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May 6, 2021 @ 8:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink (LINK), a provider of decentralized Oracle networks, has teamed up with the UNICEF Innovation Fund in order to support blockchain-powered applications in emerging markets. The Chainlink Community Grant Program offers financial resources to development teams and researchers that are creating a “more functional, accessible,… Read More

 Tagged Blockchain Development, blockchain grants, chainlink, decentralization, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging markets, open source, oracles, smart contract, smart contracts, social impact, software development, startups, thomas davin, unicef, unicef cryptofund, unicef innovation fund

May 6, 2021 @ 4:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Uniswap, a leading non-custodial Ethereum token exchange, revealed on May 5, 2021, that Uniswap version 3.0 has now been launched on the Ethereum (ETH) mainnet. All “relevant contract addresses” are found here. As mentioned in an update from the Uniswap developers: “Uniswap… Read More

 Tagged crypto-assets, decentralized exchange, decentralized finance, defi, dex, digital assets, ethereum, liquidity providers, lps, nft, nfts, non-fungible tokens, uniswap

May 6, 2021 @ 4:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has invested in Coin Metrics – a crypto-asset data and risk analysis firm. The $15 million Series B was led by Goldman along with the participation of previous investors Castle Island Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Fidelity Investments, Avon Ventures, Communitas Capital, and… Read More

 Tagged coin metrics, goldman sachs, marianna lopert-schaye, mathew mcdermott, tim rice

May 6, 2021 @ 1:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

TradeStation, an online broker-dealer and futures commission merchant, announced on Thursday it is now providing access to its services to traders in Minnesota, Mississippi, and Ohio. Residents of these states may now be able to apply for an account on the TradeStation brokerage platform in… Read More

 Tagged cryptocurrency, digital assets, digital currency, digital trading, minnesota, mississippi, ohio, tradestation

May 6, 2021 @ 1:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

      Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, announced on Thursday it has formed a partnership with B21 Crypto, a global, mobile-first cryptocurrency platform to provides investing, earning, and sending crypto services. Through the partnership, B21 is notably launching a new feature,… Read More

 Tagged b21 crypto, Celsius, cryptocurrency, digital assets, digital currency, mobile-first, partnership

May 6, 2021 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Streami has received a strategic investment from the Digital Currency Group (DCG), according to a release. Streami is based in South Korea and operates GOPAX, a crypto exchange. DCG is said to be the second-largest investor in Streami and previously participated in the Series A… Read More

 Tagged barry silbert, digital currency group, gopax, junhaeng lee, south korea, streami

May 6, 2021 @ 8:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital payments platform Wirex announced on Thursday the migration of a fifth of its native token, the Wirex Token (WXT), from the Stellar Network to the Ethereum blockchain. Wirex reported that following the launch of WXT just two years ago, it will move 20% of the total… Read More

 Tagged digital payments, digital tokens, fintech, wirex, wxt

May 6, 2021 @ 8:08 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

    Digital bank Revolut announced on Thursday the public beta launch of crypto withdrawals. According to Revolut, the new feature will provide customers with the option to transfer Bitcoin to their personal wallets outside of the Revolut platform. “With the rollout of crypto withdrawals, Revolut… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, bitcoin withdrawals, cryptocurrency, digital assets, digital banking, digital currency, online banking, revolut

May 5, 2021 @ 10:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

The US Federal Reserve Board has proposed guidelines to evaluate requests for accounts and payment services at Federal Reserve Banks. In a public statement, the Fed said the introduction of new financial products, such as products introduced by Fintechs including novel types of banking charters,… Read More

 Tagged consultation, lael brainard, patrick mchenry, payments, us federal reserve

May 5, 2021 @ 9:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pera Finance, a multi-layered and “sustainable” trading & yield farming protocol that’s integrated with a “fully-decentralized” daily trading competition, is launching their native token on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) – which is described as a fast and secure decentralized crypto exchange (based on the “highly… Read More

 Tagged binance, binance smart chain, bsc, crypto trading, crypto-assets, decentralized exchanges, decentralized finance, defi, dexes, digital assets, halborn, non-custodial exchanges, pera finance, smart contract, smart contracts, yield farming