Tagged: gold

May 4, 2025 @ 9:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin USDT by market cap and overall transaction volume / adoption, has made strides in the first quarter of 2025, reinforcing its role in the increasingly competitive cryptocurrency market while also expanding its role into traditional finance, sustainable… Read More

April 27, 2025 @ 9:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A research report from NYDIG highlights a shift in Bitcoin’s (BTC) market behavior, positioning it as a potential non-sovereign store of value in a landscape of growing economic and geopolitical instability. But these signs are very early and a bit pre-mature to draw an definitive… Read More

March 25, 2025 @ 8:23 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

YouHodler’s chief of markets Ruslan Lienkha comments on Bitcoin, the S&P 500, and gold in this recent Q&A. BTC reclaiming its 200-day moving average is a bullish sign, but what confirmation signals should traders watch to validate the uptrend? The price is currently approaching the… Read More

December 16, 2024 @ 5:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC), coined as “Magic Internet Money” is perhaps a “legitimate” investment asset alongside traditional assets such as stocks, commodities, and bonds. This, according to an update from CoinGecko. CoinGecko noted in its latest research report that from its returns over 10 years, Bitcoin (BTC)… Read More

November 25, 2024 @ 10:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US Bitcoin ETFs are reportedly on track to surpass gold ETFs in terms of overall size by this coming holiday season (around end of December 2024), with current assets valued at approximately $107 billion. Notably, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust is the dominant player this past… Read More

November 3, 2024 @ 4:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) whose share prices fell significantly this past week after announcing weaker than expected earnings also revealed that it will be rolling out Silver (SLR) and Stellar (XLM) Futures from Coinbase Derivatives. Coinbase, which remains the largest crypto exchange in the… Read More

September 27, 2024 @ 2:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AMA-AMBIOGEO, a mining Joint Venture (JV) with a focus on sustainable resource management, announces the tokenization of $4.6 billion in gold reserves, using Tokeny’s technology to transform previously inaccessible real-world assets (RWA) into tradable and compliant digital securities. The JV between AMA Resources and AMBIOGEO… Read More

June 17, 2024 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Tether, the issuer of the largest stablecoin in the world, USDT, has announced a new digital asset dubbed Alloy – a digital asset tied to gold. Tether describes Alloy as a new type of digital assets or “tethered assets.” Similar to other stablecoins, Alloy, priced… Read More

May 20, 2024 @ 10:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase Derivatives is reportedly expanding its futures offering to include Oil and Gold. On June 3, 2024, Coinbase Derivatives, part of Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) and a CFTC-regulated futures exchange, will launch retail-sized futures contracts “for oil and gold.” These new contracts should help traders with further… Read More

November 1, 2023 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment platform Lightyear announces its expansion into exchange traded commodities (ETCs) with the launch of gold. Adding ETCs to its existing suite of 3,500+ stocks, ETFs and MMFs, is another way for Lightyear’s retail and business customers “across Europe to diversify portfolios.” iShares Physical Gold… Read More

May 12, 2023 @ 2:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fasset, the global digital asset platform for emerging markets, announces its partnership with Minted, a provider of precious metals, in order “to offer increased accessibility and liquidity to the global precious metals market through tokenization at the Dubai Fintech Summit.Under the MOU, Fasset will distribute… Read More

February 10, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Rosbank demonstrated the first digital gold exchange deal in Russia using digital rubles. According to the bank it involved “the exchange of tokenized gold between two parties using innovative distributed ledger technology (blockchain) to ensure the security and continuity of the process.” The project was… Read More

December 19, 2022 @ 10:45 am By JD Alois  |  

LumiShare (previously IllumiShare), a digital asset management ecosystem, has raised $3.2 million in a funding round led by the Abu Dhabi royal family. According to a company statement, the funds were part of the early stages of its Abu-Dhabi-licensed $SRG token presale.  The funding will… Read More

April 30, 2022 @ 12:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

KreditBee, which claims to be one of India’s “leading” Fintech platforms, recently announced the launch of ‘KreditBee 24K Gold’, a digital gold investment product. Clients may “securely” purchase digital gold “with 99.5% purity at live market rates with a single tap on the KreditBee app.”… Read More

April 28, 2022 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

21Shares AG, which claims to be the largest issuer of cryptocurrency exchange traded products (ETPs), has announced the listing of the 21Shares ByteTree BOLD ETP (BOLD) on the SIX Swiss Exchange, the “world’s first” ETP that combines Bitcoin and Gold. BOLD has been developed “in… Read More

March 24, 2022 @ 12:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

VNX, launched in Liechtenstein in 2022 and registered with the Financial Market Authority (FMA) registered platform for investment in tokenized precious metals, claims title as Europe’s first regulated platform for assets like gold. The first product from VNX is VNX Gold, leveraging Ethereum, representing an… Read More

March 8, 2022 @ 10:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at PensionBee notes that February was, in many ways, “a continuation of January’s rocky start to the year.” Stock markets continued to fall “as a result of rising inflation, rising interest rates and a generally weaker economic outlook.” However, Russia’s unprovoked invasion of… Read More

March 6, 2022 @ 4:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The correlation of Bitcoin to the Nasdaq is currently ~57%, “climbing over the past week,” according to an update from BitOoda. As the team at BitOoda had noted this past week, the Russian invasion of Ukraine led to “a large sell off that reversed faster… Read More

March 2, 2022 @ 11:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes (who pleaded guilty to charges of violating the Bank Secrecy Act after being accused of willfully failing to establish, implement, and maintain anti-money laundering (AML) programs at BitMEX), notes that thankfully, (unlike many others around the world) his… Read More

February 25, 2022 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

International markets are experiencing a massive increase in volatility with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The severe humanitarian crisis that could unfold over the next few days and weeks “could be the worst in Europe in decades, with loss of life and property, as well as… Read More