April 17, 2024 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitpanda recently announce their strategic partnership with Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), which is reportedly Germany’s largest federal bank and with a balance sheet of more than 330 billion Euros (as well as a key institution in the German banking sector). Through this collaboration, LBBW will “utilize… Read More

 Tagged bitpanda, digital assets, europe, germany

April 16, 2024 @ 8:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX has reportedly launched the public mainnet of their Layer-2 (L2), X LAYER, building with more than 200 dApps across the network. X LAYER is integrated with OKX Exchange (CEX) and the OKX Web3 Wallet. Users can bridge assets from the two platforms to LAYER… Read More

 Tagged blockchain adoption, digital assets, okx, Web3

April 16, 2024 @ 6:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Predictions about Bitcoin’s future price span the spectrum. The most recent bull run has fueled speculation that Bitcoin is poised to move even higher. The upward price expectations are due in part to the launch of regulated Bitcoin spot ETFs in the United States and… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, Ledn

April 16, 2024 @ 12:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lisbon, Portgul-based Bison Bank says it has seen revenues increase by 240% in 2023 when compared to the year prior. Bison Bank is focused on providing a range of Wealth Management, Custody, and Investment Banking services to individual and institutional clients. Affiliated firm, Bison Digital… Read More

 Tagged banking, bison bank, bison digital assets, portugal

April 16, 2024 @ 11:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Americans are already choosing digital payments over traditional payment methods. Now, as digital currencies such as CBDCs gain interest around the world – as seen even more from the recent SWIFT announcement – demand stateside may create bottom-up pressure on U.S. banks – despite the… Read More

 Tagged carlos kazuo missao, cbdcs, central bank digital currency, digital asssets, gft, interview, stablecoins

April 16, 2024 @ 11:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain firm Nansen has shared their quarterly updates including a range of new blockchain integrations and features to give clients a market edge. As the first quarter of 2024 comes to a close, Nansen says that they are pleased by the crypto market’s growth. Over… Read More

 Tagged blockchain adoption, dlt, nansen

April 16, 2024 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Bank has completed its first transaction using an electronic Bill of Lading (eBL) on the WaveBL trade documentation platform, in a cross-border deal that featured entirely digital exchanges of documentation. The deal closely follows Lloyds Bank “becoming the first UK bank to join the… Read More

 Tagged lloyds bank, uk, united kingdom

April 15, 2024 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, provider of a disruptive and scaled technology platform built to enhance efficiency and transparency in financial services, announced that it will begin making its DART System, a combined lien and eNote registry service, available to private and wholesale lending partners, “initially for… Read More

 Tagged dlt, figure technologies, lending, mortgage

April 15, 2024 @ 5:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle is pleased to announce that native USDC is now available on zkSync and accessible to developers and users – no bridging required. Circle Mint and Circle APIs now fully support USDC on zkSync. zkSync is a layer 2 (L2) rollup that “is hyperscaling Ethereum… Read More

 Tagged circle, payments, usdc, zkSync

April 15, 2024 @ 11:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Two digital asset firms, R3 and Quant, have been chosen to provide services for the UK’s Regulated Liability Network (RLN). R3 is an enterprise focused permissioned blockchain provider named Corda. Quant is a tokenization service supporting traditional financial institutions. RLN is led by UK Finance… Read More

 Tagged quant, r3, regulated liability network, rln, uk, unitd kingdom