Tagged: digital assets

January 11, 2022 @ 4:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial services have become a lot more accessible, seamless, and user-friendly in the past decade due largely to the rise of innovative Fintech platforms throughout the world. Traditional banking service providers have launched their own digital transformation strategies in order to remain competitive in a… Read More

January 11, 2022 @ 2:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uppsala Security has announced the launch of TOMS 2.0, which is an updated version of the already deployed Threat Reputation Database On-premise Management System (introduced at the end of March 2021). As mentioned in a release, the product was initially created to “address an increased… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 9:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zac Prince (Founder and CEO at BlockFi) and Flori Marquez (Co-founder and SVP of Operations at BlockFi), noted that  2021 was “not the year anyone predicted.” Prince and Marquez wrote in a blog post published by BlockFi: “Across the globe, we experienced challenges and joys… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 9:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset platform CoinList is introducing their first-ever NFT collection: FiatWorks. As noted in an update, dated January 5, 2022,  CoinList started with “a small, dedicated base of true crypto believers that supported projects like Filecoin, Stacks, Solana, Algorand, and more.” As… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 8:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin-focused tech firm Blockstream notes in their Markets Weekly Report that BMN is launching a capital raise via Bitfinex Securities in the coming days. Meanwhile, El Salvador is preparing its regulatory framework for the upcoming BTC bond, and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) recently stated that BTC… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Callie Cox, the US-based Investment Analyst at eToro, notes that she’s always thinking about how market moves and headlines affect your finances. Starting January 7, 2022, Cox confirmed that she’ll be publishing a weekly blog, titled The Bottom Line, which will look into what’s happening… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 2:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset platform Kraken notes that they’re pleased to announce that Kraken now supports Kintsugi (KINT). Funding and trading for the Kintsugi (KINT) token is live (as of January 6, 2022), and trading will “begin shortly.” You may keep an eye on… Read More

January 8, 2022 @ 10:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered digital asset bank that announced a Series D funding round of $350 million in December 2021, notes that as they look back at the developments from last year, “one pattern emerges: there’s a bright path ahead and they’re proud… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 6:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Blockchain.com, a leading block explorer, crypto wallet, and trading platform, says that 2021 witnessed a “fourth” major bull cycle for Bitcoin (BTC) and other crypto-assets. Historically, in the years that followed the previous large bull markets, we’ve seen “a struggle to hold gains… Read More

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 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 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes that for the week ending December 31, 2021, the firm saw yearly inflows of “US$9.3bn in… 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 @ 10:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Neoverse has entered into a “new chapter.” In order to celebrate the launch of the N3 MainNet, NGD (or NEO Global Development) launched Neoverse — which is described as an NFT mint and collection campaign carried out “with multiple developer communities, ecosystem projects, and… 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