Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 2, 2020 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

CrossTower, a digital asset exchange on a mission to mainstream digital asset trading and investing, has joined the Chamber of Digital Commerce. The Chamber is a leading voice in advocating on behalf of the emerging digital asset industry. CrossTower is founded by traditional financial services… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 9:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), the world’s largest cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform in terms of volume, has introduced support for mobile trading. The Seychelles-registered and Hong Kong operated exchange noted: “As part of our promise to our users to keep improving our offering, we’re delighted… Read More

September 1, 2020 @ 5:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Linda Xie, co-founder at Scalar Capital, advisor at the 0x Project, and former product manager at Coinbase, says that if you’re a VC focused on investing in Fintech projects, then you really need to know what’s going in the so-called “decentralized” finance (DeFi) space, which… Read More

September 1, 2020 @ 5:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has completed a digital bond issuance in partnership with Temasek and HSBC. The security was issued via SGX’s digital asset issuance, depository, and servicing platform and is the first type of offering completed by the exchange. According to a note posted… Read More

September 1, 2020 @ 5:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

SPiCE VC has listed its digital security on Fusang Exchange, a regulated securities exchange that operates in Singapore and Hong Kong. Fusang has been licensed by Malaysian regulators. Fusang Exchange supports both cryptocurrencies as well as digital securities and claims to be the first fully… Read More

September 1, 2020 @ 11:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset platform BlockFi continues to boost its executive branch following a significant funding round where the company raised $50 million. According to a release, BlockFi has hired Tony Lauro as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Lauro was most recently at Intermex where he… Read More

September 1, 2020 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Five senior management professionals working at Binance-owned CoinMarketCap, the largest cryptocurrency market data site, have left the company. Carylyne Chan, who has been serving as interim CEO at CoinMarketCap, has also resigned. Binance’s management confirmed that they’ll be replacing the former staff members with their… Read More

September 1, 2020 @ 9:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Stablehouse, stablecoin platform, is distributing a note indicating a new partnership with the Government of Bermuda on a “digital stimulus token.” According to Stablehouse, the two sides are piloting a program to explore the viability of digital tokens to enable the purchase of food and… Read More

September 1, 2020 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum Classic (ETC), which only has about 3% of the total hashpower (computing resources securing blockchain networks) that’s currently being used to secure the much larger and arguably more secure Ethereum (ETH) network, recently experienced another serious 51% attack. These types of attacks can occur… Read More

September 1, 2020 @ 5:00 am By JD Alois  |  

iFinex has invested approximately $1 million in Amsterdam-based Fintech Dusk Network, according to a note from the company. iFinex is the parent company of Bitfinex – a crypto exchange. Dusk Network is creating a regulated security token exchange and is self-described as a privacy blockchain… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance alum Fetch.ai, an established blockchain-focused AI firm launched by former DeepMind investors and developers, has introduced Mettalex, a “decentralized” crypto, and commodities derivatives trading platform. As mentioned in an update shared with Crowdfund Insider: “Working alongside a consortium of steel mills, shipping companies, trading… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 11:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

John Wu, the president at Ava Labs, a company that aims to create the next generation of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, notes that his organization is working with a large European digital asset manager. Wu, who was joined by Dr. Emin Gün Sirer, who is… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 8:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently caught up with Kendrick Nguyen, the co-founder and CEO of Republic, a leading US-based investment crowdfunding platform. He is also a founding director of the Association of Online Investment Platforms (AOIP). In July 2020, Republic added 30 more venture partners to its… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 3:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Synthetix, a “decentralized” asset management protocol that offers non-custodial mimetic trading, had briefly surpassed the $1 billion mark (according to DeFi Pulse data). However, the decentralized finance (DeFi) market has experienced a somewhat strong correction, as around $1 billion in value has been lost almost… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 3:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cryptocurrency platform Coinbase announced on Monday it has welcomed Marc Andreessen, the Co-Founder and Operating Partner of Andreessen Horowitz, and Gokul Rajaram, Executive at DoorDash to its board of directors. Along with Andreessen and Rajaram joining the Board, Coinbase revealed two Board contributors will be… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 10:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital currency exchanges Bitrue and OKEx claim that they’ll be offering both decentralized finance (DeFi) and centralized (CeFi) services. Jay Hao, CEO at OKEx, says that the leading crypto exchange, which regularly handles billions of dollars in daily trading volume (but has also been accused… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 9:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology, a high-throughput or “high-performance” blockchain platform, has integrated its services with Fintech Plaid, which offers a data network that powers the financial technology tools used by millions of people. Following the integration, ONTO (Ontology’s native token) wallet users will be able to access Open… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 9:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com recently announced Crypto.com Pay, which is the platform’s payment solution for online merchants, will now support CRO payments from any ERC-20 wallet. Crypto.com reported that the option will help merchants expand their reach by giving customers more wallet options to… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Filecoin, a project initiated by Protocol Labs seeking to create the world’s largest decentralized storage network, has published a crypto-economics report outlining how Filecoin will work for its users. Entitled Engineering Filecoin’s Economy the document outlines the initial parameters of the protocol as well as future… Read More

August 30, 2020 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

David Dias, research engineer at Protocol Labs and the drand project lead, along with Nicolas Gailly, research scientist at Protocol Labs and the original author of drand, recently explained how they’re developing randomness solutions that are able to generate random numbers. This is important because… Read More