Tagged: digital assets

December 10, 2020 @ 2:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Arrington, the Founder of Arrington XRP Capital, has pointed out that a new privacy-oriented digital currency just launched its mainnet. According to Arrington, this newly launched project, called MobileCoin, appears to have ties to chat app Signal. A new privacy coin just went mainnet… Read More

December 9, 2020 @ 8:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading sideways as some crypto analysts have warned that the digital asset’s price may become unpredictable in the short-term, according to a new report from OKCoin. The digital currency exchange confirmed that Bitcoin continues to gain institutional support. BTC’s recent price… Read More

December 9, 2020 @ 2:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Injective Protocol, a “fully” decentralized layer-2 digital assets derivatives exchange protocol powering cross-chain trading and (decentralized finance) DeFi, has released a new software version: Injective Solstice V2. As reported earlier this year, Injective Protocol had acquired $2.6 million in capital through a… Read More

December 8, 2020 @ 6:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto-asset exchange Coinbase will begin supporting Filecoin (FIL) on Coinbase Pro, the trading platform for professional or experienced traders. The Coinbase team stated in a blog post: “Starting … Monday December 7, [2020,] transfer FIL into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading…. Read More

December 8, 2020 @ 2:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

BitGo Prime, a digital asset financial services company to offer a deeply integrated solution with lending, trading, and custody, announced on Tuesday its Capital Introduction Services (Cap Intro) for its premier clients who seek to optimize their investment strategies. BitGo Prime reported that through a… Read More

December 8, 2020 @ 9:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockchange, a U.S.-based digital asset investing platform for professional wealth managers, announced on Tuesday it has partnered with U.S. fintech IRA Financial to enable IRA funds and select 401k plans to be invested in cryptocurrencies and digital assets, under the management of a financial advisor…. Read More

December 8, 2020 @ 7:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MicroStrategy Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR) has revealed that it plans to provide (subject to market conditions and other factors) $400 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2025 in a private offering to “qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities… Read More

December 7, 2020 @ 7:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jameson Lopp, CTO at Bitcoin (BTC) focused firm Casa, notes that large to mid-sized corporations using Bitcoin as a primary reserve asset in their treasuries has become quite a hot topic this year, mainly because of business intelligence firm Microstrategy’s “all-in” move. There’s also the… Read More

December 7, 2020 @ 12:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US-based digital asset exchange Kraken has announced that it will allow clients to stake their Ethereum (ETH) on its crypto trading platform. After staking their funds, users will be able to earn rewards of “approximately 5% to 17%,” Kraken confirmed. The network reward is “variable… Read More

December 6, 2020 @ 5:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

1inch, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange aggregator that recently secured $12 million via an investment round, has announced that it’s sponsoring the Gitcoin Grants Round 8 Hackathon. The 1inch team notes that they’re looking forward to supporting developers who are working on innovative (decentralized finance) DeFi… Read More

December 6, 2020 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at HASHR8 Inc., a cryptocurrency mining and media firm that aims to support the “decentralized growth” of hashrate (or computing power used to secure digital currency networks) while enhancing the security of blockchains, has confirmed that Bitcoin has broken record highs and sentiment… Read More

December 5, 2020 @ 2:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Last month, the digital asset markets were “on a tear” as many cryptocurrencies experienced significant gains, Binance notes in its market report. The leading digital currency exchange confirms that Bitcoin (BTC) continues to dominate global headlines as its price surged from below $14,000 on November… Read More

December 4, 2020 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Scott Freeman, Co-Founder and Partner at JST Capital, a New York-based financial services firm currently focused on the digital asset market. The partners of JST have spent more than twenty years working in the traditional financial services sector. They’ve now entered… Read More

December 4, 2020 @ 7:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Huobi Global, a leading digital asset exchange, claims that when it comes to the blockchain and crypto sector, there are “arguably no blockchain projects more important than Ethereum.” The second-largest digital currency by market cap has also been credited with being “the mother of ‘Generation… Read More

December 3, 2020 @ 1:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As the digital asset market approaches the end of 2020, Kraken Intelligence (part of US-based crypto exchange Kraken) has carried out its second VIP client sentiment survey for this current year. According to Kraken, the goal of the survey is to assess digital asset market… Read More

December 3, 2020 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain security firm Ciphertrace noted in a blog post published on December 2, 2020 that within the last 24 hours, the company noticed a significant uptick of alerts and comments within the online digital currency community of users’ funds having been stolen through a malicious… Read More

December 3, 2020 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

1inch, a decentralized (or non-custodial) crypto exchange aggregator provider, has finalized a $12 million investment round that was led by Pantera Capital. The 1inch team stated that they’re pleased to confirm the successful closure of their latest round which also included contributions from institutional investors such… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 11:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto bull market continues to rally as BTC receives even more Wall Street attention while former Fed Chair Janet Yellen is announced as incoming Treasury Secretary. According to a report from OKCoin, Bitcoin has done it again: on Monday morning (November… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 9:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

During the past few weeks, Ari Paul, CIO at BlockTower Capital, and Luke Martin, a prominent digital asset trader, have noted that Bitcoin’s (BTC) upward price movements since late October 2020 have mostly taken place during US market hours. A report from Coin Metrics points… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 4:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange OKEx recently published a report, titled: “How centralized exchange volumes illustrate DeFi’s boom-and-bust cycle.” With market data provided by Kaiko, OKEx Insights looks at DeFi‘s “boom-and-bust cycle” in 2020. The exchange notes in its extensive report that as 2020 comes to an… Read More