Tagged: crypto-assets

July 24, 2022 @ 8:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Huobi Group, which claims to be one of the world’s leading financial services providers specializing in cryptocurrencies and related products, recently announced that it has been granted MVP provisional approval by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) on July 15, 2022, while it “undertakes… Read More

July 24, 2022 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset firm Kraken is pleased to announce that their crypto trading platform now supports new margin pairs “for Bitcoin (BTC), Ripple (XRP), Ethereum (ETH), Polygon (MATIC), Chainlink (LINK), Dogecoin (DOGE), Solana (SOL) and Decentraland (MANA)!” Margin trading is now available for… Read More

July 21, 2022 @ 2:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo, which claims to be the leader in digital asset financial services, recently announced a partnership with the NEAR Foundation, which is reportedly among the “fastest growing,” carbon neutral, open source blockchains that “enables developers to easily build, test, and deploy applications.” The partnership “makes… Read More

July 21, 2022 @ 11:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AQRU plc, an incubator specializing in decentralized finance (DeFi), announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Accru Finance Ltd., has entered into a partnership with Sweden’s crypto company Quickbit eu AB (publ), in order to “bring its yield generating products to a wider audience.” Quickbit is… Read More

July 20, 2022 @ 9:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Swell Network, a permissionless, non-custodial, and liquid Ethereum (ETH) staking protocol, announced a partnership with InfStones, a blockchain infrastructure provider, “to enable greater flexibility, transparency, and yield in ETH liquid staking.” Swell is reportedly the first protocol that “allows stakers to select the node operator… Read More

July 20, 2022 @ 6:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chain (XCN) is now available on cryptocurrency trading platform Okcoin. You may now deposit XCN tokens on Okcoin. All Okcoin customers “except for residents of the EU, the UK, Singapore, and Brunei” may take advantage of this offer. Deposits are “live as of July 19.”… Read More

July 20, 2022 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Gemini  recently revealed that they’ve become the first company to be registered as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) by the Central Bank of Ireland. Their VASP registration comes on “the heels of [their] Electronic Money Institution (EMI) authorization in February of… Read More

July 18, 2022 @ 9:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

At Unstoppable Domains, they’re working to onboard the world to Web3, and that means “making it easier for people to use crypto.” They’re thrilled to announce that they’re partnering with MoonPay, which claims to be one of the world’s “leading” Web3 infrastructure companies. Now, people… Read More

July 18, 2022 @ 5:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Gemini recently revealed their upcoming partnership with the Pyth network in order to “bring accurate and trusted on-chain market data to users across the globe.” As a data publisher to Pyth, Gemini is delighted “to continue contributing to the growth of the… Read More

July 18, 2022 @ 3:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX, which claims to be one of the leading crypto trading apps, recently announced that it has been granted a provisional virtual assets (VA) license “to provide services to qualified investors in the UAE.” Granted by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), OKX’s provisional… Read More

July 17, 2022 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares (Nasdaq First North Growth Market: CS; US OTCQX: CNSRF), which claims to be Europe’s largest digital asset investment firm with $1.5 billion in AUM, has announced the listing of their physically-backed staked Algorand ETP on Germany’s primary market Xetra. CoinShares Physical Staked Algorand (Ticker:… Read More

July 17, 2022 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CleverTap, which claims to be the modern, “integrated” retention cloud, announced it has partnered with Unocoin, India’s first crypto exchange, in order “to optimize, accelerate their user engagement, and provide a seamless omnichannel customer experience.” Through this collaboration, and by integrating CleverTap’s solution into its… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rome Blockchain Labs, the organization behind BENQI’s Liquid Staking protocol on Avalanche, recently announced a collaboration with Alluvial and the founders of BENQI “to build a compliant, enterprise-grade Avalanche (AVAX) liquid staking product.” This collaboration “offers institutions a secure AVAX staking option while participating in… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 4:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rarible.com, which claims to be the leading multi-chain non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, announced its integration with the Metaplex Protocol, a protocol built on Solana for NFTs, “to enable support for the Proof-of-History (PoH) and popular NFT-favorite blockchain, Solana.” The integration “enables Rarible.com users to explore… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Genesis Vault Capital, a digital asset fund, is pleased to launch Genesis Venture Studio (GVS). The mission of GVS is “to help founders validate, launch, and scale Web3 companies structured as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).” DAOs are “a new type of entity that is collectively… Read More

July 15, 2022 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

An increasing number of people – 16% of US adults – are using cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, “through digital asset exchanges for investments, value exchange, asset tokenization, and more,” according to an update from Fintech Plaid. With crypto becoming mainstream, Plaid has “seen… Read More

July 14, 2022 @ 9:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a speech delivered early today by the Financial Conduct Authority Chief Executive Nikhil Ratha, the top UK regulator addressed the future of regulation. Of course, the digitization of financial services, including crypto assets was in the mix. Ratha noted that the FCA has invested… Read More

July 13, 2022 @ 10:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blackfridge, an Isle of Man-headquartered Fintech firm, has reportedly introduced “poundtoken”, which is described as a GBP-denominated stablecoin developed to provide seamless access to digital asset markets with convenient real-time settlement. Operating under the GBPT ticker, and offered for trading via Bittrex Global, Gate.io, as… Read More

July 13, 2022 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Gemini is pleased to announce support for Polkadot (DOT), which adds a new blockchain network to Gemini’s growing list of supported networks. DOT is now available “for trading on [their] API/FIX and ActiveTrader applications for USD trading pairs, and on the Gemini… Read More

July 13, 2022 @ 2:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency markets remained fairly bearish in June 2022 after May’s broad market sell off, the team at Kraken notes in a report. All crypto sectors “reported negative returns month-over-month; even the best performers posted losses exceeding -18%.” Meme and metaverse coins “performed only slightly better… Read More