Blockchain & Digital Assets

April 17, 2024 @ 11:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a global professional services firm, announced the successful completion of an innovative pilot for placing insurance using blockchain and smart contract technology. The pilot was conducted with Nayms SAC Ltd., “a crypto-compatible insurance marketplace, and Copper.co, a digital assets custodian.” Benefits… Read More

April 17, 2024 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Academy, the crypto learning hub of Binance, has partnered with European educational institutions to launch a series of paid university-accredited courses. Their curricula will cover key topics and disciplines of blockchain and Web3, “offering learners a deep understanding of the digital-asset space.” By offering… Read More

April 17, 2024 @ 8:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Senators Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand are taking another swing at regulating digital assets – specifically with stablecoin legislation. The bipartisan bill was revealed today and it attempts to provide a federal path to regulated privately issued stablecoins in a market that is largely overseen… Read More

April 17, 2024 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitpanda recently announce their strategic partnership with Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), which is reportedly Germany’s largest federal bank and with a balance sheet of more than 330 billion Euros (as well as a key institution in the German banking sector). Through this collaboration, LBBW will “utilize… Read More

April 16, 2024 @ 8:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX has reportedly launched the public mainnet of their Layer-2 (L2), X LAYER, building with more than 200 dApps across the network. X LAYER is integrated with OKX Exchange (CEX) and the OKX Web3 Wallet. Users can bridge assets from the two platforms to LAYER… Read More

April 16, 2024 @ 6:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Predictions about Bitcoin’s future price span the spectrum. The most recent bull run has fueled speculation that Bitcoin is poised to move even higher. The upward price expectations are due in part to the launch of regulated Bitcoin spot ETFs in the United States and… Read More

April 16, 2024 @ 12:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lisbon, Portgul-based Bison Bank says it has seen revenues increase by 240% in 2023 when compared to the year prior. Bison Bank is focused on providing a range of Wealth Management, Custody, and Investment Banking services to individual and institutional clients. Affiliated firm, Bison Digital… Read More

April 16, 2024 @ 11:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Americans are already choosing digital payments over traditional payment methods. Now, as digital currencies such as CBDCs gain interest around the world – as seen even more from the recent SWIFT announcement – demand stateside may create bottom-up pressure on U.S. banks – despite the… Read More

April 16, 2024 @ 11:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain firm Nansen has shared their quarterly updates including a range of new blockchain integrations and features to give clients a market edge. As the first quarter of 2024 comes to a close, Nansen says that they are pleased by the crypto market’s growth. Over… Read More

April 16, 2024 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Bank has completed its first transaction using an electronic Bill of Lading (eBL) on the WaveBL trade documentation platform, in a cross-border deal that featured entirely digital exchanges of documentation. The deal closely follows Lloyds Bank “becoming the first UK bank to join the… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, provider of a disruptive and scaled technology platform built to enhance efficiency and transparency in financial services, announced that it will begin making its DART System, a combined lien and eNote registry service, available to private and wholesale lending partners, “initially for… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 5:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle is pleased to announce that native USDC is now available on zkSync and accessible to developers and users – no bridging required. Circle Mint and Circle APIs now fully support USDC on zkSync. zkSync is a layer 2 (L2) rollup that “is hyperscaling Ethereum… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 11:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Two digital asset firms, R3 and Quant, have been chosen to provide services for the UK’s Regulated Liability Network (RLN). R3 is an enterprise focused permissioned blockchain provider named Corda. Quant is a tokenization service supporting traditional financial institutions. RLN is led by UK Finance… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 10:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced recently to three years in prison by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero for “hacking two separate decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges and stealing cryptocurrency worth over $12 million…. Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Alliance Bernstein has published a research report on crypto addressing the stablecoin market. Authored by Gautam Chhugani and Mahika Sapra, the report shares that annualized transfers of stablecoins are around $6.8 trillion. While Tether (USDT) and Circle (USDC) dominate the dollar-based stablecoin market and most… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Real Bedford Football Club (RBFC) owner Peter McCormack announced that Winklevoss Capital, the investment firm owned by Gemini founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has made a $4.5M bitcoin investment into the football club. The investment is the largest ever made “into a football club in… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 4:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at OKX are pleased to announce their investment in Tomo, a Web3 social finance (SocialFi) protocol. This investment underpins OKX‘s commitment to “supporting innovative blockchain technology and Web3 social platforms that redefine the way users connect and interact with each other online.” Tomo’s… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Operations Limited, which claims to be one of the largest companies in the digital asset industry, and Coins.ph, a digital asset exchange in the Philippines, announced that they are joining forces to promote financial education of blockchain technologies, Bitcoin, and Stablecoins, in the region…. Read More

April 13, 2024 @ 8:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LeadBlock Bitpanda Ventures (LBV), a €50 million EU investment fund, and Mantle, a burgeoning on-chain ecosystem built around the high-performance modular Ethereum layer-2 (L2) scaling solution Mantle Network and Ether liquid staking protocol Mantle LSP, have announced a strategic collaboration for Europe. The partnership comes… Read More

April 12, 2024 @ 6:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo is pleased to announce support for ARB, the native ERC-20 governance token for Arbitrum. Clients can now custody ARB in Hot, Custodial, and Self-Managed Cold wallets. Arbitrum is a Layer 2 (L2) technology designed “to enhance scaling solutions by empowering users to explore and… Read More