Blockchain & Digital Assets

June 21, 2021 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, Inc., a digital securities ecosystem platform, has raised a solid $48 million in a funding round that was led by funds managed by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value and Blockchain Capital. Said to be oversubscribed, the Series B found saw the participation of both new… Read More

June 21, 2021 @ 9:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA Switzerland has opened its Bitcoin trading service to all private banking customers. After six months of in-house testing with a certain group of users, BBVA Switzerland has decided to make its first digital asset trading and custody service accessible to all its private banking… Read More

June 21, 2021 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at BitOoda, a global digital asset financial technology and services platform offering risk management solutions, recently noted that the Bitcoin market is continuing its consolidation pattern. As mentioned in an update from BitOoda, $30,000 has “proved to be a support level for now.”… Read More

June 20, 2021 @ 7:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore‘s United Overseas Bank (UOB), a multinational banking organization with branches mostly based in Southeast Asian countries, has reportedly used Marketnode’s digital asset issuance, depository and servicing platform to issue a new bond offering valued at SGD 600 million (appr. $446 million), with a final… Read More

June 20, 2021 @ 6:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OceanDAO, a distributed autonomous organization supporting the Ocean Protocol, reveals that the 7th round is now open for submissions. More than $200,000 is being offered for Data Science, Developer, and AI Research projects according to a release shared with Crowdfund Insider. During its first six… Read More

June 20, 2021 @ 5:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Kraken is pleased to confirm that they’re listing Solana (SOL) and Serum (SRM) along with staking support for Solana (SOL) “with up to 6.5% in yearly rewards.” As noted in the announcement from Kraken, deposits and withdrawals for SOL, SRM tokens are… Read More

June 20, 2021 @ 3:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset firm Gemini notes that they are adding trading support for a new set of decentralized finance (DeFi), infrastructure, and data management tokens. Gemini is adding Alchemix (ALCX), Ankr Network (ANKR), Fantom (FTM), Mirror Protocol (MIR), API3 (API3), and DerivaDAO (DDX)…. Read More

June 19, 2021 @ 1:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Professor Aggelos Kiayias, a Greek computer scientist, currently a professor at the University of Edinburgh, has published a blog post titled “Stablefees and the Decentralized Reserve System.” Kiayias notes in a blog posted by IOHK, the company supporting Cardano development, that  facilitating transactions via crypto… Read More

June 19, 2021 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Chainlink (LINK), the developers for decentralized Oracles and various other solutions for blockchain and smart contract platforms, are announcing that registration is currently open for Chainlink’s Summer 2021 Smart Contract Developer Bootcamp. The Chainlink team notes that the program is designed to… Read More

June 18, 2021 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based VALK, the end-to-end digital transaction solution for private markets developed on Corda, has managed to secure a place in the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) regulatory sandbox. Established in 2016, the FCA regulatory sandbox is being offered to assist the financial services sector and… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 11:39 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Goobit Group and Xpecunia Nordic are collaborating on “green” cryptocurrency. The deal gives Goobit exclusivity to sell Xpecunia Nordic-produced crypto across the Nordic countries. Those coins are produced with green energy like solar and will be available on Goobit’s BTCX exchange. “BTCX is Sweden’s oldest… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 9:46 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Persistence, has opened its testnet to the public. It allows anyone to test pSTAKE’s liquid staking services, with test tokens initially available to users in the public alpha. They have also started its bug bounty program, an incentivized program of testing where participants will be… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 7:32 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

One in seven Canadian adults own cryptocurrency, new data from finance website Finder reveals. That equates to roughly 4.2 million people. On a list of 26 countries, Canada ranks 19th, well ahead of the USA (nine per cent) and the UK (eight per cent). They… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 7:10 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Trading data from blockchain-based derivatives platform CloseCross suggests the majority of ETH investors expect its price to stay stable or increase, an analysis released today shows. In mid-June, roughly 80 percent of ETH and BTC trades on CloseCross were based on them gaining price from… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 6:31 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Draper Goren Holm has invested in cryptocurrency exchange H2cryptO. “We’re so excited to welcome H2cryptO into our family as George and his team have a proven track record of understanding the sector on an intimate level, making them well-positioned to become an industry leader,” said… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 6:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Digital assets infrastructure provider Fireblocks has integrated Crypto.com into the Fireblocks Network, a digital asset transfer network for institutions. This integration will allow Crypto.com to expand its reach to more than 400 institutional participants through the Fireblocks Network. “Being on board the Fireblocks Network will allow… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 4:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since Bitcoin’s (BTC) launch back in 2009, virtual currency has managed to drive new markets, while spurring advancements in modern financial infrastructure. It has also led to innovative thinking in how to address the global economic requirements, the Chainalysis team writes in a blog post…. Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 3:48 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Iron Finance was left to explain itself today after a “bank run” left its TITAN token worthless, leaving investors including Mark Cuban to wonder what happened. Cuban was a liquidity provider in decentralized exchange QuickSwap. He announced his participation just four days ago but has… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 3:18 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs has closed a $14 Million Series A funding round led by Bessemer. Additional participants include from PayPal Ventures, Initialized Capital, Jump Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Operator Partners, Blockchain Capital, and executives from Google. Existing investors who re-upped are Y Combinator, Alumni… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 12:11 pm By Chris Sloan  |  

In December 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint in a New York federal court against Ripple Labs, Inc. and two of its executives alleging that Ripple had sold $1.3 billion in XRP cryptocurrency tokens in a series of unregistered securities offerings…. Read More