Tagged: crypto-assets

January 6, 2022 @ 5:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Starting now (on January 5, 2021), wallets are open via Poloniex and you can begin depositing Biconomy (BICO) into your Poloniex account. Clients may access full trading for BICO with a USDT pair: BICO/USDT will be “enabled at 06:00 AM UTC” on January 5. As… Read More

January 6, 2022 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Bitcoin-focused firm Casa recently shared some notable privacy and security stories from last year. Casa wrote in a blog post that as technology continues to make advances, the world of privacy and security changes along with it. The end of 2021 saw… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 2:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The VeChain Foundation, a non-profit entity established in Singapore, recently revealed that they’re pleased to confirm that following months of development, the contract for VeUSD, VeChain’s first native stablecoin, will “soon go live on mainnet, ushering in a new era for VeChainThor.” With their international… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 11:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kyle Waters and Nate Maddrey from Coin Metrics have noted that after a “transformative” 2021 marked by all-time highs for most of the major digital assets and “key on-chain metrics,” expectations are now quite high for the crypto and blockchain space this year. In their… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain.com, a leading crypto wallet provider, block explorer, and digital asset exchange, writes in an update that (following “proof of keys” day on January 3) a private key is like as a password to your cryptocurrency wallet. In the same way that giving anyone your… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at ARPA reveals that they’re partnering with Wintermute, a global algorithmic market maker in digital assets. As explained in the update, Wintermute will help ARPA for liquidity provision on centralized and decentralized exchanges. It will support ARPA fiat currency pairs like ARPA/EUR, ARPA/USD,… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 10:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at IOST says that 2021 was a year of “highs and lows” for not only IOST but the entire blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem. They’ve noted that they’re thankful for IOSTIANS for staying with them through this “wild ride.” Now that they’ve got some… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology Network, which claims to be a high performance, open-source blockchain specializing in digital identity and data, has celebrated their 4th anniversary. As mentioned in a blog post, Ontology launched the event “Cyberspace 4 Philosophers.” All 10,000 NFTs were fully sold out within 7 days,… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital money transfer service ZEN.COM, which is reportedly powered by Mastercard (NYSE: MA), has introduced the conversion of fiat money into digital assets, as well as the “transfer of fiat currencies to any digital wallet servicing BTC, ETH or USD-T (ERC-20), with more currencies coming… Read More

January 3, 2022 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at IOHK, which supports the development of major blockchain platform Cardano (ADA), says that 2021 was the year robots, and “graffiti came to a decentralized, smarter Cardano.” The update posted by IOHK noted that Beeple used to illustrate their write-ups, however, art NFTs… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 10:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uppsala Security, a provider of security tools and services for Crypto AML/CTF, Transaction Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, Transaction Tracking, and Cyber Security announced the expansion of their business in the NFT Custody area, a service that was “not available until now in South Korea.” As… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 4:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Waves, a blockchain technology platform focused on digital assets, DeFi, and NFTs, recently shared the main takeaways from community discussions during which the Waves ecosystem’s short-term plans and longer-term strategy were revealed. Waves founder Sasha Ivanov has talked about the Waves ecosystem’s… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 3:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) ended 2021 at an average price of $47,400, as Ray Dalio noted that BTC has “proven itself.” Meanwhile, MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) continued to acquire more of the leading cryptocurrency to strengthen its corporate treasury, the team at Blockstream noted in a recent market… Read More

January 1, 2022 @ 11:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset firm Kraken notes that last year, they remained focused on their mission to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency “so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.” In 2021, Kraken celebrated its 10-year anniversary,… Read More

January 1, 2022 @ 10:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Surojit Chatterjee, Chief Product Officer at Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), notes that 2021 proved to be “a breakout year for crypto” with Bitcoin (BTC) price gaining nearly 70% YoY, DeFi hitting $150B in value locked, and NFTs “emerging as a new category.” Chatterjee has shared his… Read More

December 31, 2021 @ 8:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has reported that there are just 58 out of 128 reporting jurisdictions advising that they have implemented any of the updated FATF standards, including the “travel rule.” This reportedly aligns with what CipherTrace has found through their extensive work… Read More

December 30, 2021 @ 7:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In September of this year, the team at Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) had announced that crypto wallets were coming to the platform—enabling clients to not only trade, but send and receive virtual currency via the Robinhood app. Robinhood wrote in a blog post that they’d long heard… Read More

December 30, 2021 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

At digital assets firm Gemini, they are focused on developing the next generation of financial services by leveraging the transformative power of blockchain or distributed technology (DLT) and cryptocurrency. Via the Gemini Frontier Fund — their strategic venture investment division — the company has  embarked… Read More

December 29, 2021 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao or CZ notes that there are many “misconceptions” out there about crypto and that he will address a few of them. For example, many people say that “Regulation is bad for crypto.” According to CZ, we should not hold such a simplistic… Read More

December 29, 2021 @ 2:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In May 2021, the team at digital assets firm Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) had announced the launch of Coinbase Giving. As explained in a blog post, Coinbase Giving is the operational “embodiment” of their ongoing commitment to Pledge 1%, which is the firm’s “promise to dedicate… Read More