Blockchain & Digital Assets

January 21, 2021 @ 8:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Kraken, a leading US-based digital asset exchange, notes that cryptocurrency prices have been soaring, and related innovation is “breaking ground,” while key opportunities are flourishing. According to Kraken, crypto adoption is “relentless.” The Kraken team writes that as they begin a new… Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at BitPay, a blockchain payment technology firm that allows users to accept and send Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, notes that even though 2020 was a “rollercoaster of a year for the world,” digital currency remains at the “forefront” of the future of finance…. Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 9:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Interdax, a digital assets derivatives trading platform, notes that after quite an eventful year, Bitcoin’s (BTC) price closed considerably higher than the all-time high the digital asset had set in December 2017. The new year 2021 was also kicked off with a… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 6:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis notes that 2020 was an “incredible” year for Bitcoin (BTC) and the larger cryptocurrency market. Despite the devastation and socioeconomic problems resulting from the global Covid-19 pandemic, Bitcoin, the flagship digital currency, managed to shatter its previous all-time highs. The Bitcoin… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 6:02 pm By Lee A. Schneider  |  

As with most years, I started 2020 with a sense of optimism, looking forward to another productive year at work and doing the Appetite for Disruption podcast with my co-host Troy Paredes. In fact, he and I wrote an article discussing 2019 that focused more… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 5:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US-based digital assets exchange Gemini has completed SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 examinations. The Gemini team noted in a blog post published on January 19, 2021 that they’ve successfully cleared the SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 examinations,… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 2:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Cryptocurrency payments platform BitPay announced on Wednesday the integration of WalletConnect into the BitPay Wallet app. BitPay reported that BitPay Wallet app users have direct access to the decentralized exchange, decentralized games, and all the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space has to offer. According to BitPay,… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 2:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset platform Vertalo has partnered with Crowdcreate to boost investor reach for Broker-Dealers and issuers working with Vertalo. According to a release, Vertalo will provide access to over 45,000 accredited investors managed by Crowdcreate providing pre-verified investor data to issuers and broker-dealers raising capital… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 1:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  CoinShares, a European digital asset investment firm, announced on Tuesday the launch of a new physically-backed Bitcoin Exchange-Trade Product (ETP), CoinShares Physical Bitcoin (Ticker: BITC). According to CoinShares, BITC will be the first product released on CoinShares’ new institutional-grade ETP platform and will launch… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 1:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, announced on Wednesday it now holds more than $5.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency assets. This news comes just a couple of months after Chainalysis was able to validate over $3.3b in total assets held by Celsius Celsius reported it… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

As Bitcoin has rocketed to new all-time highs, it has sucked much of the oxygen out of the crypto news space. But Bitcoin’s rise has been joined by some other cryptocurrencies running higher – most importantly, the number 2 crypto Ethereum. In the last week… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 8:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase has revealed that it will be acquiring leading blockchain infrastructure platform, Bison Trails. Coinbase stated in a blog post published on January 20, 2020 that the planned acquisition will allow Bison Trails to “accelerate its mission” to offer intuitive and… Read More

January 19, 2021 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of 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 after “countless hours” of reviews, interviews, due diligence, and brainstorming — the very first wave of Ocean… Read More

January 19, 2021 @ 8:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Leading crypto exchange Binance has shared many ways people can potentially make money with digital currencies. It’s possible to earn Bitcoin (BTC) and other virtual currencies with Binance Earn. Binance says that traders and investors should “stop holding idle assets” and recommends putting their “crypto… Read More

January 19, 2021 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A digital currency trader is reportedly seeking $250,000 in compensation from Westpac and ANZ. The crypto investor claims that there’s systematic discrimination being carried out by some of Australia’s largest banks, which has allegedly cost him his once highly-profitable business. Allan Flynn has initiated proceedings… Read More

January 19, 2021 @ 4:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Worldline, (Euronext: WLN) a European payments and transactional services firm, announced on Tuesday it has formed a co-operation partnership with Gold Global Currency Corp to offer the “DaVinci Gold” token, which is notably based on Worldline’s stablecoin management infrastructure. According to Worldline, the initiative further… Read More

January 19, 2021 @ 3:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Gibraltar, an early entrant in the digital asset ecosystem, says it is adding to its already regulated digital ledger technology (DLT) framework with the development of a “10th Core Principal” for digital asset exchanges. A “Market Integrity working group” has been created to ensure that… Read More

January 19, 2021 @ 2:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB) commented on the need to regulate Bitcoin on a global level last week during a virtual event hosted by Reuters. Speaking at the Reuters Next conference, Lagarde pointed to the “funny business” affiliated… Read More

January 19, 2021 @ 12:16 pm By Steven Knipfelberg  |  

  While recent headlines may be focused on the meteoric rise of Bitcoin, another disruptive technology derived from the famed cryptocurrency may have even more profound implications for the future: blockchain-based “smart contracts.” A wide variety of companies are already experimenting with the ability of… Read More

January 19, 2021 @ 11:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Cryptocurrency trading platform PrimeXBT announced on Tuesday it has formed a new partnership with Coinify, a trading infrastructure platform that allows users to purchase Bitcoin and other cryptos. According to PrimeXBT, the collaboration will allow PrimeXBT clients to purchase Bitcoin through the fiat on-ramp,… Read More