Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 8, 2020 @ 9:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Stablecoin Binance USD (BUSD) is said to have completed $3.8 billion in total transactions and $2.4 billion issued after just one year of being live and in the wild. BUSD was approved by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). Created in partnership between… Read More

September 8, 2020 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

ETC Group reports that it has signed a series of “Authorised Participants” to support the liquidity of BTCetc Bitcoin Exchange Traded Crypto (BTCE). Launched in June 2020, BTCE became the first Bitcoin-based exchange-traded product to list on XETRA in Germany. BTCE is 100% physically backed… Read More

September 8, 2020 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Billion-dollar food delivery giant, Just Eat in France, is now accepting Bitcoin (BTC) payments. Just Eat had been allowing users to pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, and also with their credit cards through its website. Other traditional payments options such as checks and… Read More

September 7, 2020 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kokila Alagh, Founder of KARM Legal and a member of the MENA Fintech board, recently shared the latest updates from the Middle East region, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with Crowdfund Insider. Alagh works closely with the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF), the Dubai International… Read More

September 7, 2020 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), a leading cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, will be offering four new altcoin/USDT underlying “quanto” futures contracts for EOS, Chainlink (LINK), Tezos (XTZ), and Cardano (ADA). These new contracts are being introduced in order to expand the exchange’s existing altcoin (or… Read More

September 7, 2020 @ 9:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Huobi Global, a leading digital asset company, will be launching a decentralized finance (DeFi) mining campaign with Phase I, which will involve staking Huobi Token (HT) and the Huobi Pool Token (HPT). Huobi noted that users may stake tokens so that they can share mining… Read More

September 7, 2020 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ARK Invest, an established institutional investor in Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, states that it believes the digital asset is “creating the possibility of a global monetary system controlled not by nation-states but by individuals.” ARK Invest notes in a comprehensive report that by “eliminating… Read More

September 7, 2020 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Will Harborne, CEO at Deversifi, a self-custody digital asset exchange for “serious” traders, has said that he disagrees “very strongly” with the idea that anyone who does not “condemn” SushiSwap has joined “the Dark Side.” SushiSwap is a recently launched decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that’s… Read More

September 7, 2020 @ 7:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital asset exchange Bitfinex announced on Friday it has made multiple improvements to the group chats feature on Bitfinex Pulse. As previously reported, Bitfinex Pulse is a social network tailored to meet the needs of crypto traders, providing Bitfinex’s growing customer base with the opportunity… Read More

September 6, 2020 @ 10:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced on Sunday the first project on newly launched Launchpool, which is described as a new product where uses will be able to acquire new token rewards in return for staking BNB, BUSD, and other tokens. The first project to be hosted… Read More

September 6, 2020 @ 2:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brendan Blumer, CEO at Block.one, the company behind the development of EOS, one of the largest platforms for building decentralized applications (dApps) that’s funded by a record $4.1 billion+ token sale from 2018, points out that Ethereum (ETH) is too slow. Blumer notes that conducting… Read More

September 6, 2020 @ 2:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Changpeng Zhao or “CZ”, the CEO at Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, has admitted that the trading platform must list new coins, regardless of whether it’s completely sure of the legitimacy of their business model, in order to remain competitive. Zhao noted: “If… Read More

September 6, 2020 @ 2:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dash Core Group (DCG), an organization focused on the development of Dash (DASH), a digital currency with a market cap of over $647 million at the time of writing (according to CoinGecko data), has released a new software update, called Dash Platform v0.15. Dash aims… Read More

September 6, 2020 @ 1:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain-based decentralized identity authentication services (DID) could potentially replace public certificates that are used for financial services, which may include those for mobile banking. This particular use case was recently commercialized for the very first time by South Korea’s Shinhan Bank. As mentioned in a… Read More

September 5, 2020 @ 5:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Ontology (ONT), a “high-performance” blockchain network, have noted that they’ve successfully completed the development of an open-source decentralized identity (DID) smart contract, which was launched on the Ethereum (ETH) network. The Ontology team confirmed on September 4, 2020, that both its native… Read More

September 5, 2020 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Token Insight team notes that in the crypto-asset sector, it’s always challenging to accurately provide realistic valuations for digital assets. At present, there’s no consistent or uniform industry-standard or reliable valuation method that would allow us to discover the real value of cryptocurrencies, the… Read More

September 5, 2020 @ 2:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Singapore recently completed a pilot program for a blockchain-based multi-currency payments network prototype. Project Ubin, launched in 2016, engaged with several private parties as well as government entities seeking to better understand the benefits of blockchain technology. The prototype was developed in collaboration with JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) and… Read More

September 5, 2020 @ 2:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange OKEx, which offers both cryptocurrency spot and derivatives trading, has listed 24 decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens in just the past month – which seriously calls into question the company’s business policies given the large number of scams in DeFi space. However, OKEx… Read More

September 5, 2020 @ 2:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Liquidations System of the Maker Protocol, which supports a leading Ethereum (ETH) based lending system, is a key element that has been developed to ensure that the stablecoin Dai generated in Maker Vaults “remains adequately collateralized.” The Maker Protocol is central or key to… Read More

September 4, 2020 @ 7:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On September 4, 2020, Coinbase Pro users will be able to transfer UMA cryptocurrency tokens into their accounts ahead of scheduled trading. Support for the UMA digital currency will be available in all of the digital asset exchange’s supported jurisdictions, however, New York State residents… Read More