(정보) 관심있는 블록체인 뉴스 180911

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관심있는 블록체인 뉴스를 정리하였습니다.

1. Robinhood, the Zero-Fee Stock and Crypto Trading App, Is Planning to Go Public

http://fortune.com/2018/09/06/robinhood-ipo-2018/

Robinhood—the fintech startup that offers stock, option, and cryptocurrency trades with zero fees—is taking steps to go public, starting with the hiring of a chief financial officer.
Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference Thursday, confirmed the company’s plans for an IPO and CFO hire. Both tasks will need to be handled with care. Bhatt said that Robinhood’s business model has subjected it to constant audits from the SEC and other financial regulators.
In the past couple of years, Robinhood has grown from a quixotic idea—no fees to trade stocks—to one of the more intruiging startups in the fintech space. Robinhood raised $110 million at a $1.3 billion valuation in April 2017. It’s now valued at $5.6 billion.
But Robinhood, like many tech startups planning to go public these days, is still losing money. And it’s branching out into areas like stock options and cryptocurrencies that will incur losses as Robinhood pushes for market share. “We don’t intend to make very much money on it at all for the foreseeable future,” Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev told Fortune in June.
The thing is, investors in IPOs are willing to tolerate losses as long as they will be turned soon enough into growing profits. And they’ve learned to distrust CEOs who talk cavalierly about losing money. Witness the downfall of Groupon after its manic growth failed to deliver profits, or Uber, which has had to retool its expensive global ambitions.
But given that few fintech startups have matured into companies that traditional Wall Street investors are comfortable sinking their assets into, Robinhood’s approach to the public stock market will be closely watched. In May, Robinhood’s active user accounts reached 4 million, surpassing ETrade, a trading platform long beloved by daytraders.
Robinhood’s push into cryptocurrencies has helped it sign up more users. The company is not only helping small investors in a market that sometimes seems stacked against them, it’s looking like the most disruptive financial startup since ETrade shook things up in the 1990s with low commissions and real-time stock quotes. Whether its expensive business model will be welcomed by IPO investors remains to be seen.

암호화화폐에 대한 수수료 제로 거래를 제공하고 있는 Robinhood가 IPO 계획을 준비하면서 CFO 고용도 진행하고 있습니다. 로빈후드 공동창업자인 Baiju Bhatt은 로빈후드가 그들의 사업모델에 대해 SEC 및 기타 금융 감독원으로부터 지속적인 감사를 받았다고 밝혔습니다. 로빈후드의 현재 가치는 $56억 달러에 달합니다.

2. Alibaba and IBM Ranked First When it Comes to Blockchain Patents

https://www.investopedia.com/news/alibaba-and-ibm-ranked-first-when-it-comes-blockchain-patents/

Although blockchain is frequently misunderstood, and despite the fact that many of its applications outside of the cryptocurrency realm remain theoretical, companies of all kinds are rushing to explore what this new technology has to offer. Countless startups are aiming to corner a small portion of the blockchain space with revolutionary applications of the distributed ledger technology. Even banks and other firms not previously directly involved in the tech space are exploring the possibilities in blockchain. It perhaps comes as no surprise, then, that some of the most ardent blockchain innovators are major tech operations. These companies have a direct interest and experience in the space, and they also have the tremendous resources available to dedicate staff, time, and money toward building new blockchain applications.
Recently, a report by iPR Daily indicated that two tech giants in particular have taken the lead when it comes to blockchain development, at least with regards to the number of blockchain-related patents they have secured. Alibaba (BABA) and IBM (IBM) are neck-and-neck, each holding close to 100 patents already.

많은 기업들이 분산 원장 기술의 혁명적인 적용으로 블록 체인 확산 적용에 대해 연구 및 검토하고 있습니다. 이전에는 기술 분야에 직접 관여하지 않았던 은행 및 다른 회사들조차 블록 체인 (blockchain)의 가능성을 모색하고 있습니다. 최근 iPR Daily의 보고서에 따르면, 블록체인 관련 특허의 수와 관련하여 특히 두 명의 대기업이 주도적인 위치를 차지했다고 합니다. Alibaba (BABA)와 IBM (IBM)은 각각 100 건에 근접한 특허를 보유하고 있다고 합니다.

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