Other Cryptocurrencies

Having lost some of its founding members when the public scrutiny got fierce, the Libra Association has now added Checkout.com to its membership as things seem to be moving faster for the cryptocurrency project.

While only 4% of transactions in Norway are conducted with cash, the nation's central bank is in no hurry to introduce a digital currency.

Nucleo, a private, non-custodial, auditable multi-sig on Ethereum that provides the privacy infrastructure for crypto firms, has raised $4m in a seed round.

Finnish FinTech Membrane Finance, a company building a European alternative to the USD stablecoin, has secured its e-money licence and raised €2m.

Ledgible, a leader in digital asset tax, accounting, and data platform for enterprises, has joined hands with DigiShares, a pioneering white-label platform for tokenized digital assets.

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission has said that some NFTs that constitute investment products will have to be regulated.   

The European Union has come one step closer to making crypto regulation a reality after it passed the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) bill.

CAT Labs, a startup building forensic and cybersecurity tools to fight crypto-enabled crime, has bagged $4.3m in its pre-seed round.

Despite coronavirus fears, the last week saw a number of FinTech companies raise money.

The growth of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has been stratospheric over the past two years, with the market showing no signs of slowing down in 2022. After recently hitting a $41bn value at the end of 2021, the number of prying regulatory eyes on the industry are growing. Will this be the year we see wholesale regulation on NFTs?