Blockchain & Digital Assets

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

April 24, 2023 @ 7:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology (Fintech) and Inclusion, has posted the list of witnesses for its hearing on “The Future of Digital Assets: Identifying the Regulatory Gaps in Digital Asset Market Structure.” The hearing follows the approval by the European Parliament of MiCA… Read More

April 24, 2023 @ 6:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a move that should help lenders make better, more informed decisions on credit applications submitted using blockchain technology, TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) has partnered with Spring Labs and Quadrata in order “to deliver off-chain credit scoring to DeFi and Web3 applications (internet applications based on… Read More

April 24, 2023 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nansen recently announced their partnership with NEAR protocol in order “to provide on-chain insights to their ecosystem.” The team says they are pleased to announce their collaboration with NEAR, “a growing Layer-1 blockchain, to provide advanced analytics for ecosystem developers and investors.” This latest cooperation… Read More

April 24, 2023 @ 12:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kraken has successfully registered its Irish subsidiary, Payward Europe Solutions Limited, with the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP). The firm claims that Kraken’s Irish VASP registration “demonstrates to both their clients and regulators that Kraken follows Europe’s most… Read More

April 24, 2023 @ 9:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jens Groth explains that zero-knowledge proofs “allow you to prove a statement is true without revealing anything else but the fact the statement is true.” He also pulls out a deck of cards “to illustrate what he means by this.” He adds: “Let’s say I… Read More

April 24, 2023 @ 8:50 am By JD Alois  |  

As was reported last week, the European Parliament approved MiCA, or Markets in Crypto-Assets legislation, which aims to make the EU a digital asset-friendly jurisdiction. At the same time, the Transfer of Funds regulation was approved, which requires crypto operators to identify their customers as… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tableland, a permissionless relational database for web3 applications, today announced a $8M Series A round led by CoinFund with participation from Multicoin Capital, Blueyard and A Capital, bringing the company’s total financing to $10.4M. The new funds from the investment round will be used “to… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 6:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The EU Parliament’s passing of the Markets in Crypto Act, or MiCA, on Thursday has been hailed as a “landmark moment” for cryptocurrencies that will “help drive prices” for the likes of Bitcoin. This, according to the CEO of an independent financial advisory, asset management and… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hyperlane and Caldera are pleased to announce their collaboration “to bring permissionless interoperability between any Caldera rollup and to any EVM chain.” Permissionless interoperability “enables any Caldera rollup to self-deploy the Hyperlane interoperability stack and easily access all of its features, ranging from interchain apps… Read More