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Fortress Gold Group, the financial services provider specializing in alternative retirement solutions, announced the launch of a new IRA and 401(k) option for investors looking to protect themselves against market turmoil. New and existing Fortress Gold Group clients can now diversify their retirement investments in non-traditional assets including bitcoins.

Komodo, based on ZCash fork, has announced the successful start of its ICO. The privacy and security driven cryptocurrency platform has raised 1267.78 BTCs on the very first day of its crowdfunding campaign.

Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu Laboratories of America have developed blockchain-based security technologies to safely and securely handle confidential data between multiple organizations.

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed two technologies: a transaction restriction technology based on pre-established policies to restrict trading, such as by restricting users, and a document encryption technology, which allows only relevant parties who hold multiple distributed keys to securely access the information recorded in the blockchain.

Deloitte announced the formation of Deloitte Catalyst, a network of leading startups working to translate the potential of disruptive technologies into practical business solutions for the firm and its clients. Deloitte Catalyst accelerates digital transformation by bringing together critical assets and capabilities from the domains of cognitive technologies, Internet of Things and blockchain.

Iterative Instinct ("i2"), a Manhattan-based venture fund that has a specific investment mandate to seed and develop products, services, and assets that utilize the three core technologies of the blockchain paradigm, announced it had secured $1.4M in capital commitments for its $2.0M debut fund.

The group, organized by Axoni, included Barclays, Citi, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, IHS Markit, Thomson Reuters, and Capco, a global financial services management consulting firm that is part of FIS, announced today the successful test of blockchain technology and smart contracts to manage affirmations and post-trade lifecycle processing for OTC equity swaps. The initiative demonstrated the potential efficiency gains and cost savings attainable by processing complex post-trade events inherent to equity swaps - including mark-to-market calculations, margin payments, and corporate action processing - in a permissioned, distributed, peer-to-peer blockchain network.

The WorldCoinIndex announced its blockchain market data resource platform to the global cryptocurrency community. The platform offers reliable, real-time price information and the latest news updates for over 400 listed cryptocurrencies. It allows users to access a wide range of data points from over 35 different cryptocurrency exchanges and track cryptocurrency prices in all major fiat currencies such as USD, euro and yuan.

Komodo, the cryptocurrency offering highest standards of anonymity and security has announced the launch of its ICO. The Komodo cryptocurrency ICO will go on until November 20, 2016. Those interested in participating in the ICO can buy Komodo cryptocurrency (KMD) with either Bitcoin (BTC) or BitcoinDark (BTCD).

BitCasino.io has bolstered its online casino portfolio with more than one hundred new games from Pragmatic Play. Under the deal, BitCasino.io will integrate 120 HTML5 titles from Pragmatic's game library, giving its players access to titles such as Beowulf, Lucky Dragons and Go! Monkey.