The Ethereum Foundation has awarded a grant to researchers at American Ivy League universities Columbia and Yale for the creation of a new smart programming language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). This news comes via a press release distributed earlier today. The grant will go directly to a smart contract R&D (research and development)

Figure, a blockchain-powered home equity loan company, has raised $65 million from a variety of venture capital and financial companies. This news comes via a TechCrunch report published earlier today. Thirteen-month-old Figure has raised about a staggering $120 million. RPM Ventures and DST Global appear to have led this round, with DCG, Nimble Ventures, and

American shipping giant UPS has invested in blockchain logistics company Inxeption, according to a company press release published yesterday. The investment, made through UPS’s Strategic Enterprise Fund, will be used to develop new e-commerce solutions for buyers and sellers in B2B transactions, with the two companies working together. The terms of the deal were not

According to a VentureBeat report published today, Reykjavik-based identity verification company Authenteq has raised $5 million in funding, led by Draper Associates and Capital300. In a slightly unusual move, Autheneq decided to have two closings of its Series A round. The first close just took two weeks to complete. The second close has not occurred