Blockchain & Digital Assets

December 4, 2020 @ 2:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

DealBox has made the leap from Stellar to Tezos and the company completed the process with the assistance of Vertalo. DealBox is a digital security platform that facilitates tokenization as well as investment crowdfunding. In migrating from Stellar, DealBox leveraged Vertalo’s digital transfer agent while… Read More

December 4, 2020 @ 11:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US-based digital asset exchange Coinbase has revealed that it’s focused on building “state-of-the-art” machine learning (ML) technology with “efficient” execution for the crypto and blockchain-focused economy. Catalin Tiseanu, an engineer working at Coinbase, writes in a blog post that the digital assets firm leverages machine… Read More

December 4, 2020 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Scott Freeman, Co-Founder and Partner at JST Capital, a New York-based financial services firm currently focused on the digital asset market. The partners of JST have spent more than twenty years working in the traditional financial services sector. They’ve now entered… Read More

December 4, 2020 @ 7:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Security Token Advisors, which aims to “reinvent” finance with security tokens, reveals that the world’s top 100 banks in terms of assets under management (AUM) are learning how to “reinvent themselves” with blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT). The Security Token Advisors… Read More

December 4, 2020 @ 7:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Huobi Global, a leading digital asset exchange, claims that when it comes to the blockchain and crypto sector, there are “arguably no blockchain projects more important than Ethereum.” The second-largest digital currency by market cap has also been credited with being “the mother of ‘Generation… Read More

December 3, 2020 @ 11:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Future Fintech Group Inc. (NASDAQ: FTFT), an established blockchain-enabled, digital commerce firm and a service provider for financial technology, has reportedly appointed Ming Yi as its new Chief Financial Officer (appointment effective as of November 30, 2020). Jing (Veronica) Chen has resigned from her role… Read More

December 3, 2020 @ 1:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As the digital asset market approaches the end of 2020, Kraken Intelligence (part of US-based crypto exchange Kraken) has carried out its second VIP client sentiment survey for this current year. According to Kraken, the goal of the survey is to assess digital asset market… Read More

December 3, 2020 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain security firm Ciphertrace noted in a blog post published on December 2, 2020 that within the last 24 hours, the company noticed a significant uptick of alerts and comments within the online digital currency community of users’ funds having been stolen through a malicious… Read More

December 3, 2020 @ 9:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Later today, Circle is hosting a live podcast that involves Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire and Visa Head of Crypto, Cuy Sheffield. The discussion will cover the new partnership between Circle and Visa (NYSE:V) that will involve the incorporation of the dollar backed stablecoin USDC. Circle… Read More

December 3, 2020 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

1inch, a decentralized (or non-custodial) crypto exchange aggregator provider, has finalized a $12 million investment round that was led by Pantera Capital. The 1inch team stated that they’re pleased to confirm the successful closure of their latest round which also included contributions from institutional investors such… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 11:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto bull market continues to rally as BTC receives even more Wall Street attention while former Fed Chair Janet Yellen is announced as incoming Treasury Secretary. According to a report from OKCoin, Bitcoin has done it again: on Monday morning (November… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 9:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

During the past few weeks, Ari Paul, CIO at BlockTower Capital, and Luke Martin, a prominent digital asset trader, have noted that Bitcoin’s (BTC) upward price movements since late October 2020 have mostly taken place during US market hours. A report from Coin Metrics points… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 4:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange OKEx recently published a report, titled: “How centralized exchange volumes illustrate DeFi’s boom-and-bust cycle.” With market data provided by Kaiko, OKEx Insights looks at DeFi‘s “boom-and-bust cycle” in 2020. The exchange notes in its extensive report that as 2020 comes to an… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 10:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Grayscale Investments, sponsor of Grayscale Ethereum Trust (OTCQX: ETHE), has announced that it has declared a 9-for-1 split of the Trust’s common units. Shareholders of record as of December 14, 2020, will receive 8 additional shares of the Trust for each share held. The split… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 9:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers at Fuse.io, a Tel Aviv based Fintech firm that aims to leverage (decentralized finance) DeFi infrastructure to create a platform for entrepreneurs that allows them to turn “communities into economies,” have partnered with Monerium in order to bring regulated fiat money to the… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 3:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Money app Ziglu says that its equity crowdfunding round is the largest offering on Seedrs for all of 2020. The securities offering closed on Seedrs this past fall. The Fintech raised over £6 million backed by about 1250 investors. Ziglu set a low-end hurdle of… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 11:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Justin Sun, the Founder of Tron (TRX), a major platform for building blockchain-based decentralized applications (dApps), has announced that TRON is planning to “adjust the incentive mechanism of the entire network with a focus on encouraging long-term holders who stake tokens for voting.” It’s worth… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 8:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Coinrule, a cryptocurrency trading startup that recently secured over £410,000 in funding through its Seedrs round, notes in a blog post published by crypto futures and options exchange Deribit that Investors now have a new option they can add to their investment… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 7:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based CoinShares, a company that aims to expand access to the digital asset ecosystem while serving as a trusted partner for its clients, has noted that the Bitcoin (BTC) price has been closing-in on the “very psychological” all-time-high (of nearly $20,000) “coupled with momentary fears… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 11:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset platform BlockFi will soon offer a credit card with Bitcoin rewards and 1.5% cypto-back in Bitcoin, according to a tweet by the firm. The credit card will be issued in partnership with Visa, Evolve Bank.   It’s here. Log in to your BlockFi… Read More