Tagged: stablecoins

October 3, 2021 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Centre, the consortium that has been established by global Fintech Circle and digital assets firm Coinbase (COIN: Nasdaq) to offer standards and governance for USD Coin (USDC), which has become one of the  fastest-growing “digital dollar” currencies, reveals that recent MIT Digital Credentials Architect Kim… Read More

October 3, 2021 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gro, the “protected” stablecoin yield farming protocol, is pleased to confirm that Jake Chervinsky, General Counsel at Compound Labs, will be joining the Gro team as a “strategic” advisor. As mentioned in a release shared with CI, Jake brings “a wealth of experience in the… Read More

October 2, 2021 @ 9:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cosmostation has been chosen by Kava Labs as the very first ecosystem partner to receive a certain portion of the $185 million Kava Ignition Fund. As mentioned in an update from Kava Labs, an open-source developer of financial services for decentralized finance (DeFi), the funds… Read More

October 1, 2021 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

COTI is pleased to confirm that its Visa debit cards and bank account are accessible to the public. With assistance from Simplex, both of these financial tools should help with addressing “economic inequality.” As noted in an update shared with Crowdfund Insider, COTI aims to… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Acala, the decentralized finance (DeFi) network and liquidity hub of Polkadot, reveals that it has formed a partnership with Blockdaemon, a blockchain or DLT  infrastructure provider, in order to support its newly-developed staking derivatives for Polkadot (DOT) and Kusama (KSM). As noted in an update… Read More

September 20, 2021 @ 4:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Technicorum Holdings, an IT and service group specializing in digital assets and incubator of DeFi and NFT project KingSwap, today announced Gennix, a microlending protocol aimed at reducing financial inequality on the blockchain, has struck a strategic business partnership with DTC to integrate fiat-crypto payment… Read More

September 20, 2021 @ 11:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Circle notes that at the beginning of July 2021, they had announced support for stablecoin USDC on the TRON blockchain, which is one of the largest open (or permissionless) blockchain networks. TRON aims to support a wide crypto ecosystem “popular within Asian… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Gemini reveals that it now supports trading with Moss Carbon and Terra, in addition to new metaverse, infrastructure, and stablecoin tokens. As mentioned in an update shared with CI: “Today, [the Gemini team is] delighted to announce support for a new set… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Growth DeFi has integrated Chainlink (LINK) price feeds on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) mainnet for their collateralized stablecoin lending protocol, MOR. By integrating Chainlink’s decentralized Oracle network, the MOR protocol will be able to gain access to “high-quality” and “tamper-proof” price feeds required to… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HaloDAO is collaborating with YGG for “local” stablecoin support “for simpler cash out,” according to an update shared with Crowdfund Insider. HaloDAO, a stablecoin marketplace protocol, is working cooperatively with Yield Guild Games (YGG) to “enable YGG community members to support simpler cash outs in… Read More

September 10, 2021 @ 9:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NFTs have become quite popular with a diverse group of consumers including professional NBA athletes like Stephen Curry and even former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is talking about these digital collectibles. NFTs have quickly become the most-widely discussed topic in the crypto space. Even… Read More

September 7, 2021 @ 7:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matrixport, one of the fastest-growing digital assets financial services platforms in Asia, reveals that it has introduced “BTC-U Range Sniper,” which is described as an innovative “first-mover” product, which enables traders and investors to earn greater returns when the Bitcoin price “moves within a specified… Read More

September 3, 2021 @ 9:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

YouHodler, a Fintech platform that assists consumers with accessing the benefits of the fast-evolving crypto economy, has reportedly integrated with Fireblocks, a digital asset custody, transfer and settlement platform. Through the partnership, YouHodler will be leveraging Fireblocks for cryptocurrency transactions management and integrations with several… Read More

September 2, 2021 @ 12:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

First DAG, which has created global virtual payment platform as a service, reveals that Diem Association’s Technical Steering Committee (TSC) has appointed its CTO, Daniel Prinz, as an official Maintainer of the Diem blockchain, which is a distributed, programmable database developed to act as the… Read More

August 28, 2021 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beginning on Friday, August 27, 2021, COTI (COTI) will be available on Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase clients are now able to trade, send, receive, or store COTI in “most Coinbase-supported regions, with certain exceptions” (certain jurisdictions excluded due to… Read More

August 26, 2021 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Celsius, the international digital currency earning and borrowing platform, recently revealed that it’s now managing $20,366,621,718 in crypto-assets as of August 13, 2021. Celsius carried out its quarterly internal audit using tech provided by third-party blockchain analysis company, Chainalysis, and using an internally developed methodology… Read More

August 20, 2021 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Circle is a Fintech that is best known for its dollar-based stablecoin, USDC, that has grown rapidly in recent months. Today, USDC is the second most popular stablecoin following Tether, with a market cap of over $27 billion. While about half the size of Tether… Read More

August 18, 2021 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bob Reid, CEO at Everest, a company focused on providing identity verification, account creation, and DeFi-related financial services, has shared key updates with Crowdfund Insider. Bob Reid talked about how his company successfully partners with established tech industry participants in order to provide seamless decentralized… Read More

August 13, 2021 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Immunefi, the cryptocurrency bug bounty and security services platform that protects more than $25 billion in users’ funds, is establishing the Immunefi Security Core Unit (CU), which is a contracted team within the Maker ecosystem. According to a release shared with CI, the team will… Read More

August 7, 2021 @ 10:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Blockchain.com, a leading crypto wallet provider, trading platform, and block explorer service, has shared their August Market Outlook report, titled, The Final Crypto Adoption Frontier. Bitcoin or BTC adoption as an investment asset began with what is “often characterized as ‘retail’ (smaller… Read More