Blockchain & Digital Assets

October 6, 2020 @ 9:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Draper Goren Holm, a blockchain and Fintech venture firm, announced on Tuesday it has invested in Simetria, an Israeli digital securities exchange. Along with the investment, Simetria will become part of the Ownera digital securities network (also a Draper Goren Holm portfolio company).  Draper Goren… Read More

October 6, 2020 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Joel Edgerton, COO at bitFlyer, a crypto-asset exchange that’s licensed to operate in Japan, the United States, and Europe, recently shared his views about the court case and charges brought against the Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), a leading digital asset derivatives exchange. Edgerton also shared… Read More

October 6, 2020 @ 3:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Finoa, a Germany-based fintech, announced on Tuesday it is teaming up with Oasis Network to provide custody for the network’s ROSE toke at mainnet launch. According to Finoa, ROSE is designed to give users financial sovereignty and control of their data and is expected to… Read More

October 6, 2020 @ 2:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, the European Central Bank published a report published addressing the possibility of the issuance of a digital euro. The report was prepared by the Eurosystem High-Level Task Force on central bank digital currency (CBDC) and approved by the Governing Council thus representing he… Read More

October 6, 2020 @ 1:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

  BNP Paribas Securities Services has partnered with Curv to complete a proof of concept on the transfer of security tokens (digital securities) securely between market participants. BNP Paribas Securities Services and Curv used the ERC1400 token standard. According to BNP Paribas, the test saw… Read More

October 6, 2020 @ 1:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a ban on cryptoasset derivative products for retail investors. The decision came after an extended consultation pertaining to the issue. The ban did not impact spot trading for cryptoassets like Bitcoin or Ethereum. The FCA outlined… Read More

October 6, 2020 @ 12:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Draper Goren Holm, a blockchain and Fintech venture firm, announced on Tuesday the launch and principal close of Fund 1, which is the venture’s first traditional venture fund of $25 million where Seed and Series A investments will take precedent in promising fintech and blockchain… Read More

October 6, 2020 @ 7:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Security Token Group, which is focused on “reinventing” capital markets with blockchain-based security tokens, notes that, recently, one of their loyal community members had expressed concerns regarding the general lack of (or relatively low) security token trading volume, especially when compared to the record-breaking… Read More

October 6, 2020 @ 7:01 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has instituted a ban on the sale of crypto derivatives and exchange-traded notes (ETNs) that reference cryptoassets for retail investors, according to a note distributed by the regulator. The ban goes into effect on January 6, 2021. The decision… Read More

October 5, 2020 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Monica (Appelbe) Long, SVP of Marketing at American Fintech Ripple, says that we’re all in the midst of a global climate crisis—”one that is impossible to ignore.” Long confirms that efforts are being made by many countries to “avert the worst-case climate scenarios.” Organizations and… Read More

October 5, 2020 @ 10:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, has confirmed that it’s been a month since it launched Binance Liquid Swap. The exchange also revealed that the platform is now hosting over $128 million worth of stablecoins, as of October 3, 2020. The Binance team further… Read More

October 5, 2020 @ 9:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitfinex, a major digital asset exchange, will be introducing staking rewards for ADA, the native crypto token of Cardano, a blockchain-based platform for developing decentralized applications (dApps). According to the Cardano team, which is led by its founder Charles Hoskinson, the distributed ledger tech (DLT)… Read More

October 5, 2020 @ 8:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

John McAfee, a blockchain advocate and former software entrepreneur that created McAfee ant-virus software, is the target of a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement action pertaining to the promotion of initial coin offerings (ICOs). The civil action by the SEC was joined by criminal… Read More

October 5, 2020 @ 6:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, BitMEX (Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange), a top crypto/crypto-derivatives exchange that is operated by HDR Global Trading Limited, a Republic of Seychelles incorporated entity, was hit with a civil enforcement action emanating from the Commodity Futures Trading Future Commission (CFTC). Simultaneously, a criminal lawsuit by… Read More

October 5, 2020 @ 10:33 am By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has entered a consent order against Jon Barry Thompson of Easton, Pennsylvania, imposing injunctive relief and restitution of approximately $7.4 million. In a parallel action, the… Read More

October 5, 2020 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

WeInvest Capital Partners, a firm specializing in private equity real estate, real estate asset management and private equity, has selected Tokeny Solutions to tokenize the first real estate fund in Luxembourg. According to a note from Tokeny, WeInvest will use Tokeny’s tokenization services to provide… Read More

October 5, 2020 @ 10:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced on Monday it teamed up with Bank of Thailand (BOT), the central bank, to launch a  blockchain-based platform for government savings bonds issuing a total of $1.6 billion within two weeks. According to IBM, the platform is using blockchain technology on the… Read More

October 5, 2020 @ 9:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Diginex Limited, a digital assets financial services company, announced on Monday it has reconstructed its Board of Directors, following its listing and trading commencement on Nasdaq. According to Diginex, the new Board of Directors meets the required standards of corporate governance for a Nasdaq-listed company… Read More

October 4, 2020 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis, a leading blockchain analysis and security firm, has provided an update regarding the recent KuCoin exchange hack, which led to around $280 million in digital assets being stolen (according to estimates confirmed by many industry participants). Chainalysis noted that on September 25, 2020, hackers… Read More

October 4, 2020 @ 12:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL), which claims to be the “first-of-its-kind,” post-quantum value store and “decentralized” communication layer that’s proactively tackling the threat from quantum computers, has confirmed that x41 D-Sec has started their audit of project enQlave, which is an Ethereum (ETH)… Read More