Blockchain & Digital Assets

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

January 14, 2022 @ 5:27 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Payment technology firm Nuvei this week announced the release of its latest white paper Mystery to Opportunity: The Future of Crypto Payments. It discusses the potential of cryptocurrencies as a viable payment method in e-commerce and considers possible adoption scenarios that could unfold in the near future…. Read More

January 14, 2022 @ 4:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets firm Kraken notes that if 2020 was the year of the bull, 2021 was the year that “crypto went mainstream.” During the past year, they claim to have “witnessed leaps in adoption, infrastructure, regulation, and policy — not to mention… Read More

January 14, 2022 @ 1:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has successfully tested wholesale CBCD [central bank digital currency] settlement in a partnership with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and SIX (parent of the Swiss Stock Exchange). The test was completed during Q4 2021. The project utilized SDX, the… Read More

January 14, 2022 @ 1:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Neufund, once a high-profile security token platform offering primary issuance based in Germany, has decided to shut down. In 2018, Neufund announced its first “equity token offering” or ETO that was initially said to be in compliance with German law. At that time, Neufund co-founder… Read More

January 14, 2022 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trent Fuenmayor, Program Manager, Coinbase Giving, has announced the initiative’s second developer grant recipients. In August of last year, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) via their Giving initiative, made a call for applications via their Crypto Community Fund that is “focused on blockchain developers who contribute directly to a… Read More