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May 18, 2022 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Elwood Technologies, a platform providing “institutional-grade” access to digital asset markets and liquidity venues, recently announced it has “closed a $70 million Series A funding round.” The round was co-led by Europe‘s largest B2B investor Dawn Capital and global investment bank, Goldman Sachs. There was… Read More

March 1, 2022 @ 12:01 am By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), part of the University of Cambridge, has launched a new public-private collaboration involving banks, public agencies, and private organizations aiming to provide insight into the emerging digital asset ecosystem. The mission is to help guide public opinion, inform… Read More

May 24, 2021 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, is up nearly 13% in the past 24 hours. It’s trading at around $37,800 at the time of writing. Meanwhile, Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest crypto by market cap, is up around 30% in the last 24 hours and is trading… Read More

May 6, 2021 @ 4:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has invested in Coin Metrics – a crypto-asset data and risk analysis firm. The $15 million Series B was led by Goldman along with the participation of previous investors Castle Island Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Fidelity Investments, Avon Ventures, Communitas Capital, and… Read More

October 14, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Emma Channing  |  

Back in December, I wrote a piece for Coindesk’s Year in Review 2019 entitled “Security Token Offerings Are (Finally) Set for Takeoff in 2020”.  This was before word of COVID-19 became widespread and before many of the cataclysmic events of 2020 were even imaginable.  Thus… Read More

August 10, 2020 @ 9:43 am By JD Alois  |  

At one point in time Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), the most prominent investment bank in the world and emerging Fintech powerhouse, was poised to create a crypto trading desk. In May of 2018, Goldman Sachs executive Rana Yared indicated the bank would enter the crypto space… Read More