Blockchain & Digital Assets

June 1, 2022 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

FTX, a fast-growing crypto exchange serving both the US and global markets, is in talks with Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) in regards to crypto derivatives. While Goldman has been hesitant in the past to move into crypto demand from its customers continues to push the investment… Read More

June 1, 2022 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks, which claims to be the industry “leader” focused on digital asset and crypto technology, announced that it has appointed the former Head of Fintech at the Bank of England, Varun Paul, “as its new Central Banking Digital Currency (CBDC) and Market Infrastructure Director.” In… Read More

May 31, 2022 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Merge has secured $9.5 million in capital via a seed round in order to create its API-powered banking and payments solution, effectively bridging the gap between fiat and cryptocurrency-based ecosystems. Merge aims to address the ongoing struggle that many firms in the crypto economy face… Read More

May 31, 2022 @ 5:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

“To provide for responsible financial innovation and to bring digital assets fully within the regulatory perimeter.” The long-anticipated legislation crypto regulation proposal emanating from US Senator Cynthia Lummis has now been posted online. First revealed by the Block, the draft legislation aims at clarifying the… Read More

May 31, 2022 @ 5:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tether, issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin by market cap (USDT), has launched another stablecoin – this time pegged 1 to 1 to the Mexican Peso. Tether did not provide details on how the 1 to 1 peg is managed or whether the Mexican currency… Read More

May 31, 2022 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset firm Kraken says they are pleased to announce that their crypto trading platform now supports Alchemy Pay (ACH), IDEX (IDEX) and Request (REQ). Funding is live, and trading will “begin on May 31 at approximately 14:30 UTC.” You may keep… Read More

May 31, 2022 @ 11:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Wirex, a payments platform that incorporates crypto transactions, has announced the listing of a new stablecoin NXUSD by Nereus. The stablecoin is said to be “fully collateralized” or “over-collateralized.” NXUSD is an ERC-20 token utilizing the Avalanche blockchain. Collateral for the digital asset is in… Read More

May 31, 2022 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced the launch of Project Guardian, an effort to reveal the value created in leveraging asset tokenization. Singapore has long been a top Asian Fintech hub and there are multiple Fintechs in the digital asset sector based in… Read More

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