Tagged: digital assets

August 3, 2021 @ 9:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital currency exchange Independent Reserve revealed on Monday (August 2, 2021) that it had acquired an “in-principle approval” letter for a Major Payment Institution License in Singapore from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) under the Payment Services Act (PSA) “to operate as a regulated… Read More

August 2, 2021 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jake Chervinsky, the General Counsel at Compound Finance, recently shared insights and his take on the deal with the recently proposed US infrastructure bill. 1/ 🚨 Here's the deal with the US infrastructure bill: A new provision has been added that expands the Tax Code's… Read More

August 2, 2021 @ 8:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matrixport, which claims to be one of Asia’s fastest-growing digital assets financial services platforms, has finalized its Series C funding round with a valuation of more than $1 billion — just two years after it launched. Matrixport‘s investment round has been led by partners of… Read More

August 2, 2021 @ 6:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitfinex Derivatives is offering a derivatives platform that is accessible via Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform. As mentioned in a release shared with CI, Bitfinex Derivatives has introduced a perpetual contract for Solana (SOLF0:USTF0). Solana (SOLF0:USTF0) “went live on 26/07/21 at 15:00 PM CET,”… Read More

August 1, 2021 @ 9:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brett McLain, Director of Engineering – Crypto, Fiat, Staking at digital assets firm Kraken, notes that if you’re interested in digital currencies, payments, or staking and want to help create the financial system of the future, then you may be glad to know that the… Read More

July 31, 2021 @ 2:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has announced new enforcement actions against digital assets firm Binance. The cryptocurrency exchange operator has been accused of illegally operating its trading platform in Malaysia. The SC has now ordered Binance to immediately disable access to its website as well… Read More

July 31, 2021 @ 2:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has added advanced investigation and compliance support for six more widely-used ERC-20 tokens. All six crypto tokens are decentralized finance or DeFi related and five of them “specifically belong to top DeFi protocols,” the blockchain firm noted in a recent update…. Read More

July 30, 2021 @ 12:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets firm OKEx reveals that OKExChain (OEC) has hit over $1 billion in total value locked (TVL) in just the past 24 hours. As previously reported, OKExChain is a set of open-source blockchain projects developed by OKEx. They aim to support… Read More

July 30, 2021 @ 11:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SKALE Network, the multichain network of “unlimited” Ethereum blockchains for powering Web 3.0 today, has initiated a roll out of the first decentralized applications (dApps) to go live on Mainnet. As mentioned in an update shared with CI, the release of the SKALE IMA bridge… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decred (DCR), a virtual currency that places a lot of emphasis on security as well as scalability, reveals that there’s been a passage of a vote to enhance the protocol’s base layer user experience (UX). As mentioned in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider, the… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 9:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Changpeng Zhao or “CZ”, the CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of adjusted trading volume, recently announced that he would be welcoming regulation. CZ also said he wants Binance to work cooperatively with regulatory authorities, across the globe, as it establishes… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Secured Finance, a platform provider for the crypto loans and the derivatives market, says it has acquired $4 million in capital as part of its “oversubscribed” seed round. The successful raise, with demand of “more than double” of Secured Finance’s initial target, has been co-led… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Curve Finance, an automated market maker protocol developed for swapping between stablecoins and various other crypto tokens with low fees and slippage, reveals that it will be supporting Tether tokens pegged to the euro (EURt). The addition of EURt to Curve — a protocol developed… Read More

July 28, 2021 @ 6:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SecuX Technology Inc. is pleased to confirm the launch of new features – which include the support of WalletConnect, Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and Cardano (ADA), to be released on July 29, 2021, as well as the new user interface of the firm’s SecuXess web… Read More

July 28, 2021 @ 12:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Bullish, a tech firm focused on creating financial services for the digital assets sector (which has revealed its plans to go public on NYSE via a merger with Far Peak Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: FPAC)), says they are pleased to confirm that they’re… Read More

July 28, 2021 @ 9:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SEBA Bank, a FINMA licensed Swiss Bank offering a seamless, secure, and easy-to-use bridge between digital and traditional assets, has confirmed the appointment of Sam Lin to the position of CEO Asia with “immediate effect.” This appointment “demonstrates SEBA Bank’s commitment to strengthening its status… Read More

July 27, 2021 @ 3:43 pm 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 in a blog post published on Monday (July 26) that for the week ending July 26,… Read More

July 27, 2021 @ 3:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bharat Mediratta has reportedly joined digital assets firm Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) as Fellow. The former Google Distinguished Engineer and Dropbox CTO and SVP aims to bring his deep technical expertise to Coinbase, according to the announcement. As noted by Coinbase: “Today, we’re excited to welcome Bharat… Read More

July 26, 2021 @ 8:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

C.R.E.A.M. Finance, a decentralized lending protocol, has revealed that it will be “the first” protocol in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space to provide a Euro-backed stablecoin in, “with the addition of Tether tokens pegged to the euro (EURt).” Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Tether Operations Limited,… Read More

July 26, 2021 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cyprus-regulated digital assets hedge fund ARK36 announced that it is appointing Loukas Lagoudis to serve as Executive Director and Socrates Minas as Investor Relations Manager in order to strengthen its Cyprus investment division. According to a note shared with Crowdfund Insider, Loukas Lagoudis will be… Read More