April 10, 2025 @ 10:24 am By JD Alois  |  

While predictions are a dime a dozen and typically forgotten as soon as they are issued, crypto exchange Bitfinex is going out on a limb and stating that Bitcoin will experience a “surge” during the second quarter. The thesis is that hotter inflation will delay the Fed’s… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, bitfinex

April 10, 2025 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis partnered with the Spanish National Police in Operation Bonanza to dismantle an international Ponzi scheme that defrauded over 50,000 victims worldwide. This operation, which reportedly amassed more than $500 million in cryptocurrency, underscores the importance of technology and public-private collaboration in combating illicit financial… Read More

 Tagged chainalysis, financial crime, fraud, operation bonanza, ponzi scheme, spain

April 10, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) have solidified their positions as robust, decentralized networks with potential for growth and adoption across web3 and DeFi. Recent milestones—Ethereum’s evolving ownership landscape and Bitcoin’s record-breaking hashrate (basically the amount of computing power securing the BTC network)—underscore their resilience and… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, btc, eth, ethereum, hashrate, milestone

April 9, 2025 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Republic has announced that it is now a validator on Injective, a “fast, interoperable” layer-one blockchain, seeking to advance the convergence of traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi). As explained in a blog post, Injective is a Layer 1 that’s “purpose-built for finance.” The protocol delivers sub-second… Read More

 Tagged blockchain adoption, defi, injective, republic

April 9, 2025 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has declared effective the Registration Statement on Form S-4 relating to the company’s previously announced reorganization and domestication from the Cayman Islands to Delaware and proposed “listing on the Nasdaq Global Select… Read More

 Tagged digital assets, galaxy digital, sec, us

April 9, 2025 @ 9:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Worldcoin Foundation has introduced an enhancement to its community grants program that will aim to streamline the application process and provide more opportunities for innovation from community builders worldwide. Instead of its wave-based structure, the Worldcoin Foundation explains in a blog post that it… Read More

 Tagged digital identity, digitalization, grants, innovation, worldcoin, worldcoin foundation

April 9, 2025 @ 10:59 am By JD Alois  |  

The French Autorité des Marché Financiers (AMF) and the Italian Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSAB), have joined to submit recommendations to the Europea Commission pertaining to the usage of blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT). The AMF shares that the European… Read More

 Tagged amf, consab, EU, europe, european commission, france, italy

April 9, 2025 @ 10:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) announced that SEI Investments (Europe) Limited will partner with Ctrl Alt, a tokenization platform, and participate in the Bank of England’s Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS). The DSS aims to facilitate innovation in market infrastructure and protect financial stability and market integrity by “evaluating… Read More

 Tagged bank of england, ctrl alt, digital securities, europe, investments, sei

April 9, 2025 @ 10:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hedera has recently announced that the Chainlink standard for cross-chain interoperability is live on mainnet. Developers can leverage the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to build apps that can transfer tokens, “send messages, and initiate actions across the multi-chain economy.” Chainlink CCIP supports 46+ other… Read More

 Tagged CCIP, chainlink, digital assets, hedera, infrastructure

April 9, 2025 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenized funds have risen by almost 400% during the past year, according to Moody’s. Tokenization typically refers to digital securities. The tokenization of an asset brings improved efficiencies and characteristics to the asset. The report states that the market capitalization of tokenized funds stands at… Read More

 Tagged moody's, research, tokenization