Blockchain & Digital Assets

July 8, 2020 @ 9:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced on Tuesday its new fiat gateway that provides deposit service for 15 fiat currencies through a partnership with Etana Custody. According to Binance, Etana Custody Ltd. is a secure, trusted, and high-performance third-party custodian of fiat and digital assets for institutional… Read More

July 8, 2020 @ 8:39 am By JD Alois  |  

KlickOwn, a real estate crowdfunding platform based in Germany, has completed its first security token offering (STO) for a property. As was reported last March, KlickOwn had listed a digital bond for a building located in Lüneburg, Germany – called “Historisches Lüneburg“. The digital security… Read More

July 8, 2020 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has published a 12 month review on digital assets, or virtual assets, addressing global standards regarding anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CFT) requirements on virtual assets and virtual asset service providers (VASPs). VASPs are mainly digital asset exchanges (cryptoasset… Read More

July 7, 2020 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The ongoing U.S.-China trade wars and the COVID-19 outbreak have negatively impacted China’s $11-$13 trillion economy, however, the nation’s technology sector continues to develop rapidly. The country’s tech industry is supported by $616 billion in research and development (R&D) resources. In addition to investing in… Read More

July 7, 2020 @ 11:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Security Token Group (STG) has published the Security Token Market Report for June 2020. The team at STG claims that during the past 6 months, there’s been substantial growth in the blockchain-based security token sector. In May 2020, tZERO, the leading ATS in the… Read More

July 7, 2020 @ 9:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Voice, a blockchain-based social media platform created by Block.one, the company behind EOS, a leading distributed ledger tech (DLT) development platform, has confirmed that it has officially launched. Voice is presently available only in the read-only mode for the general public. The social media network… Read More

July 7, 2020 @ 1:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Telegram, a major social network with hundreds of millions of users, had attempted to raise funds through a digital asset offering. However, it recently decided to settle an enforcement action initiated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As part of the settlement, Telegram… Read More

July 7, 2020 @ 12:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockchain security and analytics firm Chainalysis announced on Tuesday it raised an additional $13 million to expand its Series B round to $49 million with an investment from Ribbit Capital and Sound Ventures.  Founded in 2014, Chainalysis claims it offers cryptocurrency investigation and compliance solutions to global law enforcement… Read More

July 7, 2020 @ 9:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global blockchain payments provider BitPay recently announced it has updated its mobile app to support Segwit as well as have dark mode available and the ability to directly among Coinbase wallets. “At BitPay, we constantly strive to improve our products and deliver you the best… Read More

July 7, 2020 @ 9:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crypto Facilities, a subsidiary of Kraken and European cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Monday it has obtained a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) license from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Crypto Facilities reported with this new license, it will be able to expand its product range… Read More

July 7, 2020 @ 9:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Security tokenization platform Tokeny Solutions has announced today that a review by well-known cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has “confirmed” the overall security of its smart contract protocol – the Token for Regulated EXchanges or T-REX. Tokeny Solutions is a primary issuance platform for digital assets that… Read More

July 7, 2020 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Trump Administration has released additional information regarding the recipients of the COVID-19 linked Payroll Protection Program (PPP). Brooklyn, New York-based ConsenSys, a leading Ethereum (ETH) development studio, and several digital asset exchanges were listed as beneficiaries of the recent PPP Coronavirus financial relief scheme…. Read More

July 6, 2020 @ 11:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cuy Sheffield, the head of Crypto at Visa, says that central bank digital currencies (CBDC) could potentially prove to be one of most important developments in the coming decade. Sheffield, who previously worked in business development at TrialPay, is now responsible for overseeing Visa’s crypto-related… Read More

July 6, 2020 @ 10:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Currency.com, a regulated digital assets platform, has reportedly been awarded a new distributed ledger technology (DLT) license by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC). As mentioned in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider: “The license allows [Currency.com] to use DLT for storing or transmitting value… Read More

July 6, 2020 @ 10:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s ICONLOOP, a company that developed its own blockchain-powered engine, loopchain, which is used for various Internet services, has reportedly acquired KRW 6 billion (appr. $5 million) in additional investments.  The company has secured a total of KRW 16 billion (appr. $13.4 million) in… Read More

July 6, 2020 @ 7:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Several Singapore-based organizations recently teamed up to create a map of what the city-state’s blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) sector looks like, and how it has grown considerably this year when compared to 2019. Many major DLT initiatives in the country are supported in… Read More

July 6, 2020 @ 7:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Li Jun, the founder of Ontology, a “high-performance” enterprise blockchain platform, recently noted that the Ontology development team has been working cooperatively with Binance and Binance.US on various ONT trading campaigns. The Ontology team members, whose comments came during a recent AMA session which aimed… Read More

July 6, 2020 @ 3:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Iconoclastic crypto-preneur Brock Pierce announced on July 4th his candidacy for President of the United States, running as an Independent in the November 3, 2020 Presidential election.  Pierce took to Twitter to make the announcement. I, Brock Pierce, am running for President of the United States of… Read More

July 6, 2020 @ 10:29 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd. (TSX.V: HIVE) (OTCQX: HVBTF) announced on Monday it has ordered 200 Bitmain Antminer S17e 60 Terahash per second (TH/s) SHA 256 mining machines as it continues to scale up to next-generation mining power at its green energy-powered bitcoin mining operation… Read More

July 6, 2020 @ 10:23 am By JD Alois  |  

The Crypto Valley Association (CVA), based in Switzerland, has published its “Trusted Key Ceremony Guidelines” a set of best practices designed to help protect digital assets in a safe and secure manner. The project was driven by the CVA’s Cybersecurity Working Group. The CVA has… Read More