Blockchain & Digital Assets

July 5, 2022 @ 2:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinshares has published its weekly report which shares that there was a record amount of inflows into the new Bitcoin short product. ProShares Short Bitcoin Strategy (NYSEArca:BITI) was launched at the end of last month and is designed to provide investors a path to profit… Read More

July 5, 2022 @ 2:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PolySign, Inc., a financial tech company providing blockchain-enabled digital asset infrastructure for institutional investors, recently announced the close of its $53 million Series C round with participation by Cowen Digital, Brevan Howard, GSR and others. Beyond the funding, PolySign also “secured a $25 million credit… Read More

July 5, 2022 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Novi, the Facebook – Meta (NASDAQ:META)  project to launch a digital wallet, is shutting down. According to the Novi website, the Novi App and Novi on WhatsApp (another Meta firm) will cease operations on September 1, 2022, blocking all access to any existing accounts. Novi, along… Read More

July 5, 2022 @ 9:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week, it was revealed that the decision-makers for the European Union had come to terms on crypto-asset regulation under the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) legislation. The European Commission announced the MiCA proposal on 24 September 2020 as part of a larger digital finance… Read More

July 5, 2022 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The recent insolvency of hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) has not only led to a “cascade” of liquidity crises in the crypto industry, but also “shone a light on the significant risk posed by uncollateralized crypto loans,” according to a report by Huobi Research… Read More

July 4, 2022 @ 10:57 am By JD Alois  |  

A member of the Singapore Parliament has inquired as to whether, or not, the government intends on further restrictions on crypto trading. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Minister in charge of MAS (the Monetary Authority of Singapore) has issued a response. Shanmugaratnam states that this… Read More

July 4, 2022 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Uphold, a crypto trading platform that is registered with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is calling a bottom in the crypto markets. Since the beginning of 2022, digital assets have tumbled in value. At one point in 2021, crypto hovered around $3 trillion in… Read More

July 4, 2022 @ 10:07 am By JD Alois  |  

FATF (Financial Action Task Force) has issued an update on virtual assets (VAs) and virtual asset service providers (VASPs) and approved standards and implementation. FATF is a global entity but does not have rule-making authority as regulations must be set by members. FATF has pursued… Read More

July 4, 2022 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Just three weeks after (the once leading) cryptocurrency lender Celsius revealed that it was halting withdrawals, platform users are now demanding some answers, according to a report from the WSJ. When crypto-asset lending platform Celsius had suspended customer accounts following a sharp decline in valuations,… Read More

July 4, 2022 @ 1:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Flowdesk announced that it has secured $30 million in funding from investors such as Eurazeo, Aglaé Ventures, ISAI, Speedinvest, Fabric.vc, Ledger, and Coinbase, and 20 “well-known” business angels, including Alexandre Prot (Qonto), Nicolas Julia (Sorare), Pascal Gauthier (Ledger) and Sébastien Borget (The Sandbox). Established in… Read More

July 3, 2022 @ 10:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Analysis of online jobs data has found that digital currency exchange Kraken is “leading” the crypto recruitment charge. The company is looking “to fill over 650 new positions in the past week in the UK and United States.” Further analysis shows that Jack Dorsey’s… Read More

July 3, 2022 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Following the news that non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea had suffered a data breach, Kaleb Ells, Analyst on the Thematic Team at GlobalData, a data and analytics company, noted: “This mass data breach highlights that OpenSea is not yet providing the security fundamentals that are… Read More

July 3, 2022 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

echo3D, a Cloud platform that streamlines the way 3D, AR, and VR content is stored and streamed, has secured an investment of $5.5 million led by Qualcomm Ventures, with participation from Remagine Ventures, Konvoy Ventures, and Space Capital LP. The announcement comes on the heels… Read More

July 3, 2022 @ 8:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase Tracer, the analytics division of the digital asset firm Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), has reportedly committed to a contract with US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement that will allow the agency to gain access to various features and data caches. This would include historical geo tracking data… Read More

July 3, 2022 @ 10:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ShareRing’s purpose is to remove “friction” throughout the world, and digital identities is a vehicle that can “help accomplish this.” Tim Bos, CEO at ShareRing, stated: “Over the years, there’s been a trend for large companies to host more and more data about you in… Read More

July 2, 2022 @ 7:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ruja Ignatova, founder of OneCoin and sometimes referenced as the Cryptoqueen, is in the news again – this time for joining a very exclusive club – the FBI’s Most Wanted List. Ignatova is accused of having defrauded investors out of $4 billion via her company… Read More

July 2, 2022 @ 1:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Qenta, Inc., a financial services and infrastructure platform with innovative tech and a proprietary “enterprise-grade” blockchain, the Qenta Operating System, has unveiled an enhanced and integrated suite of financial solutions. With a focus on Latin America, Asia Pacific, and Europe, Qenta provides tokenized assets, multi… Read More

July 2, 2022 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Structure.fi, a global financial platform that recently raised $20 million to offer its mainstream audience a mobile-first personal finance tool capable of transacting seamlessly across all asset classes, announced that the government of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC)… Read More

July 2, 2022 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BEQUANT, the digital asset prime brokerage and exchange, is pleased to announce DeFi access for institutional clients, “realized through its recent integration with Fireblocks.” Clients will be able “to cross-margin between centralized and decentralized exchanges, making arbitrage trading more efficient.” DeFi marketplaces will be “fully… Read More

July 2, 2022 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fetch.ai, a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence lab building an open-access “decentralized” machine learning network for smart infrastructure, has released DabbaFlow, the “first of its kind” end-to-end encrypted file-sharing platform. Advanced data-sharing and privacy-preserving technologies are “ushering in a new era of data monetization,” the developers claim…. Read More