Tagged: digital assets

September 24, 2020 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Full-time equivalent employee growth in the blockchain and digital asset sector has slowed down following the 2017 cryptocurrency bull market, according to the findings of the 3rd Global Cryptoasset Benchmark Study by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (released in September 2020 by the… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 11:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recently published a document for regulatory authorities and enforcement agencies. The FATF listed several different “red flags” in cryptocurrency transfers and service user profiles that may indicate that the entities involved in the transactions are engaging in money laundering,… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), a leading crypto derivatives exchange, has taken a look at the relatively short seven-year history of decentralized exchanges (DEXes) – which includes the first major iteration of the technology, Counterparty. BitMEX noted that it considers these early attempts to have… Read More

September 22, 2020 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Huobi Global, a leading digital assets company, recently published a survey that looks into the different investment profiles and backgrounds of retail cryptocurrency traders in emerging markets. According to a release, the survey results indicate that crypto-assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) have… Read More

September 22, 2020 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, has launched what it calls the “Innovation Zone,” which will permit certain users to trade newer cryptocurrency token offerings directly from their Binance account, while protecting “less suited” traders from being exposed to the potential risks that come… Read More

September 22, 2020 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO at FTX, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange and Alameda Research, has commented on some blockchain projects that he thinks are worth talking about and appear to be making some progress. While confirming that he’s not offering investment advice, Sam said that Solana (SOL)… Read More

September 21, 2020 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brian Kerr, CEO at Kava Labs, which is focused on the ongoing development of Kava (KAVA), a blockchain-based platform that aims to offer a foundation for various open financial services, recently announced that they’re proposing a new initiative, called Harvest, the “world’s first cross-chain money… Read More

September 21, 2020 @ 8:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, will be offering Visa Cards in Europe. They will allow users to earn up to 8% cashback. The exchange said that Binance Visa Cardholders will be able to get highly competitive cashback rates, but it’s only offered to consumers… Read More

September 21, 2020 @ 11:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis, the leading blockchain analysis firm, has teamed up with the State of Wyoming’s Division of Banking, the banking regulator that’s tasked with the chartering and supervision of Wyoming state banks, trust companies, mortgage firms, money transmitters and other non-bank financial service providers. The State… Read More

September 20, 2020 @ 10:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital assets exchange OKEx announced on Friday it is offering a full suite of trading products for Uniswap’s UNI. The platform reported that the products will include margin, swap trading, coin-margined perpetual swap, and savings. It will also offer zero transaction fees in UNIUSD perpetual… Read More

September 20, 2020 @ 2:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Yassine Elmandjra, an analyst at ARK Investment Management, a company that invests in Fintech projects and other next-generations technologies, says that Bitcoin’s (BTC) blockchain will “contribute more dramatically and profoundly to the evolution of monetary and financial systems than any other breakthrough in history.” Elmandjra,… Read More

September 19, 2020 @ 12:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sheila Warren, Head of Blockchain, Data, and Digital Assets at the World Economic Forum (WEF), an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business leaders of society to shape global agendas, says that she’s “quite bullish” about blockchain and… Read More

September 18, 2020 @ 6:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Eastern Europe has the fourth-largest cryptocurrency market in terms of total transaction volume, according to Chainalysis’ research. Ukraine and Russia, which are also part of the Eastern European region, have been ranked quite high on Chainalysis’ Global Crypto Adoption Index. It takes into consideration a… Read More

September 17, 2020 @ 8:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology adoption continues to rise, with banks, institutional investors, and everyday consumers now using these platforms to engage in everyday transactions or to implement various business use cases. According to Chainalysis, the “patterns of cryptocurrency usage” vary widely across the globe. The… Read More

September 16, 2020 @ 9:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

During its 11 years of existence (since the first Bitcoin block was mined), BTC has been able to survive many “threats,” mainly because there’s no single entity controlling the world’s largest cryptocurrency network. As explained in a report from Coin Metrics, this trait, called decentralization,… Read More

September 15, 2020 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, will be offering cryptocurrency futures contracts for Elrond (EGLD), the native token of a “highly” scalable, fast and secure blockchain platform for creating distributed apps; and Sola (SOL), the native digital currency of a “decentralized” social platform developed… Read More

September 15, 2020 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jonah Schulman, head of marketing at Security Token Market, notes that every month, he helps the research team with putting together the security token trading and data analysis report. As covered, security token trading volume reached almost $22 million in August, which is significantly more… Read More

September 15, 2020 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental organization that develops policies to combat money laundering and terrorism financing, has released an updated report, titled, Virtual Assets Red Flag Indicators of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. Published on September 14, 2020, the report notes that… Read More

September 14, 2020 @ 3:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital assets exchange OKEx announced on Monday its public chain OKChain has been renamed to OKExChain. The platform further noted it has made changes to the public chain. “OKExChain also takes the lead among exchange-developed public chains. By fully utilizing the nature of peer-to-peer networks,… Read More

September 14, 2020 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Current Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) regulations state that it’s the responsibility of all financial service providers to accurately and promptly identify and report any suspicious or potentially fraudulent activity. This activity may be related to how criminals or bad actors exploit convertible virtual currencies… Read More