Blockchain & Digital Assets

December 8, 2021 @ 11:47 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

New research from digital institutional investment platform VALK shows professional investors are increasingly focusing on cryptocurrency and digital assets as worries about stretched equity valuations and poor yields in the fixed income markets grow. Its study among professional investors working in eight major economies for… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 10:20 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

While more than four out of five serious regular crypto traders are making money in the markets, one in six are losing it, research from blockchain-based derivatives trading platform CloseCross claims. Its study among crypto traders across six major economies who stake at least $5,000… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 10:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Plenty, a Tezos-based DeFi protocol, recently launched its routing feature, a move which should make DeFi on Tezos an easy-to-use and smooth experience, the company said. It offers yield farming and a decentralized exchange and allows onboarding from other blockchains. Its protocol allows users to… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 10:10 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new study of institutional investors and wealth managers, who collectively manage around $108.4 billion in assets, reveals 85 per cent say they now have dedicated teams reviewing cryptocurrencies and digital assets, though for many it is a new development. The research, commissioned by London-based… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 10:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today (December 8, 2021), the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on digital assets. As was previously reported, the witnesses included top crypto executives and thus provided the opportunity for a unique discussion between House members and crypto entrepreneurs. Chairwoman of the Committee,… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 4:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Digital Finance Group, a global blockchain and cryptocurrency investment firm, recently announced it has invested $1.5 million in a private funding round as the head investor for Rivet, an Ethereum infrastructure service built on open-source technology. The funding will be used to grow the Rivet… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 12:49 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

CurrencyWorks, a full-service blockchain platform provider, today announced it is launching a new music entertainment NFT platform, MusicFX, in partnership with Crown & Ace. A pioneer of the NFT space, CurrencyWorks has already established platforms to serve the growing demand for digital token services and… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 11:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bob Lee, ex- Chief Technical Officer at Square (now doing business as Block), has reportedly joined MobileCoin as its Chief Product Officer. As an early investor in and advisor to the crypto and virtual payments startup, Bob helped “shape product and technology strategy.” He now… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 11:49 am By JD Alois  |  

AllianceBlock has joined the Open Wealth Association in order to provide a bridge between DeFi and traditional finance.. The Open Wealth Association seeks to define, maintain and operationalize the open Application Programming Interface (API) standard for the global wealth management community. Alliance Block describes its… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 11:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global platform LynKey, which powers luxury resort and vacation property with blockchain and AI tech, has announced a project for tokenizing and providing NFT solutions of more than $8 billion for travel and tourism by leveraging smart contracts. LynKey will be digitizing luxury resorts and… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 10:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Play-and-Earn game MonkeyBall is confirming that they have beefed up their list of backers. MonkeyBall, a Solana-based gaming platform, stated that it’s pleased their partners wanted to join the MonkeyBall journey and were able to hand-pick backers with a solid reputation and… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 9:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence firm, has announced that it secured $60 million via a Series B round. TRM Labs‘ investment round has been led by Tiger Global along with contributions from financial institutions including American Express’ Amex Ventures, Visa, Citi Ventures, DRW Venture Capital,… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 5:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Telos has announced that Telos Kitchen DAO LLC has purchased 35.84 acres in Laramie River Ranch, Wyoming with block rewards received from the network. Telos is a decentralized blockchain. Telos Kitchen is a block producer on the Telos blockchain. The property was purchased with tokens… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 6:05 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Layer 2 scaling solution Nahmii recently announced its first verifiers are running full nodes on Nahmii’s network. Last month’s Nahmii 2.0 mainnet launch marked was a milestone for Ethereum’s future of scalable, user-friendly, and secure applications, the company said. Verifiers, including DARMA Capital, Delta Blockchain… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), in collaboration with Vanguard and Symbiont, has announced that the companies have completed the margin calculation process “for a live trade of a 30-day foreign exchange forward contract through the use of Assembly, Symbiont’s distributed ledger technology.” As mentioned in the… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 3:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Following a seed round, the Gaia EverWorld team has announced an NFT sale via a collaboration with the Binance NFT marketplace, as well as securing a grant from the Polygon Foundation, and “completed a successful IDO.” The land sale will “allow Gaia EverWorld to claim… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 3:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cryptocurrency options trading platform PowerTrade has released Power Protocol (aka Power Pro), a decentralized derivatives protocol with a set of features including span portfolio margin across all products, multi-collateral USD-contracts, derivatives trading tools, and an RFQ protocol, all available via mobile (IOS and Android) and… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, which claims to be the most diverse derivatives marketplace, has launched Micro Ether futures, further “expanding its suite of cryptocurrency derivatives offerings, and marking its second micro cryptocurrency product this year.” Tim McCourt, CME Group Global Head of Equity Index and Alternative Investment… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 10:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Phase One of the NEVM launch is now officially complete, the Syscoin team announced in a recent update. Their Bitcoin-secured Layer 1 for EVM smart contracts “reached mainnet on block 1,317,500, December 6th, 2021,” according to an update shared with Crowdfund Insider. With this upgrade… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 10:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Solana-based NFT platform Holaplex has raised $6 million in seed funding according to a public statement. The funding was led by CoinFund with participation by Social Capital, Valor, Collab+Currency, Blockchain Coinvestors, and Solana Capital. The funding is said to support the growth and development of the… Read More