Blockchain & Digital Assets

December 26, 2021 @ 1:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dropp, which claims to be a cost-effective, digital micropayment transaction platform enabling payments both in fiat currency and cryptocurrency, announced new appointments: Richard Re and Robert Flohr. The duo will join Dropp’s advisory board comprising top Cloud computing and Fintech professionals. Dropp CEO and Founder… Read More

December 24, 2021 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HUMAN Protocol announced the complete launch of the HUMAN App: a web-based software application that demonstrates how work “published to the Protocol can be accessed and completed by distributed workforces.” As mentioned in a release, the HUMAN App acts as a gateway to work processed… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 5:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Talk to the hand. Marc Andreessen has blocked Jack Dorsey on Twitter, perhaps a first for Dorsey who shared the screenshot on the social network he founded.   I’m officially banned from web3 pic.twitter.com/RrEIAuqE6f — jack⚡️ (@jack) December 22, 2021 The virtual joust came about… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 5:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFinity, an institutional digital asset ECN and DeFi marketplace for fiat FX, cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies, has teamed up with Cobalt, a market infrastructure provider that’s focused on ‘re-engineering the institutional FX and digital asset markets to facilitate real-time clearing, settlement and dynamic… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 3:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Liquid Meta, a DeFi firm, has listed its shares on the NEO Exchange under ticker LIQD. Liquid Meta’s market cap is currently around CDN 46 million. NEO Exchange is a tier 1 stock exchange operating in Canada. Its mission is to serve the innovation sector… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 12:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SPACE Metaverse has acquired $7 million in capital from a number of tier-one venture funds in order to establish the economic foundation to join various metaverses into “one parallel society.” The funding Included some of the most prominent names in the DeFi and crypto space… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 12:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month, the US Senate Banking Committee held a hearing on stablecoins that involved advocates and those who believe they are bad. The short hearing saw witnesses grilled with the Democrats generally dismissive and the Republicans in support of digital assets tied to fiat… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 10:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Working with Clearstream, Northern Trust, SETL and others, SWIFT plans experiments in Q1 2022 in order to “explore how it can support interoperability in the development of the tokenized asset market.” Relative to digital currencies and stablecoins, the current market cap of tokenized assets is… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 9:20 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Even though NFTs exist in the digital realm, Shant Kevonian makes a compelling case for offering a physical replica, and his company NFT.Physio bridges that gap. A serial entrepreneur with a technological flair, Kevonian likens the NFT craze in some respects to products like Funko… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Astra Protocol is pleased to confirm that it has acquired $9 million via its token raise. In addition, various investment groups and individuals have supported the Astra Protocol project, confirming the requirement for decentralized compliance in the DeFi sector. According to Astra, things are progressing… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 10:32 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

World Mobile Token (WMT), the token enabling an innovative global mobile network built on a sharing economy, will be listed on three cryptocurrency exchanges, the company announced this week. WMT will be available on Bitrue, an asset platform with Cardano native token support, and users in over… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 3:58 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

There was no surprises at the top when GlobalData released the top 10 cryptocurrencies for 2021 in terms of how many social media conversations they generated through the year, up to Dec. 9. Twitter and Reddit feeds were monitored. Bitcoin generated close to 900,000 discussions… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 2:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Oppenheimer is out with its 2022 picks and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has made the list. The analyst providing the coverage has set a $444 price target for the crypto exchange, a significant increase over its current per-share price that hovers around $252/share. Coinbase became a public… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 2:12 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Psychedelic, a decentralized Web 3 development studio building products for the Internet Computer, today launched Terabethia — a cross-network bridge designed to enable cross-chain contract communication, and asset mirroring and transfer across different chains, starting with the Internet Computer and Ethereum. Terabethia represents the first… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 1:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Opera, a mobile browser with Web3 support and built-in crypto wallet, this week announced an upcoming browser integration with Polygon, an Ethereum scaling platform. The integration is set to occur in Q1 2022 and will provide users in-browser access to more than 3,000 dApps on… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 12:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kraken, which claims to be one of the largest digital asset platforms, announced it has acquired Staked for “an undisclosed sum.” Staked is described as a non-custodial staking platform that “enables investors in Proof-of-Stake networks to easily and securely compound their holdings.” According to an… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 10:26 am By JD Alois  |  

“Cryptocurrency is the Emperor’s New Clothes.” Dr. Dan Geller, a behavioral economist who frequently chats about financial services at his firm Analyticom, is out with a note today hammering cryptocurrency while predicting its demise. According to Geller, crypto has been created for control and not… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 9:35 am By JD Alois  |  

DeFi incubator Dispersion Holdings plc (AQSE: DEFI) has submitted an application for the listing of its ordinary shares on the Canadian Neo Exchange. Dispersion Holdings currently has a market cap of around £26 million. NEO Exchange is an early stage Fintech that aims to “re-focus… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bakkt Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BKKT), a digital asset platform that enables consumers to purchase, sell, send and spend various cryptocurrencies, announced that Manasquan Bank, a NJ-headquartered mutual community bank with total consolidated assets of $2.7 billion, will be “participating in its early adopter program, which,… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Berlin-headquartered Swarm Markets GmbH, which claims to be the first regulated “decentralized” financial infrastructure provider, announced that it will launch a peer-to-peer contract for “high value transactions in Q1 2022.” The so-called dOTC service “empowers institutions and professional investors to use the first regulated crypto… Read More