Blockchain & Digital Assets

March 18, 2022 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Brian Reisbeck, the newly appointed Chief Compliance Officer at Coinme, a cryptocurrency cash exchange in the United States. Brian Reisbeck has joined Coinme as CCO and will help lead the firm’s compliance program and guide the organization in “maintaining regulatory… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 11:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Prakash Hariramani, Senior Director, Product Management, and Bipul Sinha, Senior Product Manager at Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) noted that the firm is introducing Coinbase Pay, which is described as “the easiest way for Coinbase users to fund their Coinbase Wallet from the Chrome browser extension and explore… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 10:58 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

WingRiders, a native Cardano decentralized exchange, recently announced the close of its seed and private funding round with investors including Animoca Brands, Matrixport, Spark Digital Capital, Double Peak, and Bitrue. The company emerged from stealth mode in December 2021 with a fully working prototype deployed… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 10:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

onXRP.com, a tech and content platform offering “user-driven” innovation to the XRP Ledger (XRPL), and Pastel Network (PSL), the application-specific and “purpose built” NFT blockchain, announced a partnership to improve the security of the XRPL NFT ecosystem. As mentioned in an update shared with Crowdfund… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Itheum is pleased to confirm an investment from Elrond, Mechanism Capital, and other key investors in the crypto and blockchain sector. The funding extends the previous $1.5 million round “funded by Morningstar Ventures which incubated Itheum via their Elrond Dubai Incubator.” Itheum continues to attract… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 5:25 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Singapore Exchange-backed private market platform ADDX recently announced Oi-Yee Choo will be appointed its CEO, subject to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) approval. ADDX was founded in 2017 and began full commercial operations in 2020 after becoming one of the first digital securities exchanges… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Kava DAO has reportedly voted to “allocate $750M to on-chain developer incentives, committing majority ownership of the network to the #BUIDLers.” As mentioned in a blog post, high-quality developers are “the most valuable asset to the long-term success of Layer-1 blockchains.” In recognition of… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 4:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

  According to multiple reports, Luno Expeditions has exited stealth mode after making approximately 20 investments in early-stage crypto firms. Luno Expeditions is an offshoot of Luno a crypto investing platform that is owned by the Digital Currency Group, Barry Silbert’s holding company and investment… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 3:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Bank of Canada has announced a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a project to investigate the potential of issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Some time ago, the US Federal Reserve made a similar announcement of a project with… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 3:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Japanese web app developer Omochi has announced its pre-registration of “tomonity” NFT marketplace on the IOST blockchain. Tomonity’s “unique” benefits for its users reportedly include “free” transactions and a built-in wallet that “eliminates the pain of creating and importing a crypto wallet for new users.”… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

EQONEX Limited (NASDAQ: EQOS) has selected Jonathan Farnell as its new CEO and Member of the Board of Directors. Farnell was previously the Head of Binance UK and CEO of Bifinity. The current interim CEO Andrew Eldon will revert back to his primary roles of… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Arca has hired three new executives according to a company release. Arca is a digital asset platform that is compliance first, aiming to enable sophisticated investors access to the fast growing digital asset industry.  Arca reports that it has been building “institutional-inspired” processes as financial… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 1:37 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

NOYACK Logistics Income (NLI), a REIT investing in supply chain real estate sponsored by NOYACK Capital, is now accepting cryptocurrency payments for shares via a partnership with BitPay, the companies announced this week. Investors can pay their tabs with Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Dogecoin (DOGE), Ethereum (ETH),… Read More

March 16, 2022 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) has announced that State Street Digital, the company’s dedicated digital unit, has now added three veteran digital executives to its leadership team. Katie Richards joins “as global head of operations” and Marcus Grubb as the “global head of product.” Both… Read More

March 16, 2022 @ 5:32 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Treehouse, a data and analytics company, today announced a US$18 million seed round raise. An undisclosed fintech investor led the round with participation from a group including Mirana Ventures, Lightspeed, MassMutual Ventures, Binance, Global Founders Capital, Jump Capital, Moonvault Capital, Wintermute, GSR, K3 Ventures, LeadBlock… Read More

March 16, 2022 @ 2:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Exodus, a multi-asset software wallet that aims to make crypto and digital assets easy for everyone, has commenced trading its security on Securitize Markets. Securitize is a digital asset securities firm that operates an Alternative Trading System (ATS). Exodus is a unique digital security. It… Read More

March 16, 2022 @ 1:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

American Express (NYSE: AXP) has reportedly filed trademark applications in order to register its official name, logo, as well as its slogans for a range of banking services in the Metaverse. In an applications submitted this month, reviewed by Metaverse trademark attorney Michael Kondoudis, Amex… Read More

March 16, 2022 @ 11:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Telos Blockchain (Tlos) has reportedly become a virtual tenant of Bloktopia and is currently organizing to “put that space to good work.” Telos (TLOS) tokens are trading at $0.774674 and they have a market cap of just over $200 million at the time of writing… Read More

March 16, 2022 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the United Kingdom’s financial services industry regulator, is reportedly looking for a professional to head the digital assets unit and build up a new team. This, according to a job posting via LinkedIn. The department head will be required to… Read More

March 16, 2022 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

BNP Paribas Securitizaties Services, part of BNP Paribas the bank – the largest bank in France and one of the largest banks in the world, has issued a statement explaining their point of view as to how blockchain (or distributed ledger technology – DLT) and… Read More