CipherTrace Announces New Feature “Armada” to Provide Financial Institutions Critical Visibility Into High-Risk Cryptocurrency Payment Blind Spots by Samantha Hurst

May 1, 2020 @ 7:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The legislative assembly of the Cayman Islands has introduced five new pieces of legislation that may be used to regulate local firms dealing in cryptocurrencies. The proposed rules have mainly been created to monitor the operations of digital asset exchanges. The Virtual Asset Service Provider… Read More

 Tagged aml, anti money laundering, cayman islands, crypto bill, crypto exchange, crypto-assets, digital assets, fatf, financial action task force, regulations, vasp, vasp bill, virtual asset service provider, virtual currency

May 1, 2020 @ 1:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

France has been recognized as quickly crafting a digital asset friendly regulatory environment while some other jurisdictions struggled to move. The concept of digital securities and non-security crypto assets found support from policymakers and a law was enacted to create a structure for initial coin… Read More

 Tagged amf, autorite des marches financiers, france, french-ico, ico, initial coin offerings

May 1, 2020 @ 10:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Giant venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has finalized its second crypto asset fund which is valued at over half a billion dollars. Established in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz in 2009, the VC firm confirmed the news on April 30, 2020. The… Read More

 Tagged a16z, andreessen horowitz, california, chris dixon, crypto-assets, digital assets, dlt, investment round, katie haun, menlo park

May 1, 2020 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois  |  

May is here meaning spring is emerging for parts of the world. For all of the world, it also means that Bitcoin is on the cusp of the next Halving (or the Halvening). The Bitcoin Halving takes place every four years. This is when the… Read More

 Tagged alex mashinsky, anchorage, binance, bitcoin, brian norton, broctogon, catherin coley, celsius network, diogo monica, don guo, halving, mew

May 1, 2020 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

American Fintech Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) payments network has reportedly managed to triple its transaction volumes during Q1 2020. San Francisco-based Ripple’s XRP Markets Report confirms that the dollar value transacted using the company’s ODL service grew by over 294%, which may be a positive… Read More

 Tagged cross-border payments, crypto-assets, digital assets, digital payments, distributed ledger technology, dlt, international payments, odl, On-Demand Liquidity, ripple, ripplenet, xrp

May 1, 2020 @ 2:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tencent Holdings Ltd., a Chinese multinational conglomerate holding company whose subsidiaries offer various Internet-related products and services, has introduced a blockchain accelerator program. Tencent, which is among the world’s most valuable companies and also one of the largest VC firms and investment corporations, says it… Read More

 Tagged Blockchain Accelerator, china, distributed ledger technology, dlt, shenzhen, tencent

May 1, 2020 @ 1:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Japan’s financial regulator, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), has certified two organizations as Certified Financial Instruments and Exchange Associations. As confirmed in an announcement made on April 30, 2020, the FSA has officially recognized the Japan STO (security token offering) Association and the Japan Virtual… Read More

 Tagged crypto-assets, digital assets, financial services agency, fsa, japan, japan sto, japan virtual currency exchange association, regulations, security token offerings, self-regulatory organization, sro, sros, stos

April 30, 2020 @ 10:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

CoinList Trade has added another digital asset to its list of crypto available to trade. CoinList Trade is a crypto exchange that was announced last year but opened for trading a few weeks ago. If you are curious as to which virtual currency you can… Read More

 Tagged coinlist, orchid, oxt, steven waterhouse

April 30, 2020 @ 9:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent analysis of the top 10,000 Ethereum (ETH) wallet addresses suggests that the world’s second-largest digital asset (by market cap and overall adoption) could potentially see its value increase significantly in the foreseeable future. This, as the blockchain network prepares to transition from proof-of-work… Read More

 Tagged adam cochran, bitfinex, coinbase, crypto market, crypto trading, crypto whales, crypto-assets, digital assets, eth, justin sun, market manipulation, poloniex, pow, ppow, programmatic proof of work, proof of work, tron, trx

April 30, 2020 @ 3:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Genesis Capital, an institutional digital asset lending platform, has published a report on Q1 performance. Genesis Capital is part of a group of companies that include Genesis Trading and Grayscale Investments. According to the report, Genesis Capital had a big month doubling originations to $2… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, digital asset lending, genesis capital, matt ballensweig