Blockchain & Digital Assets

April 28, 2023 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitpanda are pleased to announce that Raiffeisenlandesbank NÖ-Wien, which forms part of Austria’s major banking group, has become the first major traditional bank in the European Union “to move into digital assets through a planned collaboration with Bitpanda Technology Solutions.” Since launching their digital Investment-as-a-Service… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 10:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Together with its partners, AntChain recently unveiled a series of new Web3 initiatives, including an open-source project featuring its cross-chain technology and AntChain OpenLab, to support Web3 developer community at the 2023 Ant Group Digital Technologies Developer Conference. Web3 is commonly “known as a more… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 4:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technologies Inc., a firm focused on transforming financial services through the power of blockchain technology, announced “the close of a HELOC (home equity line of credit) securitization underwritten by Jefferies, Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan.” The FIGRE 2023-HE1 asset-backed securities (ABS) offering “was comprised… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 4:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN)  has posted a 73-page response to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Wells Notice which indicates a high likelihood of an enforcement action by the commission. Last month, Coinbase revealed it was in receipt of the Wells Notice while taking a defiant stance against… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 12:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strike, which claims to be one of the world’s leading digital payments platforms built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, announced the expansion of “Send Globally” to Guatemala, bringing its cross-border payment service to Latin America. In 2022, Latin America and the Caribbean “received more than $140… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 11:14 am By JD Alois  |  

  Tokeny, a Luxembourg-based tokenization platform, has revealed a partnership with Artory to “unlock the  $1.7 trillion art market through the market tokenization, enabling greater access and liquidity to the asset class. Fine art is said to have outperformed the S&P 500 for over 20… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

BTSE has added Fireblocks to its platform. BTSE is a white-label digital asset exchange based in Tortola. Fireblocks is a well-known Switzerland-based digital asset custody provider. BTSE claims to offer “state-of-the-art infrastructure” able to process over one million transactions per second. BTSE states that Fireblocks… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the world becomes more digitized, auction houses are turning towards decentralized technology to improve the auction process. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) technology is one such innovation that could transform the auction industry, bringing transparency, security, and accessibility to the table. With the rise of blockchain… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

MERJ Exchange, a Seychelles-based regulated exchange, has signed an Introducing Broker Referral Agreement with Boustead Securities, a FINRA regulated broker-dealer. The deal will allow US-based investors to trade dual-listed securities on Upstream – part of MERJ. Upstream is a retail trading platform powered by Horizon… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 9:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DFlow, a “decentralized” payment for order flow (PFOF) protocol that enables wallets and crypto trading applications to sell their flow to best-execution market makers via open and permissionless auctions, announced that it has successfully raised a $5.5 million funding round led by Framework Ventures, a… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 8:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinFlip, a Fintech company powered by cryptocurrency, announces today a new chapter of growth and product evolution with the launch of ‘Olliv,’ a safe, inclusive, self-custody-powered crypto platform delivering financial services in the digital economy accessible to everyone. Olliv claims it is “breaking down the… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 10:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Representative Patrick McHenry, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has joined with Representatives French Hill, Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Inclusion Subcommittee Chairman, and Bill Huizenga, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman, to send letters to federal agencies demanding information on the move to de-bank… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 11:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Bankrupt digital asset platform Voyager Digital has received a Dear John, or perhaps a Dear Voyager letter from Binance.US. In a series of Tweets, Voyager revealed that Binance.US has announced a separation from its previously announced agreement. Last January, bankruptcy courts approved the sale of… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 9:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Finery Markets has announced the launch of FM Liquidity Match – an OTC as a Service for digital assets. The OTC offering is being provided in partnership with Floating Point Group, which will become the inaugural user. FM Liquidity Match is a proprietary matching engine… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 9:12 am By JD Alois  |  

TS Imagine has connected with European prime broker for digital assets – Crypto Finance. TS Imagine is a “cross-asset” trading platform that provides financial solutions for sophisticated investors. The company said it aims to offer institutional clients greater connectivity and liquidity in cryptocurrency trading with the… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 10:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital arm and accelerator of Binance, committed an investment in the seed funding round of GOMBLE, a blockchain-based casual game developer. GOMBLE will use the funds “to develop and release its first mobile game, RumbyStars, and continue to expand its gaming… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 3:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aegis Trust, which claims to be one of the select few digital asset qualified custodians in the U.S. offering client-centric technology infrastructure and regulatory-compliant solutions, announced that Anthony Botticella has been “appointed as the new President of the company, as well as its global custodian… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) announced that it had filed a “limited action” against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as it has ignored its petition for clearly defined digital asset rules. The SEC is statutorily required to respond to a petition within a reasonable amount of time. It… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS), an alternative asset manager specializing in digital assets, has announced “the implementation of LedgerLens, a real-time reserves attestation solution provided by independent accounting firm, The Network Firm.” This blockchain-enabled solution “will offer real-time attestation services for CoinShares’ Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), including… Read More

April 24, 2023 @ 10:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is going on the offensive with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and its insistence that all digital assets are securities and thus regulated the same. In a blog post, Paul Grewal, the Chief Legal Officer of Coinbase, explained the company had filed… Read More