Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 29, 2020 @ 12:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Waves.Exchange, a global cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Tuesday the launch of Decentralized Forex (DeFo) a new trading model powered by stablecoins. The platform will support seven currency-pegged digital assets at launch, which are USDN, EURN, JPYN, CNYN, RUBN, UAHN, and NGNN. Waves.Exchange also revealed all… Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 11:29 am By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is looking towards the future of digital securities as the industry advances from physical certificates to digital assets. The DTCC touches about all security transactions. In 2019, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at more than U.S. $2.15… Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 11:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global blockchain payments provider BitPay announced on Tuesday the results of a study conducted by leading research and advisory firm Forrester Consulting, titled Total Economic Impact Of Accepting Bitcoin Using BitPay. The study, which was commissioned by BitPay, examines the cost savings and business benefits enabled… Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 10:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange PayBito recently announced it has experienced a record 300% surge in Crypto traders visiting the platform in the past three months. PayBito reported that while improving its crypto portfolio, it has been widely expanding its operations in various locations. Lately, the… Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Global consulting group EY has announced the launch of “EY OpsChain Network Procurement solution.” The Ethereum based platform is said to allow companies to privately run end to end procurement activities. The beta version is free to use. The blockchain platform seeks to convert procurement… Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Kadena has embraced the decentralized finance (DeFi) movement with a decentralized exchange (DEX) called Kadenaswap, according to a note from the company. Kadenaswap will utilize Kadena’s scalable blockchain that is said to currently top out at 480,000 transactions per second thus addressing a nagging scalability… Read More

September 28, 2020 @ 10:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

A Discussion with Franck Guiader of Gide 255 Last week, the European Commission adopted a Digital Finance Package along with legislative proposals on cryptoassets (digital assets). The move had been widely telegraphed by the Commission and, in fact, a draft of the crypto regulation was leaked… Read More

September 28, 2020 @ 9:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto exchange OKCoin confirms that they recently listed Uniswap’s UNI governance token and are now planning to list cUSDC and cUSDT tokens from Compound, which is another major algorithmic money market developed on Ethereum (ETH). As explained by the OKCoin team, UNI is the governance… Read More

September 28, 2020 @ 11:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis, a leading blockchain analysis firm, has revealed that it will establish two new offices in Singapore and Tokyo. The company stated that it remains focused on fully supporting local crypto and blockchain companies. It’s also helping government agencies and traditional financial institutions with monitoring… Read More

September 28, 2020 @ 10:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of the Ocean Protocol, which allows software engineers to build marketplaces and other apps to privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data, confirmed (on September 28) that on September 27, 2020, the Ocean Protocol Foundation had initiated a hard fork or backward-incompatible… Read More

September 28, 2020 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments Fintech Wirex has quickly raised £1.2 million with the first £1 million arriving in an hour and a half today crowdfunding on Crowdcube, according to a note from the company. The securities offering just entered its public stage and now sits at £1.446 million… Read More

September 28, 2020 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brian Armstrong, CEO at Coinbase, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, has noted that there have been many challenging events in the world this year, including the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest, west coast wildfires, and other really difficult situations. Armstrong wrote in a blog post that everyone… Read More

September 27, 2020 @ 7:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Markus Jun, founder and CEO of ICON’s Accelerator Partner and Seoul Launchpad of ICXStation, HyperConnector (online accelerator for the ICON ecosystem), recently confirmed that ICONLOOP will be working cooperatively with Pohang, POSCO and POSTECH to develop a (decentralized ID) DID ecosystem with MyID. Jun noted… Read More

September 27, 2020 @ 6:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The recently issued UNI governance token, which is associated with Uniswap, a leading Ethereum token exchange, aims to help Uniswap transition into a “decentralized,” community-managed and owned protocol. However, the exchange protocol’s team hasn’t been completely transparent about how they aim to achieve “decentralization.” Liesl… Read More

September 27, 2020 @ 4:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at 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, recently noted that their journey towards “decentralization” continues with the introduction of Aave Governance on mainnet (the production-ready or… Read More

September 27, 2020 @ 10:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MANTRA DAO (distributed autonomous organization), a community-governed decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that aims to make staking, lending, and governance more accessible to traders and investors, has teamed up with Polkastarter, the decentralized or non-custodial exchange (DEX) that helps “decentralized” projects with raising and exchanging funds… Read More

September 26, 2020 @ 6:17 pm By Xu Gao  |  

PBC Releases Implementation Measures of the People’s Bank of China for the Protection of Financial Consumer Rights In order to accelerate the building of a full-fledged mechanism for the protection of financial consumers’ rights and interests and protect the long-term and fundamental rights of financial… Read More

September 26, 2020 @ 5:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jay Hao, CEO at OKEx, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, notes that it seems everyone in the blockchain space is talking about carrying out a “fair launch.” He goes on to ask, “what exactly is ‘fair launch’ and is it a better model for token distribution?”… Read More

September 26, 2020 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Division of Trading and Markets, issued a no-action letter to FINRA yesterday afternoon that impacts certain trading platforms that serve as markets for digital assets that are securities. FINRA is a self-regulatory entity that coordinates with the SEC regarding… Read More

September 26, 2020 @ 8:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AI and machine learning network Fetch.ai has unveiled an outcome of its developer engagement project, which aims to make it easier to develop applications and related services on top of the Fetch.ai network. The Fetch.ai team noted that they’ve built what they call an “Autonomous… Read More