Blockchain & Digital Assets

November 4, 2022 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bakkt Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BKKT), a digital asset platform that unlocks crypto and drives loyalty to create delightful, connected experiences for a broad range of clients, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Apex Crypto, LLC from Apex Fintech Solutions, Inc. This acquisition is “expected… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WalletConnect, the web3 communications protocol company, announced that it has raised $12.5 million in an ecosystem round, “with participation from Shopify, Coinbase Ventures, ConsenSys, Circle Ventures, Polygon, Uniswap Labs Ventures, Union Square Ventures, 1kx, HashKey, Foresight Ventures, and others.” The ecosystem round “lays the groundwork… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 3:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Polkadot’s native token DOT is no longer a security, according to the Web3 foundation. Polkadot said it has been working with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s FinHub on the process. The Web3 Foundation said that DOT has “morphed” from a security to software, perhaps accomplishing… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 3:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

ADDX, a Singapore-based digital securities exchange, has “tokenized” a portfolio of wine from top vineyards in Burgundy, France, providing a keen example as to how distributed ledger technology can be utilized to turn different products into digital assets. According to ADDX, the estimated worth of… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 11:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Episode Six, the global payments and banking infrastructure provider, and Immersve, a multichain payments protocol and Scheme card issuer, have announced a partnership “to facilitate Scheme payments directly from Web3 digital wallets.” This partnership “brings together Episode Six’s globally distributed issuer processing expertise and Immersve’s… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 9:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Simetria Trading Solutions and Finhaven Technology, operator of FinhavenTM Private Markets, have announced a new liquidity partnership, according to a company statement. Simetria is an Israel-based Fintech utilizing blockchain technology to boost efficiency for secondary trading. Simetria is the only Fintech in Israel to have… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 8:53 am By Andrew Howell  |  

From sea shells to stones, physical tokens have represented units of value for thousands of years. Recently, blockchain technology has given rise to the digital token economy, where items of value can be represented cryptographically. A growing marketplace has rapidly formed around this new technology… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zero Hash, the global B2B2C crypto-as-a-service infrastructure provider, recently announced its expansion into Brazil. Zero Hash “enables businesses to embed digital assets within their product offering with a light technical lift and little regulatory burden.” Zero Hash’s platform “provides customers the complete building blocks for… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management, which claims to be one of the largest crypto index fund managers, announced one of the “most significant” enhancements to the firm’s capabilities since its founding in 2017: the creation of Bitwise’s actively managed crypto strategies. The expansion into active strategies “marks… Read More

November 3, 2022 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

METACO, the provider of digital asset management technology to complex, global financial institutions, announced that Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank), one of the largest universal banks in the Philippines, has “gone live on METACO’s flagship platform, Harmonize™, to pilot the launch of crypto services… Read More

November 3, 2022 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) Game7 and MetaMask announce HyperPlay, which is described as “an open-source desktop application where interoperability is the default for Web3 games.” HyperPlay claims it is “the world’s first Web3-native game launcher, built to make the user experience free of friction for… Read More

November 3, 2022 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Partior has raised a Series A led by Standard Chartered with the support of existing investors JP Morgan, DBS, and Temasek – the Singapore government’s investment fund. The note from Partior did not include details on the funding round. Partior is a platform that strives… Read More

November 2, 2022 @ 12:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

DBS, a Singapore-based financial institution that operates across Asia, has announced that it has utilized permissioned DeFi liquidity pools on a public blockchain to test FX trading and government securities transactions. According to DBS, the first industry pilot included JP Morgan, and SBI Digital Asset… Read More

November 2, 2022 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Hong Kong has publicly asserted its interest in digital assets or “virtual assets” in a statement issued by the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau. The document states: “As an international financial centre, Hong Kong is open and inclusive towards the global community of innovators… Read More

November 2, 2022 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGI), a global player in the evolution of digital P2P payments, announced the launch of “a new service enabling consumers to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency via the MoneyGram mobile app.” This new and innovative feature “gives MoneyGram customers in nearly… Read More

November 1, 2022 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coreum, a “3rd generation,” layer-1 enterprise-grade blockchain, has announced the first wave of grantee projects “to be built atop the network.” Backed by the Sologenic Development Foundation, the grantee projects, including Zeeve, Telios, D’Cent Wallet, Stably, Common, and Amber, will “add significant value to the… Read More

November 1, 2022 @ 10:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sei, a first sector specific Layer 1 specialized for trading and fastest chain to finality, joins together with Alpha Venture DAO, a Web 3.0 venture builder, “to deliver the most competitive incubation program, ‘Alpha Incubate Batch 2’ to DeFi builders.” They are collaborating to give… Read More

November 1, 2022 @ 6:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CQG, a global provider of high-performance technology solutions for market makers, traders, brokers, commercial hedgers and exchanges, and NUTS Finance, a blockchain development lab, announced today that they have just launched “Optio Research,” a Web3-based innovation lab “focused on developing decentralized cryptocurrency infrastructure and trading… Read More

November 1, 2022 @ 2:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad has entered into an agreement with AntChain Technology Pte. Ltd., part of the Ant Group, “to build Malaysia’s first wealth SuperApp using AntChain’s proprietary mobile platform solution.” This agreement “follows from its recent MoU with AntChain.” Kenanga’s SuperApp aims “to help Malaysians… Read More

November 1, 2022 @ 9:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Animoca Brands, the company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the open metaverse, and its subsidiary TinyTap, the platform for user-generated educational games, announced “the launch of Publisher non-fungible tokens (NFTs).” Each Publisher NFT is “linked to a bundle of educational games and other… Read More