Umee, a cross-chain borrowing & lending platform built on the Cosmos SDK, announced today the development of Orion, the first decentralized price oracle native to the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem. The price oracle will allow applications to accurately determine the price of a Cosmos IBC (Inter- Blockchain...
Kiln, an enterprise-grade staking platform, today announced the completion of a $5 million funding round. The funding round included Third Kind Managing Partner and Andreessen Horowitz board partner Shana Fisher, SV Angel, Blue Yard, Alven, and Kima Ventures. The Kiln team will use the funds to bring on new talent, enhance its technology and build out its service, which enables fintech, crypto companies,...
Today, the team of DeFi platform FlashLoans, announced the launch of its new app that enables users without knowledge of Solidity to execute a flash loan and profit from arbitrage opportunities. The DeFi tool aims to ensure market discrepancies and premiums paid for certain tokens on digital asset exchanges are eliminated. FlashLoans has been designed so that anyone with a Web 3.0 wallet...
Nested, a crypto social trading platform based on financial NFTs, today announced that it has raised $7.5 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by macro and digital asset investor Alan Howard and also saw participation from Republic Capital, Kenetic Capital, and CMT Digital, among others. The platform enables users to easily build portfolios of tokens, track their performance,...
XinFin, creators of the XDC Network — a highly interoperable hybrid blockchain platform positioned to support global trade and finance — today announces a partnership with the Kinesis Exchange, a global trading and utility platform catering to both precious metals and digital assets. As part of the proposed partnership, Kinesis will take a multifaceted approach towards...
Quant, a provider of enterprise-grade interoperability for the secure exchange of information and digital assets across any network, platform, or protocol, announced newly announced a new release for its Overledger blockchain gateway, which provides interoperability between blockchains with a...
Japan-headquartered crypto exchange company Liquid Group and all of its operating subsidiaries including Quoine Corporation, today announced it is being acquired by FTX Trading Ltd, a crypto asset exchange offering spot, derivatives, NFTs, and other services. Following FTX's acquisition of Liquid,...
Connext, a level-2 interoperability protocol for Ethereum, today announced that it has formed a new partnership with Nomad, an interoperability protocol without header verification, to accelerate the adoption of trustless, fully generalized cross-chain communication. This partnership enables...
BitMEX, the popular crypto derivatives exchange, announced today that four cryptocurrencies ADA, BNB, FTM, and SHIB – will be listed as linear perpetual swaps, which are margined and settled in USDT. Note, this is the first time FTM and SHIB perpetual swaps have been listed on BitMEX....
Marex Solutions, a division of Marex Group that specializes in customized derivative products, and Coinbase Prime, a crypto-custodian and prime brokerage, today announced a new partnership that will broaden both companies' institutional crypto investment and hedging capabilities. The partnership will...
Forte, a provider of blockchain solutions for game publishers, announced today that it has raised an additional $725 million in the closing of its Series B round. This Series B was led by Sea Capital and Kora Management with further support and funding from game and media publishers including Animoca Brands, Big Bets...
Constellation, a distributed infrastructure that connects big data and the blockchain, today announced it has acquired Dor, a startup that helps retail brands grow their business by empowering them to improve customer outcomes through its data analytics solution that enables them to better understand store...
HitBTC, a popular bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange, announced today that perpetual futures contracts with up to 75x leverage are now live. Users of HitBTC can now trade BTC, ETH, TRX, BCH, ADA, DOT, SOL, EOS, AAVE,...
SIMBA Chain, a platform to develop and deploy decentralized applications (dApps) across many blockchains, announced today it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Valley Capital Partners. A startup incubated at the University of Notre Dame, SIMBA Chain offers a simple, time and energy- efficient method for deploying...
Aleph.im, a cross-blockchain decentralized storage & computing network, today announced the release of decentralized indexing for the Solana blockchain. The Solana blockchain is driven by intra-shard parallelism, which is capable of processing thousands of smart contracts at once, and...
Blockchain domain name provider Unstoppable Domains today announced support for the open source Monero, Bitcoin, and Litecoin wallet, Cake Wallet. Now, Cake Wallet's 150,000 users can send Monero (XMR), Bitcoin (BTC), and Litecoin (LTC) across 50+ wallets and exchanges with Unstoppable Domains' easily readable usernames. Usually, sending Monero and other cryptocurrencies requires entering the recipient's alphanumeric wallet address....
Hex Trust, a crypto and blockchain asset custodian headquartered in Asia, has announced it has successfully secured investment from Cyberport, Hong Kong’s largest FinTech hub and innovative digital community, which is wholly owned by the Hong Kong SAR Government. The investment enables Hex Trust to scale operations, hire key talents across Hong Kong and Asia, and enhance its licensing framework. Hex Trust is...
TP ICAP, a provider of market infrastructure, today announced it will launch a new wholesale trading platform for cryptocurrency assets. TP ICAP will work in collaboration with Fidelity Digital Assets, Zodia Custody, and Flow Traders. The new platform, which is subject to registration with the UK Financial Conduct Authority, will feature a wholesale electronic marketplace for spot crypto-asset trading, including bitcoin and ether,...
Following the launch of ETH2 Internet Bonds a few months ago, StakeFi, Ankr’s Internet Bond launchpad, has announced the launch of the Avalanche Bond (aAVAXb), wrapped under an ERC-20 token....
Following the approval of KIP-9 by KyberDAO, it was announced today that crypto liquidity platform Kyber will deploy its new Kyber DMM (Dynamic Market Maker) protocol on the Polygon...
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