Blockchain & Digital Assets

November 29, 2022 @ 10:59 am By JD Alois  |  

FTSE Russell has announced the launch of FTSE Global Digital Asset Index Series in partnership with Digital Asset Research (DAR). The series includes “investible” digital assets that cover eight indices from large to micro-cap and is the second FTSE Russell index series based on FTSE… Read More

November 29, 2022 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Bitfront, a US-based crypto exchange and yield provider, has decided to shut down. Bitfront is just the latest casualty during a time of crypto contagion following the collapse of multiple large digital asset platforms. Bitfront, previously known as BITBOX – located in Singapore, is a subsidiary… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With Banking Circle’s web3 payments solution, payments businesses and banks can process asset-backed stablecoin settlements “in the same way as fiat currencies, providing their customers with faster settlement and lower fees outside of traditional bank rails.” Banking Circle‘s USDC stablecoins solution can be “utilized for… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 7:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Magic Eden, the cross-chain NFT marketplace, announced plans to integrate with the Polygon network. The expansion will allow Magic Eden “to work closely with strategic IP owners, world-class games developers, and emerging creators from the Polygon ecosystem.” The Polygon network is “home to some of… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Calypso Pay, a “high-volume” crypto processing & acquiring platform of Calypso Group, announces it added support for Bitcoin Lightning Network “enabling almost free and near-instant BTC transfers.” Along with Lightning, Calypso Pay utilizes automated transaction formation and mempool analysis “to credit the funds before they… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 3:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crypto markets are far off from their all-time highs, and today another crypto firm announced a bankruptcy filing due to FTX collateral damage. 2022 is not so much a crypto-winter but perhaps a crypto-ice age. The failure of FTX has harmed the entire crypto sector,… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 12:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Kraken says you can keep calm and HODL on, because recurring buys are now available on the Kraken app. This new feature lets you “schedule your crypto purchases quickly and easily, which saves you time and can help ease the stress of… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 11:24 am By JD Alois  |  

BlockFi has filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 in the US courts. The news has been widely rumored in the last few weeks as BlockFi’s destiny had been tied to the future of FTX, a crypto firm that filed for bankruptcy earlier this month. In… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 9:45 am By JD Alois  |  

BVNK has reportedly gained a UK Electronic Money Institution (EMI) Licence via the acquisition of System Pay Services Limited (SPS Ltd). SPS has held an EMI license authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) since 2020. The deal was approved by the FCA. BVNK is… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 8:37 am By Alex Zeltcer  |  

There’s no doubt in the minds of financial organizations and anti-laundering regulators that Know Your Customer (KYC) verified accounts prevent fraudulent activity– and that’s exactly the problem. In the early 1990s, governments around the globe had a growing concern about preventing the increasingly connected banking… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 8:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Ettle, a blockchain startup, has announced a pilot transaction for an Australian dollar-based stablecoin AUDE. According to a company statement, Ettle partnered with Meadow Labs in the experiment to make a payment using the AUDE to one of its contractors. Ettle says it is utilizing… Read More

November 27, 2022 @ 11:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CertiK has unveiled “an underground ring of KYC actors for hire, used by rogue developers to scam Web3 communities.” Basic KYC verifications “are regularly effective at annoying honest retail users, but unfortunately less so at stopping determined criminals from defrauding victims and laundering their stolen… Read More

November 27, 2022 @ 10:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has “highlighted the risk of crypto investment with a number of investors having to write off their losses” including Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings (Private) Ltd. The company recently announced that “it would write off $275 million invested… Read More

November 27, 2022 @ 10:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

The US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry will hold a hearing titled “Why Congress Needs to Act: Lessons Learned from the FTX Collapse.”  The Committee has oversight of FTX due to the fact that certain crypto assets are regulated by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission… Read More

November 27, 2022 @ 8:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The full-stack Web3 infrastructure provider, Particle Network, has “gone live with the Alchemy Pay Onramp Solution for its wallet.” The integration “means users can pay with their preferred fiat payment methods directly to seamlessly buy crypto and fund their Particle wallet.” Alchemy Pay’s payment gateway… Read More

November 27, 2022 @ 8:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With all eyes on centralized exchanges after the collapse of Celsius, Voyager, and now FTX, –  ZenGo and Banxa have partnered “to enable the most simple and trusted crypto onramp directly into the industry’s most secure crypto wallet with no private key vulnerability.” This partnership… Read More

November 27, 2022 @ 7:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance‘s management has answered a few follow-up questions from the community about “how funds and wallets are managed at Binance.” Binance explains that it “holds all of its clients’ crypto-assets in segregated accounts which are identified separately from any accounts used to hold crypto-assets belonging… Read More

November 27, 2022 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CV VC recently published an inaugural German Blockchain Report following its newest and fourth ecosystem hub opening, CV Labs Berlin. The report provides “a structural overview of Europe‘s top-ranked blockchain country, and its publication highlights CV VC’s commitment to building sustainable and connected global ecosystems… Read More

November 26, 2022 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset firm Gemini are pleased to announce “the launch of the Gemini Trust Center, a dashboard of metrics for the funds [they] hold on the Gemini platform and on your behalf, as well as other important data and information.” As noted… Read More

November 25, 2022 @ 7:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

While there has long been much discussion about the benefits of crypto and blockchain, too frequently, these comments ignore regulation and a need for a compliant environment that instills confidence from all sides of the equation. This has undermined the public perception of blockchain technology… Read More