Millicent is a digital currency that aims to unify the world’s finance rails, interconnecting with major public and enterprise blockchains, as well as legacy financial systems, supporting financial inclusion, fiat on & off-ramping, institutional access to DeFi and more. It combines the benefits of distributed ledgers and smart contracts with legacy economic infrastructure. Millicent’s fast, secure, and environmentally-friendly network makes sending, spending, and saving money instant, borderless, and accessible to all.
Millicent Labs are building the open financial infrastructure of tomorrow — blockchain rails that make transferring value as seamless as the internet has made transferring data.
Millicent Labs are building the open financial infrastructure of tomorrow — blockchain rails that make transferring value as seamless as the internet has made transferring data.
Location: United Kingdom, England, London
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2020
Investors 2
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| 15.03.2024 | Aleph Zero Partners with Techstars as Innovation Member for Techstars Web3 Accelerator’s Class of 2024 | Zug, Switzerland, March 15th, 2024, Chainwire Aleph Zero, a leading privacy-enhancing Layer 1 blockchain, is partnering with Techstars, the most active pre-seed investor in the world, as an Innovation Member for the Techstars Web3 Accelera... |
| 13.07.2023 | Digital Ledger Firm Millicent Labs Participates in Phase 2 of BIS and BoE Project Rosalind | A demonstration of Millicent's trade finance solution, built on the Rosalind API. Millicent Labs Co-CEO Kene Ezeji-Okoye The digital currency platform provider was one of three teams identified by the audience on the basis of originality, c... |
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| 14.07.2022 | Blockchain fintech startup Millicent successfully carries out world’s first test of a general purpose full-reserve digital currency | As you may recall back in February, we wrote about Millicent after the distributed ledger fintech startup co-funded by the UK government’s R&D department received funding grants to build the next generation of digital finance. The award... |
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| 03.02.2022 | U.K government grants funding to blockchain startup Millicent to build the next generation of digital finance | UK-based distributed ledger company, Millicent announced the latest funding raise from one of the government’s most prestigious and competitive research and development grants. The blockchain company was awarded the UK Research and Innovati... |