Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 28, 2021 @ 9:30 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Monsoon Blockchain Corporation this week announced a new digital cryptocurrency ecosystem for powering Bitcoin Latinum, an insured, asset-backed cryptocurrency. Monsoon Blockchain develops the Bitcoin Latinum network on behalf of the Bitcoin Latinum Foundation. Bitcoin Latinum will initially support up to 10,000 transactions per second and millions… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 8:38 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new survey of institutional investors and wealth managers from the US, UK, France, Germany, and the UAE who don’t currently have exposure to cryptocurrencies and digital assets, reveals 62 per cent expect to invest in these for the first time within the next year,… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 5:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kraken (Payward Ventures, Inc), a digital asset trading platform, has been hit by a $1.25 million penalty imposed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to a statement by the CFTC, Kraken offered illegal off-exchange trading in digital asetss and failed to register as… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 4:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital securities exchange ADDX reveals that it has tokenized an allocation from a private equity fund that is being managed by Partners Group, an international private markets investment company. As mentioned in a release shared with CI, the allocation from the Partners Group Global Value… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 4:19 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Merkle Science, a predictive blockchain monitoring and investigative platform, today announced the close of its $5.75 million Series A funding round led by Darrow Holdings. Other investors in the round include Kraken Ventures, Bain-backed Uncorrelated Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Token Bay Capital, Kenetic, and Lunex Ventures…. Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Baton Systems, the Fintech that’s focused on transforming asset movements and settlements with solutions based on distributed ledger technology (DLT), has confirmed the appointment of Jerome Kemp as the firm’s President. As mentioned in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider, Kemp joins the business at… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 12:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, a digital securities ecosystem has fired up its alternative trading system (ATS) to enable the trading of security tokens. Securitize Markets is designed to provide investors access to invest in and trade a broad range of alternative assets, including private company equity, real estate,… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Chainlink has partnered with Wrapped to allow users to wrap their crypto and use it on multiple chains. Wrapped is a joint initiative between TokenSoft and Anchorage. Wrapped said it is exciting to have selected Chainlink Proof of Reserve (PoR) to provide complete on-chain auditability… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 9:36 am By JD Alois  |  

The BIS (Bank for International Settlements) has published a report pertaining to central bank digital currency (CBDC) and payments. Crafted in partnership with the HKMA (Hong Kong Monetary Authority), Bank of Thailand, People’s Bank of China and the Central Bank of the UAE, the document… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Acala, the decentralized finance (DeFi) network and liquidity hub of Polkadot, reveals that it has formed a partnership with Blockdaemon, a blockchain or DLT  infrastructure provider, in order to support its newly-developed staking derivatives for Polkadot (DOT) and Kusama (KSM). As noted in an update… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Coinrule, which offers individual and retail crypto investors an automated digital currency trading platform for their assets, reveals that it has completed a $2.2 million seed round. As mentioned in the announcement, several technology company founders and investors took part in the firm’s… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 11:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The cryptocurrency markets have been trading down after news of another crackdown on the industry from China. The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has issued a statement that has reiterated that all cryptocurrency trading activities in the country are illegal, and regulatory authorities will be… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 10:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Internet Computer Community has adopted the threshold ECDSA signatures Motion proposal. All Bitcoin keys and signatures are being generated by using ECDSA. An ECDSA signature allows us to share a public key and create a signature of certain data using their private key. This… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 7:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink VRF has enabled over 35 blockchain RNG use-cases. RNG or (secure) random number generator supports smart contracts and off-chain systems in order to access “a verifiably tamper-proof source of randomness.” Since its mainnet launch in October of last year, Chainlink VRF has serviced more… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 7:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Kraken is pleased to confirm that they’ve made a commitment to fund Bitcoin’s (BTC) open-source Rust development ecosystem. As mentioned in a blog post by Kraken: “In memory of late Bitcoin Rust contributor and former Kraken employee, Tamás Blummer, our internal Tamás… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 2:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spencer Noon, an investor in Variant, a first-check cryptocurrency venture capital fund, has released their latest Network report, which covers OpenSea, Foundation, SuperRare, RMRK, and Fractional. Spencer Noon reports that analysts have covered the non-fungible tokens or NFTs space for: OpenSea, Foundation, SuperRare, RMRK, and… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 11:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IOHK and Oasis Pro have entered a partnership to create an alternative trading system that will use blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) to open up participation “in primary bond markets to developing countries.” The two firms are teaming up to implement a bond issuance… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO, a trailblazer in the digital asset sector that operates a digital securities trading platform, has announced the addition of multiple cryptocurrencies to its Crypto App. According to tZERO, available on October 4, 2021, for trading is Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Stellar Lumen (XLM), Cardano (ADA),… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Derek Lau, Game Director at Guild of Guardians, which is one of the partner games of Yield Guild Games (YGG). Guild of Guardians is a blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT)-based mobile role-playing game (RPG) that has been published by… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Greengage announced that it has strengthened its senior leadership team with the appointment of a new Chief Financial Officer. The company has hired former Starling Bank Head of Finance, Brennan Elliott-Jones, in order to accelerates growth of its Gibraltar business operations. Greengage, which intends to… Read More