Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 14, 2022 @ 3:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ownera has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by JP Morgan and LRC Group. Other investors include; Draper Goren Holm, tokentus Investment AG, Accomplice Blockchain, Polymorphic Capital, The Ropart Group and Archax. Ownera is a digital asset platform enabling tokenization of securities as… Read More

September 14, 2022 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

CoinShares (Nasdaq First North Growth Market: CS; US OTCQX: CNSRF) has its plan to deal with the Merge. The Exchange-Traded Products (ETPs) CoinShares Physical Ethereum, is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, Xetra in Germany, as well as the Euronext in France and the Netherlands…. Read More

September 14, 2022 @ 10:48 am By JD Alois  |  

On Monday, the US Department of Justice announced it had received a guilty plea from the “first-ever cryptocurrency insider trading case.” Originally covered this past July, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) simultaneously filed insider trading charges along with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 8:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

This is interesting. At some point today, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), part of the US Department of Treasury, posted an FAQ on Tornado Cash, a crypto mixer that was recently the target of an action by OFAC. Last month, Tornado Cash was… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 7:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Anchorage Digital has announced that it will provide custody services and trading for a Japanese Yen-based stablecoin GYEN. The service is being offered in partnership with GMO-Z.com Trust Company. GYEN is said to be the world’s first yen-backed stablecoin. GYEN is also said to be… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 6:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Serhii Zhdanov, CEO at EXMO, a compliant cryptocurrency exchange, registered in the Republic of Lithuania as a “provider of activities of a virtual currency exchange operator and a deposit virtual currency operator” that promotes itself as making investing in crypto easy… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 2:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital is pleased to announce the expansion of their institutional crypto custody platform to include AXL, the digital token that will “play a central role on the Axelar blockchain, which is expected to be live at the end of September 2022.” Axelar is a… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 12:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

As the completion of the Merge nears, where Ethereum moves from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS), Ethereum is poised for a significant, transformational upgrade that may migrate the blockchain from a pretty cool experiment to ongoing relevance in the land of… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Web3’s commerce layer Boson Protocol is partnering with Alterrage, a DAO-led fashion label leveraging blockchain technology, “to create interoperable collections across physical, augmented, and digital spaces.” The partnership will see Alterrage “open a phygital Web3 store where buyers will be able to purchase the unique… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, a digital securities platform enabling both primary issuance as well as secondary trading, has announced a new tokenized asset that provides investors with exposure to a fund created by KKR. KKR is a fabled buy-out firm and asset management company. KKR sponsors various funds… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Slice, an “innovative” startup in the AdTech space and ZEBEDEE, a Fintech and next-generation payment processor for the gaming industry, announced the launch of an integration that “lets anyone earn Bitcoin simply by browsing the web, with the help of Slice’s browser extension.” While passive… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 8:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, several US Senators, all Democrats, issued a statement regarding concerns of crypto scams proliferating on Meta (Facebook) (NASDAQ:META). A letter signed by these Senators was sent to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Signed by, Senators Bob Mendez, Sherrod Brown, Elizabeth Warren, Diane Feinstein, Bernie Sanders… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fetch-ai Network has reportedly on-boarded 40,000 unique users and claims that it’s rapidly scaling its network usage. Fetch-ai Network’s announcement “comes on the heels of its $150 Million Development fund with MEXC Global and ByBit.” Fetch-ai Network’s unique technology called Autonomous Economic Agents (AEA) which… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 1:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hubble Protocol, the home of the USDH stablecoin, recently announced the completion of a $5 million round led by Multicoin Capital, “bringing the project’s total financing to date to $15 million.” Multicoin Capital reportedly “joins previous investors DeFiance Capital, Delphi Digital, Digital Currency Group, Crypto.com… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PennyWorks, a DeFi-based platform that “tames the turbulence” of investing with a secure and stable experience, announced “major” milestones in its first few months of operations, including “a 205% month-over-month increase in user acquisition following the company’s $2 million pre-seed funding round led by Hi2… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Euler Finance — a non-custodial lending and borrowing protocol — is pleased to announce that it has integrated Chainlink Price Feeds on Ethereum mainnet. Operating as a risk-averse protocol, Euler claims it places “a strong emphasis on the protection of users’ funds.” Through its “unique”… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ErisX, a Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE) company, announced it has introduced the ErisX Settlement Service, a solution designed “to help remove settlement risk for over-the-counter (OTC) crypto transactions.” The offering expands ErisX’s suite of tools for institutional investors, “enabling them to settle OTC trades… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 6:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Unlike most other EVM chains, Evmos claims it has launched entirely as a community initiative without VC funding; 50% of the initial supply of tokens was distributed amongst the Cosmos and Ethereum communities. The governance set of the EVMOS token holders is “extremely active” participants,… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 5:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Genesis has executed its first-ever block trade of CME’s newly listed large ETH options contract with Cumberland DRW, according to a statement by the company. According to Genesis, via an affiliate, a trade of CME’s large ETH options contract affirms Genesis’ support of CME’s latest… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Securrency, a blockchain-based financial markets infrastructure and products company, announced that it will deploy its proprietary Digital Asset Composer on the XDC Network, a blockchain “with a mature ecosystem and a particular focus on real-world applications in global trade and finance.” Digital Asset Composer is… Read More