Blockchain & Digital Assets

November 22, 2021 @ 10:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Interoperability is an increasingly vital topic within the blockchain and distributed ledger tech (DLT) sector, as it continues to expand the possible functionalities that DLT networks can provide to their respective ecosystems once they’re well-connected. Permanent and scalable storage via Arweave is one such functionality… Read More

November 22, 2021 @ 10:03 am By JD Alois  |  

ADDX (formerly doing business as iSTOX) has tokenized a credit fund by Temasek-owned SeaTown. According to the company the deal reduces the fund’s minimum investment size from US$5 million to US$20,000, enabling fractional access to a private credit fund with more than USD $1 billion… Read More

November 22, 2021 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

MoonPay is reporting a whopping $555 million Series A funding round at a $3.4 billion valuation. The “historic” funding was led by Tiger Global Management and Coatue. Other investors include Blossom Capital, Thrive Capital, Paradigm, and NEA. MoonPay is a multifaceted platform that offers crypto… Read More

November 22, 2021 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) has disrupted many industries since its launch and now it could be the turn for venture capital. We recently had the chance to connect with Hatu Sheikh, a founding member at DAO Maker — a platform opening up the… Read More

November 21, 2021 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain-based solutions provider ConsenSys announced earlier this week that it had finalized a $200 million round, bringing its valuation to around $3.2 billion. New investors Marshall Wace, Third Point, ParaFi Capital, and Think Investments took part in ConsenSys‘ latest investments round. New partners that contributed… Read More

November 21, 2021 @ 6:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Switzerland Stock Exchange (SIX) recently revealed that the SIX Digital Exchange will be issuing its very first senior unsecured digital CHF bond. SIX’s management confirmed that the bond had been issued for a total volume of CHF 150 million and with its maturity set… Read More

November 21, 2021 @ 4:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital assets, or crypto assets, are once again on the schedule for a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee. Scheduled for December 8 at 10:00 AM ET,  the full Committee will gather for a hybrid hearing entitled, “Digital Assets and the Future of Finance:… Read More

November 21, 2021 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Blockstream notes in a report that Bitcoin is on track for its worst weekly drop in over 6 months. Blocktream writes in a blog post that declines this past week looked to be driven by “continued deleveraging and perhaps also exacerbated by… Read More

November 20, 2021 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Kraken notes that in the fast-paced world of virtual currencies, every second counts when you’re moving funds around. Kraken writes in a blog post that establishing the bridges that enable seamless transactions from legacy banking platforms to the “ever-growing” number of blockchain… Read More

November 20, 2021 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets firm OKCoin notes that now you can access 20 different cryptocurrency staking and decentralized finance (DeFi) offers right via their mobile app. This week, OKCoin is introducing four new assets on Earn: Algorand (ALGO), Solana (SOL), Polygon (MATIC) and Tron… Read More

November 20, 2021 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Metis team has launched the platform’s Mainnet Andromeda, a move that confirms a commitment to greater decentralization of Internet-based services. $METIS will launch its inaugural Layer 2 mainnet, Andromeda, Friday Nov 19, 3 pm UTC. Join our launch livestream w/ partners @AssxToken @Metacraftpro @standarddefi… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 6:38 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Snoop Dogg, deadmau5 and Polygon Network founder Sandeep Nailwal are among the new members to join VC Outlier Ventures’ Outlier Ventures Partnership. They will invest in and advise startups going through Outlier Ventures’ Base Camp accelerator, dubbed the Y-Combinator of the Metaverse. Established in 2014,… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 5:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Verida Protocol alpha release, which offers a way to abstract away the complexities of encryption, permissioning, schemas, and user management, is currently live for Web 3.0 developers. As mentioned in the announcement, this release comes with the Verida Client (software development kit) SDK, Single… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 4:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Casper Association, the not-for-profit entity that oversees the Casper Network, this week announced a solution to security challenges that threatened to slow or halt the adoption of NFTs. Using a trusted execution environment (TEE) in combination with hardware security modules provided by NFT infrastructure provider… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 1:08 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETP) issuer 21Shares this week announced the seed funding of the 21Shares Polygon ETP (Ticker: POLY) on the SIX Swiss Exchange by the Polygon Foundation. The 21Shares Polygon ETP (Ticker: POLY) tracks the investment results of Polygon, an Ethereum scaling platform. Hosting… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 11:18 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A review of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) enforcement actions in this fiscal year show a growing threat posed by cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi) scammers. The year ended Sept. 30. The SEC filed 434 new enforcement actions in FY2021, and that is a… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 10:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Beginning today (November 18, 2021), the Voyager Token (VGX) is available via Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) clients are now able to trade, send, receive, or store VGX “in most Coinbase-supported regions, with certain exceptions indicated in each asset… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Security Token Market (STM), which is focused on supporting blockchain-based security tokens, has released their Tokenized Stock Arbitrage Report for October 2021. As noted in the report from STM, FTX has seen “record-high” trading volumes. It’s been an “electric month” for tokenized… Read More

November 18, 2021 @ 6:13 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced it has charged Ryan Ginster of Corona, Cal. with conducting two unregistered and fraudulent securities offerings which collectively raised more than $3.6 million in cryptocurrency from retail investors. The complaint alleges that, from 2018 up to 2021,… Read More

November 18, 2021 @ 3:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitso, a top crypto platform in Latin America that reports over 3.3 million users, has launched “Bitso Shift,” a service that allows Mexican people and companies to send and receive payments between Mexico and the United States. According to Bitso, Bitso Shift is targeting Mexican… Read More