SALT LAKE CITY, March 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSTK) announced its wholly-owned blockchain subsidiary, Medici Ventures, has purchased a 5.1 percent stake in Bankorus, a blockchain banking platform focused on custody, lending, and exchange of assets on the blockchain.
Bankorus was founded in 2017 and has offices in Europe and China. The company’s blockchain banking platform allows individuals and institutions to securely buy, sell, store, and lend digital assets.
“The addition of Bankorus to Medici Ventures’ portfolio of companies will further our work in building the foundation of a blockchain-based technology stack for society,” said Jonathan Johnson, president of Medici Ventures. “Bankorus has built a revolutionary blockchain banking platform that dovetails nicely with Medici Ventures’ goals of eliminating middlemen, democratizing capital, and rehumanizing commerce by helping individuals access and control their own digital assets.”
Medici Ventures was founded as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Overstock.com in 2014, and today oversees a global portfolio of companies applying blockchain technology to existing markets. Medici Ventures is introducing blockchain technologies to industries such as capital markets, money and banking, identity, property, voting, and supply chain.
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Overstock.com, Inc Common Shares (NASDAQ:OSTK) / Series A Preferred (Medici Ventures’ tZERO platform: OSTKP) / Series B Preferred (OTCQX:OSTBP) is an online retailer and technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Its leading e-commerce website sells a broad range of new products at low prices, including furniture, décor, rugs, bedding, home improvement, and more. The online shopping site, which is visited by nearly 40 million customers a month, also features a marketplace providing customers access to millions of products from third-party sellers. Overstock was the first major retailer to accept cryptocurrency in 2014, and in the same year founded Medici Ventures, its wholly-owned subsidiary developing and accelerating blockchain technologies to democratize capital, eliminate middlemen, and re-humanize commerce. Overstock regularly posts information about the company and other related matters on the Newsroom and Investor Relations pages on its website, Overstock.com.
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