Blockchain & Digital Assets

July 23, 2024 @ 1:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

The stablecoin market, which involves digital assets tied to another asset, such as fiat currency, has surpassed $160 billion in value. The market is led by Tether (USDT), which hoovers up much of the market at over $114 billion. USDC, issued by Circle is in… Read More

July 23, 2024 @ 9:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TaxBit and TAINA Technology, two industry participants focused on tax compliance solutions, have announced a partnership to deliver a comprehensive end-to-end tax reporting solution for the digital economy. This collaboration aims to assist U.S. and non-US digital marketplaces with their comprehensive onboarding and reporting needs… Read More

July 23, 2024 @ 8:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitstamp is presenting the latest insights from their June 2024 Lending Performance Report for Bitstamp Earn Lending. Whether you’re new to crypto lending or a seasoned expert, this update from Bitstamp reportedly offers valuable information “on the current lending landscape.” In collaboration with Tesseract, Bitstamp… Read More

July 23, 2024 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ledger is pleased to announce the latest evolution in our partnership with Best Buy. Ledger customers now have the option “to buy a Ledger device online on Ledger.com and pick it up the same day in Best Buy stores across the US.” As a staple… Read More

July 22, 2024 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Exodus and Syrup have revealed a new partnership. Users of the Exodus wallet can now access Syrup and “earn 18% net APY on USDC as well as ‘double Drips’ on their deposit, boosting SYRUP token rewards.” Exodus’ multi-chain desktop and mobile wallet “enables secure peer-to-peer… Read More

July 22, 2024 @ 12:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks Off Exchange enables businesses across the world to trade on centralized exchanges without introducing counterparty risk. Today, they’re sharing that Bybit is the newest exchange to integrate with Off Exchange. Bybit, a crypto exchange, joins Deribit, with further integrations to follow. These include BIT,… Read More

July 22, 2024 @ 12:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Approval phishing is an increasingly popular tactic used by criminals to steal funds through different scamming techniques such as fake crypto apps and romance scams (also known as pig butchering), according to an update from Chainalysis. With the approval phishing technique, the scammer tricks the… Read More

July 22, 2024 @ 10:51 am By JD Alois  |  

NPC Labs says it has raised $18 million in Seed funding led by Pantera Capital – a VC that is very active in the blockchain sector. To date, NPC Labs reports having raised $21 million which includes pre-seed dollars. Other investors in the round include… Read More

July 22, 2024 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Matías Andrade and Tanay Ved have recently shared key takeaways from a Coin Metrics report which noted that Mt. Gox creditors are finally receiving repayments, “with approximately $9 billion worth of Bitcoin set for distribution in July.” As mentioned in the Coin Metrics report, the… Read More

July 22, 2024 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After nearly breaching all-time highs in 2024 Q1, the total crypto market cap returned some of those gains in Q2, “dropping -14.4%, closing at $2.43 trillion in June,” the team at CoinGecko noted. 2024 Q2 brought Bitcoin’s long-anticipated fourth halving, which “went off without a… Read More

July 21, 2024 @ 6:35 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Raise, a payments provider in the global gift card industry, announced a partnership with Parity Technologies this week to provide the payment rails for the upcoming Polkadot mobile application. Previewed during last week’s Polkadot Decoded conference, Raise’s white-label payments and gift card infrastructure API will allow users to make… Read More

July 21, 2024 @ 2:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Propy, a real estate tokenization platform, and Parcl, a DeFi protocol built on real estate data, have announced a new strategic partnership. It will enhance the analytics of all on-chain real estate minted on PropyKeys using Parcl’s data integrations. Parcl and Propy revealed that more than $10 billion worth of… Read More

July 21, 2024 @ 2:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Chainlink believes its new Chainlink Digital Assets Sandbox (DAS) will accelerate digital asset innovation within financial institutions. The company said Chainlink DAS is designed for financial institutions that want to quickly innovate and experience the potential of generating new revenue opportunities, increasing efficiencies and improving… Read More

July 20, 2024 @ 9:22 am By Michael Wong  |  

South Kora’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) announced early this week that new stringent regulations targeting illegal transactions involving virtual assets will be enforced. The new legislation, known as the Virtual Asset Users Protection Act, mandates virtual asset exchanges to report illegal activities to the financial… Read More

July 20, 2024 @ 5:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain Coinvestors, a blockchain venture fund-of-funds and co-investment program with a combined portfolio of more than 1,250 blockchain enterprises and projects, including 95 blockchain unicorns, announced its bi-annual Meet the Blockchain Unicorns report which includes the most comprehensive list of blockchain unicorns globally – “including… Read More

July 19, 2024 @ 8:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Copper, a firm focused on digital asset custody, collateral management, and prime services, has secured a Trust or Company Service Provider (TCSP) license in Hong Kong. This license, granted by Hong Kong’s Companies Registry, “represents a key milestone in Copper’s global market expansion and its… Read More

July 19, 2024 @ 2:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

The approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs helped to fuel a bull run in Bitcoin. Ethereum (ETH) ETFs will start trading next week as several spot funds have received regulatory approval. As of today, ETH is trading at around $3500 – having risen by over 10%… Read More

July 19, 2024 @ 12:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Laboratório de Inovações Financeiras e Tecnológicas (LIFT), a joint initiative of Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) and Federação Nacional de Associações dos Servidores do Banco Central, announces the resumption of activities following a hiatus in 2023. Since its inception bac in 2018, the laboratory… Read More

July 19, 2024 @ 12:13 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Allium, a blockchain data platform for enterprises, has raised $16.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Theory Ventures, with participation from seed investors Kleiner Perkins and Amplify Partners, according to an announcement. As part of the investment, Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory… Read More

July 19, 2024 @ 7:04 am By Michael Wong  |  

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has revealed the participants of its stablecoin issuer sandbox, marking a significant step in the city’s drive to foster a regulated and sustainable stablecoin ecosystem. Earlier this week, the results of a consultation by the HKMA on stablecoins were… Read More