Blockchain & Digital Assets

May 30, 2022 @ 10:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Cboe Australia has announced the first Ethereum Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). Cboe Australia is a regulated stock exchange According to a statement by Cboe, the Cosmos Purpose Ethereum Access ETF (CPET) will soon be available to Australian investors. Cosmos is an Australian based asset management… Read More

May 30, 2022 @ 4:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Current fixed-rate products available in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) industry are a critical component in the financial derivatives market; but drawbacks, “such as low interest rates, intense competition and lower overall attractiveness to investors remain,” according to an update from Huobi. A revamp that consists… Read More

May 30, 2022 @ 12:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Estonia-based lomob Technologies OU, a blockchain-based firm that is developing a “mobility marketplace network and token” has received an investment from Cypher Capital. Cypher Capital is a VC firm based in the UAE, and active in the global crypto, blockchain, and digital asset space. The… Read More

May 30, 2022 @ 12:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Speaking recently at the DC Blockchain Summit, acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu took the crypto industry to task in light of the spectacular collapse of TerraUSD (UST) – an aspiring algorithmic stablecoin that failed in its mission. Hsu lambasted the sector of Fintech… Read More

May 30, 2022 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FanHub, a play-2-earn game bringing an “extremely engaged” community to Web3, has secured 86% (£215,845) of its £250,008 target from 140 investors (at the time of writing) via Seedrs with 24 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign. Located in London, FanHub operates in the… Read More

May 29, 2022 @ 8:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Latin America and the Caribbean has emerged as a red hot region for Fintech development. A portion of the world long dominated by incumbent banks and other established service providers, Fintech has emerged as a fast track path to provide traditional and highly sophisticated services… Read More

May 29, 2022 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Presearch, the private, “decentralized” search engine with 3.8 million registered users and 150 million monthly searches, has announced its Mainnet launch, “shifting all search traffic to run on its decentralized network of community-run nodes.” Rather than using centralized computing infrastructure that is fully controlled by… Read More

May 29, 2022 @ 4:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockware Solutions (BWS), which claims to be an industry “leader” in blockchain infrastructure and Bitcoin mining, is pleased to form a partnership with SEVA. Blockware Solutions has initiated a large-scale 150-megawatt development “to expand its Bitcoin mining operations in SunPark, an extension of Rock Creek… Read More

May 29, 2022 @ 4:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Waves, an issuer of another algorithmic stablecoin Neutrino USD (USDN) has distributed a plan to reanimate its troubled stablecoin. USDN lost its “peg” back in April tanking to around $0.66 and while it has bounced back a bit – now around $0.97 – USDN has… Read More

May 29, 2022 @ 3:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Organismo degli Agenti e Mediatori finanziari (OAM) only began accepting registrations for digital currency and digital wallet providers beginning on May 18th but in the ensuing days, 14 firms have registered including Binance, Bitpanda and more. The OAM is the exclusive authority in Italy… Read More

May 28, 2022 @ 7:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LevelField Financial, the U.S. financial services firm uniting digital assets and traditional banking services in one “trusted” platform, has selected METACO, the provider of digital asset custody orchestration technology “to complex, global financial institutions.” LevelField is deploying its institutional digital asset management operations on IBM… Read More

May 28, 2022 @ 7:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Anubi Digital, is the first or one of the first Italian digital asset custodians to gain approval and be registered with the Italian OAM (Organismo degli Agenti e Mediatori Finanziari (Organization of Financial Agents and Brokers)). The new rules only recently came to be and… Read More

May 28, 2022 @ 6:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Operations Limited, the company operating the blockchain-enabled platform tether.to that “powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalization of over US $73 billion,” has launched Tether tokens (USDt) on Polygon (formerly MATIC), “a leading blockchain development platform.” The addition of Tether to the Polygon ecosystem… Read More

May 28, 2022 @ 1:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Israeli blockchain firm StarkWare, which offers a cryptographic compression service, has managed to quadruple its latest valuation during just the past six months. Starkware confirmed that it finalized a $100 million Series D round that had been led by Greenoaks Capital as well as Coatue,… Read More

May 28, 2022 @ 1:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MetaMask, ConsenSys’ self-custody wallet, has announced a partnership with Asset Reality, an end-to-end solution “for recovering, managing, and accessing seized crypto and complex assets.” Over the last few years, economic activity on web3 has “grown exponentially,” according to an update shared with CI. While this… Read More

May 28, 2022 @ 1:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bit.com, a digital currency exchange with up to 50X leverage on perpetual futures, is pleased to announce that it now supports the depositing and withdrawal of TONCOIN, “the native token of the TON Protocol, on its native blockchain, and will introduce a 200% APY on… Read More

May 27, 2022 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  SWIFT, in collaboration with Capgemini, is conducting new experiments to test how we can interlink domestic CBDCs and “take the next step towards seamless cross-border payments involving digital currencies.” Interest in Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) is “on the rise.” A report from the… Read More

May 27, 2022 @ 4:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce and CFTC Commissioner Caroline Pham have partnered on an Op-Ed published this week in the Hill calling for progress on the regulation of decentralization. Alluding to possible friction between the two agencies as regulators jostle as to which sector of crypto… Read More

May 27, 2022 @ 4:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Nemesis Technologies, a global venture capital fund, has enlisted the assistance of Securitize to tokenize a $500 million venture fund. Nemesis is based in Japan. Securitize is both a primary issuance platform and secondary trading market powering the future of digital securities. While based in… Read More

May 27, 2022 @ 1:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Flybits, an international player focused on Enterprise-grade Experience Design solutions for the financial industry, recently announced the launch of its new Metaverse authoring platform called OpenDome. Built as an algorithmic, template-driven render engine, OpenDome claims to be “the first-ever platform enabling banks to create multi-dimensional… Read More