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Report: Central and Eastern Europe accounts for 20% of the global ICO market

March 21, 2018

East-West Digital News and ICObench have studied the ICO market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), a region that includes Russia and more than 20 other countries. This region boasts an impressive record on the global ICO scene, according to this research. Analyzing some 237 ICOs and pre-ICOs with roots in CEE the region conducted last …

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Startup with Russian roots aims to build “universal AR infrastructure” and deploy its “Digital Land” across the world

March 19, 2018

A startup named Arcona is developing a “universal augmented-reality infrastructure,” aiming nothing short of building “a blockchain ecosystem” and “an AR layer to merge together real and virtual worlds.” Arcona says its project makes use of the latest scientific achievements in the fields of computer vision, prototyping and neurobiology. It is building upon the technologies developed …

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Investors from EU and US sanction lists banned from Telegram’s ICO

March 16, 2018

Telegram, the popular encrypted messenger launched by Pavel Durov in 2013, is not allowing persons falling into international sanction lists to participate in its giant ICO. This restriction is specified in the standard Telegram ICO investor form, the Russian business publication RBC wrote yesterday after getting acquainted with the document. The ban applies to the …

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The birth of a market: Mail.Ru Group now accepts bitcoin payments for ads, several startups in the running

March 12, 2018

Earlier this week Mail.Ru Group, an LSE-listed leading Russian Internet company, announced that its ad platform myTarget began accepting Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin cash (BCH) as payment means for running ads on the group’s properties. These properties include Russia’s top social networks Vkontakte (VK) and Onoklassniki (OK) as well as two dozens of online resources …

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International blockchain and cryptocurrency experts to gather in Kazan (April 9-11)

March 6, 2018

On April 9-11, Kazan, a city 800km east of Moscow in Tatarstan, will play host to the ICO Summit Kazan, an international gathering of innovators and early adopters of blockchain and cryptocurrency across a variety of industries and market segments, including healthtech and biotechnology. Among the expected speakers are Dr. Ron Ribitzky of R&D Ribitzky …

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eSports, video surveillance, “green economy:” The Russian ICO frenzy continues

February 23, 2018

The Russian ICO frenzy – which marked last year with more than 130 ICOs and pre-ICOs conducted by companies with Russian roots, some 10% of the global numbers, according to data collected by ICObench and EWDN – is going on, with fundraising successes announced every week in a variety of fields. Thus BioCoin, which touts itself …

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From cloud to blockchain, Russian startup aims to make online gaming accessible to all

May 26, 2021

The Russian gaming technology startup Playkey, which has asserted itself as notable player on the global cloud gaming scene, was born just five years ago out of a child’s dreams. Its founder, Egor Guriev, has been passionate about computer games since he was a schoolboy, when he saved on meals and textbooks to buy his …

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Telegram has raised an initial $850 million for its billion-dollar ICO

February 21, 2018

It looks like Telegram’s billion-dollar ICO has reached its first milestone after the chat app company raised an initial $850 million, according to a filing. A document submitted to the SEC earlier this week states that the money was raised “for the development of the TON Blockchain, the development and maintenance of Telegram Messenger and the other purposes.” …

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Qiwi co-founder invested $17 million in Telegram’s presale; skeptics say “ICO numbers out of whack”

February 26, 2018

Sergey Solonin, co-founder of Qiwi, a major NASDAQ-listed Russian e-payment operator, confimed that he personally invested Telegram’s ICO private presale. The Russian businessman revealed this investment informally during the Russian Investment Forum, an international business event which is taking place these days in Sochi on the Black Sea. [Update Feb. 26: Among the other Russian …

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This 19-year-old Russian tech genius wants to “make the web decentralized again”

October 29, 2018

DeNet, a startup co-founded by a 19-year-old programmer and senior industry professionals, aims nothing short of disrupting the way web hosting works today. “We are bringing it back to the original idea of decentralization,” says Denis Shelestov, the company’s young CTO. DeNet believes the way the Internet operates these days is a vast digression from …

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“Startup Innovation and Investment in Emerging Europe:” A groundbreaking research released by EWDN

February 27, 2018

How do the local startup scenes look like in Estonia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine — but also in lesser known countries, from Bosnia-Herzegovina, to Moldova, to Georgia? How much do VCs invest these countries? Are corporations involved in these emerging ecosystems? Which are the most well-funded startups, and which younger ones should be followed? Why do so many …

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Tinkoff Bank now valued at $4 billion, launches R&D center at Skolkovo

February 12, 2018

On February 9, Tinkoff Bank, the Russian digital lending giant, announced the launch of an R&D center at Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. The new center will focus on Blockchain-based solutions and cryptoeconomics research in order to  boost the Tinkoff’s financial ecosystem. “The ideas and prototypes developed at …

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