Blockchain & Digital Assets

June 17, 2024 @ 2:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

The head of the Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit within the SEC’s Division of Enforcement has exited the agency. David Hirsch posted on LinkedIn earlier today (June 17, 2024) that last Friday was his last day at the SEC after 9 years at the securities… Read More

June 17, 2024 @ 2:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, the enabler of enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, and Archax, the UK’s first Financial Conduct Authority regulated digital asset exchange, broker and custodian,  announced an extension to their existing collaboration which is expected to bring hundreds of millions of dollars of tokenized real world… Read More

June 17, 2024 @ 2:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last month, the Tokenization Report  Act of 2024 (HR 8464) was introduced into Congress. The House legislation is sponsored by Representative William Timmons, a Republican from South Carolina. The bill, as it stands today, compels multiple federal authorities to review the potential of taking traditional… Read More

June 17, 2024 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Tether, the issuer of the largest stablecoin in the world, USDT, has announced a new digital asset dubbed Alloy – a digital asset tied to gold. Tether describes Alloy as a new type of digital assets or “tethered assets.” Similar to other stablecoins, Alloy, priced… Read More

June 17, 2024 @ 8:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Gemini are pleased to announce that they’re providing bitcoin custody for a spot bitcoin ETF listed June 4 by Monochrome Asset Management, an Australia-based investment manager that offers access to crypto assets through traditional financial markets. Monochrome Bitcoin ETF (Ticker: IBTC) is… Read More

June 17, 2024 @ 6:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Copper.co, one of the industry’s digital asset custodians, announces a strategic partnership with Solv Protocol, a native yield platform that tokenizes and aggregates high quality yields from various sources across the industry. This collaboration leverages Copper‘s custody and collateral management solutions, including its ClearLoop technology,… Read More

June 16, 2024 @ 11:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle is pleased to announce the expansion of their Web3 Services to support the Solana blockchain. This is a key milestone as they aim to “build a comprehensive and robust platform that empowers businesses and developers to build and launch on-chain apps.” Starting with Programmable… Read More

June 16, 2024 @ 3:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In Argentina, Worldcoin contributors have been working hard to increase access to important AI tools like World ID, a private digital passport that differentiates humans from bots online. Now, the project is poised to grow in Argentina, “resulting in significant direct investment in the country.”… Read More

June 16, 2024 @ 3:52 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Fhenix, an Israel-based company specializing in Layer 2 blockchain technology that leverages fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), has successfully closed a $15 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Hack VC, with additional investments from Dao5, Amber Group, Primitive, GSR, Collider, and Stake… Read More

June 16, 2024 @ 2:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIGG Digital Assets Inc.  an innovator in the digital assets space and owner of Blockchain Intelligence Group, Netcoins, and TerraZero, announces the launch of Operational Simulator Training for Investigators in partnership with WhiteStream Blockchain Intelligence. Blockchain Intelligence Group, in partnership with WhiteStream Blockstream Intelligence, is… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 9:12 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Qiro Finance, a Singapore-headquartered decentralized finance (DeFi) startup founded by Akshay Poshatwar and Nishikant Bahalkar, announced a successful $1.2 million funding round to develop a decentralized credit protocol aimed at bridging the significant credit gap in emerging markets. The startup said it is innovating at… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 5:03 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

European Blockchain Sandbox Brickken, a Barcelona-based startup that tokenizes real-world assets, has been selected to participate in the European Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) Regulatory Sandbox. This regulatory sandbox will provide legal certainty for decentralized technological solutions, including blockchain, by identifying deployment obstacles from… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, the technology platform streamlining the private credit and housing markets, announced the launch of Figure Connect, a blockchain-based multi-seller, multi-buyer marketplace of private credit loans. Figure Connect brings Figure’s broad and deep capital markets buyer universe “directly to Figure’s loan origination partners.”… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 9:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX‘s investment arm, OKX Ventures, announced that it has become a founding member of SOFA.org, an open-source and non-profit decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focused on developing a DeFi ecosystem that facilitates atomic, blockchain-based settlements of financial assets. Through its collaboration with SOFA.org, they seek “to… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BVNK, a London-based firm focused on payments innovation, enhanced its stablecoin liquidity operations by leveraging Talos’ advanced trading technology and extensive partner network. This collaboration has added new liquidity providers “at significantly reduced integration times, resulting in a nearly two-fold increase in trading volumes –… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 4:53 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Nexus Laboratories, a zero-knowledge cryptography company, has secured $25 million in Series A financing co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Pantera Capital. The round included participation from Dragonfly Capital, Faction Ventures, and Blockchain Builders Fund. The funds will help accelerate the company’s go-to-market efforts and… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 6:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Spiko, co-founded in 2023 by Paul-Adrien Hyppolite and Antoine Michon, has raised €4 million in pre-seed funding. Spiko is a tokenization platform that claims to be the first provider in the world to offer fully tokenized Money Market Funds (MMFs). The digital assets leverage both… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 12:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paradigm has raised their third fund, which is reportedly an $850 million venture fund focused on crypto projects at the earliest stages. When they founded Paradigm in 2018, they believed that crypto would be “one of the most important technical and economic shifts of the… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 11:23 am By JD Alois  |  

The Hashgraph Association has announced a partnership with Adanian Labs and The Africa Blockchain Centre. In a statement distributed by Hashgraph, the aim is to support blockchain development in Africa. The partnership expects to “empower over 3000 Web3 developers “across Africa through the DLT Africa… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 8:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) recently revealed its plan to sell $500 million in convertible bonds in order to finance the purchase of more Bitcoin (BTC). MicrosStrategy, which presently possesses 214,400 Bitcoin (BTC) valued at about $14.5 billion, holds more than 1% of BTC’s total circulating supply. The… Read More