Goldman, Google make list of most active blockchain investors

By Camila Russo

Lloyd Blankfein last week tweeted that he’s "still thinking about #Bitcoin," but the bank he leads is doing more than just thinking about the technology that underpins the cryptocurrency.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is the fifth most active corporate blockchain investor, with involvement in four companies focused on the distributed-ledger technology since 2012, according to a report by tech researcher CB Insights. The bank’s investments in ..
Tightening regulation in South Korea and China isn’t slowing the pace of token sales in the crowdfunding mechanism known as initial coin offerings. On a quarterly basis, total funding raised by ICOs surpassed total funding raised via traditional equity financing for the first time in the second quarter this year. This trend continued in the third quarter, with total equity funding to blockchain companies staying more or less stagnant quarter-to-quarter as their ICO counterparts grew 75 percent o ..

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