Blockchain & Digital Assets

April 14, 2021 @ 11:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equisafe, a Paris-based digital blockchain-based transfer agent, has announced the launch of Equisafe Markets, a secondary market for digital securities. Equisafe said that the first listing on the market will be Carthagea, a French operator of medicalized residences in Tunisia with its head office in France…. Read More

April 14, 2021 @ 10:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at BitOoda, a global digital asset financial technology and services platform providing “next-gen” risk management solutions, notes that Bitcoin (BTC) is up by around $8,000 since their last crypto market commentary on April 8, 2021. The BitOoda team adds that “more importantly,” Bitcoin… Read More

April 14, 2021 @ 10:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase, perhaps the most anticipated public listing of 2021, commenced trading on the Nasdaq today following a direct listing that started with a reference per-share value of $250 and quickly went higher from there. Listed under the ticker symbol COIN, Coinbase traded as high as… Read More

April 14, 2021 @ 8:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Reserve, which claims to be a “flexible” pool of stablecoins designed to “reduce risk” via diversification strategies and “decentralized” governance, reports that during the last week of March 2021, Reserve was “the #1 most downloaded finance app” in Venezuela, and it also “surpassed 100,000 total… Read More

April 14, 2021 @ 1:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  CoinShares, a European digital asset investment firm, announced on Tuesday it has crossed the $5 billion in assets threshold on its two ETP platforms.  As previously reported, CoinShares claims to be Europe’s largest digital asset investment house, managing billions of assets on behalf of a global… Read More

April 14, 2021 @ 12:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cryptocurrency payments platform BitPay announced on Wednesday it has collaborated with the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) to share open-source projects and use a shared patent library. According to BitPay, COPA was founded by Square and believes open access to patents and freedom from threats on… Read More

April 14, 2021 @ 10:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Manuel Silva Martinez, General Partner of Mouro Capital (formerly Santander InnoVentures), has distributed a note on Bitcoin and the environmental impact of the world’s most popular crypto. Martinez is criticizing BTC just as it rockets to new all time highs – currently trading at around… Read More

April 14, 2021 @ 9:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  ConsenSys announced on Tuesday it raised $65 million through its latest investment round. The blockchain company reported that J.P. Morgan, Mastercard, and UBS invested alongside blockchain companies, including Protocol Labs, the Maker Foundation, Fenbushi, The LAO, and Alameda Research. Additional investors include CMT Digital, Greater… Read More

April 14, 2021 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has posted an update to her Token Safe Habor proposal. Back in February 2020, Commissioner Peirce revealed her proposal in an effort to create a regulatory environment that supported Fintech innovation while acknowledging the unique characteristics of digital assets. Since the… Read More

April 13, 2021 @ 8:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arweave, which aims to offer a “novel” data storage blockchain protocol enabling “a permanent serverless web and creating truly permanent data storage for the first time,” has released its Q1 2021 Ecosystem Update, titled, NFTs, The Guardian, a new web wallet, new gateway (& much… Read More

April 13, 2021 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HSBC (NYSE: HSBC) is reportedly preventing its clients from purchasing shares of MicroStrategy (NASD:MSTR), a company that has been actively acquiring Bitcoin (BTC) as part of its efforts to increase the value of its corporate treasury. HSBC stated that it would not be facilitating the… Read More

April 13, 2021 @ 12:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Cere token offering on Republic has quickly hit its max funding target of $26.3 million according to the offering page. The security token offering reportedly went live at 10 AM ET this morning to intense demand – investor interest was so robust it was… Read More

April 13, 2021 @ 12:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

As the entire crypto-sphere knows, Coinbase will complete an initial public offering (IPO) this week (April 14) in a direct listing on Nasdaq. Trading under the ticker symbol of COIN, Coinbase’s share float is perhaps the most anticipated listing of 2021 representing the maturity of… Read More

April 13, 2021 @ 12:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

OKEx announced on Tuesday it has listed Celsius Network’s CEL token on its cryptocurrency and derivatives exchange. OKEx reported it is the third global exchange to list CEL token in recent weeks, in addition to several decentralized exchanges, since CEL token’s first listing in June… Read More

April 13, 2021 @ 11:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ibanera, a global fintech, announced on Tuesday it has teamed up with cryptocurrency intelligence company CipherTrace to enhance Ibanera’s cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Transaction (KYT) compliance solution. As previously reported, Ibanera’s platform provides account issuance, cross-border transfers, and currency exchange services to both… Read More

April 13, 2021 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Republic’s Cere token offering kicked off mere minutes ago but it appears that Republic may have underestimated demand. The website is posting a Cloudflare notice that indicates tens of thousands of people are waiting to access the site. Republic anticipated a strong response to the… Read More

April 13, 2021 @ 8:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Time Magazine will hold Bitcoin on its balance sheet and perhaps pay some people in BTC in a new partnership with Grayscale. This is according to a tweet by Michael Sonneshein, CEO of Grayscale.   Thrilled @Grayscale is partnering w/ @TIME on a new video… Read More

April 12, 2021 @ 9:56 pm By Lee Schneider  |  

A murder of crows.  A pride of lions. A school of fish.  A conundrum of NFTs.  At least that’s how it feels when faced with the ever-growing craze for non-fungible tokens.  Here are five things about NFTs that may surprise you. They’re just another type… Read More

April 12, 2021 @ 8:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Melayna (Manning) Ingram, Director, Securities Product at Paxos, notes that regulation can “foster innovation,” and it’s simply a matter of perspective. Ingram writes in a blog post that many tech firms are established with the “general” thesis that “something is broken and new technology can… Read More

April 12, 2021 @ 5:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beginning on Saturday (April 10, 2021), digital asset exchange Coinbase will be supporting trading with 1inch (1INCH), Enjin Coin (ENJ), NKN (NKN) and Origin Token (OGN) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase users are now able to purchase, sell, convert,… Read More