Thursday, October 17, 2019

ICONLOOP Raises USD $8 Million in Series A Funding

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✏️ Editor's Note

Big news for ICONLOOP, who just announced that they raised KRW 10 billion in Series A funding to further their efforts in the DID market. ICONLOOP CEO Jonghyup Kim has also been busy attending many blockchain conferences to talk about ICONLOOP's my-ID and smart city projects.

ICONLOOP RAISES KRW 10 BILLION IN SERIES A FUNDING

by Robin J. Wolf
If you're in the Bay Area, ICON Foundation member Min Kim will be attending San Francisco Blockchain Week held at the end of this month. You can also catch him speak at his Money 20/20 USA panel on October 27th in Las Vegas. Nevada.

As always, reach out to us @theiconistnews or email hello@theicon.ist with any story suggestions, questions or comments. Thanks!

Amy Dang,
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CFTC Chairman, Heath Tarbert, Joins Us at Invest: NYC

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Join us at CoinDesk Invest: NYC, November 12, 2019 at the Marriott Marquis, NYC for a discussion around crypto and macroeconomics. 

The story of the last week has been aggressive, and in many cases, unexpected action from US regulatory bodies. 

The SEC kicked off the week with a disapproval of the latest bitcoin ETF proposal from Bitwise, prompting some legal experts to wonder if any ETF would be approved under Chariman Clayton. The IRS released its first crypto tax guidance since 2014, which was immediately controversial in its suggestion that tokens from hard forks create a tax liability. Even some US senators got in on the game, sending open letters to the CEOs of Visa, Stripe and Mastercard urging them to leave Facebook’s Libra Association (which, on Friday, they did). 

​​​​​​The one bright spot in an otherwise dreary regulatory week was the CFTC formally acknowledging Ethereum’s ETH as a commodity, opening the door to new types of derivatives and other financial productions which tend to be attractive to a different category of investors.  

Speaking of the CFTC, Chairman Heath Tarbert will be speaking at Invest: NYC, exploring what the agency thinks of not only Ethereum and Bitcoin but the crypto asset ecosystem as a whole. 

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Chairman Tarber
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Dr. Heath P. Tarbert is Chairman and Chief Executive of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The mission of the CFTC is to strengthen the American free-enterprise system by ensuring the integrity of the futures, swaps, and options markets by fostering openness, transparency, competitiveness, innovation, and financial stability. 
 
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Michael Casey is the newly appointed Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk, the leading provider of news, events programming and research for the blockchain and digital asset community. Prior to taking on that role, Casey was Chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board. He was also a senior advisor to MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative and lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management.  
 
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Travis Kling is Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Ikigai Asset Management in Marina Del Rey. Ikigai Asset Management is a long/short multistrat hedge fund investing in crypto assets. Travis spent ten years in traditional finance before founding Ikigai. Most recently, he was a L/S Equity Portfolio Manager ($200mm) at Point72 ($90bn) through 2017.

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About DC Finance: With a network that was established during the past 15 years, continues to offer exposure of leading blockchain & cryptocurrency entities to some of the world’s wealthiest families and family offices. Following the New York Family Office Blockchain Conference, DC Finance’s next such event will be The London Family Office Technology & Innovation Investment Conference, February 25th, 2020 with Baker McKenzie. 
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