Blockchain & Digital Assets

March 2, 2023 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Founder and CEO Leo Mizuhara and Cumberland Labs are pleased to announce the launch of Hashnote, the first fully regulated, institutional-grade investment management platform for DeFi. Hashnote is “backed with US$5mn of investment from Cumberland Labs, an early-stage blockchain incubator launched by the partners of… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 11:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aventus, a Web3 solutions provider for enterprises, has partnered with Nexos Technologies, a digital payments and banking platform providing open banking and payment solutions, in order “to bring blockchain-enabled solutions to the digital banking and payments sector.” Nexos Technologies has deep domain expertise “in traditional… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

  Sara Hanks has joined the Advisory Board of Upstream – part of Horizon. Upstream is a MERJ Exchange market providing liquidity for digital securities. MERJ supports both global issuers of traditional and digital securities indlucing issuance, trading, clearing, settlement, and registry. Hanks is well… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

As was reported yesterday, Silvergate Capital Corporation (NYSE:SI) has announced it will be unable to meet its deadline in posting its annual report (10-K) for 2022 and will not be able to make the extended deadline of March 16, 2023. Following the announcement, shares tanked by… Read More

March 1, 2023 @ 9:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Former acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks has joined the board of the HBAR Foundation. The HBAR Foundation is the entity that is guiding the adoption of the Hedera blockchain – a distributed ledger is an enterprise-grade public network. While at the Office of… Read More

March 1, 2023 @ 8:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Silvergate Capital Corporation (NYSE:SI), once a high flying, an innovative bank serving the digital asset industry, filed a notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today indicating it was unable to file its annual report or 10K on time. Additionally, the bank stated that… Read More

March 1, 2023 @ 4:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has published an Op-Ed on CNBC lambasting public officials that are standing in the way of digital asset innovation. Coinbase, the only publicly traded crypto exchange in the US, may end up being collateral damage to the ongoing onslaught… Read More

March 1, 2023 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital securities enabler Tokeny has added the Avalanche blockchain to its platform in a move designed to “bring institutions a seamless and secure solution for issuing, managing, and transferring tokenized securities on the Avalanche blockchain.” Avalanche claims to be the fastest, most reliable smart contracts… Read More

March 1, 2023 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payment firms Visa (NYSE: V) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) are reportedly taking a step back from forming new partnerships with cryptocurrency-focused companies. This, after the collapse of major businesses operating in the nascent industry. As first reported by Reuters, the crypto-assets sector experienced somewhat of… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 3:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Nishad Singh, the former co-lead Engineer at failed crypto exchange FTX, has been charged by both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) with fraud. Both agencies revealed the charges following the news that Singh had pleaded guilty to criminal… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 11:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Following the news that Coinbase would list EUROC, Circle’s euro-based stablecoin, Bittrex has announced that it will offer the digital asset on its platform, including a fee-free promotional period to boost utilization. Bittrex noted that it would include the no-fee promotion for customers transacting with… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 10:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Homebase is the next platform to move into the non-fungible token (NFT) real estate investment offerings. Utilizing Solana, Homebase has a mission of enabling investors to generate returns from rental properties starting at $100. Investors receive returns via dollar-based stablecoin USDC. According to Homebase, each… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 8:45 am By JD Alois  |  

In a speech on regulations and international competition, Victoria Saporta, Executive Director of Prudential Policy, commented on PRA’s new secondary objective – enabling international competitiveness and growth. PRA, or the Prudential Regulation Authority, is part of the Bank of England and oversees 1500 banks and… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Floki is now officially partnered with one of the biggest lending protocols on the BNB chain, Venus Protocol. Venus claims it is “the leading lending and borrowing protocol on the BNB chain as well as the second biggest DeFi protocol on the chain after top… Read More

February 27, 2023 @ 10:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this past December, according to the firm’s 10-K that was filed today. According to the document, the SEC’s request arrived following the collapse of FTX: “And in December 2022, shortly after FTX filed for… Read More

February 27, 2023 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pundi X is pleased to announces its latest partnership with Binance Pay. This partnership will bring Binance Pay, Binance’s payment service, to Pundi X’s XPOS devices, “enabling thousands of merchants across 30 countries to accept payments in cryptocurrencies more easily.” Binance Pay, “backed by Binance,… Read More

February 27, 2023 @ 4:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Conflux Network, a permissionless Layer 1 blockchain connecting decentralized economies across borders and protocols, has teamed up with Alchemy Pay for easy fiat on-ramp to its ecosystem. The on-ramp payment solution “enables users to purchase crypto via local fiat currencies, which will take Conflux’s ecosystem… Read More

February 27, 2023 @ 12:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has announced via Twitter that it will cease trading in Binance USD (BUSD) on March 13, 2023. We regularly monitor the assets on our exchange to ensure they meet our listing standards. Based on our most recent reviews, Coinbase will suspend trading for Binance… Read More

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

Chain Reaction, a semiconductor company focused on disruptive blockchain and privacy hardware, announced that it raised $70 million in its Series C funding round “led by Morgan Creek Digital and participation from Hanaco Ventures, Jerusalem Venture Partners, KCK Capital, Exor, Atreides Management, and BlueRun Ventures.”… Read More

February 27, 2023 @ 11:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Bitpanda is pleased to announce the launch of the Pantos public beta. This is a major milestone for “developing technology-agnostic digital assets, and they’re proud to be part of it.” Pantos, the “first” Multichain Token System, has been designed “to make digital… Read More