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

April 15, 2024 @ 10:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced recently to three years in prison by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero for “hacking two separate decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges and stealing cryptocurrency worth over $12 million…. Read More

 Tagged crime, crypto hacks, hack, monero, new york, nirvana finance, sdny

April 15, 2024 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Alliance Bernstein has published a research report on crypto addressing the stablecoin market. Authored by Gautam Chhugani and Mahika Sapra, the report shares that annualized transfers of stablecoins are around $6.8 trillion. While Tether (USDT) and Circle (USDC) dominate the dollar-based stablecoin market and most… Read More

 Tagged alliance bernstein, neo, research, stablecoins

April 14, 2024 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Real Bedford Football Club (RBFC) owner Peter McCormack announced that Winklevoss Capital, the investment firm owned by Gemini founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has made a $4.5M bitcoin investment into the football club. The investment is the largest ever made “into a football club in… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, digital assets, gemini, investments, real bedford

April 14, 2024 @ 4:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at OKX are pleased to announce their investment in Tomo, a Web3 social finance (SocialFi) protocol. This investment underpins OKX‘s commitment to “supporting innovative blockchain technology and Web3 social platforms that redefine the way users connect and interact with each other online.” Tomo’s… Read More

 Tagged digital assets, investments, okx, Web3

April 14, 2024 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Operations Limited, which claims to be one of the largest companies in the digital asset industry, and Coins.ph, a digital asset exchange in the Philippines, announced that they are joining forces to promote financial education of blockchain technologies, Bitcoin, and Stablecoins, in the region…. Read More

 Tagged coins.ph, Philippines, stablecoins, tether