Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 16, 2021 @ 10:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Estonian company BlockBen has released its digital asset eBSO on the Ethereum network. eBSO is a platform token that receives a percentage of every transaction of all the assets in the BlockBen ecosystem and is accumulated as physical gold. Trading of the eBSO token begins… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 9:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bondster a Czech based peer to peer lending platform, says it will allow loans for investors to be secured with Bitcoin. Bondster states that just last week the first batch of loans secured by bitcoin were originated on its platform. Bondster claims there was an… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 2:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Change, a European crypto investment platform, says it has opened an office in Singapore in the first step towards global expansion. Singapore is a noted Fintech hub that is supported by a regulatory regime that seeks to enable Fintech innovation. This past summer, Change reported… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 10:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Domination Finance, a non-custodial, decentralized exchange for dominance pairs, reveals that it has finalized a $3.2 million seed round involving key investors in the blockchain and crypto sector. The initiative’s operational platform enables users to trade Bitcoin Dominance (BTCDOM), Ethereum Dominance (ETHDOM), and Tether Dominance… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 9:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Nexpay, an EU-licensed electronic money institution, has partnered with Salt Edge, an open-banking SaaS provider. Nexpay is a Vilnius-based Fintech startup that provides banking infrastructure for the digital assets sector. Currently, Nexpay reports that it is helping over 400 businesses build a range of payments… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Gemini reveals that it now supports trading with Moss Carbon and Terra, in addition to new metaverse, infrastructure, and stablecoin tokens. As mentioned in an update shared with CI: “Today, [the Gemini team is] delighted to announce support for a new set… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Umbrella Network, the decentralized Layer-2 Oracle solution, revealed on Wednesday (September 15, 2021) that they had formed a partnership with IX Swap, which claims to be the first decentralized finance or DeFi platform that provides Automated Market Making (AMM) & Liquidity Pools (LPs) for security… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 8:54 am By JD Alois  |  

  SupraFin is democratizing sophisticated crypto trading for the masses. Launched this week and available for download via the Apple App Store, SupraFin has announced the first app with smart crypto investment algorithms that assess the relative value of thousands of cryptocurrencies and recommends the… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Growth DeFi has integrated Chainlink (LINK) price feeds on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) mainnet for their collateralized stablecoin lending protocol, MOR. By integrating Chainlink’s decentralized Oracle network, the MOR protocol will be able to gain access to “high-quality” and “tamper-proof” price feeds required to… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 4:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AscendEX will be listing Sovryn (SOV) under the trading pairs SOV/USDT and SOV/BTC, beginning on September 15, 2021 “at 1:00 p.m. UTC, 2021.” Sovryn is notably one of Bitcoin (BTC)’s fastest-growing ecosystems. It’s the first Bitcoin-native application that will enable users to access decentralized trading… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 3:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

FTX Trading and West Realm Shires Services Inc., owners and operators of FTX.COM and FTX.US, have formed another sports-focused partnership by signing a deal with Ohana Experience, an agency that represents the Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) interests of Brigham Young University football players. FTX has… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 3:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

X-Margin, a company applying privacy-preserving technology to credit and financial market risk, has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round where Coinbase Ventures, HashKey Capital and Spartan Group were major investors. Bixin Ventures, Miranda Ventures (Bybit), Gemini, Primitive Ventures and Kenetic Capital also… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 3:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Liti Capital, a Swiss-based litigation funding provider, has launched staking for its wLITI token. As of Sept. 13, wLITI token holders will be able to stake their tokens and receive wLITI in return. “Staking is a crucial tool to be attractive in the DeFi space and to… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 11:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Infura, a ConsenSys firm offering an extensive suite of blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) developer tools, reveals that it’s introducing the public release of its Ethereum (ETH) transaction relaying service, called Infura Transactions (ITX). As noted in a release shared with CI, ITX makes… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler marched up to Capitol Hill yesterday to testify in front of the Senate Banking Committee in a hearing entitled “Oversight of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission”.  Gensler outlined his ambitions at the SEC in his prepared remarks. While Gensler received… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 10:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxful, an established and globally accessible P2P Fintech platform, reveals that it has performed an integration on the Lightning Network. More than 7 million Paxful users will now be able to “leverage the power of the Lightning Network, a system built on top of the… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HaloDAO is collaborating with YGG for “local” stablecoin support “for simpler cash out,” according to an update shared with Crowdfund Insider. HaloDAO, a stablecoin marketplace protocol, is working cooperatively with Yield Guild Games (YGG) to “enable YGG community members to support simpler cash outs in… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

As has been widely reported, China Evergrande Group (HKEX:3333), China’s second-largest property developer, is flashing default signals on its corporate debt.  In a corporate statement Evergrande said that the company expects a “significant continuing decline in contract sales in September, thereby resulting in the continuous… Read More

September 14, 2021 @ 8:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Nukkleus has partnered with Monogram Network, a public ledger blockchain, to issue is MG Token. The partnership is being arranged via crypto firm Digital RFQ, which will ensure payouts are delivered. Digital RFQ is registered with the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority. The MG Token… Read More

September 14, 2021 @ 8:35 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Predictive blockchain monitoring and investigative platform Merkle Science today announced accelerated global expansion with a major focus on the United States. The process will be led by former U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan, who was named president, Americas and global chief legal officer. “This is an… Read More