Blockchain & Digital Assets

October 10, 2022 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

THORChain, a non-custodial decentralized liquidity protocol that enables decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and users to seamlessly transfer their digital assets across blockchains, has integrated support for Avalanche, which claims to be the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, “as measured by time-to-finality.” Avalanche considers… Read More

October 10, 2022 @ 5:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Horizon is pleased to announce that they’ve raised $40 million via their Series A financing round “to make web3 easy, fun, and powerful for users and builders.” Horizaon will use the capital to scale their products, grow their ecosystem, and hire more … Read More

October 10, 2022 @ 4:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, announced that it has joined the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), a nonprofit corporation focused on “identifying, validating, mitigating, and neutralizing cyber-crime threats.” Chainalysis’ data platform “equips the alliance with the same investigative tools that have been used to… Read More

October 10, 2022 @ 11:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Huobi Global, the operator of one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, has selected Justin (Yuchen) Sun to join the Huobi Global Advisory Board. Sun is the creator of TRON, a blockchain-based operating system that claims more than 110 million monthly active users. The Advisory… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 11:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Solidi, said to be the first crypto exchange in the UK to be registered with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has partnered with AlgoDynamix. AlgoDynamix, founded at Cambridge University, is an analytic firm that was originally launched to provide fund managers, investment banks and… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 11:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Quadrans Foundation, as part of the TRICK Consortium, will “provide the blockchain technology infrastructure for the new platform’s design and will use Truebit to achieve TRICK’s development goals.” TRICK Project (product data traceability information management by blockchains interoperability and open circular service marketplace) was… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 10:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, the “longest-standing” DeFi lending protocol and creator of DAI, the “original,” decentralized stablecoin, announced “the strategic investment of $500M USD (converted from $500M DAI) into a combination of US Short Treasuries and Investment Grade Corporate Bonds.” The move, which will be initiated by DeFi… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Orca, a Solana-based liquidity platform, has announced the launch of the Orca Climate Fund. The fund is “reflective of its mission to combat climate change and promote sustainable practices in crypto.” The Orca Climate Fund “evolved from Orca’s Impact Fund which was born in August… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 3:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

This past week, Singapore MP Yip Hon Weng queried public officials about the risk of money laundering and fraud in the cryptocurrency markets. Singapore has emerged as a top hub for digital asset innovation with some firms moving to the country due to its Fintech-friendly… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 1:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Geode Finance, a liquid staking infrastructure provider for DAOs, has successfully deployed on Avalanche Mainnet, partnering with Yield Yak “to launch their own liquid staking solution and token, yyAVAX.” With Geode’s infrastructure, DAOs can “unlock new revenue streams and capture the full value of PoS… Read More

October 8, 2022 @ 8:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wall Street and Silicon Valley are coming together “to build digital asset management solutions focused on connecting institutional investors to the crypto ecosystem.” Earlier this year, former HSBC trader Ashutosh Goel and former Meta Asia executive Supreet Kaur paired up to build xalts, an investment… Read More

October 8, 2022 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

West Realm Shires Services Inc. and FTX Trading Limited, the companies behind FTX US and FTX.COM respectively (collectively referred to as “FTX”), and Visa, which claims to be a world leader in digital payments, announced “a long-term global partnership.” As a part of the alliance,… Read More

October 8, 2022 @ 10:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Via, a global payroll platform that helps hire and pay workers anywhere in the world in compliance with all local legal regulations, announced that it has opted for Bitso, the cryptocurrency platform in Latin America, to streamline international payments for workers using the power of… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ZenLedger, which claims to be the global leader in cryptocurrency tax software and blockchain analytics, announced the company is accepting cryptocurrency as payment for goods and services using BitPay, which is one of the largest providers of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment services. The ability to… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 6:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paystand, which claims to be the global leader in blockchain-enabled B2B payments, announced a series of upgrades to its Sage Intacct integration. Paystand first “unveiled its partnership with Sage in May 2021, expanding the reach of its Payments-as-a-Service model to Sage Intacct customers everywhere.” Now,… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 6:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the derivatives marketplace, announced the appointment of two new global heads for its Equity Index and Cryptocurrency businesses “to continue driving product innovation and supporting long-term growth.” Paul Woolman, Global Head of Equity Index Products, will oversee the company’s Equity Index product portfolio,… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aleph.im, the Web3 cloud platform for computing services, file storage and indexing solutions, announced the launch of their open source and “decentralized” indexing solution for the Solana ecosystem, in order “to accelerate the development of decentralized applications through accessible data queries and integrations.” As the… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 12:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Security token platform Tokeny has announced a partnership with Assetera, a regulated digital asset exchange. Tokeny is the leading digital securities platform in Europe that provides the ecosystem for issuers to leverage blockchain technology. Assetera is licensed and supervised by the Austrian FMA to provide… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 12:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sanctions continue to tighten on Russia as the war drags on with the Ukrainians rapidly regaining their territory. Russia recently held sham elections in several provinces in an attempt to show that inhabitants want to be a part of Russia. While President Putin said he… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 9:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Late yesterday, BNB Chain – part of Binance, announced that they were temporarily halting BSC or BNB Smart Chain, following “irregular activity” which was later described as a “potential exploit.” The price of BNB dropped on the news. The thread was updated to indicate that… Read More