Blockchain & Digital Assets

April 12, 2021 @ 4:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Cere token offering will launch on Republic Crypto tomorrow,  commencing at 10 AM ET, according to the crowdfunding platform. Called an “industry first’ Cere Network is hosting the Cere public sale across three unique listing platforms including DAO Maker and Polkastarter – but Republic… Read More

April 12, 2021 @ 12:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Inal Kardanov, Co-founder and CTO of Billy, notes in a blog post published by the Waves Protocol developers that NFTs’ “second coming” is set to be even “more successful.” Kardanov, a software engineer focused on blockchain, AI, and machine learning, writes in a blog post… Read More

April 12, 2021 @ 12:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Blockchain Coinvestors, a fund-of-funds and co-investment program, says their second fund (Fund II) has closed in an oversubscribed offering of $26.9 million. Demand came from institutional money, family offices as well as individual investors. Assets under management are said to now total $75 million. Matthew… Read More

April 12, 2021 @ 12:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset platform CoinList has announced that beginning on April 20, 2021, eligible or qualified CoinList users will have the option to take part in the Clover (CLV) token sale (via CoinList). Clover, which is an alumni of CoinList Seed, aims to serve as a… Read More

April 12, 2021 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month, Coinbase announced that its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list its shares on the Nasdaq, under ticker symbol COIN, had been approved. The public listing of Coinbase will thus represent a seminal event in the digital asset industry…. Read More

April 12, 2021 @ 9:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Binance has announced the launch of digital securities including fractional shares with zero commissions. The world’s largest digital asset exchange has taken a natural next step to offer investors both traditional and crypto-assets. Binance is providing the service in partnership with CM-Equity AG, licensed in… Read More

April 12, 2021 @ 8:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Longtime Bitcoin bull Microstrategy (NASD:MSTR) has filed an 8-K stating that directors on the company’s board will now be paid in Bitcoin. Microstrategy has emerged as a huge crypto proponent due to its mission of holding Bitcoin on its balance sheet and issuing debt to… Read More

April 11, 2021 @ 10:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Lendonomy, a social app that builds globally valid credit profiles on blockchain, has quickly raised its initial 150,000 funding target through equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs. Founded in 2018, Lendonomy is a mobile-based social network for money with the P2P lending core, designed specifically for… Read More

April 11, 2021 @ 7:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency intelligence firm CipherTrace is reportedly using Chainlink to release CipherTrace DeFi Compli: a compliance solution enabling decentralized or non-custodial exchanges (DEXs) and other DeFi apps to adhere to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions requirements. As part of its decentralized finance (DeFi)… Read More

April 11, 2021 @ 5:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Ontology (ONT), a leading blockchain platform focused on decentralized ID solutions (among other use cases), recently published their weekly report in which they revealed that their community continues to grow. The update from the blockchain developers also revealed that Ontology’s decentralized identity… Read More

April 11, 2021 @ 5:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital bank Revolut has added more names to the list of cryptocurrencies its users can purchase and trade. Last week, Revolut said it had Currency added Cardano, Uniswap, Synthetix, Yearn Finance, Uma, Bancor, Filecoin, Numeraire, Loopring, Orchid, and The Graph. Revolut already allows users to… Read More

April 11, 2021 @ 3:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Several months ago, FinCEN submitted for publication in the Federal Register its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding certain transactions that involve virtual currency or digital assets. FinCEN or the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is a bureau of the US Department of the Treasury that… Read More

April 11, 2021 @ 2:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent post on Raidforums, a marketplace for purchasing and selling stolen data, has claimed that it has the personal details from millions of users on Paxful, a leading peer to peer Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) exchange. However, Paxful‘s management stated that they’re false… Read More

April 10, 2021 @ 12:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The VeChain Foundation, which aims to support the development of VeChain, a leading blockchain platform, reports that their community’s vision “remains steadfast” which is focused on delivering the “mass adoption of public blockchain” while addressing key business challenges that may be “unworkable without this emerging,… Read More

April 10, 2021 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After six months of double digit returns for Bitcoin (BTC) investors, some traders might be wondering whether this is the beginning of another 2017-type cryptocurrency market rally, the Kraken team writes in a blog post. The digital assets firm pointed out that Ethereum (ETH) and… Read More

April 10, 2021 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Huobi Group, a leading blockchain firm, recently announced that its “philanthropic” division Huobi Charity Limited (regulated by the Charity Commissioners of Gibraltar – registration no. 324) is committing $1 million in Bitcoin (BTC) and fiat currency to UNICEF. The funds will be used to “help… Read More

April 9, 2021 @ 7:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital security platform iSTOX has acquired a stake in the Mapletree MERIT Fund and turned them into digital securities that provide individual accredited investors partial access to the fund or Mapletree Europe Income Trust. Last month, iSTOX announced it had tokenized Astrea VI private equity… Read More

April 9, 2021 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mark Yusko, founder, CEO and CIO at Morgan Creek Capital Management, recently argued that soon it could be considered irresponsible to ignore Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency. In an interview with MarketWatch, Yusko said that he believes we’ll all be looking back 5 years from… Read More

April 9, 2021 @ 12:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp has hired Sameer Dubey as Chief Operating Officer. Dubey has previously worked at digital bank N26 and Barclays. Prior to N26, where he was heading Operations for the UK, Dubey spent over a decade at Barclays Bank focused on its Payments and… Read More

April 9, 2021 @ 11:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

YIELD App, a decentralized finance (DeFi) wealth management platform, has revealed that they’ve seen “strong” growth during their first quarter of trading, with the total number of users reaching almost 26,000 as assets under management (AUM) surged to around $46 million “between week one and… Read More