Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 11, 2022 @ 11:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mysten Labs, a web3 infrastructure company and developer of the Sui Layer 1 blockchain, announced the initial close of its $300 million Series B funding round. This new capital “values the company at more than $2 billion.” The company intends “to use the proceeds from… Read More

September 11, 2022 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ETC Group, which claims to be one of Europe’s leading specialist providers of institutional-grade digital asset-backed securities, has announced that it will “list a new exchange traded product on XETRA based on the imminent hard fork of Ethereum and ETHW (the native asset to the… Read More

September 11, 2022 @ 5:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIGG Digital Assets Inc. (CSE: BIGG), owner of Netcoins (Netcoins.ca), the online cryptocurrency brokerage that makes it easy for Canadians to buy, sell and understand cryptocurrency, and Blockchain Intelligence Group (blockchaingroup.io), a developer of blockchain technology search, risk-scoring and data analytics solutions, is pleased to… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 6:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

As Ethereum pushes forward with the Merge, Bitcoin has been ignored a bit – at least until yesterday when BTC rocketed beyond the $20,000 level nearing $22K. So what’s going on? Was it just Bitcoin’s time to move higher after watching Ethereum from the sidelines?… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 3:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As Dubai seeks to support crypto and blockchain innovation, Blockchain.com has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). That means that soon both retail and institutional clients will be able “to access the financial system of the future… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 7:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Neo has announced a new partnership with Simplex by Nuvei, an EU-licensed financial institution that “empowers its vast network of partners to accept the widest range of payment methods.” This partnership will “provide users around the world with seamless onramps and offramps to NEO, GAS,… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 6:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Qtum combines Bitcoin’s (BTC) security with Ethereum’s (ETH) programmability in one platform. One of the most innovative aspects of Qtum is that users can “enjoy both Bitcoin and Ethereum updates.” One of these new updates happens to Bitcoin’s Taproot. As explained in a blog post,… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 6:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has created two new offices – one focused specifically on the digital asset or crypto-asset sector. According to the SEC, the Office of Crypto Assets has been added to the Division of Corporation Finance’s Disclosure Review Program (DRP). The… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 11:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Leading Asian bank DBS is entering the metaverse to demonstrate how the virtual realm may be utilized for good. In partnership with The Sandbox, a subsidiary of Aninoca Brands, DBS will launch DBS BetterWorld. DBS is a Singapore-based bank that operates in 18 different markets… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Last month, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) applied sanctions to Tornado Cash, a crypto mixing platform. The second sanctions hitting a mixer, the enforcement action is still the first of its kind as the code running Tornado.cash was open… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Huobi Group has received a license to operate a digital asset exchange in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). The approval came from the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) and was awarded to Huobi subsidiary Brtuomi Worldwide Limited (BWL). On April 16th, 2021, BWL was approved… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Prime Protocol is pleased to introduce support for Fuji, which is Avalanche’s testnet chain, in their upcoming testnet beta. Avalanche has reportedly “averaged over a million processed transactions per day in the last month.” Users will be able “to deposit funds from Fuji as well… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

After July’s green candles, August 2022 resumed a downward trend for crypto-assets across the board, the team at Kraken noted in a new report. Bitcoin, Ethereum and the rest of the crypto market “saw negative returns for the month.” Prices of BTC (-14%) and ETH… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 4:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

ShiftPixy (NASDAQ:PIXY) shares rocketed higher a whopping 176% today following the announcement it would trade its shares on digital securities platform Upstream (by MERJ) along with spinning out ShiftPixy Labs as its own company. While shares dipped slightly in after-hours trading, ShiftPixy started the day… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 2:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler continues to assert that pretty much all digital assets are securities and should be regulated as such. As part of the SEC Speaks series, Chair Gensler said that of the approximately 10,000 “tokens” he believes they are securities and the few… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 1:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CryptoKitties was arguably the first project to bring NFTs into the mainstream, the team at Juniper Research noted in a comprehensive report. Launched in 2017, CryptoKitties featured an on-chain game “enabling users to breed digital cats together to produce new cats of differing rarity and… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 11:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Security Token Advisors (STA), the “original” consulting firm and advisory group in the tokenization space, is pleased to announce the unveiling of its recent infrastructure client and now vendor OvenueTM, a deep technology platform that “bridges the gap between real-world assets and non-traditional finance (also… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

The drums keep pounding louder in regards to the need to regulate cryptocurrencies – perhaps, more importantly, stablecoins which act as a proxy for fiat currency. As was reported earlier, Fed Vice Chair Michael Barr echoed the above sentiment. Today, Fed Chair Jerome Powell is… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 9:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Magpie Protocol reveals that they have finalized a $3M seed funding round. According to the Magpie Protocol team, this is “a huge milestone and just the beginning of [their] journey as [their] Alpha test is starting very soon.” They want to give… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 8:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, during a speech delivered at the Brookings Institute, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Michael Barr, addressed the topic of risk in financial markets along with pointed criticism of stablecoins specifically. While warning about private money, Barr embraced the broader topic of innovation in financial services…. Read More