Tagged: digital assets

October 12, 2022 @ 4:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Opportunity Crypto will stop in five different communities this fall, “educating individuals about cryptocurrency, including the risks and opportunities.” The team at Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) asked if you ever wondered “what is crypto” or “is crypto right for me”? In line or consistent with their mission… Read More

October 11, 2022 @ 11:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The OECD delivered a new global tax transparency framework “to provide for the reporting and exchange of information with respect to crypto-assets.” The Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) “responds to a G20 request that the OECD develop a framework for the automatic exchange of information between… Read More

October 10, 2022 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

THORChain, a non-custodial decentralized liquidity protocol that enables decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and users to seamlessly transfer their digital assets across blockchains, has integrated support for Avalanche, which claims to be the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, “as measured by time-to-finality.” Avalanche considers… Read More

October 8, 2022 @ 8:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wall Street and Silicon Valley are coming together “to build digital asset management solutions focused on connecting institutional investors to the crypto ecosystem.” Earlier this year, former HSBC trader Ashutosh Goel and former Meta Asia executive Supreet Kaur paired up to build xalts, an investment… Read More

October 6, 2022 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize, a digital asset securities firm, and Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE), a global private markets investment firm, announced a partnership “to expand investor access to Hamilton Lane’s funds through tokenization.” Through this partnership, qualified U.S.-based investors will be “able to more easily access three distinct… Read More

October 6, 2022 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SWIFT has reportedly shown that Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and tokenized assets can “move seamlessly on existing financial infrastructure – a major milestone towards enabling their smooth integration into the international financial ecosystem.” The findings, from two separate experiments, “solve the significant challenge of… Read More

October 5, 2022 @ 3:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matrixport, which claims to be one of the world’s largest digital assets financial services ecosystems, has announced the securing of $50 million of insurance coverage for digital assets held “in cold storage with Cactus Custody, its institutional custodian.” In addition to enjoying additional insurance coverage,… Read More

October 5, 2022 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has launched Crypto Secure, which is described as “a first-of-its kind technology solution designed to bring additional security and trust to the digital ecosystem.” Crypto Secure “combines insights and technology from CipherTrace with proprietary information to help card issuers stay compliant with… Read More

October 3, 2022 @ 9:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The government in Australia has noted that it would be issuing a formal response to a report advising banking institutions in the country of their duty to keep offering banking services to Fintechs, virtual currency trading platforms as well as remittance service providers. This, after… Read More

October 3, 2022 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MEXC, a global digital asset trading platform, has entered into a partnership to support the launch of “a rollup solution that is secured by the Bitcoin network.” Rollux OPv1 is Syscoin’s first in “a series of planned rollup implementations secured by Bitcoin’s own PoW network.”… Read More

September 29, 2022 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com, which claims to be one of the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency platforms, announced it has been registered in France as a Digital Asset Service Provider (DASP) by the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) following clearance from the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR)…. Read More

September 28, 2022 @ 7:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LevelField Financial, which claims to be the premier U.S. financial services firm, uniting digital assets and traditional banking services in one “trusted” platform, announced the selection of Cryptoquote, a provider of highly available data, analytics, and research tools, “to deliver LevelField customers industry-leading, real-time digital… Read More

September 28, 2022 @ 6:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Gemini is pleased to announce a partnership with Betterment, which claims to be one of the largest independent digital investment advisors in the U.S., in order “to begin offering crypto investment portfolios to customers across its retail and Betterment for Advisors offerings.”… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 3:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DBS (SGX:D05) recently announced that it has rolled out self-directed crypto trading via DBS digibank, enabling wealth clients who are accredited investors “to trade cryptocurrencies on DDEx at their convenience.” This latest move “provides more seamless and hassle-free access to DDEx, one of the world’s… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Voyager Digital Ltd. (FRA: UCD2) announced that “after multiple rounds of bidding in a highly competitive auction process that lasted two weeks, its operating company Voyager Digital LLC, selected West Realm Shires Inc. (FTX US) as the highest and best bid for its assets.” The… Read More

September 26, 2022 @ 2:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DappRadar, the global app store for decentralized applications, predicts in its new report on the state of the NFT market that “despite financials falling in Q3 that total sales are expected to grow by 6% by the end of the quarter.” Although the NFT market’s… Read More

September 26, 2022 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the global financial super app with more than 20 million customers worldwide,  announced that it has “expanded its crypto offering to launch 29 new tokens for US* users, via a new partnership with Apex Crypto.” Customers can now “buy and sell a total of… Read More

September 25, 2022 @ 11:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset firm Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) reveals that they’ve registered with the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank — DNB) as a crypto service provider. This registration will “allow Coinbase to offer our full suite of retail, institutional, and ecosystem products to customers… Read More

September 25, 2022 @ 5:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX, which claims to be the world’s “second-largest” cryptocurrency exchange, announced the launch of OKX Lite, a simplified version of its trading app that “makes it easy for users to buy, sell, swap and put their crypto to work.” With a more streamlined look and… Read More

September 24, 2022 @ 7:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Inca Digital‘s government contracting division, Inca Digital Federal, a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract “to research advanced methods for analyzing activity related to financial applications of distributed ledgers in a project called: ‘Mapping… Read More