Blockchain & Digital Assets

May 1, 2023 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CryptoUK, which claims to be the “trusted” voice of the UK crypto industry, has published a detailed response to His Majesty’s Treasury’s (HMT) Future Financial Services Regulatory Regime for Cryptoassets consultation paper. Consultation proposals “included strengthening rules for crypto trading platforms and a robust world-first… Read More

April 30, 2023 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Volante Technologies, the global provider of cloud payments and financial messaging solutions to accelerate digital transformation, has released a partner-authored paper featuring insights “into the banking sector and projections for innovation-driven growth.” The report, the first in an annual series, “incorporates contributions from fifteen global… Read More

April 30, 2023 @ 10:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trust Wallet, which claims to be one of the largest self-custodial and multi-chain wallets (also reported as a wallet with critical vulnerabilities leading to considerable losses for users that now appear to have been addressed), has announced a partnership with Web3Auth to enable users to… Read More

April 30, 2023 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As Web2 social media platforms continue to grapple with concerns about data privacy, misinformation, and content moderation, many users are turning to alternative forms of social media. Among these alternatives are Web3 social media platforms, which are built on decentralized networks and feature community-driven governance,… Read More

April 30, 2023 @ 5:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Etherisc, the open-source, “decentralized” insurance protocol and ecosystem, has launched the first-of-its-kind USDC depeg protection cover to the public. As a peer-to-peer parametric product, customers “receive automatic payouts should the price of the USDC stablecoin fall below its $1 USD pegged value by 0.5% for… Read More

April 30, 2023 @ 11:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The crypto lending business model has come under intense scrutiny following a spate of recent credit events. Credora is helping “rebuild confidence in credit markets through transparency, and the lending infrastructure provider announced a $6 million strategic funding round with S&P Global and Coinbase Ventures… Read More

April 29, 2023 @ 12:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Neon Foundation, the Neon EVM ecosystem accelerator, has entered into a strategic partnership with Pyth Network, a “next-generation” oracle “designed to publish high-fidelity financial market data at sub-second latency to multiple blockchains.” Pyth Network is now “available to all protocols built on Neon. This… Read More

April 29, 2023 @ 12:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alchemy Pay now supports India’s UPI domestic transfer payments for crypto purchases in India. By enabling users to pay by Unified Payments Interface, India’s domestic transfer system, it is possible for Indian bank account holders “to buy and sell cryptocurrency with the Indian rupee.” As a… Read More

April 29, 2023 @ 12:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ARPA Network has secured a strategic investment from DWF Labs. Together, DWF Labs and ARPA Network will aim to “establish a vibrant, dynamic collaboration, poised to transform the blockchain landscape and usher in new standards of privacy, security, and fairness.” This might “include actions aimed… Read More

April 28, 2023 @ 1:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SlowMist and OKX have recently announced a strategic partnership to focus on “enhancing digital asset ecosystem security, digital asset anti-money laundering (AML), and conducting security technology research.” Both parties will collaborate “to develop comprehensive and innovative security services to address the growing demand for secure… Read More

April 28, 2023 @ 1:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Giddy, the self-custody smart wallet that connects crypto holders to DeFi earning opportunities, has raised $6.9 million in a fresh round of funding. The capital raised from the investment round will be used “to further Giddy’s mission of bringing easy crypto DeFi adoption to the… Read More

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