Blockchain & Digital Assets

January 18, 2022 @ 9:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinhouse, a digital asset service provider (DASP or VASP) regulated in both France and Luxembourg, has raised USD $17 million in a Series B funding round. The round was led by True Global Ventures 4 Plus (TGV4 Plus) Fund that invested USD $5.7 million. They… Read More

January 18, 2022 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brandon Bailey, a crypto mining analyst at Galaxy Digital, notes that a strong Bitcoin bull market, “authoritarian” crackdown on cryptocurrency mining in China and “flight to North America” seems to have flipped the international hashrate economy on its head during 2021. In a recent report,… Read More

January 18, 2022 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BlockFi, a crypto financial services firm, recently announced that Alexander Grigoryan has joined the company as the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and will be responsible for overseeing “all global product development and technology strategy moving forward.” Zac Prince, CEO and Founder of BlockFi, stated:… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 8:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Ramp has shared a detailed look into how the early adoption of stablecoins helped them with increasing their Corporate Treasury returns. Alex Song, Head of Finance at Ramp, notes that during the past two and a half years, the Fintech company has been… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 4:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coldwell Banker, a global real estate firm, has partnered with Coinweb to tokenize real estate, first in Thailand. Coldwell Banker represents a network of property firms across 3,000 offices in 49 countries and territories. The collaboration is said to expect Coinweb to develop and support… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Valentin Mihov, Co-founder, and Chief Investment Officer at Finexify, a boutique investment company that offers an opportunity to gain exposure to the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. The team at Finexify thinks that limited access to DeFi means “extraordinary” alpha with limited… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 12:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A CertiK security analysis has found that over 50 so-called decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible token or NFT projects may have “critical” vulnerabilities. CertiK wrote in a blog post that they “feel obligated to share these insights” with their community members. According to the blockchain… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stephan Moore, a well-known economist who is a distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, WSJ editorial board member, and at one time considered as a Federal Reserve Governor, has joined blockchain firm PraSaga as Chief Economist. Moore issued the following statement on the news:… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 10:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Redefine, an Israel-based blockchain security startup, has raised an $11 million seed round for its “crypto firewall.” Redefine previously raised a pre-seed round of $3 million in June of last year led by More VC and Accomplice Blockchain. This new round, which included the early… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Towards the end of 2021, Amazon UK distributed an email to its customers stating it would stop accepting Visa cards for purchases beginning January 19, 2022. Today, it is being widely reported that Amazon has backed away from that decision. According to AP, Amazon has… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 9:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology, the project that aims to bring trust, privacy, and security to Web 3.0 via decentralized identity and data solutions, recently announced the opening of a new European office in Berlin, Germany. As mentioned in an update shared with CI, Ontology’s move reflects its alignment… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The term “gray market” might conjure up images of “nefarious” actors exchanging cash in “shadowy alleys,” the team at American Fintech Ripple writes in a blog post. In reality, however, gray markets have become an “unfortunate necessity” for those entities that may lack the financial… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 3:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Beth Kurteson, MD at digital assets firm Gemini, notes that the company is committed to tapping into the future of financial, creative, and “personal freedom” via crypto. Beth writes in a blog post that central to that effort is the work they do “to support… Read More

January 16, 2022 @ 11:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Okcoin is now offering the two crypto tokens of the Abracadabra.money ecosystem, Spell (SPELL) and Magic Internet Money (MIM), with “some of the lowest fees around.” As noted in the update from Okcoin, here’s what each of these tokens are about, in… Read More

January 16, 2022 @ 2:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Larry Kubin, Senior Developer Relations Engineer at digital asset firm Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), notes that in 2021, Coinbase Cloud had announced the launch of their unified developer docs in order to “make it easier and faster for developers to build Web3 applications using Coinbase APIs and… Read More

January 16, 2022 @ 12:42 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Propine, a Singapore-based, Monetary Authority of Singapore-licensed digital asset custodian, has entered into a partnership with XinFin (XDC), a Singapore-based hybrid blockchain platform to provide on-chain custody for the XDC Network. The partnership will allow the XDC ecosystem to see security and fully compliant and… Read More

January 15, 2022 @ 8:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered digital asset bank, has shared survey results that show OCC approval “gives Americans greater confidence in cryptocurrency.” The team at Anchorage Digital writes in a blog post that as the volume of conversation around cryptocurrency and digital assets continues… Read More

January 15, 2022 @ 4:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Archethic, a blockchain network, has launched the Archethic Lab web portal, featuring a series of tools that help users and developers to join the project’s ecosystem. The website contains links to the platform’s testnet and mainnet beta, regular video tech updates, and all the tools… Read More

January 15, 2022 @ 4:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset platform CoinList notes that they’re pleased to confirm that the  registrations for the Stader token sale are currently open. Stader offers smart contract infrastructure for staking, “helping users stake their assets conveniently and safely through its platform by building key… Read More

January 15, 2022 @ 12:45 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Blockchain venture studio Draper Goren Holm recently announced an investment in Mavryk Finance, a decentralized, non-custodial, community-governed platform. Mavryk Finance allows users to borrow, earn, and unlock the world from legacy financial systems. “We’re thrilled to welcome Mavryk Finance into our family as Alex Davis… Read More