Tagged: ethereum

June 9, 2023 @ 2:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MEV Capital Management Ltd. is launching a new digital asset hedge fund “MEV Capital Stablecoin High-Yield Fund SP”, a Cayman Islands fund that “encompasses on-chain operations to on the public Ethereum Blockchain (incl. ZK-related L2s).” The fund deploys and monitors trend-agnostic strategies “based on digital… Read More

June 8, 2023 @ 11:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitso, the crypto-powered financial services company in Latin America, today made public the progress of its “Proof that Matters” with which it “shows its solvency with cryptographic technology in all Bitcoin and Ether assets held on its platform, through the Zero-Knowledge Proof developed by Proven… Read More

May 30, 2023 @ 11:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Euro Coin, or EUROC, launched on Ethereum in 2022 in order “to provide businesses and developers with a fully reserved, euro-backed stablecoin they can trust.” Euro Coin helps unlock new opportunities “for global commerce, faster and more efficient FX, and greater access to the euro… Read More

May 29, 2023 @ 10:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Horizen, a layer 0 public blockchain, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Band Protocol, a cross-chain data oracle platform, “to provide real-time price feeds and reliable data for EON, Horizen’s new EVM-compatible smart contracting platform.” The partnership will bring decentralized oracle services “to… Read More

May 23, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

RockX, a firm focused on supportin institutional-grade staking solutions throughout Asia, is broadening its staking product suite with the addition of a new ETH native staking solution. This latest offering supports RockX‘s position “as a comprehensive provider of diverse staking needs, responding adroitly to the… Read More

May 21, 2023 @ 10:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink, the industry-standard Web3 services platform, and Arbitrum, the Layer 2 scaling solution suite for Ethereum dApp development, have announced the launch of Chainlink VRF (Verifiable Random Function) on Arbitrum One. Chainlink VRF is described as “the industry’s most widely adopted random number generator (RNG),… Read More

May 19, 2023 @ 10:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wormhole Foundation announced that Wormhole has been selected as the next official bridge for NEAR. Wormhole will launch the first trustless NEAR <> ETH corridor powered by Zero Knowledge (ZK) Proofs. This corridor will enable all major NEAR assets “to be seamlessly bridged to the… Read More

May 16, 2023 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Austrian digital asset firm Bitpanda is reportedly planning to invest $10 million in order establish a dedicated AI unit. Bitpanda explained that the new unit will aim to provide a suite of AI-enhanced products and investing solutions, including personalized investment ideas, automated portfolio strategies, as… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mantle, a high-performance, modular Ethereum layer-2 network, has announced a partnership with Ankr ahead of its upcoming mainnet launch in Q2 2023. Ankr, a web3 development hub and node infrastructure provider, is “the latest partner to join the Mantle ecosystem, and will be the first… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 10:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The B.C. Securities Commission recently alleged that a defunct cryptocurrency platform based in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island allegedly carried out a massive securities fraud by intentionally and illegally diverting customer funds to crypto gambling websites. In a notice issued in April 2023, the Commission said… Read More

April 29, 2023 @ 12:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Neon Foundation, the Neon EVM ecosystem accelerator, has entered into a strategic partnership with Pyth Network, a “next-generation” oracle “designed to publish high-fidelity financial market data at sub-second latency to multiple blockchains.” Pyth Network is now “available to all protocols built on Neon. This… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hyperlane and Caldera are pleased to announce their collaboration “to bring permissionless interoperability between any Caldera rollup and to any EVM chain.” Permissionless interoperability “enables any Caldera rollup to self-deploy the Hyperlane interoperability stack and easily access all of its features, ranging from interchain apps… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Celo, the carbon-negative, mobile-first EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain is now integrated with Safe, the self-custody infrastructure provider and trusted decentralized custody protocol. Users and builders can now use Safe’s custody and asset management solution “natively on the Celo blockchain.” The events of the past year “have… Read More

April 19, 2023 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

While the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has aggressively pursued enforcement actions against digital asset platforms and issuers, the industry has complained the rules are unclear, making compliance a challenge. At the same time, the SEC has asked crypto trading platforms to come in and… Read More

April 18, 2023 @ 6:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mantle, the “high-performance,” modular Ethereum Layer-2 network, announced the first of many ecosystem partners ahead of its impending mainnet launch in Q2 2023. Biconomy, a web3 developer and transaction infrastructure platform, is “the latest project to join the Mantle ecosystem and will be the first… Read More

April 18, 2023 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Marcus Sotiriou, Market Analyst at the publicly listed digital asset broker GlobalBlock (TSXV:BLOK) has shared a note on the recent moves and news focused on the Bitcoin and digital assets sector. As mentioned in the update shared with CI, Bitcoin’s (BTC) momentum has “slowed now… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 12:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bitcoin (BTC) price has increased substantially during the first three months of this year. The flagship cryptocurrency is trading at around $30,000 at the time of writing. Although most industry participants are not sure whether we’re entering a bull market, it is clear that… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The highly-anticipated Ethereum (ETH) Network Shanghai update marks a key milestone for the world’s largest smart contract platform (in terms of market cap and overall adoption). At present, Ethereum (ETH) withdrawals are live. Hi Shapella 👋 Withdrawals have appeared! pic.twitter.com/POqeZwkZJ4 — Etherscan (@etherscan) April 12,… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 10:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vechain explains that it is dedicated to building the optimal real-world-ready blockchain environment and “enabling full-scale adoption of web3 technologies.” Their Web3-as-a-service platform, VORJ, “offers builders one of the most versatile blockchain tool suites on the market, and caters for users with little-to-no experience building… Read More

March 20, 2023 @ 7:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

RockX, a blockchain node network headquartered in Singapore, announces the launch of Bedrock — the world’s first AML and KYC compliant, institutional-grade Ethereum liquid staking platform to have gone live to the public. Bedrock is described as “a non-custodial, on-chain and independent liquid staking solution… Read More