Blockchain & Digital Assets

July 18, 2022 @ 12:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Huobi Global has announced a partnership with Fintech Capitual to provide “account individualization” in Brazil. Huobi is a prominent crypto exchange operating in 160 different countries reporting tens of millions of users. Capitual is a Brazilian payments gateway and “hybrid digital bank” that takes a… Read More

July 17, 2022 @ 10:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MetaMask, which is ConsenSys’ mobile app and browser extension wallet, recently celebrated its 6th anniversary. MetaMask has “achieved 6 digit growth in Monthly Active Users (MAUs) since its inception.” The fast growth of the last two years can be “attributed to the frenzy of interest… Read More

July 17, 2022 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares (Nasdaq First North Growth Market: CS; US OTCQX: CNSRF), which claims to be Europe’s largest digital asset investment firm with $1.5 billion in AUM, has announced the listing of their physically-backed staked Algorand ETP on Germany’s primary market Xetra. CoinShares Physical Staked Algorand (Ticker:… Read More

July 17, 2022 @ 10:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Russia has enacted legislation that will effectively ban crypto payments according to multiple reports. The legislation was signed into law on July 14th and reportedly takes effect within ten days. At the beginning of 2022, the Bank of Russia issued statements relaying concerns regarding crypto:… Read More

July 17, 2022 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CleverTap, which claims to be the modern, “integrated” retention cloud, announced it has partnered with Unocoin, India’s first crypto exchange, in order “to optimize, accelerate their user engagement, and provide a seamless omnichannel customer experience.” Through this collaboration, and by integrating CleverTap’s solution into its… Read More

July 17, 2022 @ 4:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mandala, which claims to be a “unique” Metaverse experience that promotes the intersection of technology, spirituality, sustainability and entertainment, is teaming up with Immutable X’s Layer 2 scaling solution on Ethereum “to build a multi-platform interoperable metaverse, leveraging NFTs to combine gripping storytelling with immersive… Read More

July 17, 2022 @ 1:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Super Mojo, Inc.  recently announced the launch of its financing platform designed to make digital assets more accessible “for the next wave of users.” The platform facilitates point-of-sale financing “to improve the NFT purchase experience and collateralized lending for improved post-sale liquidity.” Supermojo’s initial focus… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rome Blockchain Labs, the organization behind BENQI’s Liquid Staking protocol on Avalanche, recently announced a collaboration with Alluvial and the founders of BENQI “to build a compliant, enterprise-grade Avalanche (AVAX) liquid staking product.” This collaboration “offers institutions a secure AVAX staking option while participating in… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 4:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rarible.com, which claims to be the leading multi-chain non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, announced its integration with the Metaplex Protocol, a protocol built on Solana for NFTs, “to enable support for the Proof-of-History (PoH) and popular NFT-favorite blockchain, Solana.” The integration “enables Rarible.com users to explore… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 3:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

The New York Yankees has formed a partnership with NYDIG on a Bitcoin payroll option. NYDIG, a subsidiary of Stone Ridge, is a digital asset platform that offers Bitcoin products and services to banks, Fintechs and more. The multi-year partnership with the Yankees make NYDIG… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LINE NEXT Inc., LINE’s venture dedicated to developing and expanding the global NFT ecosystem, announced that it has signed a strategic investment agreement “worth about $10 million with 10 companies.” As noted in an update shared with CI, SoftBank Corp., NAVER, NAVER WEBTOON, NAVER Z,… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Genesis Vault Capital, a digital asset fund, is pleased to launch Genesis Venture Studio (GVS). The mission of GVS is “to help founders validate, launch, and scale Web3 companies structured as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).” DAOs are “a new type of entity that is collectively… Read More

July 15, 2022 @ 4:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

Following its bankruptcy filing, digital asset trading platform Voyager Digital (OTCPink: VYGVQ), has delisted its shares from the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). Voyager last traded at CDN $0.335 a share down from over $26/share in the past year. Voyager went bankrupt following a large loan… Read More

July 15, 2022 @ 4:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained final judgment on an initial coin offering (ICO) that involved John McAfee, the peripatetic software entrepreneur and blockchain advocate. McAfee died in a jail cell in Barcelona after being apprehended on tax evasion accusations. The claims against… Read More

July 15, 2022 @ 2:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Roxe, a blockchain infrastructure company that is powering the next generation of payments and digital commerce solutions, announced the launch of its Roxe Payment Protocol (RPP) USD/EUR, USD/GBP and USD/PHP (Philippine peso) liquidity pools, which is reportedly one of the first set of DeFi liquidity… Read More

July 15, 2022 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

OpenSea has cut its employee headcount by 20%, according to a tweet by founder and CEO Devin Finzer. Approximately 50 employees are being let go. In the tweet, Finzer blamed the action on the ongoing “crypto-winter.” OpenSea is one of the largest NFT, or non-fungible token,… Read More

July 15, 2022 @ 10:15 am By JD Alois  |  

  Mixer usage, platforms that enable crypto holders to scrub their digital assets in an attempt to cover their tracks, is at an all-time high, according to a report posted by Chainalysis. As most blockchain transactions are publicly available, sophisticated observers can trace every transaction…. Read More

July 15, 2022 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

An increasing number of people – 16% of US adults – are using cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, “through digital asset exchanges for investments, value exchange, asset tokenization, and more,” according to an update from Fintech Plaid. With crypto becoming mainstream, Plaid has “seen… Read More

July 14, 2022 @ 10:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fasset Technologies Limited has partnered with Mastercard to expand financial services in Indonesia and create opportunities for underserved consumers The announcement follows Fasset’s $22 million Series A from this past April. According to a statement from Fasset, the companies will join in digitizing banking services… Read More

July 14, 2022 @ 9:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a speech delivered early today by the Financial Conduct Authority Chief Executive Nikhil Ratha, the top UK regulator addressed the future of regulation. Of course, the digitization of financial services, including crypto assets was in the mix. Ratha noted that the FCA has invested… Read More