Blockchain & Digital Assets

August 1, 2021 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Open Earth Foundation has reportedly been awarded a Chainlink Grant to develop am open-source, planetary CO2 concentration Oracle. As mentioned in the announcement, Climate impacts everyone, from multinational corporations overseeing complex supply chains to individual farmers “managing unpredictable crop yields.” While the totality of… Read More

July 31, 2021 @ 5:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Akash Network and Filebase will be providing multi-Cloud decentralized storage options, according to an update shared with CI. Today, Akash Network, an open-source, decentralized Cloud revealed that they’ve partnered with Filebase, the world’s “first object-based storage” platform in order to offer multi-Cloud, decentralized web… Read More

July 31, 2021 @ 2:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has announced new enforcement actions against digital assets firm Binance. The cryptocurrency exchange operator has been accused of illegally operating its trading platform in Malaysia. The SC has now ordered Binance to immediately disable access to its website as well… Read More

July 31, 2021 @ 2:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has added advanced investigation and compliance support for six more widely-used ERC-20 tokens. All six crypto tokens are decentralized finance or DeFi related and five of them “specifically belong to top DeFi protocols,” the blockchain firm noted in a recent update…. Read More

July 30, 2021 @ 12:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets firm OKEx reveals that OKExChain (OEC) has hit over $1 billion in total value locked (TVL) in just the past 24 hours. As previously reported, OKExChain is a set of open-source blockchain projects developed by OKEx. They aim to support… Read More

July 30, 2021 @ 11:50 am By JD Alois  |  

President Joe Biden published more details on the pending infrastructure deal while indicating he intends to offset the substantial cost by various fees including “strengthening tax enforcement when it comes to cryptocurrencies.” In a speech, President Biden said: “This agreement will help ensure that America… Read More

July 30, 2021 @ 11:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SKALE Network, the multichain network of “unlimited” Ethereum blockchains for powering Web 3.0 today, has initiated a roll out of the first decentralized applications (dApps) to go live on Mainnet. As mentioned in an update shared with CI, the release of the SKALE IMA bridge… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sweet, which aims to empower brands to deploy NFTs to broader consumer bases through immersive & integrated experiences, driving new revenue & engagement, is making non-fungible tokens or NFTs accessible to everyone. On May 23, 2021, more than 15,000 “fired-up” Knicks fans had shown up… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 10:08 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Israeli blockchain firm Kirobo has launched the P2P Swap Button, a decentralized service enabling truly peer-to-peer token swaps without the need for an exchange or custodial OTC party. Users can set their own token prices with the off-exchange platform, allowing them to avoid the slippage… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 6:15 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bender Labs and Plenty DeFi are rewarding users of the Tezos DeFi ecosystem. Plenty will create a $PLENTY pond where users can stake $PLENTY tokens to earn $WRAP governance tokens as rewards (Bender Labs launched Wrap Protocol). At the same time Wrap Protocol will create… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decred (DCR), a virtual currency that places a lot of emphasis on security as well as scalability, reveals that there’s been a passage of a vote to enhance the protocol’s base layer user experience (UX). As mentioned in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider, the… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 9:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Changpeng Zhao or “CZ”, the CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of adjusted trading volume, recently announced that he would be welcoming regulation. CZ also said he wants Binance to work cooperatively with regulatory authorities, across the globe, as it establishes… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Secured Finance, a platform provider for the crypto loans and the derivatives market, says it has acquired $4 million in capital as part of its “oversubscribed” seed round. The successful raise, with demand of “more than double” of Secured Finance’s initial target, has been co-led… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Curve Finance, an automated market maker protocol developed for swapping between stablecoins and various other crypto tokens with low fees and slippage, reveals that it will be supporting Tether tokens pegged to the euro (EURt). The addition of EURt to Curve — a protocol developed… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 8:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Fabric Ventures has announced a new $130 million fund dedicated to backing digital asset and decentralized, or DeFi, early-stage firms. The fund received the support of the European Investment Fund (EIF) which added $30 million to the fund. This is the first EIF backed fund… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital bank Revolut notes that they are now closer to 2022 than 2020, so making plans for next year would be a good idea. They also mentioned that July was “generous,” bringing many new products with it, including those related to booking… Read More

July 28, 2021 @ 9:38 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Blockchain-based financial services provider Figure officially closed its $200 million Series D, leaving it with a $3.2 billion valuation. New investors including entities and funds associated with affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Blockchain.com, Rockaway Blockchain, HOF Capital, Endeavour Capital, National Bank Holdings, Goldentree Asset Management… Read More

July 28, 2021 @ 6:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SecuX Technology Inc. is pleased to confirm the launch of new features – which include the support of WalletConnect, Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and Cardano (ADA), to be released on July 29, 2021, as well as the new user interface of the firm’s SecuXess web… Read More

July 28, 2021 @ 5:45 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The availability of Chainlink Price Feeds on the Avalanche mainnet will improve the quality of DeFi applications developers can create on the popular platform. The feeds bring secure price reference data from several asset classes. Some options now available are price-sensitive derivatives markets, low-cost lending… Read More

July 28, 2021 @ 3:59 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Developers can now provide Polygon’s USDC token via the Polygon ecosystem thanks to the use of Wyre’s Checkout API. This integration provides one of the only fiat to USDC on-ramps for customers around the world and in 43 US states, with the conversion process taking less… Read More