Tagged: crypto-assets

June 5, 2022 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) has reportedly been compromised for the third time this year, with a hacker able “to steal and sell NFTs, making away with 142 ETH, equivalent to over $250,000.” The hacker conducted a phishing attack, “whereby they shared a fake phishing… Read More

June 5, 2022 @ 2:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitpanda recently confirmed that it will support the Luna (LUNA) Airdrop for Terra Classic (LUNC) holders. This means that Bitpanda is supporting the new Terra 2.0 blockchain and have listed LUNA. For Bitpanda users who held tokens of the Terra project (now LUNC tokens), Bitpanda… Read More

June 4, 2022 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto exchange Bitstamp recently announced the launch of its Earn product in the United States. For the “first” time, Bitstamp is offering its U.S. retail and institutional customers the ability “to participate in staking through its secure, regulated platform, earning up to 5% yield compared… Read More

June 3, 2022 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks, the provider of digital asset and crypto technology, announced that they have been certified by the International Organization for Standards (ISO) “in the categories of security (ISO 27001), cloud (ISO 27017) and privacy (ISO 27018).” Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the International Organization for Standardization… Read More

June 2, 2022 @ 10:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Liminal, a wallet operations infrastructure that secures digital assets in a simple and efficient way, has acquired $4.7 million via its seed round that was led by Elevation Capital. The investment round also saw participation from investors such as LD Capital, Woodstock, Nexus Ventures, and… Read More

June 2, 2022 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Cosmos Builders Foundation has reportedly introduced its federation of crypto-native organizations “collaborating toward a more vibrant, egalitarian, and resilient Interchain economy.” In coordination with the Interchain Foundation, the Cosmos Builders Foundation is focused on “supporting the maintenance and development of infrastructural public goods for… Read More

June 1, 2022 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Craig Blitz, Chief Product Officer at Digital Asset, which is building the platform, developer tools, and leveraging the best modern infrastructure providers “to change how businesses interact.” Digital Asset (the company) is the creator of the Daml multi-party application platform. Our… Read More

June 1, 2022 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks, which claims to be the industry “leader” focused on digital asset and crypto technology, announced that it has appointed the former Head of Fintech at the Bank of England, Varun Paul, “as its new Central Banking Digital Currency (CBDC) and Market Infrastructure Director.” In… Read More

May 31, 2022 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Merge has secured $9.5 million in capital via a seed round in order to create its API-powered banking and payments solution, effectively bridging the gap between fiat and cryptocurrency-based ecosystems. Merge aims to address the ongoing struggle that many firms in the crypto economy face… Read More

May 31, 2022 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset firm Kraken says they are pleased to announce that their crypto trading platform now supports Alchemy Pay (ACH), IDEX (IDEX) and Request (REQ). Funding is live, and trading will “begin on May 31 at approximately 14:30 UTC.” You may keep… Read More

May 30, 2022 @ 4:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Current fixed-rate products available in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) industry are a critical component in the financial derivatives market; but drawbacks, “such as low interest rates, intense competition and lower overall attractiveness to investors remain,” according to an update from Huobi. A revamp that consists… Read More

May 29, 2022 @ 4:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockware Solutions (BWS), which claims to be an industry “leader” in blockchain infrastructure and Bitcoin mining, is pleased to form a partnership with SEVA. Blockware Solutions has initiated a large-scale 150-megawatt development “to expand its Bitcoin mining operations in SunPark, an extension of Rock Creek… Read More

May 28, 2022 @ 7:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LevelField Financial, the U.S. financial services firm uniting digital assets and traditional banking services in one “trusted” platform, has selected METACO, the provider of digital asset custody orchestration technology “to complex, global financial institutions.” LevelField is deploying its institutional digital asset management operations on IBM… Read More

May 28, 2022 @ 6:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Operations Limited, the company operating the blockchain-enabled platform tether.to that “powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalization of over US $73 billion,” has launched Tether tokens (USDt) on Polygon (formerly MATIC), “a leading blockchain development platform.” The addition of Tether to the Polygon ecosystem… Read More

May 28, 2022 @ 1:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Israeli blockchain firm StarkWare, which offers a cryptographic compression service, has managed to quadruple its latest valuation during just the past six months. Starkware confirmed that it finalized a $100 million Series D round that had been led by Greenoaks Capital as well as Coatue,… Read More

May 28, 2022 @ 1:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bit.com, a digital currency exchange with up to 50X leverage on perpetual futures, is pleased to announce that it now supports the depositing and withdrawal of TONCOIN, “the native token of the TON Protocol, on its native blockchain, and will introduce a 200% APY on… Read More

May 27, 2022 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Elliptic, an international firm focused on crypto-asset risk management, has announced J.P. Morgan as an additional investor “as part of its recent $60 million Series C funding round led by Evolution Equity Partners and including SoftBank Vision Fund 2, AlbionVC, Digital Currency Group, Wells Fargo… Read More

May 26, 2022 @ 11:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinDCX, which claims to be one of India’s largest and the “most valuable” crypto companies, has announced the launch of its new crypto yield program, ‘Earn’, which is described as a new way for CoinDCX’s customers “to put their crypto to work and earn interest… Read More

May 26, 2022 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFiYield.app, a cross-chain decentralized security network and multi-chain digital asset management platform, announced that it has added Cardano-based DeFi protocols SundaeSwap and Minswap to its platform – “making it the first ever yield farming dashboard to integrate with the Cardano blockchain.” The new offering will… Read More

May 26, 2022 @ 6:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thanks to the integration, 1INCH holders will be able “to book millions of products on the leading crypto-friendly travel website.” In a move set to boost the 1INCH token adoption, the 1inch Network is pleased to announce a partnership with Travala.com, which claims to be… Read More