Blockchain & Digital Assets

August 2, 2021 @ 11:38 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO ATS (alternative trading system) reports that it will list Exodus Movement, Inc. Class A common stock for secondary trading. Exodus issued securities under Reg A+, a securities exemption that allows the issuer to immediately trade shares on an exchange or ATS. Exodus closed its… Read More

August 2, 2021 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers at Ocean Protocol (OCEAN), which allows software engineers to build marketplaces and other apps to privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data, have revealed that Ocean now makes multi-network “even easier.” The Ocean Protocol developers reported that they’ve simplified multi-network on Ocean… Read More

August 2, 2021 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

As has been previously reported, the spending bill that has been in the works for some time now is closer to become law. The ‘Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” lands at 2700 pages of government expenditure that aims to improve infrastructure like roads, airports, transportation… Read More

August 2, 2021 @ 10:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset management firm Arca has announced a new digital asset fund that aims to generate low double-digit returns, along with minimal volatility, for investors. The Arca Digital Yield Fund is said to be the first actively managed income fund in the digital assets sector…. Read More

August 1, 2021 @ 9:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brett McLain, Director of Engineering – Crypto, Fiat, Staking at digital assets firm Kraken, notes that if you’re interested in digital currencies, payments, or staking and want to help create the financial system of the future, then you may be glad to know that the… Read More

August 1, 2021 @ 8:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

The US Senate worked on Sunday to come to terms on a infrastructure bill that could end up costing trillions of dollars. The super thin margin in the Senate means moderates on both sides of the aisle will play a key role in the decision… Read More

August 1, 2021 @ 7:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Jacobo Toll-Messia, the Founder and CEO at Nahmii AS, which is focused on providing layer-2 scalability solutions for Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform. Jacobo talked about the different approaches taken to effectively scale enterprise-grade blockchain or distributed… Read More

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