Blockchain & Digital Assets

January 3, 2021 @ 10:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Xalles Holdings Inc. (OTC: XALL), a fintech holding company providing technology and financial services solutions, recently announced it will acquire Vigor Crypto Holdings, a cryptocurrency firm, as a wholly owned subsidiary under Xalles Capital Inc. Xalles notably claims that Vigor Crypto has been enhancing its cryptocurrency… Read More

January 3, 2021 @ 9:00 pm By Timothy Li  |  

Fintech enthusiasts welcome back to my 5th annual “Top Ten” Fintech prediction series. This year I’ve met a lot of powerful movers and shakers in the Fintech space. My take away from these meetings and interactions is how little do I know about this ever-expanding… Read More

January 3, 2021 @ 4:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LocalBitcoins, one of the oldest and most widely-used Bitcoin (BTC) services, reveals that most of its customers are based in developing countries. These are places (such as Argentina and Venezuela) where Bitcoin is needed badly as a store of value because local fiat currencies have… Read More

January 3, 2021 @ 2:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robin Mahler Weisman, Senior Policy Counsel at Coin Center, a leading non-profit entity focused on the latest policy issues facing digital currencies, notes that the US Congress had warned the Treasury regarding its “unusually short” timeline for feedback regarding its new cryptocurrency rulemaking proposal. Weisman… Read More

January 2, 2021 @ 8:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Wing, a credit-based cross-chain (decentralized finance) DeFi platform launched on the Ontology blockchain (in September 2020), noted that during the month of December 2020, Wing made further improvements to its current product, the Flash Pool, and also introduced its second product, the… Read More

January 2, 2021 @ 6:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bruce Pon, Founder of Ocean Protocol (OCEAN), which allows software engineers to build marketplaces and other apps to privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data, has noted that 2020 has been “a long, albeit, memorable year for the Ocean team.” Pon, who’s also the… Read More

January 2, 2021 @ 5:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As the Bitcoin (BTC) price continues to set new all-time highs (now approaching nearly $30,000), Riot Blockchain’s (NASDAQ:RIOT) stock surged almost 1,500% in 2020. There were very few assets in 2020 that outperformed Bitcoin, however, the shares of Riot have been rising along with Ethereum… Read More

January 2, 2021 @ 3:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, says it remains committed to innovating in 2021 in an increasingly “decentralized” world. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao or CZ has shared his thoughts and reflections looking back at 2020 and the firm’s goals for the new year. Zhao… Read More

January 1, 2021 @ 11:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Isa Kivlighan from Aave (AAVE), an open-source and non-custodial decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol for earning interest on digital asset deposits while also being able to borrow assets, states that 2020 was an “incredible year” for DeFi, as the sector grew dramatically from a little over… Read More

January 1, 2021 @ 11:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pete Kim, who has helped build the USDC stablecoin version 2.0 and the Coinbase Wallet, has published an update on upgrading one of the world’s largest digital assets, USDC, which is an (Ethereum) ERC-20 compliant token. Kim explains that USD Coin (USDC) is a stablecoin… Read More

January 1, 2021 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at HASHR8 Inc., a cryptocurrency mining and media firm that aims to support the “decentralized growth” of hashrate (or computing power used to secure digital currency networks) while enhancing the security of blockchains, have released their second installment of the Bitcoin Mining Index…. Read More

January 1, 2021 @ 9:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Paxful, a leading peer to peer Bitcoin (BTC) exchange, acknowledges that 2020 was quite rough. They claim that even though it may have been the hardest year of many peoples’ lives, there were still some positive developments. In January 2020, Bitcoin was… Read More

December 31, 2020 @ 11:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange PayBito recently announced it plans to double its workforce across multiple locations worldwide, with the hiring to take place throughout the first quarter of 2021. PayBito reported that it is expanding its operations and intending to employ professionals with strong knowledge and background to… Read More

December 31, 2020 @ 10:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Argo Blockchain, a UK-based cryptocurrency miner, announced on Wednesday it will co-lead an investment in Luxor Technologies, a hashrate management platform. Argo reported it will invest $100,000 into Luxor, which intends to use the capital to make several key engineering hires to strengthen the… Read More

December 31, 2020 @ 5:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

2020 was a challenging year for the entire world. The ongoing health crisis surprised everyone as the world dove into a pandemic, pummeling the global economy and impacting everyone. In many respects, Fintech emerged as a beneficiary of COVID-19. Digital transformation of financial services were… Read More

December 31, 2020 @ 4:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Telos, a global blockchain platform based in the UK, announced on Wednesday the launch of T-Bond Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), which is described as a “new fusion” of decentralized finance (DeFi) and NFTs as a tool for unlocking liquidity. “T-Bonds are an innovation in DeFi… Read More

December 31, 2020 @ 2:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vladimir Zhuravlev, a Gravity Tech and Waves Association developer, notes that for several years, the Odyssey hackathon (held in the Netherlands) had offered opportunities for software engineers to collaborate on various projects. Zhuravlev revealed that this year, Odyssey was hosted online for the very time… Read More

December 31, 2020 @ 2:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Injective Protocol, a digital assets derivatives exchange for DeFi that has been supported by Binance and Pantera Capital, have announced the launch of Solstice Pro, which brings various institutional-grade products to their non-custodial exchange. As confirmed in a blog post by Injective… Read More

December 31, 2020 @ 10:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As Bitcoin (BTC) continues to set new highs, it became clear to many people that the digital asset could serve as a hedge against the traditional financial system. This year, many well-known investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller (a hedge fund manager with a net worth of… Read More

December 31, 2020 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

78% of the circulating Bitcoin (BTC) supply is now “illiquid and therefore hardly accessible for buying,” according to crypto data provider glassnode. 78% of the circulating #Bitcoin supply is illiquid and therefore hardly accessible for buying. This points to a bullish investor sentiment as large… Read More