Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The growth and successes of the (DeFi) protocol are marked by a number of markers, one of which is the total assets deposited on the protocol.
For Anchor Protocol, a lending and borrowing protocol built atop the Terra blockchain network, its total...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
CoWDAO, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization behind the CoW Protocol, has raised the sum of $23 million from a mixture of private investors as well as the platform’s community members.
As by the DAO, the funding shows the true power of decent...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Crypto exchange BitMEX’s plan to acquire Bankhaus von der Heydt, one of oldest banks in Germany, has failed to go through.
Bankhaus von der Heydt was established in 1754. A German media outlet announced on Thursday that the mutual agreement that t...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, popularly known as BNY Mellon, has been selected to serve as the “primary custodian” for the reserve assets behind the USDC stablecoin, a cryptocurrency whose value is directly pegged to the U.S. dollar. Circ...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
After reaching 200,000 mobile app downloads on iOS and Android in two months, LocalBitcoins has scaled the heights by the 300,000 mark.
The world’s leading peer-to-peer (P2P) Bitcoin marketplace is now available in 23 different languages after add...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
With the incoming South Korean President, Yoon Suk-yeol, pledging the easing of crypto regulations, the market is on a solid path to being significantly legitimized, to local media outlet The Korea Herald.
Local banks in the nation intend to ride...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Fabio Panetta, a member of the Executive Council of the European Central Bank (ECB), an acceptance of the digital euro in brick-and-mortar stores and online entities to help promote the use of the fiat digital euro.
A digital euro needs to allow e...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
CRB Group, Inc., the parent company of fintech company Cross River Bank, a $620 million investment led by Eldridge and Andreessen Horowitz.
The funds raised will be used to build the company's leading embedded payment, card, lending and crypto sol...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Crypto venture capital firm Gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) has launched a $110 million second fund, gCC Fund II, to invest in about 50 cryptocurrency companies through equity and tokens.
Funding comes from about 60 limited partners, about half of which...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
For more innovations, South Korean electronics giant Samsung has with Nifty Gateway to develop a new line of smart TVs to enable non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to be bought, sold, and held.
Nifty Gateway, a leading marketplace for NFTs owned by Gemin...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Crypto ownership in Norwegian soil has been trending, because 10% of the adult population, representing 420,000 Norwegians, own cryptocurrencies, to a study by Arcane Research and Ernst & Young (EY).
The latest figure is double the numbers rec...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority, the regulator of the financial services industry in the United Kingdom, announced Wednesday it has pushed the deadline for registration for some crypto firms in order to give them more time to get complete reg...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
DeFi Technologies Inc Wednesday that its subsidiary Valour owns over $274 million in assets under management(AUM).
Valour had $274,229,000 in assets under management as of March 29. Valour issues digital asset exchange-traded products ("ETPs") in...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
After hacking and stealing $625 million from the Ronin blockchain, the Singapore-based game studio Sky Mavis pledges to repay users, to Bloomberg.
The hackers reportedly stole around 173,600 ether and $25.5 million in Coin tokens on March 23. At c...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Decentralized full-chain interoperability protocol LayerZero Labs has a $135 million investment co-led by Sequoia Capital, FTX Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
LayerZero Labs, an omnichain interoperability protocol, that unites decentraliz...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Wui Ngiap Foo, the Head of Technology at Grab Holdings Ltd, is set to leave the ride-hailing and food-delivery firm after seven years to lead a new crypto gaming venture. People familiar with the knowledge have revealed, according to Bloomberg.
Gra...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Digital assets platform, Voyager Digital, has been issued a by the New Jersey Bureau of Securities for offering unregistered securities in the form of its Voyager Earn program.
Per the position of the state securities regulator, Voyager Digital ha...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Earlier this week, Chris Larsen, the co-founder of blockchain payments firm Ripple Labs Inc an update about his new campaign dubbed “Change the Code, Not the Climate”. He is collaborating with climate-focused bodies Greenpeace and the Sierra Club....
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
A recent survey found that professional investors believe that digital assets will become mainstream in the future.
The London-based crypto hedge fund Nickel Digital Asset Management survey found that more than eight out of 10 respondents in the st...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
zkLend, a Layer-2 (L2) money-market protocol built on StarkNet has raised the sum of $5 million in seed funding from investors led by Delphi Digital.
As by the protocol, the funding round also enjoined participation from various stakeholders, inc...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
As the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine enters its second month, a lot of people have stood with Ukraine, as its people and economy continue to suffer from the pangs of the destruction the war ushered in.
In a recent move, as many as 10,000 U...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) is set to establish a digital trading platform this year in a pilot version as part of its comprehensive strategy, the bourse announced.
In its recent announcement, the platform - Diamond - will use smart...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Hashdex, a fintech investment management firm based in Brazil, announced Tuesday the appointment of Laurent Kssis as Managing Director and Head of Europe.
In the new role, Mr. Kssis is expected to accelerate Hashdex’s European expansion as part of...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Chainlink Labs, a US-based operator of an online contract management platform, announced Tuesday the appointment of Dr. Dahlia Malkhi, former Diem Association Chief Technology Officer, as its Chief Research Officer.
In her new role, Malkh will mana...