Blockchain & Digital Assets

August 18, 2022 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

dWallet Labs has raised a $5 million seed round led by Digital Currency Group and Node Capital, according to a company statement. Other investors include; Amplify Partners, Lightshift Capital, Liquid2 Ventures, Collider Ventures, Lemnsicap, Heroic Ventures, Impatient Ventures, Zero Knowledge, Dispersion Capital, Token Bay Capital,… Read More

August 18, 2022 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Wirex, a payments and crypto service, has added SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) Instant and Faster Payments for UK and EEA customers to transfer British Pounds and Euros between their Wirex and bank accounts. Wirex has partnered with digital payment infrastructure provider, Modulr, to introduce… Read More

August 18, 2022 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com, which claims to be the “fastest-growing” cryptocurrency platform, announced that it has received regulatory approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the United Kingdom (UK) as “a crypto-asset business.” This registration will “enable Crypto.com to offer a suite of products and services to… Read More

August 17, 2022 @ 10:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nebeus, the European cryptocurrency app, has announced a partnership with Modulr, the embedded payments platform, “to augment its offering with accounts, real-time payments and Visa cards.” This move makes Nebeus one of the first European companies “to leverage Modulr’s one-stop card issuing solution across the… Read More

August 17, 2022 @ 10:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital wealth management platform and broker Scalable Capital has reportedly doubled customer assets during the last 12 months to hit a high water mark of €10 billion in assets under management. The firm, which moved into cryptocurrency trading in December 2021, now claims over 600,000… Read More

August 17, 2022 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Genesis, a digital asset prime brokerage providing services for qualified individuals and global institutional investors, has announced a number of executive changes to “position the company for its next phase of growth.” Genesis is controlled by the Digital Currency Group. Effective immediately, Michael Moro, Genesis… Read More

August 17, 2022 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance is pleased to announce that the firm has “received in-principle approval from the Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA) to operate a digital asset trading facility and provide custody in the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC).” In-principle approval from AFSA still “requires Binance to complete… Read More

August 16, 2022 @ 6:21 pm By Paolo Ardoino  |  

Inflation continues to rise globally, especially across Latin America where hyperinflation afflicts many countries. Could Bitcoin and the emerging digital token economy be the answer? Across Latin America, a story of inflation and ineffective central bank policy is the order of the day. In Mexico,… Read More

August 16, 2022 @ 5:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Dragonchain, Dragonchain Foundation, the Dragon Company and founder John Joseph Roets with raising $16.5 million in an “unregistered crypto asset securities offering.” In the complaint, the SEC alleges that Roets, Dragonchain, and the Foundation conducted an unregistered… Read More

August 16, 2022 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Swell Network, a permissionless, non-custodial, and liquid ETH staking protocol, has integrated Chainlink Price Feeds on Ethereum. Swell Network is also “integrating Chainlink Proof of Reserve to help ensure that its liquid staking receipt token (LSRT) – Swell ETH (swETH) – is always fully backed… Read More

August 16, 2022 @ 4:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

XTAGE, a digital asset trading platform created by Brazilian brokerage XP (Nasdaq: XP), has launched trading of Bitcoin and Ethereum, according to multiple reports. The creation of XTAGE was announced this past May as a collaboration with Nasdaq. At that time, Lucas Rabechini, Director of… Read More

August 16, 2022 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Satellite IM, a fully decentralized peer-to-peer communications platform, has successfully closed $10.5 million in its seed funding round “led by Multicoin Venture Fund and Framework Ventures.” The investment round also “saw participation from prominent institutional venture investors including Hashed Venture Fund, IDEO CoLab, Solana Ventures,… Read More

August 16, 2022 @ 1:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pastel Network, a purpose-built blockchain and protocol standard for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and Web3 technology, is teaming up with Parity Technologies. The integration will “enable both native parachains and decentralized applications across the Polkadot ecosystem to leverage Pastel’s powerful technology, providing added security for projects… Read More

August 16, 2022 @ 1:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Syfe, which claims to be a leading digital investment platform headquartered in Singapore officially launched in Australia. This is Syfe’s third market “after its launch in Hong Kong last quarter.” In July, Syfe celebrated its third anniversary and “revealed that it had reached a significant… Read More

August 16, 2022 @ 12:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Datawisp, a no-code data exploration platform focused on web3 and gaming, has raised $3.6 million in funding. The seed investment round was “led by CoinFund, with participation from Spartan Capital, Mirana Ventures, Dweb3 Capital, and existing investors Play Ventures.” For most businesses, the ability to… Read More

August 15, 2022 @ 11:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Solana Foundation recently published the Validator Health Report (on August 10, 2022). Solana is a public, open-source blockchain that “anyone in the world can build on.” Their mandate at the Solana Foundation is “to support the decentralization, security, resilience, and adoption of the Solana… Read More

August 15, 2022 @ 5:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Galaxy Digital  (TSX: GLXY) has terminated its acquisition of Bitgo, an institutional digital asset trading and custody provider. Galaxy currently has a market cap of around CDN $2.9 billion. The proposed merger, put in place in 2021, valued Bitgo at around  $1.2 billion. In a… Read More

August 15, 2022 @ 2:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lake Parime, a UK-based supplier of cryptocurrency mining equipment, says it will open its first US headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida – a state that has seen migration and businesses boom as people flee high tax and less business-friendly states. Lake Parime said that it plans… Read More

August 15, 2022 @ 10:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Gregory Klumov, CEO of STASIS – an issuer of a Euro stablecoin, has issued a statement criticizing Circle’s decision to freeze USDC that is parked in Tornado.Cash addresses. Circle, the issuer of the second largest stablecoin in the market, took the action following the US … Read More

August 15, 2022 @ 8:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Acala’s stablecoin aUSD, the “decentralized stablecoin of Polkadot” has lost its stablecoin status as it has depegged from the US dollar – now trading at around $0.85 but having dropped to almost $0.50. In a series of Tweets, Acala claimed the fall in value was… Read More