Tagged: digital assets

September 17, 2024 @ 1:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adaptive Financial Consulting, the custom trading technology solutions provider, announced its collaboration with Bullish, which claims to be one of the fastest-growing, regulated digital asset exchanges, to increase trading capacity and boost throughput as it looks to scale and meet growing business demand. Bullish has… Read More

September 16, 2024 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance is enhancing the trading experience with First-in-Market Token Unlock and a vesting schedule. Integration of CoinMarketCap data into Binance allows users “to conveniently view token unlock schedule and make more informed decisions.” Binance, the global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by… Read More

September 16, 2024 @ 6:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tech-savvy owners of Bitcoin and other digital assets will benefit from greater legal protection thanks to an important clarification to the law. This, according to an update released this past week by the UK government. The Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill, introduced in Parliament, will… Read More

September 15, 2024 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle unveiled plans for a new global corporate headquarters for Circle Internet Group, Inc. based in the iconic One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan at an event hosting industry, political leaders and key partners who have been central to Circle’s growth and success. The… Read More

September 15, 2024 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) Wrapped BTC (cbBTC) is now live. Coinbase is officially rolling out cbBTC – Coinbase Wrapped BTC – an ERC20 token “that is backed 1:1 by Bitcoin (BTC) held by Coinbase.” At launch, cbBTC will be supported on Base and Ethereum, with plans “to… Read More

September 14, 2024 @ 12:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Asset Reality, the global authority on asset seizure, management, and disposal, and Taxbit, the enabler of financial digital asset compliance solutions for enterprises and the public sector, are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership. The collaboration will provide government agencies with “expertise and an… Read More

September 12, 2024 @ 2:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Asset Management, an affiliate of Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. (TSX: GLXY) and one of the world’s largest investment managers of digital assets and blockchain exposures, and State Street Global Advisors, the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT),  announced the introduction of… Read More

September 12, 2024 @ 6:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gemini is pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Global State of Crypto report, offering a comprehensive look at attitudes and behavior toward digital assets from different investors across the globe. After two years of ups and downs, the crypto market has “rallied hard… Read More

September 11, 2024 @ 11:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO Group Inc., says it has received approval for its tZERO Digital Asset Securities as “a new Special Purpose Broker-Dealer for digital asset securities custody.” The company states that this is only one of two licenses for “a regulated broker-dealer digital asset security custodian that… Read More

September 9, 2024 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple and Futureverse, an AI and metaverse technology and content company, have announced plans “to integrate Ripple Custody to enable Futureverse to securely custody its digital assets.” Futureverse will enable “secure, compliant Know Your Customer (KYC) verified access to DeFi via its self-developed Ottó blockchain.” Futureverse… Read More

September 8, 2024 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Avaloq has launched a digital asset platform at Zürcher Kantonalbank. Avaloq states that it has successfully integrated its digital asset platform “at one of Switzerland’s leading banks, Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB), in partnership with Fireblocks.” The bank’s new offering addresses growing market demand “for trading and… Read More

September 7, 2024 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hex Trust, a provider of digital asset solutions for institutional finance and the Web3 ecosystem, announces a strategic partnership with Grass, a viral, new decentralized infrastructure network that is building the first open internet to scale web crawl. Today, the network is powered by “over… Read More

September 5, 2024 @ 12:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Operations Limited, which claims to be one of the largest companies in the digital asset industry, and Reku, a crypto exchange platform, are pleased to announce a strategic collaboration to broaden Indonesians’ understanding of crypto assets and blockchain technology. This initiative will be executed… Read More

September 5, 2024 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, the provider of digital asset infrastructure, announced that Yonsei University in South Korea is the latest partner to join its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) program. This new partnership with one of South Korea’s academic institutions “marks Ripple’s 58th UBRI partnership globally, and its… Read More

September 5, 2024 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo are pleased to announce that their firm has been approved as a custodian under the new SIX Exchange Regulation Crypto-Asset Rule. This approval marks another milestone in BitGo’s mission “to make secure, regulated custody available for clients around the world.” BitGo Europe provides regulated… Read More

September 5, 2024 @ 7:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital, home to the only federally chartered digital asset bank in the US, has announced its custody support for Stacks, a Bitcoin Layer 2 solution. Stacks is the first Bitcoin L2 supported by Anchorage Digital, “marking a significant step for institutional involvement in the… Read More

September 2, 2024 @ 1:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In line with the Third Financial Sector Strategy issued by Qatar Central Bank, the Qatar Financial Centre Authority (QFCA) and Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority (QFCRA) have announced the launch of the QFC Digital Assets Framework, a comprehensive and innovative regime for the creation and… Read More

September 1, 2024 @ 2:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com announced the launch of global retail services, including the ability to provide seamless deposit and withdrawal facilities for millions of retail users of the Crypto.com App from over 90 countries, vastly improving the efficiency and utility of customers’ crypto journeys. Crypto.com’s global retail services… Read More

August 30, 2024 @ 2:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Biden administration’s regulatory approach towards crypto-assets has led to considerable restructuring at a relatively small, yet somewhat prominent digital assets bank. FOX Business has revealed that Custodia Bank, a Wyoming based financial institution that provides various banking services to crypto firms, said  Thursday that… Read More

August 29, 2024 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX Global Chief Commercial Officer Lennix Lai is pleased to share the release of their new research brief, “Digital assets as the new alternative for institutional investors: market dynamics, opportunities and challenges,” commissioned by OKX Institutional and authored by Economist Impact. This comprehensive study features… Read More