Tagged: ethereum

November 23, 2021 @ 10:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In Kraken’s last two Crypto On-Chain Digest reports (End of Summer Sale and SHOCKTOBER), they had pointed out that a supply shock, driven by long-term holders, might push Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) prices considerably higher than current levels. Well, price followed through and the… Read More

November 23, 2021 @ 5:42 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

C3 Protocol, a decentralized capital market powered by a cross-margin cross-collateralization clearing engine protocol, this week announced a $3.6 million raise, which was led by Arrington Capital and Jump Capital. The platform’s goal is to build an all-in-one capital market for spot and derivatives trading…. Read More

November 22, 2021 @ 10:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Interoperability is an increasingly vital topic within the blockchain and distributed ledger tech (DLT) sector, as it continues to expand the possible functionalities that DLT networks can provide to their respective ecosystems once they’re well-connected. Permanent and scalable storage via Arweave is one such functionality… Read More

November 21, 2021 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain-based solutions provider ConsenSys announced earlier this week that it had finalized a $200 million round, bringing its valuation to around $3.2 billion. New investors Marshall Wace, Third Point, ParaFi Capital, and Think Investments took part in ConsenSys‘ latest investments round. New partners that contributed… Read More

November 20, 2021 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Metis team has launched the platform’s Mainnet Andromeda, a move that confirms a commitment to greater decentralization of Internet-based services. $METIS will launch its inaugural Layer 2 mainnet, Andromeda, Friday Nov 19, 3 pm UTC. Join our launch livestream w/ partners @AssxToken @Metacraftpro @standarddefi… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 4:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Casper Association, the not-for-profit entity that oversees the Casper Network, this week announced a solution to security challenges that threatened to slow or halt the adoption of NFTs. Using a trusted execution environment (TEE) in combination with hardware security modules provided by NFT infrastructure provider… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 1:08 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETP) issuer 21Shares this week announced the seed funding of the 21Shares Polygon ETP (Ticker: POLY) on the SIX Swiss Exchange by the Polygon Foundation. The 21Shares Polygon ETP (Ticker: POLY) tracks the investment results of Polygon, an Ethereum scaling platform. Hosting… Read More

November 18, 2021 @ 11:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinSmart Financial Inc., which claims to be one of Canada’s leading digital asset trading platforms, has announced the launch of its mobile trading app for iOS and Android devices. The new mobile app aims to improve the onboarding, digital asset purchasing, selling, and trading process… Read More

November 16, 2021 @ 7:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes in a blog post published on Monday (November 15) that for the week ending November 12,… Read More

November 15, 2021 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Brainjar, Head of Product at Composable Finance, which is described as a “hyper liquidity” infrastructure layer for decentralized finance (DeFi) assets that are being powered by Layer-2 Ethereum and Polkadot. Brainjar talked about issues with existing smart contracts and how… Read More

November 14, 2021 @ 8:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bahrain-based digital asset trading platform CoinMENA has acquired $9.5 million via a seed round. @CoinMENA Raises $9.5M Seed Fund #CoinMENA #Blockchain #Cryptocurrency #Crypto #DeFi https://t.co/vVH1vVj6ED pic.twitter.com/V05Ii2CabS — Head of DeFi @Spectrum Search – Blockchain Bully (@JobsBlockhain) November 12, 2021 As mentioned in the announcement, this… Read More

November 13, 2021 @ 10:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the Venmo team continues to grow and expand their cryptocurrency platform, they’re pleased to offer a new feature that will enable clients to set price alerts for digital currencies via the Venmo platform. This should help clients with tracking the price of the four… Read More

November 12, 2021 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) is now accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. These four popular cryptos are joined by Apple Pay , Google Pay and PayPal as the theater chain goes digital for payments. The news was revealed by AMC CEO Adam Aron in… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 3:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has announced a new platform for the issuance, transfer, and servicing of private market securities. DTCC is a service provider that processes the clearing and settlement for over $2 quadrillion of securities transactions every year.  The private securities… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 10:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Tether Operations today announced it has launched Tether tokens (USDt) on Avalanche, a decentralized smart contracts platform built for the scale of global finance and business. Avalanche is designed as a highly scalable ecosystem, able to deliver rapid transaction finality and low transaction fees. It is… Read More

November 9, 2021 @ 10:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After a lot of hard work, rigorous testing, and steady support from their partners and the developer community, Crypto.com is pleased to confirm the introduction of the Cronos mainnet beta (on November 8, 2021). Cronos is reportedly the first Cosmos Ethereum Virtual Machine or EVM… Read More

November 9, 2021 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Boosted by the rapid rise of Bitcoin and Ether, crypto markets are now valued at more than $3 trillion. It was only this past August when crypto markets surpassed $2 trillion in value so the gain has been pretty spectacular. Both Bitcoin and Ether have… Read More

November 8, 2021 @ 7:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Matter Labs, a company looking to provide an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling protocol, has raised $50 million in new funding. The investment was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Additional investors included Placeholder, Dragonfly and 1kx. Matter Labs said that a second financing was closed with… Read More

November 7, 2021 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Minterest, a “value-capturing” lending and borrowing protocol developed to make decentralized finance (DeFi) fairer for end-users, has confirmed that it will be launched on Moonbeam, an Ethereum (ETH)-compatible smart contract parachain built on Polkadot. As mentioned in an update shared earlier this week with CI,… Read More

November 7, 2021 @ 1:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets firm Kraken notes that the month of October 2021 has been dubbed “UPtober” by many in the cryptocurrency markets as the Bitcoin (BTC) price and that of Ethereum (ETH), as well as other major altcoins surged to new all-time highs…. Read More