InstaDApp, an India-based digital banking portal for DeFi protocols, has secured $2.4 million in seed funding from strategic investors such as Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant, and IDEO...

The Global Currency Organization (GCO), led by former employees of JP Morgan, Intel, and TrustToken, is launching a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, called the USD Digital (USDD). We are excited to introduce a...

Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. has acquired a New Jersey-based fintech firm Shadow Financial Systems for an undisclosed amount. Shadow is a multi-asset class post-trade solution provider for the capital markets...

B21, the developer of crypto-focused personal wealth management platform, has received an in-principle Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) License from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commissioner (GFSC). In its press...

Ripple appears to be shifting to a new approach after it removed all mentions of its cross-border payment products from its website: xRapid, xCurrent, and xVia. In what seems to be a major rebranding, the company is now...

Band Protocol, a Sequoia-backed data management firm, has rolled out its decentralized binary options trading app BitSwing on Ethereums mainnet. The dApp will serve as a brokerage for ether-dominated binary...

London-based startup Rapyd, which describes itself as a fintech as a service provider, has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round led by venture and growth equity investments firm Oak HC/FT. Rapyd has...

The SKALE Network, an elastic, modular network of blockchains, has raised a total of $17.1 million, which includes a contribution from SKALE Labs and a global financing round which included top investors from Korea, Hong...

Blockchain-based payment network Terras mobile payments app CHAI has partnered with BC Card, South Koreas largest payments processor, to roll out a prepaid card called CHAI Card in the first half of 2020, CryptoNinjas...

WEG Bank AG, a Germany-based bank, is planning to start processing cryptocurrency payments for retailers in 2020, CoinDesk reported. The bank, which is partially owned by blockchain firms Nimiq, TokenPay, and the...

Cryptocurrency trading platform Bittrex has unveiled its plan to launch a new digital asset platform, Bittrex Global, based in Liechtenstein. The platform, which aims to provide access to a wide variety of tokens to...

BlockApps, an enterprise blockchain platform provider, has secured an undisclosed amount in a Series A funding round. The round was spearheaded by Fitz Gate Ventures and joined by Elliptic Curve Ventures, Bloccelerate,...

Mizuho Bank has partnered with payments technology company InComm to bring its bank digital currency platform J-Coin Pay to more than 18,000 retail locations in Japan. Launched on March 01, J-Coin Pay enables customers...

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase introduced the Crypto Rating Council, an organization that aims to help traders comply with U.S. federal securities laws. The other founding members include Anchorage, Bittrex, Circle, DRW...

Asset management company Wave Financial has launched the Wave BTC Income Growth Digital Fund, Ltd, which it claims to be the first crypto derivatives-based yield fund on the market. Incorporated in the British Virgin...