Swiss Federal Council Brings Distributed Ledger Tech or DLT Act Fully into Force and Issues Ordinance by Omar Faridi

June 21, 2021 @ 7:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Augmentum Fintech plc (LSE: AUGM), the UK’s only publicly listed investment firm that’s focused on the Fintech industry, has made a $10 million (c. £7.3 million) investment into Helsinki based Tesseract Group Oy, marking Augmentum’s first investment into Finland. As noted in a release shared… Read More

 Tagged augmentum, blackfin capital partners, coinbase ventures, crypto-assets, digital assets, dn capital, europe, finland, helsinki, investment round, london, london stock exchange, lse, martyn holman, sapphire ventures, tesseract, tesseract group, uk, united kingdom, wintermute, woorton

June 21, 2021 @ 2:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Jennifer Peve, currently  Managing Director, Business Innovation at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), has been appointed as Head of Strategy and Business Development at DTCC. Peve has been leading the innovation charge at DTCC, an entity that processes over $2 quadrillion a year… Read More

 Tagged depository trust and clearing corporation, dtcc, jennifer peve, michael bodson

June 21, 2021 @ 1:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency mining specialist Zack Voell notes that this month, Bitcoin mempools have been “emptying more frequently than usual” during the last 6 months. According to Voell, this short-term trend of empty mempools follows BTC’s price drop down to around $30,000 through the end of May… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, bitcoin mining, btc, china, compass, crypto mining, hashrate, mainland china, mempools, mining crackdown, research, Research Report, zack voell

June 21, 2021 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, Inc., a digital securities ecosystem platform, has raised a solid $48 million in a funding round that was led by funds managed by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value and Blockchain Capital. Said to be oversubscribed, the Series B found saw the participation of both new… Read More

 Tagged blockchain capital, brad stephens, carlos domingo, jamie finn, kasuteru wakao, morgan stanley, pedro teixeira, securitize, spicevc, tal elyashiv

June 21, 2021 @ 9:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA Switzerland has opened its Bitcoin trading service to all private banking customers. After six months of in-house testing with a certain group of users, BBVA Switzerland has decided to make its first digital asset trading and custody service accessible to all its private banking… Read More

 Tagged alfonso gómez, avanti financial group, banking, bbva, bbva switzerland, bitcoin tradiing, btc trading, caitlin long, crypto trading, crypto-assets, digital assets, europe, switzerland

June 21, 2021 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at BitOoda, a global digital asset financial technology and services platform offering risk management solutions, recently noted that the Bitcoin market is continuing its consolidation pattern. As mentioned in an update from BitOoda, $30,000 has “proved to be a support level for now.”… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, bitcoin mining, BitOoda, btc, china, crypto market report, crypto mining, hashrate, mainland china, mining difficulty, taproot, yunnan province

June 20, 2021 @ 7:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore‘s United Overseas Bank (UOB), a multinational banking organization with branches mostly based in Southeast Asian countries, has reportedly used Marketnode’s digital asset issuance, depository and servicing platform to issue a new bond offering valued at SGD 600 million (appr. $446 million), with a final… Read More

 Tagged digital bond, singapore, singapore exchange, smart contract, smart contracts, southeast asia, temasek, universal overseas bank, uob, wee ee cheong

June 20, 2021 @ 6:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OceanDAO, a distributed autonomous organization supporting the Ocean Protocol, reveals that the 7th round is now open for submissions. More than $200,000 is being offered for Data Science, Developer, and AI Research projects according to a release shared with Crowdfund Insider. During its first six… Read More

 Tagged ai, alex napheys, artificial intelligence, dao, data economy, datatokens, distributed autonomous organization, ocean, ocean protocol, ocean tokens, oceandao, trent mcconaghy

June 20, 2021 @ 5:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Kraken is pleased to confirm that they’re listing Solana (SOL) and Serum (SRM) along with staking support for Solana (SOL) “with up to 6.5% in yearly rewards.” As noted in the announcement from Kraken, deposits and withdrawals for SOL, SRM tokens are… Read More

 Tagged crypto trading, crypto-assets, digital assets, kraken, new token listings, serum, smart contract, smart contracts, sol tokens, solana, srm tokens, staking

June 20, 2021 @ 3:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset firm Gemini notes that they are adding trading support for a new set of decentralized finance (DeFi), infrastructure, and data management tokens. Gemini is adding Alchemix (ALCX), Ankr Network (ANKR), Fantom (FTM), Mirror Protocol (MIR), API3 (API3), and DerivaDAO (DDX)…. Read More

 Tagged alchemix, alcx, ankr, ankr network, api3, crypto tokens, crypto trading, crypto-assets, dao, data management, ddx, decentralized autonomous organization, decentralized finance, defi, derivadao, digital assets, erc-20, ethereum, fantom, ftm, gemini, governance tokens, mir, mirror protocol, new token listings, smart contract, smart contracts, staking, terra network, utility tokens, yield farming