Blockchain & Digital Assets

March 25, 2022 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zumo, the Edinburgh-based crypto wallet and payments platform, has appointed Dagmara Aldridge as its first Chief People and Culture Officer as it “seeks to reflect Future of Work trends and the latest neuroscience teachings.” With 15 years’ leadership and coaching experience, Dagmara, who was previously… Read More

March 25, 2022 @ 11:34 am By JD Alois  |  

The Bank of England has enlisted the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to engage in a project to review the potential of a digital pound or central bank digital currency (CBDC). The collaboration between the Bank and the MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)… Read More

March 25, 2022 @ 8:58 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) this week again warned consumers about some of the risks it sees associated with cryptocurrencies. While acknowledging benefits cryptoassets bring, such as the abilities to reduce costs and increase efficiencies, the FCA said they also present risks to… Read More

March 24, 2022 @ 9:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, has announced a partnership with Cross River, a tech-driven financial services organization that offers core infrastructure and embedded financial solutions. Cross River is well-known for offering financial services to the Fintech and crypto sectors and will utilize Chainalysis tools “to… Read More

March 24, 2022 @ 4:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

In his annual letter to shareholders, Blackstone CEO Larry Fink commented on a broad range of issues including the “end of globalization” and the power of capital markets. The end of globalization is largely due to the unprovoked invasion by Russia and war in Ukraine… Read More

March 24, 2022 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cowen Inc. (NASDAQ:COWN) has announced the launch of its digital asset division, Cowen Digital LLC. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, the division offers full-service trade execution and custody solutions “on a platform that provides institutional clients with secure and compliant access to the digital asset ecosystem.”… Read More

March 24, 2022 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dave Inc. (Nasdaq: DAVE), a banking app on a mission to build products that level the financial playing field, has announced a partnership with West Realm Shires Services, Inc., which is the owner and operator of FTX US, “whereby the companies will work together to… Read More

March 24, 2022 @ 3:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MoonPay, the international crypto payments infrastructure provider, has announced the appointment of James Freis as Special Advisor for Global Financial and Regulatory Affairs. James Freis, an advisory lawyer, financial executive and ex-Director of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) will… Read More

March 24, 2022 @ 12:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

VNX, launched in Liechtenstein in 2022 and registered with the Financial Market Authority (FMA) registered platform for investment in tokenized precious metals, claims title as Europe’s first regulated platform for assets like gold. The first product from VNX is VNX Gold, leveraging Ethereum, representing an… Read More

March 24, 2022 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) says it has received inquiries from derivatives clearing organizations (DCO) or potential DCO applicants seeking to offer clearing of margined products directly to participants, such that participants would not clear through a futures commission merchant intermediary a non-intermediated model… Read More

March 24, 2022 @ 10:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The digital asset and cryptocurrency trading platform MEXC Global has announced an ecosystem fund of $150 million, along with Bybit, in order to support the ecosystem growth of Fetch.ai, a Cambridge-based AI lab building an open-access “decentralized” machine learning network for smart infrastructure. Known as… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 7:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thinking Capital, Canada’s Fintech provider of credit and insights to small businesses and a member of the Purpose Unlimited family of companies today announced its new name: Driven, by Purpose. The name <<Driven, by Purpose>> “celebrates the drive and the generative energy of small businesses… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 5:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

TokenEx, a cloud tokenization provider, today announced it has raised $100 million in Series B funding from K1 Investment Management, an investment firm focused on high-growth enterprise software companies globally. The company will use the new funding to invest further in its product, customer service, and… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 2:45 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

BridgeTower Capital is partnering with Securitize, a provider of digital assets securities, to launch the BridgeTower Global Platform offering for Permissioned Markets. BridgeTower is also launching a staked digital asset security (SDAS) that will run in an Avalanche subnet. Investors need to create a Securitize iD,… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 11:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The foundation of the COTI ecosystem fund, COTI Ventures, has been officially announced. The fund aims to invest in and capitalize on the “upside opportunity” in the COTI ecosystem, by securing an initial budget of $10M, which will be used “to invest in equity, tokens… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase Cloud currently offers Web 3.0 APIs, services, and infrastructure ‘to power the next generation of software builders.” As part of Coinbase‘s vision to empower developers building the future of web3, they are launching “a suite of blockchain infrastructure solutions and services for the growing… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets firm Kraken is pleased to welcome Carrie Dolan, who is a recognized financial services veteran ‘in high-growth consumer Fintechs and Fortune 500 companies, as Kraken’s newly appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO).” Carrie will be expected to serve a key role… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Lemonade Foundation, the nonprofit founded by Lemonade to “effect exponential social and environmental impact” via technology, has announced the “formation of the Lemonade Crypto Climate Coalition.” The coalition is being “constituted as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), dedicated to building and distributing at-cost, instantaneous,… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Katie Haun, a former federal prosecutor, is currently focused on cryptocurrency investing. Her VC company has acquired $1.5 billion in capital. Haun Ventures confirmed the launch of a $500 million early-stage fund and another $1 billion in funding for more established firms that are focused… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 12:32 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Upshot, a blockchain-based protocol providing NFT appraisals, today announced a $22 million Series A2 funding round led by Polychain Capital. Polychain joins previous investors Framework Ventures, CoinFund, Blockchain Capital, Slow Ventures, Mechanism Capital, and Delphi Digital, among others. The company plans to use the funds… Read More