Worldcoin Foundation Introduces SMPC System, Deletes Old Iris Codes by Omar Faridi

May 16, 2024 @ 2:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Following approval in the House earlier this month, the US Senate has voted on and approved HJ Res. 109, which overturns the SEC’s Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) 121 under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). When the House approved the resolution. Chairman of the House Financial… Read More

 Tagged cra, hj res 109, legislation, sab 121, sec, securities and exchange commission

May 16, 2024 @ 11:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A US Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment was unsealed, charging Anton Peraire-Bueno, 24, of Boston, and James Pepaire-Bueno, 28, of New York, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The charges in the indictment arise “from an alleged… Read More

 Tagged crypto, doj, fraud, indictment, money laundering, us department of justice

May 16, 2024 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) in France is telling investors to “exercise the utmost vigilance with regard to proposal investments made to the public residing in France by the digital asset trading platform BYBIT.” BYBIT operates elsewhere, including in Dubai where it received a… Read More

 Tagged amf, bybit, europe, france

May 16, 2024 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitpanda, Europe’s crypto company, has reported its most significant quarters of growth to date, with revenue for Q1 FY ‘24 exceeding €100 million. The wider market experienced a significant downturn in 2022, which led Bitpanda to rethink its “long-term growth strategy.” This meant a refocus… Read More

 Tagged austria, bitpanda, Crypto Adoption, digital assets, europe

May 15, 2024 @ 8:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a significant move to enhance its holistic blockchain analytics proposition, Elliptic, the global enabler of cryptoasset risk management solutions, has announced that it has added support for zkSync, a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. Organizations building applications on zkSync will have “access to… Read More

 Tagged Crypto Adoption, elliptic, ethereum, risk management

May 15, 2024 @ 4:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Hashgraph Association (THA) has revealed a partnership with the Qatar Financial Centre to launch a Digital Assets Venture Studio. The goal is to support regulatory compliant DeFi solutions and digital assets leveraging Hashgraph. The Venture Studio will commit $50 million to startups over the… Read More

 Tagged defi, hashgraph, hedera, qatar, qatar financial centre, switzerland, venture studio

May 15, 2024 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sally Meouche-Ghrawi, Executive Board Member of eSync Network, recently shared her views and insights regarding the importance of RWA (real-world assets) tokenization and the rise of blockchain technology. Sally Meouche discusses the potential benefits of leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT) to streamline key processes. Our… Read More

 Tagged digital assets, eSync Network, real-world assets, rwa, sally meouche, tokenization, women changing finance

May 15, 2024 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Operations Limited, the largest company in the digital asset industry, announces the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with RAK Digital Assets Oasis (RAK DAO), which is the first step towards the launch of several strategic initiatives to help foster the adoption of… Read More

 Tagged education, stablecoins, tether, uae

May 15, 2024 @ 1:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockdaemon officially announces expansion into the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with a new office and corporate entity established in Abu Dhabi under the Registration Authority of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). With this expansion, Blockdaemon will now “offer institutional-grade node and validator infrastructure solutions, and… Read More

 Tagged abu dhabi, adgm, blockdaemon, middle east

May 15, 2024 @ 12:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple and Peersyst will leverage evmOS in order to further develop and enhance the XRP Ledger (XRPL) EVM sidechain, which is currently in Devnet. The XRPL EVM sidechain will be “built leveraging evmOS — a modular and customizable tech stack offered by Evmos.” evmOS enables… Read More

 Tagged digital assets, digital technology, ripple, xrp ledger