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Zilliqa appoints crypto custody service Onchain Custodian to secure assets

Zilliqa, the high-performance and high-security blockchain platform, announced that it has selected Singapore-based crypto custody service Onchain Custodian to secure its network’s assets.

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Injective Protocol secures funding for decentralised derivs exchange

Injective Protocol, a fully decentralized derivatives exchange protocol, has raised $2.6 million dollars in a seed funding round led by Pantera Capital with participation from world renowned institutional investors including QCP's investment arm QCP Soteria, Axia8 Ventures, and OK's strategic investment partner K42.

/sustainable

Fasset launches OS for ethical blockchain financing

Fasset, a UK-headquartered fintech company, has launched the world’s first comprehensive operating system dedicated to the ethical financing of sustainable infrastructure on the Ethereum blockchain.

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SBI takes 10% stake in Nomura/NRI blockchain unit Boostry

Nomura Holdings, Inc. today announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI) and SBI Holdings, Inc. (SBI) to transfer a portion of the shares it owns in BOOSTRY Co., Ltd., Nomura’s joint venture1 with NRI, to SBI. After the share transfer, Nomura will own 56%, NRI 34% and SBI 10% of BOOSTRY’s shares.

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SETL supports IZNES in BdF CBDC experiment

London based blockchain company, SETL, is supporting the IZNES consortium in the BdF experiment with CBDC. The consortium comprises IZNES, SETL, Citi, Caceis, and DXC.

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Contour and DBS support LoC transaction between Nanjing Iron & Steel and Rio Tinto on blockchain

Contour, together with member bank, DBS Bank, continue to push the digitalisation of trade finance with the completion of the network’s first fully digital end-to-end secured Letter of Credit (LC) between Nanjing Iron & Steel, Singapore Jinteng International and Hope Downs Marketing Company (an equal Joint Venture between Rio Tinto and Hancock Prospecting).

/crypto

VMware joins Samsung and Salesforce in Digital Asset’s Series C financing

Digital Asset, the creators of the open source DAML smart contract language, announced today that VMware has joined the company’s Series C financing round, which was announced last December.

/cloud

New Singapore bank ADBC inks MoU with Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Tencent – a leading provider of internet value added services in China, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Asia Digital Bank Corporation (ADBC) in Singapore, kicking off collaborations on cloud-based financial services and joint innovations towards a data-driven digital bank to boost local businesses in Singapore through innovative technology and hands-on digital banking operations.

/crypto

Radix DLT raises $4.1m for public release of DeFi protocol

Radix DLT has raised $4.1m from LocalGlobe, and TransferWise’s Taavet Hinrikus, to bring its revolutionary decentralised finance protocol to the public.

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ING joins Global Digital Finance

Global Digital Finance (GDF), a leading industry association advocating and accelerating the adoption of digital assets, has today announced that global banking giant and blockchain/DLT innovation leader ING has assumed a seat on the GDF Advisory Council and become Co-chair of its Custody Working Group.

/people

Global Blockchain Business Council adds SDX's Tim Grant to board

The Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the leading industry association for the blockchain ecosystem, has named Tim Grant, Head of Business at SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), the Swiss-based leading digital asset exchange, to its Board of Directors.

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EssDOCS’ CargoDocs DocEx to be available within Finacle Trade Connect blockchain

essDOCS, the leading enabler of paperless trade, today announced a partnership with Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY), for driving automation in Trade finance processes though Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).

/crypto

Chainalysis tops up Series B

Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company, today announced it raised an additional $13M to expand its Series B round to $49M with an investment from Ribbit Capital and Sound Ventures.

/payments

Currencycloud to process cross-border payments on RippleNet

Currencycloud, the global leader in providing embedded B2B cross-border payments for platforms of the future, today announced a partnership with Ripple, the enterprise blockchain solution for global payments.

/covid-19

Billon wins UK grant to develop Covid-19 training and immunity certificates on distributed ledger

Billon Group received a £50,000 grant in the Fast Start Competition by Innovate UK to build a distributed ledger platform to store COVID-19 related certificates to support workers’ safe return to the workplace.

/people

Blockchain Association Singapore to buiild talent pipeline through MoU with banking union

Blockchain Association Singapore (BAS) announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Banking and Financial Services Union (BFSU) and the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) to grow the blockchain professionals in Singapore and build a sustainable pipeline of talents to bolster the blockchain ecosystem.

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Celsius secures $10M equity raise with Tether as lead investor

Celsius Network Limited (“Celsius”) is excited to announce that Tether International Limited (“Tether International”), a member of the Tether group of companies, the largest stablecoin issuer with a 90% market share, is the lead investor in Celsius’ first equity round. Celsius is the UK operating company in the Celsius group of companies.

/regulation

L3COS submits blockchain proposal to the Bank of England

L3COS, the only known blockchain platform for the regulated digitalization of economies, today submitted its proposal to the Bank of England to build the world’s first regulated blockchain-based operating system.

/payments

Apifiny launches global settlement network

Apifiny, a San Francisco-based global value transfer network, today announced the official debut of Roxe, the first settlement network designed to enable instant global clearing and settlement of payments and remittances, traditional assets, and digital assets.

/cloud

CaixaBank and IBM partner for cloud services

Today, CaixaBank announced an agreement with IBM Services (NYSE:IBM) to accelerate its hybrid cloud journey and continue their work to increase the bank’s capability to develop innovative, digital-first solutions to enhance client experiences.

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