Tagged: digital assets

April 17, 2023 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cynthia Del Pozo Garcia, Director, Strategy & Corporate Development at Gemini, notes that as one of the most important and developed markets in the Americas, Canada has “played an essential role in Gemini’s international expansion.” The team at Gemini are glad to show their continued… Read More

April 16, 2023 @ 11:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LondonLink, which claims to be an established Crypto brokerage focused on curating risk-adjusted returns for “smart-money,” has so far raised 92% (£324,390) of its £350,000 target from 96 investors, with 25 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Seedrs. Located in London,… Read More

April 15, 2023 @ 8:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alongside, a platform enabling broad based exposure to the crypto market in a single token (AMKT)—is using Chainlink Proof of Reserve on Polygon mainnet. Integrating the decentralized Oracle network “helps enable Alongside transparently verify the asset reserves underlying AMKT, which track the top 25 assets… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Fox-Geen. Chief Financial Officer at Fintech firm Circle and Kash Razzaghi, the firm’s Chief Business Officer, have noted that digital currencies and the blockchains on which they travel can offer considerable utility “as a new, unified infrastructure for payments, commerce and capital markets built… Read More

April 12, 2023 @ 6:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BitMEX, which claims to be one of the world’s most trusted crypto trading platforms for professional and institutional traders, has joined the Travel Rule Universal Solution Technology (TRUST), which is described as an industry-driven Travel Rule compliance solution for global virtual asset service providers (VASPs)…. Read More

April 11, 2023 @ 4:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitget, a crypto derivatives and copy trading platform, launched its Bitget Web3 Fund during the Hong Kong Blockchain Week, “with an initial investment of $100 million.” The fund will “focus on investing in Web3-friendly venture capital and outstanding Web3 projects, with the goal of supporting… Read More

April 11, 2023 @ 11:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aaron Lint, Security Lead at Anchorage Digital, as well as Prasanna Gautam, Technical Lead, Protocols, among other members of the firm’s professional team have shared key updates. Anchorage Digital notes in a blog post that as a fast-scaling company, their technical staff is core to… Read More

April 9, 2023 @ 6:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitfinex Derivatives, a derivatives platform that is accessible through Bitfinex announced  a range of perpetual contracts “for three of the largest and oldest Asian Equities indices; HONG KONG 50, JAPAN 225 and AUSTRALIA 200.” The launch of these equity perpetual contracts will reportedly “allow Bitfinex… Read More

April 8, 2023 @ 4:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network recently revealed that it would be going ahead with its planned Chapter 11 restructuring process with a disclosure statement including pertinent information for its claim holders. Last week, we filed our Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization (“the Plan”) with the… Read More

April 6, 2023 @ 8:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matrixport, which claims to be one of the world’s largest and trusted digital assets financial services ecosystems, announced that its institutional qualified custodian service, Cactus Custody, has integrated with NEAR Protocol, a Layer 1 blockchain ecosystem. The partnership “enables seamless support of the NEAR Protocol… Read More

April 6, 2023 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance, one of Switzerland’s major financial institutions and largest retail banks, partners with Sygnum, which claims to be one of the world’s first digital asset banks, “to offer its customers a range of regulated digital asset banking services via Sygnum’s B2B banking platform.” PostFinance‘s partnership… Read More

April 6, 2023 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

21Shares AG, which claims to be the world’s largest issuer of cryptocurrency exchange traded products (ETPs) and a subsidiary of 21.co, unveiled the 21Shares Stacks Staking ETP (ASTX) – the “world’s first” ETP offering exposure to Stacks. Stacks is “a crypto asset protocol that unlocks… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 9:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Central Bank of Bahrain has issued amendments to its Crypto-assets (“CRA”) Module in March 2023, “following a consultation process with the industry stakeholders.” The amendments aim “to cater to the ongoing developments in the crypto-assets markets and comply with the industry best practices while… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Unizen is pleased to announce a partnership with DWF Labs, a global digital asset market maker and multi-stage Web3 investment firm. This collaboration will enhance their mission “to address the challenges faced by Web3 technology and create a seamless, frictionless experience for users by bringing… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 1:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX has launched the Alchemy Pay fiat-crypto on-ramp solution on its platform. Alchemy Pay’s payment on-ramp “supports fiat deposits with Visa and MasterCard, as well as numerous popular fiat mobile wallets in emerging markets.” The ramp integration “makes it easy for the public to access… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 12:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bittrex Co-founder and CEO Richie Lai released the following statement on March 31, 2023 regarding Bittrex U.S. As clarified in the update, this announcement does “not impact Bittrex Global, which will continue operations as normal for its customers outside the U.S.” As noted in a… Read More

April 2, 2023 @ 11:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As part of Boerse Stuttgart Digital, blocknox GmbH has received the final license for its business operations as a crypto custodian from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). Under the brand Boerse Stuttgart Digital, Boerse Stuttgart Group has “bundled all its cryptocurrency and digital… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax, the FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker, and custodian, today announced the launch of its tokenisation engine – “enabling the creation of tokens backed by any regulated or unregulated real-world or traditional asset.” Leveraging the benefits of Web 3.0 and blockchain technology, this new service… Read More

March 30, 2023 @ 3:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GGC International Limited (Genesis), a digital asset trading firm, is proud to announce its collaboration with BitGo Trust, a key player focused on digital asset custody, to provide a tri-party solution for its institutional clients. This joint effort will “allow Genesis to continue delivering superior… Read More

March 30, 2023 @ 12:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitso, the cryptocurrency-powered financial services company in Latin America, surpassed more than $3.3 billion in transactions between the United States and Mexico in 2022 through its Crypto 4 Business service, “mainly used by remittance and payment processors.” This volume is triple the amount “processed by… Read More