EquiLend, a securities finance utility giant with $40 trillion in lendable assets, said it made a “strategic” minority investment in Digital Prime Technologies, a regulated crypto financing provider. The company said it is responding to client demand for governed, transparent workflows that can run straight from trading to post-trade processing and reporting across both traditional
Uniform Labs, a blockchain infrastructure company founded by former Standard Chartered, UniCredit and other digital banking executives, has put its institutional liquidity protocol Multiliquid into production following build, audit and testing phases, the company said in a press release Wednesday. Multiliquid is designed to allow institutions to swap instantly, around the clock, between blue-chip tokenized
The U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 25 basis points last week, but that may not have been the biggest news to bitcoin BTC$87,491.03 bulls. The real surprise was the central bank’s announcement to start buying $40 billion in short-term U.S. Treasury bills. That sparked a bullish frenzy in the crypto community, and why
Genesis, a cryptocurrency lending institution undergoing bankruptcy proceedings, made a significant Bitcoin purchase in order to be able to repay its customers. The company purchased a total of 32,041 Bitcoins with the proceeds from the sale of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) shares. This purchase reportedly followed the completion of the sale of approximately 36 million
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the industry-owned clearing and settlement market infrastructure, has selected the privacy-focused Canton Network as a tokenization partner, the companies said on Tuesday. The partnership, which will enable a subset of U.S. Treasury securities custodied at DTC to be minted on the Canton Network, follows DTCC’s recent receipt of
Moon Pursuit Capital, a crypto-focused investment firm, is launching its second fund, a $100 million market-neutral vehicle designed to deliver what it said are consistent, risk-adjusted returns across digital asset cycles. The new fund is built around an algorithmic trading strategy that aims to stay market-neutral and generate alpha without taking a strong directional view
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Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has endorsed Metaplanet’s (3350) bitcoin BTC$87,102.65 focused strategy, voting in favour of all five management proposals ahead of the company’s Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on Dec. 22, according to a Bloomberg screenshot shared by Dylan LeClair, Metaplanet’s director of bitcoin strategy. NBIM, which is one of the world’s largest
Bitcoin price saw a modest rebound on Wednesday after bulls successfully defended the $85k support range. Will it see further gains following the release of U.S. CPI data scheduled for tomorrow? Summary Bitcoin price has rebounded slightly after the U.S. Jobs data print. $38 million in long positions were liquidated from BTC. Market experts foresee
Venom Foundation today unveiled Venom Labs, a new grants division seeded with $500,000 to back the next generation of Web3 projects that build natively on, or integrate deeply with, the Venom blockchain. The move formalizes a long-running effort by the Abu Dhabi–based foundation to funnel funding, technical support and go-to-market resources into teams that can