Tagged: digital assets

June 27, 2020 @ 10:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings, a Japanese financial services holding company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo with over 82 billion JPY in annual revenue, is planning to establish a security token exchange. Tokai Tokyo, which is primarily involved in offering brokerage services via its subsidiary Tokai Tokio… Read More

June 26, 2020 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  The cryptocurrency market reached all-time highs of more than $800 billion during the initial coin offering (ICO) craze of 2017-2018. There were many huge scams carried out during this time, which involved seemingly promising, but too good to be true companies like BitConnect. While… Read More

June 26, 2020 @ 1:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale Investments, a subsidiary of the Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group, has now acquired nearly $500 million in Bitcoin (BTC), since the cryptocurrency went through its third block reward halving on May 11, 2020 – a critical even that effectively reduced the BTC supply by… Read More

June 25, 2020 @ 11:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Allaire, founder of Circle Internet Financial, a peer to peer payments technology firm, has said that in the future, when we look back at how transactions were conducted, we “won’t believe that we ever needed to pay to send money.” San Francisco-based crypto exchange… Read More

June 25, 2020 @ 11:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NGRAVE, a digital asset security company that claims it has developed the world’s most secure cryptocurrency hardware wallet, has revealed that they’ve crossed a thousand backers (investors) and have so far secured nearly $360,000 in investments – and counting via Indiegogo (IGG). As mentioned in… Read More

June 24, 2020 @ 9:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Big Four auditing firm KPMG has introduced KPMG Chain Fusion, a patent pending suite of advanced analytics software that has been developed using digital asset data and technology products. As mentioned in a release, the Chain Fusion software will allow financial services providers and Fintech… Read More

June 24, 2020 @ 12:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

  The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is pushing further into blockchain by incorporating digital assets into its SEDOL Masterfile service, a global security identifier covering 100 million financial instruments. According to the LSEG, as of this week, SEDOL security identifiers have been assigned to 169… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ampleforth, a crypto-asset protocol for “oraclized” money, revealed on June 23, 2020, that it will introduce a new Liquidity Incentive Program, Geyser, which will target Uniswap 2.0, a widely-used non-custodial Ethereum token exchange. As mentioned in a press release shared with Crowdfund Insider: “After providing… Read More

June 22, 2020 @ 7:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Ltd, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, has reportedly made a $10 million equity investment into the operations of the Celsius Network, a leading digital asset lending platform, which now has a $120 million pre-money valuation and $150 million post-money valuation. Celsius… Read More

June 21, 2020 @ 10:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bittrex, a cryptocurrency exchange based in the U.S., announced on Saturday it is now accepting Mastercard as a source for funding user accounts. Bittrex reported that it will accept Mastercard payments from 36 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East subject… Read More

June 21, 2020 @ 2:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Matrixport, a company that aims to serve as a gateway to the digital economy where users can trade, custody, invest, and borrow crypto-assets through a single, unified platform, recently compared the advantages and disadvantages of using centralized and decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions…. Read More

June 21, 2020 @ 12:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Blockchain analysis is quite useful when conducting investigations into cryptocurrency-related transactions. It has also become essential when determining whether digital asset service providers are complying with application regulatory and compliance guidelines. Blockchain security and analysis firm Chainalysis says that it uses special software tools… Read More

June 19, 2020 @ 2:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com announced On Thursday it has rolled out significant infrastructure upgrades to its Exchange, including a revamped Matching Engine, OMS (Order Management System), and unified REST and Websocket API. According to Crypto.com, the update will lead to a ten times increase… Read More

June 19, 2020 @ 2:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a virtual form of money issued by a country’s reserve bank. A CBDC can easily be implemented using a traditional database management system operated by central bank in collaboration with approved private sector entities. Blockchain technology is not needed… Read More

June 19, 2020 @ 10:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fireblocks, an enterprise-grade platform providing the infrastructure for moving, storing, and issuing digital assets, announced on Thursday it will be supporting BlockQuake, a regulatory-driven digital asset exchange upon its upcoming launch. Fireblocks reported that BlockQuake will utilize its MPC-based wallet infrastructure to advance its exchange… Read More

June 18, 2020 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange that has successfully branched out into digital assets lending, staking, and many other initiatives, has joined the crypto-asset exchange committee at the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), which is the leading trade body of digital businesses based… Read More

June 18, 2020 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares, a crypto-asset management company that provides financial products and services for professional investors, Ledger, a digital assets firm, and Nomura have introduced Komainu, a digital asset custody business for institutional clients, under the leadership of Jean-Marie Mognetti, the company’s chief executive (and all three… Read More

June 18, 2020 @ 9:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jason “Parabolic” Williams, general partner at Morgan Creek Digital and founder of FastMed Urgent Care, recently revealed that he has made over $200,000 in interest alone after depositing $2.5 million in Gemini USD (a “scalable” stablecoin that has 1:1 “transferability” with the US dollar) on… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jake Chervinsky, General Counsel at Compound, an open-source, autonomous interest rate protocol, confirmed that Compound Labs achieved an important milestone “in our pursuit of progressive decentralization.” Chervinsky, a former Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and also former Associate at Kobre & Kim,… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 12:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Despite recent volatility in the Bitcoin (BTC) and larger cryptocurrency markets, decentralized or non-custodial digital asset exchanges continue to “maintain their long-term trend lines” according to the team at Bamboo Relay, another project that has integrated Chainlink Oracles for stop-loss order functionalities. A stop-loss order… Read More