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Bakkt Acquires Turnkey Platform Apex Crypto to Bolster Digital Asset Footprint
4.11.2022
Digital asset manager Bakkt Holdings, Inc., announced on Thursday that the company has acquired the firm Apex Crypto from Apex Fintech Solutions. Bakkt detailed that the acquisition of the turnkey crypto platform aims to “bolster Bakkt’s cryptocurrency product offering and expand...
JPMorgan, DBS Bank, SBI Complete Live Defi Trades on Public Blockchain
4.11.2022
JPMorgan, DBS Bank, and SBI Digital Asset Holdings have completed their first lives trades on a public blockchain using decentralized finance (defi), tokenized deposits, and verifiable credentials under the supervision of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Singapore’s central bank...
Digital asset platform Bakkt set to acquire Apex Crypto for $200M
3.11.2022
The company said this acquisition is expected to diversify and bolster Bakkt’s revenue as it scales its offerings
UBS AG launches digital bond settled on blockchain and traditional exchanges
3.11.2022
With atomic settlement technology, the company said its digital bond settles through the SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), not requiring a central clearing counterparty
Goldman Sachs creates digital asset taxonomy system for subscribing investors
3.11.2022
The financial services giant, along with Coin Metrics and MSCI, will help investors track market movements and screen hundreds of coins and tokens by their uses
Goldman Teams With MSCI and Coin Metrics to Create Digital Asset Classification System
3.11.2022
The new system will be called Datanomy, and seeks to give crypto participants a standardized way to view and analyze the digital assets ecosystem
ZoidPay to Revolutionize the Web3 Landscape With $75M Investment Commitment From GEM Digital
3.11.2022
A $75M financial commitment is set to establish ZoidPay as the go-to open architecture for building the next generation of Web 3.0 financial services. PRESS RELEASE. November 3, 2022, Bucharest, Romania — ZoidPay, the leading Web 3.0 architecture provider, has secured an investment commitment...
Digital Asset Platform Bakkt Agrees to Buy Apex Crypto for Up to $200M
3.11.2022
The firm will pay $55 million in cash, upon deal close, and $145 million in stock and seller notes upon achieving certain financial targets
JP Morgan executes first DeFi trade on public blockchain
3.11.2022
The MAS Chief Fintech Officer said the successful test was “a big step towards enabling more efficient and integrated global financial networks.”
Stablecoin Blues: $3 Billion Erased From the Dollar-Pegged Token Economy, HUSD Depegs, USDC Supply Drops 10%
3.11.2022
Over three billion in value was erased from the stablecoin economy during the past 30 days. The trend occurred despite the number of tethers in circulation rising by 2.2% last month. On Oct. 1, 2022, tether’s market capitalization was approximately $67.95 billion, and it’s risen...
Democrats and Republicans Agree Cryptocurrency Is the Future of Finance, Survey Shows
2.11.2022
A new survey has revealed that Democrats and Republicans agree cryptocurrency is the future of finance. The national survey was conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager. In addition, 44% of the respondents said they...
Bitcoin price bottom takes shape as 'old coins' hit a record 78% of supply
2.11.2022
Bitcoin's long-term holders' NUPL metric has dropped to levels that coincided with market bottoms thrice since November 2011
Cosmos Asset Management Intends to Delist Crypto ETFs in Australia
2.11.2022
Cosmos Asset Management intends to apply to delist two of its cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that trade on the Cboe stock exchange in Australia
Following the Great UST Collapse, a Defi Project Plans to Launch a ‘Soft-Pegged Stablecoin’ Built on Terra
1.11.2022
Following the Terra stablecoin collapse last May, the Terra blockchain ecosystem has another stablecoin concept in the works called “Solid.” The stablecoin Solid and its white paper were revealed by a decentralized finance (defi) project, Capapult Finance, and the idea has been dubbed...
SEC Chair Gensler Wishes Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin Whitepaper Happy Birthday — Says Let’s Make Sure Crypto Investors Get Proper Protection
1.11.2022
The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has wished Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper a happy birthday. “It has led to innovation and crypto asset investing. Let’s make sure as crypto enters its 15th year that investors get proper...
Hong Kong Govt. Reconsiders Stance on Virtual Asset ETFs, Tokenised Securities, and Retail Investors
31.10.2022
The government says it's ready to engage with virtual asset service providers and invite them to the city
Stablecoin HUSD Continues to Trade Below $1 Parity as Token Taps an All-Time Low at $0.72
30.10.2022
After Huobi Global announced that it would be delisting the stablecoin HUSD and auto-converting customer balances 1:1 with tether tokens, the stablecoin asset has dropped significantly in value sliding to a low of $0.72 per unit. HUSD Remains Below the $1 Peg Another stablecoin is struggling...
Fidelity: 74% of Institutional Investors Surveyed Plan to Invest in Digital Assets
30.10.2022
A new study by Fidelity Digital Assets, a subsidiary of financial giant Fidelity Investments, shows that 58% of institutional investors surveyed invested in digital assets in the first half of this year and 74% plan to invest in the future. Fidelity’s Institutional Investor Digital Assets...
LD Capital Founder Jack Yi Gave a Keynote Address at BWB 2022 in South Korea: Opening of a New Era of Web3
29.10.2022
PRESS RELEASE. LD Capital was established in 2016. Its main business involves direct investment and trading. It has established LD Capital X Ecological Fund, Web3 Alliance Incubation Accelerator, and Hero Group Secondary Hedging Asset Management. In the future, LD Capital’s investment in...
Huobi Global to Delist HUSD — Stablecoin Slips Below $1 Parity to $0.89
28.10.2022
On Thursday, the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi Global announced that the trading platform plans to delist the stablecoin HUSD and the delisting will begin at 08:00 (UTC) on October 28, 2022. Furthermore, users with HUSD held on the exchange will see their balances auto-converted to the stablecoin...