Tagged: digital asset

April 16, 2020 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WeBank, one of China’s first all-digital challenger banks, has revealed that it will begin exploring  the potential integration of DAML, which is an open-source smart contract programming language developed by Digital Asset (the company). The DAML software has been developed in order to help software… Read More

April 15, 2020 @ 11:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb announced on Tuesday it has integrated with blockchain-based digital identification organization, MyID Alliance. Bithumb claims it is the first Korean virtual asset exchange to implement the distributed identification (DID) service performed by the organization. Bithumb Korea will notably participate as… Read More

April 14, 2020 @ 8:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Apifiny, a digital asset marketplace that seeks to enable institutional trading across multiple regulated exchanges, announced on Tuesday it has been granted an exemption by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) from holding a license under that country’s Payment Services Act (PSA). Founded in 2019, Apifiny describes itself… Read More

March 5, 2020 @ 9:08 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockchain software firm BitGo announced on Thursday it is now offering institutional digital asset lending services. According to BitGo, the lending service was built by a Wall Street team that “understands institutional investing and clients’ needs.” The launch also follows a several-month private beta. Mike… Read More

February 28, 2020 @ 9:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Amazon Web Services’ Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) teamed up with Blockchain Technology Partners (BTP), in order to allow users to integrate smart contracts on its platform. BTP’s developers introduced general availability for its DAML incorporation, which may be  accessed via its Sextant for DAML platform…. Read More

February 7, 2020 @ 11:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Banexcoin announced on Thursday it has officially launched its digital asset exchange platform and actively registering new users in Latin America. The platform is powered by AlphaPoint, a global fintech company and a self-claimed leader in the white label exchange software space. According to Banexcoin,… Read More

February 5, 2020 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital Asset, the firm behind the open-source DAML smart contract programming language, has reportedly acquired investments from Salesforce Ventures and Samsung Venture Investment Corp, as part of the second closing of its Series C financing round. As mentioned on Digital Asset’s official website, the company… Read More

December 31, 2019 @ 9:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Boerse Stuttgart Group recently announced that it and SBI Group will establish a partnership in Europe and Asia, including Japan, in the digital asset business. The duo will notably collaborate in order to create a truly global end-to-end ecosystem for digital assets, utilizing blockchain technology…. Read More

December 11, 2019 @ 12:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

The creators of the open-source ​DAML​ smart contract language, ​Digital Asset​ (DA), has raised approximately $35 million in Series C funding from new and existing investors. According to DA, the latest financing round brings the total amount raised by the company to $150 million. Yuval… Read More

September 10, 2019 @ 2:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kaiko, a digital assets data provider, announced on Tuesday it raised €5 million through its latest seed funding round led by global financial services investors Anthemis Group and Point Nine Capital with participation from CoinShares. Founded in 2014, Kaiko describes itself as a market data… Read More

September 5, 2019 @ 9:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cooper, a UK-based custodian for digital assets, announced on Wednesday it has hit $500 million in transactions since its launch three months ago. Founded in 2018, Copper has developed a secure platform to facilitate investors who require dedicated account management and professional custody and execution services…. Read More

August 26, 2019 @ 3:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) announced on Monday it has signed a three-party memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Digital Asset (DA) and VMware to work together on distributed ledger technology (DLT) initiatives in Australia and New Zealand. ASX reported that under the new partnership it… Read More

August 6, 2019 @ 11:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

RockX, a new digital asset services platform, has been launched by Alex Lam, Founder of RockMiner, to bridge the gap between the cryptocurrency veterans and novices and to further accelerate the development of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) public blockchains. RockX will initially serve as a Staking-as-a-Service platform… Read More

April 22, 2019 @ 9:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

OKCoin announced on Monday it has named EOS as the latest token added to its digital exchange platform. Founded in 2013, OKCoin claims to be one of the world’s first and largest regulated digital asset exchanges. It has users in more than 100 countries around… Read More

November 12, 2018 @ 2:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

B2BX Exchange, a professional digital asset trading platform, announced on Monday it has received approval for a regulatory license from the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). B2BX, which is part of the B2Broker group of companies, reported that the license means it will be able to… Read More

July 18, 2018 @ 10:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital Asset, a blockchain or distributed ledger (DLT) technology provider, has signed up Tony James, Executive Vice Chairman of Blackstone, AG Gangadhar, former engineering executive at Amazon, Google and Uber, and Stephan Leithner, Executive Board Member of Deutsche Börse Group, to its board of directors. Founded… Read More

January 23, 2016 @ 10:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital Asset, a software company that is developing proprietary blockchain technology, just raised $50 million as 12 different financial services firms rushed to support the young company.  The investors include some of the biggest names in traditional finance like; Citi, JP Morgan, Santandar, PNC, BNP… Read More