange, the trading platform for tokenized venture capital assets and the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) announced their... Read More
The Venture Capital Industry Is Entering A New Age
Most startup ideas arise from market challenges. VNX Exchange was no different. While serving as Managing Partner of 2be.lu venture fund, Alexander Tkachenko realized that... Read More
Tokeny, The Compliant Tokenization Platform
Tokeny recently joined the Silicon Luxembourg Business Club. Get to know the startup. (Featured Image: Tokeny’s team celebrating the first anniversary of the startup /... Read More
ANote Music, The Marketplace For Music Royalties
ANote Music is a European Marketplace for buying and selling songs which aims to connect investors with owners of music rights. We asked the team... Read More
Blockchain: Invisible Infrastructure and Nimble Networks
Silicon Luxembourg met and jointly interviewed Paul Brody, the Global Blockchain Leader at EY and Gaël Denis, Partner, Technology, Media & Telecommunication (TMT) and FinTech... Read More
Cryptocurrencies in Luxembourg – Current Regulatory Approach
If there is one question you are dying to ask is: What is the current regulatory situation in Luxembourg where we have on one side... Read More
Waxing Up for the Fintech Wave
Marine Tarditi, banking counsel at Allen & Overy Luxembourg and master of ceremony of the first CryptoChallenge, which took place in March 2018, tells us... Read More
Innovation as Incremental Progress
Nasir Zubairi is the CEO of the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT). A graduate of the London School of Economics (LSE) and a Sloan... Read More
Launch of LëtzBlock, the Luxembourg’s community hub for blockchain initiatives
The Luxembourg Blockchain and DLT Association is launching LëtzBlock. LëtzBlock’s mission is to be Luxembourg’s community hub for blockchain initiatives. “We aim to create positive... Read More
A Wild Ride For Bitcoin Prices
Three questions for Andy Bryant, Chief Operating Officer of bitFlyer Europe, the Japanese operator of the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange and first to be regulated... Read More
SnapSwap, Digital Customer Onboarding And Payment Tools
SnapSwap recently joined the Silicon Luxembourg Business Club. Get to know the startup! (Featured Image: Denis Kiselev, Founder and CEO of SnapSwap pitching at Techstars... Read More
Embracing Cryptocurrency in Luxembourg with the first Crypto Challenge
On March 13, 2018, Allen & Overy hosted the 2018 Crypto Challenge at the Tramsschapp Centre Culturel. In grandiose theatre style, Marine Tarditi (aka Cryptowoman),... Read More
Paymium Launches Blockchain.io
Pioneer in Bitcoin marketplaces, Paymium launches Blockchain.io, the new European cryptocurrency trading platform. Created in 2011, Paymium is also the first “exchange” which is compliant... Read More
Regtech And The Disruption Of Compliance
Regtech recently became a trendy term commonly associated with the financial sector. Summits, events, discussions and reports around this new field are popping up everywhere,... Read More
Blockchain: A Disruption You Can Trust?
We invited experts to answer our most frequently questions. Here is what they had to say. Agree? Disagree? Share your thoughts in our comments section.... Read More
Blockchain For Dummies: Applications & Smart Contracts
On October 3, Wim Stalmans, Founder and Manager of The Blockchain Academy®, a startup delivering Blockchain courses at (your) offices, conducted a workshop at The Office for Silicon... Read More
Blockchain For Dummies: Introduction
On July 11, Wim Stalmans, Founder and Manager of The Blockchain Academy®, a startup delivering Blockchain courses at (your) offices, conducted a workshop at The Office for... Read More
SnapSwap Won Prestigious BBVA Open Talent Identity Competition
SnapSwap, a fintech startup developing innovative solutions for financial institutions and other businesses, won the ninth edition of the biggest international FinTech competition for startups,... Read More
Denis Kiselev, Blockchain At The Core
Denis Kiselev is the co-founder of SnapSwap – a startup building innovative financial solutions that allow consumers and businesses to participate in the global economy... Read More
Fintech Startup SnapSwap Appoints Georges Schmit To The Advisory
SnapSwap, an innovative fintech startup building payment services based on blockchain technologies, announces the appointment of Georges Schmit, former Consul General and Executive Director at... Read More
Blockchain Consortium Fundchain Unveils The Smart TA Prototype
The Luxembourg-based Blockchain consortium initiated during the summer, just unveiled its first outcomes following 6 months of collaborative work. The Fundchain initiative was launched in the... Read More
SnapSwap And LuxTrust Sign An Innovative Partnership Agreement
Last Thursday, an innovative partnership agreement in the field of Fintech between SnapSwap and LuxTrust was signed at the Ministry of Economy. This collaboration concerns the integration of the... Read More
Launch Of Fundchain, Blockchain Research Initiative For The Fund Industry
Scorechain, the Luxembourg-based company has announced today the constitution of an innovative group of 10 key players of the Luxembourg fund industry to explore Blockchain... Read More
First Blockchain Bootcamp in Luxembourg
In case you haven’t heard about it yet, Blockchain is a new and fast evolving technology that is creating fundamental changes in personal finance, business,... Read More