Tagged: digital assets

May 17, 2024 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin Suisse reports on its 2023 financial result and provides an outlook into 2024. During a phase of what market insiders commonly refer to as “crypto winter”, the company streamlined its offering, increased the scalability and efficiency of its infrastructure, and invested into future products… Read More

May 16, 2024 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutional crypto platform Anchorage Digital has announced support for native DYDX staking. Now, institutions can stake DYDX from safe and secure custody “at Anchorage Digital and earn staking rewards distributed by the protocol in USDC.” As home to the only federally chartered digital asset bank,… Read More

May 16, 2024 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitpanda, Europe’s crypto company, has reported its most significant quarters of growth to date, with revenue for Q1 FY ‘24 exceeding €100 million. The wider market experienced a significant downturn in 2022, which led Bitpanda to rethink its “long-term growth strategy.” This meant a refocus… Read More

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

Sally Meouche-Ghrawi, Executive Board Member of eSync Network, recently shared her views and insights regarding the importance of RWA (real-world assets) tokenization and the rise of blockchain technology. Sally Meouche discusses the potential benefits of leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT) to streamline key processes. Our… Read More

May 15, 2024 @ 12:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple and Peersyst will leverage evmOS in order to further develop and enhance the XRP Ledger (XRPL) EVM sidechain, which is currently in Devnet. The XRPL EVM sidechain will be “built leveraging evmOS — a modular and customizable tech stack offered by Evmos.” evmOS enables… Read More

May 15, 2024 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. (TSX: GLXY) released financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2024, for both itself and Galaxy Digital Holdings LP. Galaxy says that it continues “to work on completing its proposed reorganization and domestication to become a Delaware-incorporated company and… Read More

May 15, 2024 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxos, the regulated blockchain and tokenization infrastructure platform, announced it has added J. Christopher Giancarlo, former Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to its board of directors. A key figure in the financial services industry, and a passionate blockchain technology advocate,… Read More

May 15, 2024 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD), which recently received a Wells Notice from the SEC, has announced a series of new features offered by Robinhood Crypto specifically designed for its customers in Europe, including staking, localized apps, crypto rewards for new customers, and updated Learn & Earn modules. These… Read More

May 14, 2024 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Consensys announced the launch of Smart Transactions, a new technology rolling out to all MetaMask users globally as an optional feature. This reimagined transaction experience reportedly offers better transaction success rates, reduces gas costs, and protects users “from harmful MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) attacks such… Read More

May 14, 2024 @ 5:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bullish, which claims to be one of the “fastest-growing,” regulated digital asset exchanges, announced its integration with Hidden Road, the global credit network for institutions. The integration provides Hidden Road’s broad institutional customer base “with access to Bullish exchange’s low-cost liquidity and best execution in… Read More

May 14, 2024 @ 1:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Building a successful crypto portfolio requires diversification, and that applies to meme coins as well, according to an update from Bitpanda. However, actively researching and managing “a basket of individual meme coins is a time-consuming endeavor,” Bitpanda notes while adding that this is where the… Read More

May 14, 2024 @ 11:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crossover Markets, a digital asset technology firm focused on meeting the unique liquidity requirements of institutions, and Talos, the provider of institutional technology for trading digital assets, announced that Crossover’s CROSSx institutional crypto trading venue has been integrated with the Talos trading platform, joining Talos’s… Read More

May 14, 2024 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com, the digital assets firm which claims to be focused on ensuring regulatory compliance, security and privacy, is now a member of Adan, an association bringing together professionals in the digital asset and blockchain sector throughout France and Europe. Eric Anziani, President and COO of… Read More

May 12, 2024 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin Suisse, the Swiss-based pioneer in crypto-financial services, is pleased to announce the addition of Starknet (STRK) trading and custody to its platform. This latest development underscores Bitcoin Suisse’s commitment to “providing its clients with access to innovative blockchain projects and investment opportunities.” Starknet is… Read More

May 10, 2024 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  BlockFi says they have engaged Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) as their distribution partner to ensure continuity of crypto withdrawals available to their eligible BlockFi Interest Account (BIA), Retail Loan, and Private Clients. As previously reported, BlockFi emerged from bankruptcy as of October 24, 2023. BlockFi filed… Read More

May 8, 2024 @ 9:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Emirates NBD, a banking group in the MENA (and Türkiye) region, has announced Chainalysis as a key council member of the Digital Asset Lab. Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, will “join professional services firm PwC, digital asset transfer and direct custody technology platform Fireblocks, and… Read More

May 8, 2024 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A year after the start Bitpanda first enabled trading for Raiffeisenlandesbank NÖ-Wien, they are pleased to announce that their partnership will now be rolled out “across the North and East of Austria to an additional 55 Raiffeisen banks in Lower Austria and Burgenland.” The core… Read More

May 7, 2024 @ 7:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm OKX‘s investment arm OKX Ventures has announced a strategic investment in four consumer-oriented products from Web3 venture studio EVG. According to a blog post by OKX, these reportedly “include multi-chain SocialFi infrastructure Open Social Protocol, decentralized collaboration network Zeek, strategy card game… Read More

May 7, 2024 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut has launched Revolut X, which is described as a standalone / independent cryptocurrency trading platform that’s offered to the Fintech firm’s UK retail clients. Revolut launched in the United Kingdom, providing fund transfers back in 2015 and started enabling users to purchase, hold and… Read More

May 6, 2024 @ 11:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

tradias GmbH, which claims to be one of Europe’s leading trading firms specializing in cryptocurrency trading and digital asset services, announced an integration with Talos, the  provider of institutional trading technology for digital assets, that would deliver the liquidity provision services of tradias “to institutional… Read More