Tagged: crypto-assets

April 19, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is reportedly getting ready for an anticipated “years-long” court case with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This, according to a report from CNBC, which is citing comments from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. It appears that this update has come after the… Read More

April 18, 2023 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Marcus Sotiriou, Market Analyst at the publicly listed digital asset broker GlobalBlock (TSXV:BLOK) has shared a note on the recent moves and news focused on the Bitcoin and digital assets sector. As mentioned in the update shared with CI, Bitcoin’s (BTC) momentum has “slowed now… Read More

April 18, 2023 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) notes that we should never doubt the importance of the UK and Europe to their business operations. Coinbase writes in a blog post that they may be a US-listed company but they know that “to succeed in their mission of increasing economic freedom,… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Curve, the financial super app and digital wallet that empowers you to maximize rewards from your existing cards and gives you the ability to earn in cashback or in crypto, has announced the launch of a new function that “enables its customers to transfer their… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Exactly Protocol has successfully integrated Chainlink Price Feeds, streamlining the process of connecting smart contracts to asset prices. This integration enables developers at Exactly “to provide a more secure and efficient user pricing mechanism.” At Exactly, they aim “to democratize a new generation of financial… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cynthia Del Pozo Garcia, Director, Strategy & Corporate Development at Gemini, notes that as one of the most important and developed markets in the Americas, Canada has “played an essential role in Gemini’s international expansion.” The team at Gemini are glad to show their continued… Read More

April 16, 2023 @ 11:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LondonLink, which claims to be an established Crypto brokerage focused on curating risk-adjusted returns for “smart-money,” has so far raised 92% (£324,390) of its £350,000 target from 96 investors, with 25 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Seedrs. Located in London,… Read More

April 15, 2023 @ 8:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alongside, a platform enabling broad based exposure to the crypto market in a single token (AMKT)—is using Chainlink Proof of Reserve on Polygon mainnet. Integrating the decentralized Oracle network “helps enable Alongside transparently verify the asset reserves underlying AMKT, which track the top 25 assets… Read More

April 15, 2023 @ 12:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DODO, an algorithm-driven and decentralized trading platform, has launched Alchemy Pay’s on & off ramp solution on its platform. Alchemy Pay’s payment ramp “supports fiat deposits with Visa and MasterCard, as well as numerous popular fiat mobile wallets in emerging markets.” The ramp integration “makes… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mercuryo, the “all-in-one” cryptocurrency platform, is pleased to announce its partnership with Simpledo, an emerging crypto provider in Turkey. This partnership is aimed “at expanding Mercuryo’s global presence and enhancing its services for customers in Turkey.” Simpledo offers “a range of crypto solutions to its… Read More

April 12, 2023 @ 6:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BitMEX, which claims to be one of the world’s most trusted crypto trading platforms for professional and institutional traders, has joined the Travel Rule Universal Solution Technology (TRUST), which is described as an industry-driven Travel Rule compliance solution for global virtual asset service providers (VASPs)…. Read More

April 11, 2023 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pine Street Labs says they are focused on making blockchains usable for all users. As noted in a blog post, each new blockchain “introduces unique transaction lifecycles, encoding schemes, consensus engines, architectures, and more.” As explained in an update from Pine Street Labs, the technical… Read More

April 11, 2023 @ 11:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aaron Lint, Security Lead at Anchorage Digital, as well as Prasanna Gautam, Technical Lead, Protocols, among other members of the firm’s professional team have shared key updates. Anchorage Digital notes in a blog post that as a fast-scaling company, their technical staff is core to… Read More

April 9, 2023 @ 6:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitfinex Derivatives, a derivatives platform that is accessible through Bitfinex announced  a range of perpetual contracts “for three of the largest and oldest Asian Equities indices; HONG KONG 50, JAPAN 225 and AUSTRALIA 200.” The launch of these equity perpetual contracts will reportedly “allow Bitfinex… Read More

April 8, 2023 @ 4:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network recently revealed that it would be going ahead with its planned Chapter 11 restructuring process with a disclosure statement including pertinent information for its claim holders. Last week, we filed our Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization (“the Plan”) with the… Read More

April 7, 2023 @ 12:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MEPs approved stricter rules “to close existing gaps in combating money laundering, terrorist financing and evasion of sanctions” in the European Union. This past week, MEPs from the Economic and Monetary Affairs and Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committees “adopted their position on three… Read More

April 6, 2023 @ 8:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matrixport, which claims to be one of the world’s largest and trusted digital assets financial services ecosystems, announced that its institutional qualified custodian service, Cactus Custody, has integrated with NEAR Protocol, a Layer 1 blockchain ecosystem. The partnership “enables seamless support of the NEAR Protocol… Read More

April 6, 2023 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance, one of Switzerland’s major financial institutions and largest retail banks, partners with Sygnum, which claims to be one of the world’s first digital asset banks, “to offer its customers a range of regulated digital asset banking services via Sygnum’s B2B banking platform.” PostFinance‘s partnership… Read More

April 6, 2023 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

21Shares AG, which claims to be the world’s largest issuer of cryptocurrency exchange traded products (ETPs) and a subsidiary of 21.co, unveiled the 21Shares Stacks Staking ETP (ASTX) – the “world’s first” ETP offering exposure to Stacks. Stacks is “a crypto asset protocol that unlocks… Read More

April 4, 2023 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

WonderFi Technologies Inc. Coinsquare Ltd. and CoinSmart Financial Inc. announced that they have entered into a business combination agreement “to combine their respective businesses.” The combined company will aim to “offer one of the largest regulated crypto asset trading platforms in the world and will… Read More