Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 17, 2021 @ 2:20 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Allied Payment Network and Finastra this week announced that Allied Bitcoin Wallet, a new app will soon be launched on Finastra’s FusionStore. The service, created by Allied in partnership with NYDIG, will enable financial institutions to offer their customers and members the ability to buy,… Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 12:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

FlyCoin, a blockchain-based travel rewards program, has appointed Lenny Moon as its new chief executive officer. Moon will guide the company’s market launch, further its strategic vision, and execute its operational business plan. Already available to Ravn Alaska customers, FlyCoin will also launch on Northern… Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 12:49 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Decentralized finance platform Oasis.app has integrated with the 1inch Network, a decentralized exchange aggregator, to provide its users with the competitive rates and liquidity. This integration comes shortly after users were suffering from rising gas costs using Oasis Trade, as 1inch provides a cheaper, more efficient solution…. Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 12:47 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum scaling platform, recently MixMarvel, a blockchain game publishing platform and content community, has completed its integration with Polygon to enhance its immersive gaming experiences and provide play-to-earn opportunities. The two companies are also co-developing the most robust content platform in the NFT… Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 11:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Popular neo-bank Revolut has become WeWork’s first customer to pay for shared space in Bitcoin, according to a public statement. Revolut will pay for its Dallas space, its largest in the US, in BTC. Revolut will lease space for more than 300 employees at WeWork… Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 10:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Polychain and Three Arrows Capital have led a $230 million investment in the Avalanche public blockchain ecosystem. They’ve been joined by R/Crypto Fund, Dragonfly, CMS Holdings, Collab+Currency, Lvna Capital and several angel investors and family offices. The Avalanche Foundation will be using the funds from… Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 9:57 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Over his three decades as a tech entrepreneur, Cameron Chell has shown a knack for identifying transformative technologies early on and he believes he’s done it again. Chell is the executive director of CurrencyWorks, a developer of digital currencies and related systems, and co-head of… Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EY, an international consulting and tech firm, is working with Polygon on developing and implementing scaling and enterprise services for the Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem. As part of this collaboration, EY and Polygon will be working cooperatively on Polygon Nightfall, a public, privacy-oriented Rollup. EY will… Read More

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