Tagged: digital tokens

May 14, 2021 @ 9:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  BitcoinPoint, a UK-based Bitcoin buying platform, has quickly secured its initial £100,000 funding target through its equity crowdfunding on Crowdcube and is now nearing £200,000. The investment round has already attracted close to 400 Crowdcube investors. Founded in 2017, BitcoinPoint stated that its in-house software… Read More

May 14, 2021 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digivault, the “secure” digital asset custody business of Nasdaq listed Diginex Limited (Nasdaq: EQOS), has reportedly become the “first” stand-alone crypto custodian to receive approval from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in order to register as a custodian wallet provider “under the Money Laundering,… Read More

May 11, 2021 @ 7:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beginning on Monday (May 10, 2021), digital asset firm Coinbase will be supporting Internet Computer (ICP) at Coinbase.com (for retail traders) and via the Coinbase Android and iOS apps as well. Coinbase clients now have the option to purchase, sell, convert, send, receive, or store… Read More

May 10, 2021 @ 11:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Covalent, a Canada-based blockchain data provider, announced on Monday it has sold $10 million worth of native token CQT through a CoinList token sale. Founded in 2018, Covalent describes itself as a technology company that is solving the huge infrastructure problems inhibiting blockchain adoption. The company reported that its… Read More

May 10, 2021 @ 10:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Quidax, an Africa-based cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Monday it has officially processed more than $3.2 million in transactions. Launched in 2018, Quidax reported that it is seeking to become home of BEP-20 is a token standard on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) that extends ERC-20, as well… Read More

May 10, 2021 @ 7:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Nuvei, a global payment technology provider based in Canada, recently announced it has acquired Simplex, an EU-licensed financial institution that provides the fiat infrastructure for the cryptocurrency industry, for approximately $250 million. Nuvei reported that the acquisition will provide it with an electronic money… Read More

May 8, 2021 @ 2:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aventus Network, a layer-2 blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) protocol that aims to provide scalability, speed and lower costs to Ethereum (ETH) transactions, has introduced its community governance platform, offering Aventus Token (AVT) holders with complete control over “major decisions” regarding the network and… Read More

May 7, 2021 @ 1:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Bakkt Holdings, LLC, a U.S.-based digital asset marketplace, announced on Thursday it has teamed up with Cantaloupe, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTLP), a digital payments and software services company, to provide cashless experience for consumers to spend digital assets at retail devices. Bakkt reported that through… Read More

May 6, 2021 @ 8:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital payments platform Wirex announced on Thursday the migration of a fifth of its native token, the Wirex Token (WXT), from the Stellar Network to the Ethereum blockchain. Wirex reported that following the launch of WXT just two years ago, it will move 20% of the total… Read More

May 5, 2021 @ 5:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beginning on Tuesday (May 4, 2021) Coinbase Pro (platform for professional crypto traders) are able to transfer Cartesi (CTSI), iExec (RLC), Mirror Protocol (MIR) and Tellor (TRB) digital tokens into their accounts ahead of scheduled trading. As noted by the Coinbase team: “Support for CTSI, RLC, MIR… Read More

April 30, 2021 @ 11:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bittrex, a cryptocurrency exchange based in the U.S., announced on Friday its integration with the DigitalBits blockchain mainnet, as well as its support for the DigitalBits ERC-20 token swap. The launch comes just after Bittrex recently listed both the Zytara dollar (ZUSD) and DigitalBits (XDB)… Read More

April 27, 2021 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dogecoin is now available for trading on crypto-asset exchange OKCoin, according to a blog post update from the company on April 26, 2021. Beginning on Tuesday (April 26), OKCoin users may purchase and sell Dogecoin (DOGE) via the  platform. DOGE will be “available to everyone”… Read More

April 20, 2021 @ 9:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, Coinbase Pro will be adding support for new order books for several major digital assets including the Basic Attention Token (BAT), Cardano (ADA), Decentraland (MANA) and USDC (USDC). As noted in a blog post by the digital assets firm, the… Read More

April 18, 2021 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The craze around virtual tokens recently led to DogeCoin or DOGE (had started off as a joke coin and still to a great extent) putting Robinhood Markets‘ trading system under great pressure due to excessive activity. Robinhood‘s management confirmed: “On Friday morning, we saw a… Read More

April 16, 2021 @ 7:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nitin Gaur, Founder and Director of IBM Digital Asset Labs, recently looked into how businesses may be able to absorb “disruptive” impact and start integrating new business models (NFTs) in existing and “new streams” of business opportunity. Gaur writes in a blog post that non-fungible… Read More

April 14, 2021 @ 8:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Reserve, which claims to be a “flexible” pool of stablecoins designed to “reduce risk” via diversification strategies and “decentralized” governance, reports that during the last week of March 2021, Reserve was “the #1 most downloaded finance app” in Venezuela, and it also “surpassed 100,000 total… Read More

April 13, 2021 @ 12:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

OKEx announced on Tuesday it has listed Celsius Network’s CEL token on its cryptocurrency and derivatives exchange. OKEx reported it is the third global exchange to list CEL token in recent weeks, in addition to several decentralized exchanges, since CEL token’s first listing in June… Read More

April 12, 2021 @ 12:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset platform CoinList has announced that beginning on April 20, 2021, eligible or qualified CoinList users will have the option to take part in the Clover (CLV) token sale (via CoinList). Clover, which is an alumni of CoinList Seed, aims to serve as a… Read More

April 5, 2021 @ 6:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Bancor (BNT), which serves as a protocol and standard for decentralized exchange networks for the automated conversion of crypto tokens into other tokens, including across blockchains (without requiring an order book or counterparty to facilitate the exchange), reports that the Bancor Vortex… Read More

March 30, 2021 @ 10:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cere Network (Cere), which claims to be the first Decentralized Data Cloud (DDC) platform, recently announced a $5 million private round and the official launch of their platform to application developers. Republic Labs, part of Republic, syndicated the deal. The $5 million round included the… Read More