Blockchain & Digital Assets

March 3, 2021 @ 4:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Exodus Movement has filed a Form 1-A to raise up to $75 million in a Reg A+ offering that hopes to sell shares that can be paid for in Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and USD Coin (USDC). Exodus is the creator of the Exodus Wallet,… Read More

March 3, 2021 @ 3:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

tZERO has partnered with Earn.re a digital asset issuance platform for real estate securities. According to a release, tZERO ATS and Earn.re will work together on commercial real estate tokenization. Earn’s network of U.S.-based commercial property issuers will now be able to elect to provide… Read More

March 3, 2021 @ 2:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

CoinRise, a trading and investment firm, announced on Wednesday that following its Bitcoin ETFs trade developments, it is planning to expand its services in Canada. Coinrise describes itself as a premium online trading platform that offers professional services for a wide variety of online traders…. Read More

March 3, 2021 @ 10:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  CoolBitX, a Taiwan-based blockchain security company, announced on Wednesday its products, Synga Bridge and Elliptic, have released an API solution and service to facilitate private wallet transaction information. According to CoolBitX, the Wallet Address Filter API is fully operational and ready for use as… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 10:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile had reportedly spent nearly $67,000 in October 2020 on a 10-second video artwork that he may have watched for completely free online. Pablo has now sold the digital artwork video for $6.6 million. The video has been created by digital… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Blockchain.com, a leading crypto wallet provider, trading platform, and block explorer service, has welcomed Lane Kasselman as the company’s first Chief Business Officer. Peter Smith, the CEO and Co-founder at Blockchain.com, says he’s pleased to welcome Lane Kasselman – who will now… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Security Token Market (STM), which focuses on providing the latest updates on blockchain-based security tokens, reveals that the total security token market cap stood at $536,878,278 for the month of February 2021. The market cap monthly change was +6.42%. The total February 2021 trading volume… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 3:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Recently there has been a flurry of commentary regarding the future of crypto due in part to the rapid rise in price of Bitcoin and high profile purchases by corporates like Tesla. According to a report in Bloomberg, Citibank said we could be “at the… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 3:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Hong Kong-based Crypto.com announced on Tuesday it has formed a partnership with Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team. Crypto.com reported that the Formula One team signed a multi-year deal to bring exclusive experiences and opportunities to traders and fans of the sport. Kris Marszalek, Co-founder… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 3:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

TaxBit has announced a significant $100 million Series A funding round led by Paradigm and Tiger Global with participation from a long list of big names. Investors in TaxBit include PayPal Ventures, Winkelvoss Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Bill Ackman, Qualtrics co-founder and chairman Ryan Smith, Anthony… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

tZERO has partnered with ROI Group, a real estate development company, to digitize up to $50 million of preferred equity in a luxury hotel and residential development located in downtown Dubai, according to a release. The tokenization will utilize the Tezos Blockchain. This is said… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 12:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

New York Attorney General Letitia James has issued several alerts pertaining to investors purchasing cryptocurrencies. The AG said that investors should exercise “extreme caution when investing in virtual currencies.” Attorney General James also issued an alert to industry members, reminding brokers, dealers, salespersons, and investment… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has pivoted once again when it comes to crypto. Some time ago, it was widely reported that Goldman was launching a crypto trading desk. First reported in 2017, Goldman was predicted to launch a digital asset trading desk by June 2018. The… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 8:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Gary Gensler, selected by President Joe Biden to become the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is having his nomination hearing today in the Senate Banking Committee. If approved, Gensler will take the helm of the Commission and perhaps see it through a… Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On January 27, 2021, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed that there had been a significant disruption of the NetWalker ransomware strain. FBI agents assigned to the case had taken down a website NetWalker attackers had allegedly used to communicate with the unsuspecting victims…. Read More

March 1, 2021 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Leading crypto exchange Binance notes that their peer-to-peer service helps users establish a “competitive” peer-to-peer digital currency trading business. Since its launch back in October 2019 for just a single market, Binance P2P has become a major global marketplace for peer-to-peer trading of virtual currencies…. Read More

March 1, 2021 @ 10:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

At the end of last year, IOHK, the organization that supports open-source development including the Cardano project, announced their devnets plan to support the “longer-term strategic goal” of opening up Cardano to several different development languages – as explained in the ‘‘Island, Ocean, Pond” video…. Read More

March 1, 2021 @ 10:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin-focused tech startup Casa notes that “hot on the trail” of their recent $4 million fundraising announcement, they are pleased to announce another set of product enhancements Casa confirmed that they’ve now removed the email “dependency” from Bitcoin hardware wallet signing – so users are… Read More

March 1, 2021 @ 12:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has become a crypto fan. During a discussion on CNBC today,  O’Leary said he was allocating a portion of his portfolio, reported to be around 3%, into Bitcoin. In the past, O’Leary has been less than complimentary of crypto in… Read More

March 1, 2021 @ 10:07 am By JD Alois  |  

At the end of 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a statement on the custody of digital assets by “special purpose broker-dealers.” At that time, the SEC said that they were seeking to “encourage innovation around the application of Securities Exchange Act Rule… Read More