Tagged: digital assets

January 23, 2022 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Diogo Mónica (Co-founder and President at Anchorage Digital) and Nathan McCauley (Co-Founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital) wrote in a blog post that an OCC veteran is joining America’s first federally-chartered digital asset bank. After a solid year where Anchorage Digital experienced a significant 175%… Read More

January 23, 2022 @ 1:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Metaverse, a relatively new concept and a term used to describe a shared, immersive digital ecosystem supported by the use of VR and augmented reality (AR) technologies, has quickly become one of the fastest-growing trends in the digital economy. It’s notably a nascent industry… Read More

January 21, 2022 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Meta’s (NASDAQ: FB) two leading social media networks, Facebook and Instagram, are reportedly looking to enter the fast-evolving non-fungible token (NFT) sector. The tech giant will be focusing on making it seamless for Facebook and Instagram users to issue, trade and showcase their NFTs. As… Read More

January 21, 2022 @ 12:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Gemini noted on January 19, 2022, that they’re acquiring Omniex, a trading tech platform that offers order, execution, and portfolio management system solutions for institutional cryptocurrency trading. As mentioned in a blog post, the acquisition enables Gemini to “publicly launch Gemini Prime,… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

METACO, the provider of security-critical software and infrastructure to the digital asset ecosystem, has announced that Union Bank of the Philippines is implementing its digital asset management services. As noted in an update shared with CI, UnionBank is deploying services on IBM Cloud, in order to… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Qi (formerly Stark Payments), a company that enables businesses to accept virtual currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and others as a regular payment, has raised 66% (£231,497) of its £350,000 target from 160 investors (at the time of writing) through its crowdfunding campaign carried out via… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 3:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Kraken is pleased to announce that their trading platform now supports staking for MINA token holders. Kraken users may head into the Earn section of their accounts to put their MINA “to work” today (staring January 18, 2022). (Note: Staking is currently… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 10:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The 1inch Network announced on January 20, 2022 that they’ve expanded to Avalanche (AVAX) and Gnosis Chain (GNO). As explained in the update, the expansion to the two fast-growing blockchains will aim to “offer 1inch users more options for low-costs, high-speed transactions.” The 1inch Network… Read More

January 19, 2022 @ 8:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Sentinel Protocol team, which is operating a platform leveraging blockchain technology in order to harness collective cyber security intelligence to protect crypto assets against hackers, scams and fraud, has provided an update regarding the suspicious activity incident involving Crypto.com. Through their team’s preliminary analysis,… Read More

January 18, 2022 @ 8:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Shaun Scovil, General Manager at digital assets firm Poloniex, notes that as they embark on their eighth year of operations, the team has reflected on all the great things they think they’ve accomplished so far, while “preparing for the exciting challenges and opportunities ahead.” Shaun… Read More

January 18, 2022 @ 7:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets platform Celsius Network notes that since their goal is to bring the next 100 million consumers to crypto, they are constantly looking to offer (what they consider to be) the “best” experiences and “opportunities” for their community. This reportedly includes looking… Read More

January 18, 2022 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brandon Bailey, a crypto mining analyst at Galaxy Digital, notes that a strong Bitcoin bull market, “authoritarian” crackdown on cryptocurrency mining in China and “flight to North America” seems to have flipped the international hashrate economy on its head during 2021. In a recent report,… Read More

January 18, 2022 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BlockFi, a crypto financial services firm, recently announced that Alexander Grigoryan has joined the company as the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and will be responsible for overseeing “all global product development and technology strategy moving forward.” Zac Prince, CEO and Founder of BlockFi, stated:… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 8:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Ramp has shared a detailed look into how the early adoption of stablecoins helped them with increasing their Corporate Treasury returns. Alex Song, Head of Finance at Ramp, notes that during the past two and a half years, the Fintech company has been… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Valentin Mihov, Co-founder, and Chief Investment Officer at Finexify, a boutique investment company that offers an opportunity to gain exposure to the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. The team at Finexify thinks that limited access to DeFi means “extraordinary” alpha with limited… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 3:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Beth Kurteson, MD at digital assets firm Gemini, notes that the company is committed to tapping into the future of financial, creative, and “personal freedom” via crypto. Beth writes in a blog post that central to that effort is the work they do “to support… Read More

January 16, 2022 @ 11:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Okcoin is now offering the two crypto tokens of the Abracadabra.money ecosystem, Spell (SPELL) and Magic Internet Money (MIM), with “some of the lowest fees around.” As noted in the update from Okcoin, here’s what each of these tokens are about, in… Read More

January 16, 2022 @ 12:42 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Propine, a Singapore-based, Monetary Authority of Singapore-licensed digital asset custodian, has entered into a partnership with XinFin (XDC), a Singapore-based hybrid blockchain platform to provide on-chain custody for the XDC Network. The partnership will allow the XDC ecosystem to see security and fully compliant and… Read More

January 15, 2022 @ 8:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered digital asset bank, has shared survey results that show OCC approval “gives Americans greater confidence in cryptocurrency.” The team at Anchorage Digital writes in a blog post that as the volume of conversation around cryptocurrency and digital assets continues… Read More

January 15, 2022 @ 4:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset platform CoinList notes that they’re pleased to confirm that the  registrations for the Stader token sale are currently open. Stader offers smart contract infrastructure for staking, “helping users stake their assets conveniently and safely through its platform by building key… Read More