Blockchain & Digital Assets

December 22, 2021 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thomas Bohner, Founder and CEO at Credix, has confirmed that his team has secured $2.5 million in early-stage seed round funding from various investors and builders. Credix’s investment round was reportedly led by DRW Cumberland and ParaFi Capital along with contributions from the Transfero Swiss… Read More

December 21, 2021 @ 6:45 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cypherium, a scalable and permissionless blockchain platform, has enabled support both for an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) as well as the Ethereum Network’s primary coding language, Solidity. The company said the benefits that come with this are many but include bringing about much greater interoperability… Read More

December 21, 2021 @ 4:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset exchange BitMEX has announced its native token, BMEX. The tokens commence its airdrop on 1 February 2022 with the token becoming tradeable on BitMEX upon the launch of its Spot exchange in early Q2 2022. BitMEX is a crypto derivatives – futures marketplace… Read More

December 21, 2021 @ 3:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Futuur, which provides a wide selection of prediction markets available at one URL, has officially launched its real-money markets to forecasters around the world.  Real-money markets have been added alongside Futuur’s already existing play-money markets, with trading available in seven cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH),… Read More

December 21, 2021 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, a top digital security platform and trading venue, has listed COSIMO X – a tokenized VC Fund. The security is offered by COSIMO Ventures, a VC firm that is enabling access to blockchain and crypto projects with the fund. Rob Frasca, Managing Partner of… Read More

December 21, 2021 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DOGAMÍ, which claims to be the first-ever mass-market play-to-earn NFT game powered by Tezos (XTZ), has secured $6M in capital from Ubisoft, Animoca Brands, and The Sandbox co-founders. The funding from DOGAMI’s investment round should help with “establishing the future of pet ownership 3.0” and… Read More

December 21, 2021 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes in a blog post published on Monday (December 20) that for the week ending December 17,… Read More

December 21, 2021 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (COIN: Nasdaq) is pleased to confirm the introduction of the Community Analyst Program (or the CAP Program). As explained in a blog post by Coinbase, this is a great way for students, professionals and community members who share their “core beliefs” to contribute to… Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 10:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Compass Mining writes in a blog post that it is noticeable that in every crypto bull market, there seems to be “a lot of new entrants.” As noted by Compass Mining, a frenzy takes place and people get really excited when they… Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The NEO blockchain developers noted that they are focused on building on a commitment to support application developers who make meaningful contributions to the Neo blockchain ecosystem. As mentioned in a blog post, Neo has introduced three different grant programs into the Eco Support ecosystem…. Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 10:37 am By JD Alois  |  

SingularityDAO, a spin-off of SingularityNET, has announced DynaSets – a diversified portfolio of crypto assets managed by hedge fund professionals and artificial intelligence (AI). According to a company release, DynaSets is now in Beta and hedge fund traders “will play a major role in all… Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 9:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Kraken notes that they’re pleased to confirm that their cryptocurrency trading platform now supports the Avalanche (AVAX) C-Chain. Funding and Trading Funding is currently live, and trading is scheduled to start on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 — at which point Kraken will… Read More

December 19, 2021 @ 10:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HERMESNET, which aims to automate a manual legacy in private equity (PE), has acquired 96% (£145,211) of its £150,000 fundraising target from 107 investors. HERMESNET has secured capital via its crowdfunding campaign being carried out through Crowdcube (with 24 days left in the sale at… Read More

December 19, 2021 @ 9:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marieke Flament, the Chief Executive at NatWest’s virtual bank for businesses, is reportedly getting ready to leave her role after two and a half years. Flament will be joining Switzerland-headquartered blockchain foundation NEAR as the CEO, she confirmed in statements shared with Reuters. The non-profit… Read More

December 19, 2021 @ 5:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinweb has raised $4 million in funding. Coinweb is a layer-2 cross-chain computation platform that aims to solve some of the most critical problems that currently exist within distributed ledger technology. The strategic funding round includes the participation of KuCoin Labs, Morningstar Ventures, Panda Capital,… Read More

December 19, 2021 @ 5:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

SEBA Bank, a Switzerland digital asset bank regulated by FINMA, has launched a gold token. This digital asset represents physical gold and has rights for physical delivery. The SEBA Bank Gold Token is designed to simplify the process of investing in gold as a digital… Read More

December 19, 2021 @ 2:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and innovation incubation division of Binance, has reportedly invested in the League of Kingdoms (LoK), which claims to be the world’s first decentralized MMO NFT strategy game built on Ethereum (ETH). In LoK, players are able to build various kingdoms… Read More

December 19, 2021 @ 11:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

VIP$ Coin (VIP$), which claims to be an asset backed and blockchain-powered cryptocurrency, has reportedly been holding discussions with the Mexican government in order to look into the possibility of supporting the nation’s economy with a decentralized currency. In a letter sent to VIP$ Coin’s… Read More

December 18, 2021 @ 3:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Compute North, a company focused on economical, large-scale computing and cryptocurrency mining infrastructure, “demonstrated the value-add and positive impact of its ability to voluntarily throttle down operations at its Kearney, Nebraska data center to support the local grid during times of need.” As mentioned in… Read More

December 18, 2021 @ 3:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BitOoda, an international digital asset financial technology & services platform offering risk management solutions, best-execution brokerage & expert market analysis, notes that Bitcoin declined 3.3% week-on-week, settling at around $48,830 as of midnight UTC on December 15, but has now dropped further to about $46,300 at… Read More