Blockchain & Digital Assets

November 11, 2021 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, CI reported that a damaging clause included in pending legislation had been pulled from the language of the bill. The portion of the legislation was ostensibly designed to halt IRA investors (investment retirement accounts) from holding private securities in these tax-sheltered, retirement vehicles…. Read More

November 11, 2021 @ 11:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Saddle, an open-source automated market maker (AMM) has closed on a $7.5 million funding round led by Polychain and Electric Capital, according to a release. The funding also included the participation of eGirl Capital, Nascent, and others. Saddle reports that to date it has raised… Read More

November 11, 2021 @ 11:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Singapore and Abu Dhabi (UAE), have completed a pilot of a “world’s first” cross-border digital trade financing pilot. The pilot was completed in partnership with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA),  the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu… Read More

November 11, 2021 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CryptoUK, the “trusted” voice of the United Kingdom’s crypto-assets industry, revealed on November 11, 2021, that it has appointed Rob McWilliam as its new non-executive director (NED). McWilliam has held key executive roles at two of the “most customer-centric” companies in the world, as finance… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 10:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

ADDX and Tokai Tokyo will provde access to digital securities in Japan following the receipt of a security token license by the Japanese Financial Services Agency. ADDX, formerly known as iSTOX, is an online marketplace for digital securities including fractional shares. ADDX  has been approved… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 10:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Smart contract platform RSK’s expansion throughout the Philippines will result in more access to stablecoins for investors living in the country. Given their peg to existing assets such as fiat currencies, precious metals and, on occasion, other cryptocurrencies, stablecoins are less vulnerable to the wild… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 6:48 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

True Global Ventures 4 Plus (TGV4 Plus) has confirmed  $1,250,000 USD funding with Forza Ikonia to bring NFTs to the mass market on Polygon blockchain technology. The investment coincides with the release of MAUER (mauer.digital) – an NFT collection memorializing the Berlin Wall. MAUER consists… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 6:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has halted two token offerings by American CryptoFed DAO LLC, a Wyoming-based organization. According to the SEC, the Division of Enforcement alleges that in September American CryptoFed filed a “materially deficient and misleading registration form known as a Form… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 3:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has announced a new platform for the issuance, transfer, and servicing of private market securities. DTCC is a service provider that processes the clearing and settlement for over $2 quadrillion of securities transactions every year.  The private securities… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 3:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fraxtor, a Singapore-based real estate tokenization investment platform, has raised $1.25 million in a pre-Series A funding round, the company announced this week. The event saw participation from family offices such as Baksh Capital and Andes Fund Management. The funds raised will be utilized to… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 3:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nansen, the blockchain data analytics platform, has announced an upcoming integration with Solana, a high-performance blockchain supporting builders with developing crypto apps that scale. Scheduled to go live in Q1 2022, the Solana dashboards on Nansen should give users the option to carefully explore some… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 12:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wing, which is Ontology’s cross-chain DeFi lending platform, has officially gone live on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). Following the integration, millions of decentralized finance users should be able to access modern financial services. As mentioned in an update shared with CI: “Showcasing its status as… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 11:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nexo, one of the regulated institutions for crypto-assets, has reportedly acquired a stake in Texture Capital Holdings Corp., which is the parent firm of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) member and SEC-registered broker-dealer Texture Capital. As mentioned in an update shared with CI, this investment… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 10:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Tether Operations today announced it has launched Tether tokens (USDt) on Avalanche, a decentralized smart contracts platform built for the scale of global finance and business. Avalanche is designed as a highly scalable ecosystem, able to deliver rapid transaction finality and low transaction fees. It is… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 9:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), the leading digital asset marketplace in the US, missed earnings expectations yesterday disappointing investors. In response, shares are tanking and as of now are down % in pre-market trading. While analysts anticipated revenue of $1.6 billion, Coinbase missed that amount generating only $1.3… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Sovryn, a Bitcoin-native app supporting decentralized lending, notes in a blog post that we are all in the middle of a truly historic transition from a global economy largely based on fiat money to an economic system based on crypto-assets and dominated… Read More

November 9, 2021 @ 10:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Circle Internet Financial has launched Circle Ventures, a fund that aims to invest in promising early-stage blockchain firms. While best known for its dollar-based stablecoin (USDC), Circle is already engaged with the early-stage funding sector via its acquisition of SeedInvest, a top investment crowdfunding platform…. Read More

November 9, 2021 @ 9:24 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Digital Finance Group, a global blockchain and cryptocurrency investment firm, this week announced it will allocate 500,000 DOT, Polkadot’s native cryptocurrency, to Acala, a decentralized finance platform built on the Polkadot blockchain network. Acala plans to compete for a parachain slot in Polkadot’s upcoming parachain auctions… Read More

November 9, 2021 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Clearpool, a decentralized capital markets ecosystem, is teaming up with X-Margin, the platform facilitating credit to trading companies, in order to enable institutions to borrow from their “own dedicated and transparent lending pool.” As mentioned in an update shared with Crowdfund Insider, Clearpool will be… Read More

November 9, 2021 @ 2:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

CBDCs have the potential to make a significant impact on global finance, but appropriate safeguards need to be in place, an official from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said today. The industry gathered for the Singapore FinTech Festival, where one of the presenters was… Read More