Tagged: polygon

January 2, 2025 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the year 2024 came to an end, the team at Polygon said it was clear that the past year was a mix of significant progress as well as challenges. The team at Polygon has provided a quick recap of the key developments from the… Read More

October 22, 2024 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO pointed out that the SEC recently referred to Solana and Polygon as securities. tZERO recently noted that it happens to be one of the only two licensees for a regulated special purpose broker-dealer digital asset security custodian and specializes in compliant digital securities. The… Read More

October 16, 2024 @ 7:32 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Recently Xalts announced a deeper collaboration to bring its enterprise-grade real-world asset tokenization platform, RWA Cloud, to the Polygon blockchain network. RWA Cloud provides solutions to enable financial services, governments, and other enterprise developers looking to build digital asset platforms for implementing blockchain, tokenization, and… Read More

August 16, 2024 @ 1:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize, the platform for tokenizing real world assets, and global private markets investment management firm Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE), announced that qualified investors now have exclusive access to Hamilton Lane’s recently closed Secondary Fund VI through the Securitize platform. Hamilton Lane Secondary Fund VI has… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 6:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Spiko, co-founded in 2023 by Paul-Adrien Hyppolite and Antoine Michon, has raised €4 million in pre-seed funding. Spiko is a tokenization platform that claims to be the first provider in the world to offer fully tokenized Money Market Funds (MMFs). The digital assets leverage both… Read More

April 1, 2024 @ 10:56 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Laser Digital, Nomura’s digital asset subsidiary, is launching a new venture in collaboration with blockchain protocol TruFin, a WebN incubated company. This initiative leverages Polygon’s Aggregation Layer (AggLayer) to introduce the Laser Digital Polygon Adoption Fund. The Fund will expose investors to Polygon-MATIC, the native gas… Read More

March 1, 2024 @ 3:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group; Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE), a global private markets investment management firm; and financial services firm Apex Group are expanding access to global private markets via new DLT-registered shares on the Polygon blockchain. Sygnum Bank, Hamilton Lane, and Apex… Read More

January 15, 2024 @ 9:39 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, WebN and Laser Digital launched Libre, a new institutional Web3 infrastructure powered by Polygon for distributing alternative asset funds. Alternative investment management firm Brevan Howard and private markets investment management firm Hamilton Lane plan to be the first issuers to strategically partner with… Read More

January 1, 2024 @ 9:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX, a Web3 technology company, announced that QuickSwap, a DEX and automated market maker built on Polygon, Polygon zkEVM and Dogechain, now supports the testnet version of X1. X1 is OKX’s new zkEVM Layer 2 network, “developed using the Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK).” With… Read More

November 20, 2023 @ 2:42 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Xapo Bank, a fully licensed bank that combines traditional banking with access to Bitcoin, stablecoins, and altcoins, recently announced it is launching three more cryptocurrencies that members can buy, sell, and hold on the Xapo Bank app — Ethereum (ETH), Cardano (ADA), and Polygon (MATIC)…. Read More

November 19, 2023 @ 3:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Animoca Brands, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Polygon Labs announced MoonRealm Express Accelerator, a strategic collaboration to support Web3 builders around the world and accelerate the development of Web3 products and solutions through Animoca Brands’ flagship project Mocaverse. MoonRealm Express Accelerator is “an accelerator program… Read More

October 30, 2023 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin Suisse, the Swiss crypto-finance technology pioneer, announced the integration of MATIC, the primary token of the Polygon ecosystem, into its custodial staking services. Bitcoin Suisse’s expanded Polygon offerings now encompass custodial staking, trading, and custody solutions for MATIC. Staking entries are accessible with “a… Read More

October 28, 2023 @ 12:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affine has integrated Chainlink CCIP — the industry standard for secure cross-chain interoperability — across the Ethereum, and Polygon mainnets. Affine is leveraging CCIP’s arbitrary messaging capabilities “to help build cross-chain NFT bridging functionality for Affine Pass NFTs, which helps enable seamless and secure NFT… Read More

October 20, 2023 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

21X in coordination with Polygon Labs is pleased to announce 21X is building an ESMA regulated market infrastructure for tokenized securities “on the Polygon proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain.” 21X and Polygon Labs are collaborating in order “to advance asset tokenization and trading within the Polygon ecosystem.” Polygon… Read More

September 19, 2023 @ 11:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill from CoinShares notes that outflows over the last 9 weeks aggregate to almost $0.5 billion The CoinShares team also mentioned that digital asset investment products saw outflows totaling $54 million last week, “with outflows for 8 out of the last 9 weeks that… Read More

September 14, 2023 @ 4:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

European tokenization provider Tokeny has enabled ABN AMRO to issue a tokenized bond in an offering that is described as being the first Dutch ban to issue a green bond on a public blockchain. Tokeny shares that Vesteda raised €5 million while predicting the offering… Read More

September 6, 2023 @ 9:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mirae Asset Securities, an investment firm and brokerage with more than $500 billion in AUM, has chosen Polygon to pursue digital securities or asset tokenization. According to a note from Mirae, the Mirae Asset Security Token Working Group is working to build the infrastructure for… Read More

September 6, 2023 @ 9:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill from CoinShares notes that have been minor outflows, but inflows for Bitcoin. So, is negative sentiment “on the turn?” As noted in the update from CoinShares, digital asset investment product flows cooled off, with relatively minor outflows totaling US$11.2 million. This run of negative… Read More

August 27, 2023 @ 8:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Num Finance, the issuer of local stablecoins in Latin America, has launched its newest stablecoin, nCOP. Designed to be pegged to the Colombian Peso, nCOP is now “live on the Polygon network, Num Finance’s primary blockchain partner.” This launch represents a major expansion of the… Read More

August 20, 2023 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Lasha Atandze, CEO of Rarify Labs, a service provider for Rarimo, the interoperability protocol making digital identities and the decentralized social layer multi-chain. During our conversation, Lasha sheds some light on the importance of multi-chain access for social identities in today’s… Read More