Blockchain & Digital Assets

May 18, 2022 @ 2:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Revealed last week,  Anchorage, the first digital asset bank with a national bank charter, has announced “Capital Strategy” designed to connect crypto firms and financial institutions. The new services are described as a unique path for networking between establishment finance and emerging digital asset firms…. Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 12:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler testified in front of the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, part of the House Appropriations Committee, to justify the agency’s budget request. As part of the questioning from various members, Gensler answered several questions which were crypto-related. Chairman Gensler… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 11:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BIGG Digital Assets Inc. (CSE:BIGG), owner of Blockchain Intelligence Group, a global cryptocurrency intelligence and compliance company, is pleased to announce “the appointment of Kenneth A. Goodwin, Jr. as the Director of Regulatory and Institutional Affairs.” Goodwin brings extensive experience in global banking and capital… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Elwood Technologies, a platform providing “institutional-grade” access to digital asset markets and liquidity venues, recently announced it has “closed a $70 million Series A funding round.” The round was co-led by Europe‘s largest B2B investor Dawn Capital and global investment bank, Goldman Sachs. There was… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 10:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Institutional digital asset trading platform Talos is going on a hiring spree after raising a solid $105 million Series B funding round. Last week, Talos announced that it had raised capital at a unicorn valuation of $1.25 billion. Big-name investors participated in the round with… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 9:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Encode Club, a Web3 education community with focuses on blockchain education, talent sourcing and venture investing, has completed a $5 million funding round that was led by Lemniscap and Galaxy Digital (TSX: GLXY). The investment round included participation from Dragonfly Ventures, Folius Ventures, not3Lau Capital, Ascensive… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), the largest digital asset marketplace in the US, has announced it will slow its hiring process due to the “current market downtown.” The news should come as no surprise for Coinbase watchers as the crypto focused firm experienced hyperbolic growth that inevitably had… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 8:29 am By JD Alois  |  

After a painful drop where Bitcoin crashed below $30K and many other cryptocurrencies chased it down, GlobalBlock (TSXV:BLOK) sees light at the end of the tunnel – at least for now. Marcus Sotiriou, Analyst for GlobalBlock, operating in the UK has distributed a comment on… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zumo, the Edinburgh-based crypto wallet and payments platform, recently appointed Jonathan Sepulchre to serve as Head of Growth, a newly-created function “to drive the next stage of the company’s development.” An experienced “growth leader” with a comprehensive background in digital marketing, Jonathan will work closely… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 3:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nahmii AS are pleased to confirm that they have been chosen to work with Norges Bank (the central bank of Norway) on their upcoming experimental CBDC (central bank digital currency) sandbox project. This “prestigious” award confirms Nahmii AS’s position as “a global leader in the… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 1:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptix, the Fintech Web 3.0 venture builder, recently announced that it has received regulatory approval to launch Equito – which is described as “a fully regulated, all-in-one investor platform designed to unlock new financing channels for European start-ups and SMEs (small to medium sized enterprises).”… Read More

May 17, 2022 @ 11:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fortress Trust Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortress Blockchain Technologies, has announced the appointment of  Albert Forkner as its new Chief Executive Officer. Forkner fortress after being a Bank Commissioner in Wyoming and Chairman of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. Fortress is the newest… Read More

May 17, 2022 @ 5:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tomorrow (May 18, 2022), SEC Chairman Gary Gensler will hike up to Capitol Hill to extoll the need for a slight budget increase for the SEC and its ~ 4800 employees. Chair Gensler, along with the Chair of the FTC, will address the Subcommittee on… Read More

May 17, 2022 @ 1:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

BitMEX, better known for crypto derivatives trading, has launched its anticipated crypto spot exchange. BitMEX stated in a release that spot trading for digital assets is now available for both retail and institutional investors. BitMEX touted its ambition to emerge as a top ten global… Read More

May 17, 2022 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The crypto ecosystem is a “diverse tapestry” of tokens, protocols, projects, and applications, the team at Gemini writes in a blog post. At Gemini, they believe in making crypto “more accessible and easier to understand as the industry continues to develop ever more quickly.” Knowledge… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 11:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, which claims to be the world’s “leading” cryptocurrency and blockchain infrastructure provider, has strengthened its team “with the recruitment of Jarek Jakubcek as the Head of Intelligence and Investigations for Asia-Pacific.” Jarek is “a leading global expert in cybercrime and former cryptocurrency specialist in… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 8:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Following Kraken’s listings of Bifrost (BNC), Bonfida (FIDA), and Origin Protocol (OGN) for most countries, the digital asset firm is pleased to announce “the availability of these tokens for residents of the United States and Canada.” Funding and trading are now live. You may keep… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 7:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Grayscale has launched the first European exchange-traded fund (ETF). According to the firm, Grayscale Future of Finance UCITS ETF (ticker: GFOF) will trade on certain exchanges in Europe including the London Stock Exchange (LSE), Borsa Italiana, and Deutsche Börse Xetra. GFOF UCITS ETF will also be… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The group including Capital.com, the trading and investing platform “leading” the UK leveraged trading industry in “client satisfaction,” announced the appointment of Peter Hetherington as its Group Chief Executive Officer. Peter will “succeed Jonathan Squires, who was Group CEO during the Group’s early growth phase.”… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 6:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Oasis Pro Inc. has completed a “significantly” oversubscribed $27+M Series A financing round. As mentioned in an update shared with CI earlier this week, the financing “included existing investor UDHC and included other strategic investors such as Blizzard the Avalanche Fund, Inveniam, Redwood Trust (NYSE:RWT),… Read More