Tagged: digital assets

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

July 21, 2020 @ 9:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized finance (DeFi) investors have been actively trading a large number of crypto-assets and they’ve also been taking advantage of competitive borrowing and lending options offered through these emerging platforms. Established by Jai Bhavnani, Jack Lipstone, and David Lucid, Rari Capital aims to become a… Read More

July 21, 2020 @ 3:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

What makes something a “distributed ledger or blockchain technology-based” security? SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has published a speech delivered to the Blockchain Association of Singapore. Unable to attend in person due to COVID-19, Commissioner Peirce visited with the Association virtually, addressing the hot topic of… Read More

July 21, 2020 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Republic Note, a profit-sharing digital asset launched by the crowdfunding ecosystem Republic, has reportedly generated solid interest – apparently in excess of its stated $8 million goal. According to reports, Republic Not has surpassed $10 million after launching live last week.   Republic Note, The… Read More

July 20, 2020 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities Commission (SC) of Malaysia, which recently warned residents about facing lengthy prison sentences and fines for operating unlicensed Cryptocurrency ATMs, has specifically mentioned that Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, is not authorized to offer services in the country. The Malaysian SC… Read More

July 19, 2020 @ 6:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase announced on July 16, 2020, that it will support Algorand (ALGO) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers will be able to purchase, sell, convert, send, receive, or store ALGO. The digital asset exchange confirmed… Read More

July 19, 2020 @ 4:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), a non-profit entity established in 2014 to support the development and growth of the open-source Stellar (XLM) protocol, recently announced that Samsung added support for the XLM digital currency to its Samsung Blockchain Keystore. XLM (or “lumens”) is now available… Read More