Blockchain & Digital Assets

April 3, 2020 @ 12:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinfield, a smaller crypto exchange operating out of Estonia, is working with Solegenic to “connect traditional financial markets with crypto assets,” according to a release. Sologenics, an entity that is affiliated with Coinfield, says it facilitates users with investing, trading, and on-demand tokenization of over… Read More

April 3, 2020 @ 11:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Augur (REP), a decentralized prediction market platform, are planning to release the protocol’s second iteration on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain network in June 2020. Augur’s second version (v2) will add new features such as a Dai stablecoin-denominated token, which will be a… Read More

April 3, 2020 @ 9:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Factom, a blockchain as a service platform, is going into liquidation. Factom raised over $8 million in 2017 from well-known investors like Tim Draper, of Draper Associates and Medici Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Overstock.com, Inc., Peeli Ventures, and Harvest Equity. The news of Factom’s… Read More

April 3, 2020 @ 8:21 am By JD Alois  |  

ChainTrust GmbH, based in Hamburg, Germany, is out with a new crisis management system for entities that have migrated to remote operations during the COVID-19 outbreak. The company is focusing on supporting firms and other institutions to manage their workers in a GDPR compliant manner…. Read More

April 3, 2020 @ 7:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Spain’s tax authorities have begun sending warning letters to around 66,000 digital asset investors. The Spanish tax agency aims to remind cryptocurrency holders of their tax obligations. The Agencia Estatal de Administración Tributaria (AEAT) reportedly began its crypto-related tax collection campaign on April 1, 2020…. Read More

April 2, 2020 @ 11:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com has announced it is waiving the 3.5% credit card fee for crypto purchases during the next three months (April through June) as well as increasing rebates for essential purchases (food, groceries, and delivery) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Supported brands of… Read More

April 2, 2020 @ 10:49 am By JD Alois  |  

The Banque de France – the central bank of France – has issued a call for applications to conduct a central bank digital currency (CBDC) experiment with the bank. According to the publication, the work relating to the experiments is being coordinated by the Infrastructures,… Read More

April 2, 2020 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Binance has officially announced its acquisition of CoinMarketCap. It was reported earlier this week that an announcement of the purchase was pending. The rumored purchase price placed the acquisition at around $400 million making it one of the biggest crypto-focused acquisitions to date. Binance did not… Read More

April 2, 2020 @ 8:08 am By JD Alois  |  

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has published its annual report for 2019. FINMA said that blockchain technology continued to “preoccupy FINMA intensively.” FINMA currently oversees over 29,200 financial services firms and products. FINMA said it is increasingly seeing the development of digital securities… Read More

April 2, 2020 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Finturi, a Netherlands-based startup that leverages blockchain to power invoice financing, has received regulatory approval by the Dutch Authority of Financial Markets (AFM), according to a note from the firm. Launched in September 2018, Finturi uses technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) to make… Read More

April 1, 2020 @ 11:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based Paradigm, a digital asset investment firm, is reportedly the biggest winner of several MKR governance token auctions which were meant to cover about $4.5 million of undercollateralized debt. The auctions, which took place between March 19 and March 28, 2020, managed to raise… Read More

April 1, 2020 @ 11:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based digital asset exchange Coinbase claims that retail customers purchased Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, the most during the March 2020 market crash. As noted in a report from Coinbase (released on March 31, 2020), customers usually purchase about 60% more than they sell…. Read More

April 1, 2020 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Atomic Asset Exchange (AAX), a newly developed digital currency exchange that offers over-the-counter, spot, and futures trading, confirmed on March 31, 2020, that it will be introducing its native exchange token, called AAB. AAX aims to connect crypto to the larger, traditional financial system…. Read More

April 1, 2020 @ 2:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few weeks after launching its business accounts, UK challenger bank Monzo announced the launch of “Monzo Business” for web, which gives users the option to manage their business account on their computer or laptop. As previously reported, Monzo stated it spent the past… Read More

April 1, 2020 @ 11:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

CoinEx, a global and professional cryptocurrency exchange service provider, announced on Tuesday it has formed a new partnership with fiat infrastructure provider, Simplex. CoinEx reported that the partnership enables its users to purchase cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC)… Read More

April 1, 2020 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The planned introduction of Russia’s cryptocurrency laws and regulations have been delayed again, due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Anatoly Aksakov, chairman at the Russian State Duma committee on financial markets, claims that the nation’s virtual currency law, the bill “On Digital Financial Assets,” has… Read More

March 31, 2020 @ 11:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding advocate and Fintech expert Rodney Sampson has joined Draper Goren Holm as a Venture Partner. Draper Goren Holm is a partnership between Tim Draper, Alon Goren, and Josef Holm, focused on accelerating and incubating early-stage blockchain and Fintech startups, while simultaneously producing leading blockchain… Read More

March 31, 2020 @ 11:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management, a trusted partner to individuals, asset managers, family offices, and institutions in navigating cryptocurrency, is in the process of getting its digital asset index fund listed on OTC Markets (OTCQX). Bitwise informed investors on March 27, 2020, that it’s currently working toward… Read More

March 31, 2020 @ 10:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Draper Goren Holm, a young venture group that includes prominent VC Tim Draper, announced on Tuesday that its portfolio company Totle has been focused on developing an advanced order routing system that will find the “absolute best” combination of orders to get the most value… Read More

March 31, 2020 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lightning Labs, a company focused on developing the Lightning Network (LN), a layer-two scalability solution for conducting faster, cheaper micro-payments in Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies, has introduced a new authentication mechanism, called the Lightning Service Authentication Tokens (LSAT) protocol. The LSAT protocol will help… Read More