Messi will back the Jerusalem-based company to increase awareness of the challenges faced by the global visually impaired community.

The Israeli-founded company is best known for its $17,000 secure smartphone for high-end clients, and signing soccer star Leo Messi as a brand ambassador.

December 31, 2017 | Sirin Labs, the Israeli-founded, Switzerland-based blockchain firm known for developing a $17,000 secure smartphone for high-end clients — and signing Leo Messi as a brand ambassador — said it wrapped up its crowdsale for the SRN token, Sirin’s cryptocurrency, raising over US $157,800,000. The initial coin offering was launched on December 12 for Sirin […]

December 17, 2017 | Sirin Labs, the Switzerland-based Israeli-founded blockchain firm known for developing a $17,000 secure smartphone for high-end clients, announced that it has so far raised $121 million in five days in an initial coin offering (ICO), a means of crowdfunding via cryptocurrency, for its next project — a blockchain-secured, open-source phone and PC […]

The company, a developer of products for the blockchain era, says the FC Barcelona forward will help bring the technology to the masses.