Tagged: digital assets

July 28, 2020 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

SEBA Bank, a Switzerland based bank licensed by FINMA that seeks to bridge digital assets and more traditional ones, has announced that its Chairman of the Board of Directors has stepped down. According to a release, Andreas Amschwand has decided to exit the board and… Read More

July 28, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Abra, the provider of a digital asset investing app, revealed on July 28, 2020, that it has launched new Abra Interest Accounts that offer investors an opportunity to earn as much as 9% interest p.a. on their crypto deposits and certain USD backed stablecoins. As… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 11:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Dash Core Group (DCG), which is one of the organizations that work for the Dash Network (a digital currency platform), has officially announced the release of Dash Platform version 0.14. Dash, which has a market cap of over $727 million (according to CoinGecko), aims… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 9:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

ReitBZ, a leveraged security token backed by real estate issued by BTG Pactual, has announced the distribution of its first dividend. According to ReitBZ, the digital asset will be the first of its kind to distribute profits to investors. Everything will be handled via blockchain-based… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 9:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitbond is a Germany-based Fintech that started life as a global online lender serving small business borrowers. Some years ago, Bitbond received a regulatory license by the German financial services regulator, BaFin. Crowdfund Insider reported that it took several years to complete the process but… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 8:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto-asset exchange OKEx, which offers spot and derivatives trading with digital currencies, recently added three more expiration dates to its options trading. They include options trades that may be settled daily, after every two-day period, and monthly. OKEx had already been offering weekly, bi-weekly, quarterly… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 12:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange PayBito announced on Monday it has officially expanded its cryptocurrency listing. The platform reported that after adding several prominent digital assets, including utility coins to the trading platform, it is in the process of adding more altcoins by next quarter. “PayBito… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 9:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital asset exchange Bitfinex announced on Monday it will be launching its peer-to-peer lending tool, Lending Pro, in the first week of August. According to Bitfinex, the new tool will be providing users with an advanced lending tool designed to automate lending in order to… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 8:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokeny Solutions, a digital asset platform facilitating primary issuance and management of security tokens, has partnered with Invenium Capital Partners to provide private security data. Invenium is described as a “Fintech SaaS” company with offices in New York City and Northville, Michigan. Founded in 2017,… Read More

July 26, 2020 @ 7:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trustology, a provider of custody solutions for crypto-assets, revealed on July 23, 2020, that it will be offering built-in Ethereum 2.0 (or ETH 2.0) staking support for mobile, web, or API integration to its user base – which includes both individual and institutional clients. Ethereum… Read More

July 26, 2020 @ 3:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Avalanche, which is AVA Labs‘ project led by Cornell computer science professor Emin Gün Sirer, has integrated with Torus to enable the development of decentralized finance (DeFi) apps. As mentioned in an update shared with Crowdfund Insider: “This integration will add considerable security and recoverability… Read More

July 26, 2020 @ 1:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Gold (XAU₮), a crypto-asset offering ownership of physical gold (XAU) that’s reportedly custodied in Switzerland, has experienced a significant increase in its demand as the price of gold surged past $1,900 a troy ounce – which may have been due to the economic uncertainty… Read More

July 25, 2020 @ 2:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Delta Exchange, a cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform that’s not regulated in any jurisdiction, revealed on July 24, 2020, that it has introduced interest rate swaps for MakerDAO‘s stablecoin, DAI. The DAI stablecoin savings rate contracts offer “up to 160x leverage” on the notional value and… Read More

July 25, 2020 @ 2:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York-based Signature Bank (Nasdaq: SBNY), a cryptocurrency-friendly commercial bank with around $50 billion in total assets, has reported consistent and steady growth this quarter. According to the bank’s recent earnings call, it has achieved around $8 billion in deposit growth. Approximately 2.5% of these… Read More

July 25, 2020 @ 1:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase has reportedly grown its customer base to over 35 million retail and institutional digital asset investors. The Coinbase team noted in their Crypto H1 2020 report that the digital asset investor market has been maturing and growing steadily with many… Read More

July 23, 2020 @ 1:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Singapore-based blockchain developer Pundi X announced on Thursday its support for Wanchain’s cross-chain assets into all XPOS devices. According to Pundi X, coins such as WAN, the Wanchain native coin, WBTC, WEOS, and WETH will be added as cryptocurrencies to the XPOS point-of-sale systems… Read More

July 23, 2020 @ 1:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland’s Smart Valor, a company that operates a European crypto-asset trading platform, has revealed that it plans to add support for Kyber Network Crystal (KNC) staking, which will give Kyber Network members the chance to stake their KNC tokens on KyberDAO. Kyber Network is an… Read More

July 23, 2020 @ 12:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ryan Radloff, CEO at Kingdom Trust, an independent qualified digital asset custodian that’s regulated by the South Dakota Division of Banking, has confirmed that most US residents don’t hold any Bitcoin (BTC) in their retirement accounts. Radloff, whose comments came during a recent interview with… Read More

July 22, 2020 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

During the past few years, initial coin offerings (ICOs) and initial exchange offerings (IEOs) have raised billions of dollars in funding for various so-called “decentralized” blockchain initiatives. Most of these projects have been scams or have just been really bad ideas that never really materialized…. Read More

July 22, 2020 @ 9:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockchange announced on Tuesday the launch of BITRIA, a digital asset management platform for registered investment advisors. According to Blockchange, the platform allows RIAs to diversify their clients’ portfolios into digital assets for improved returns and risk mitigation, using similar processes to those used for… Read More