Weekly Focus:
Coinbase Submits Form S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission
CME Announces Ethereum Futures Product Launch in February 2021
Paxos Conducts $142 Million Series C Raise
FinCEN Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with New Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements for Digital Asset Transactions
Figure Applies for OCC Charter
Compound Releases Whitepaper Describing Product to Add Interoperability Between Chains
Germany Legalizes Electronic Securities on the Blockchain
CFTC Releases Digital Asset Primer
On December 17, 2020, the CFTC announced a 36-slide Digital Assets Primer. The Digital Assets Primer seeks to build on a prior 2017 release that focused on virtual currencies. This update describes the market more broadly, addressing not just virtual currencies but “smart contracts and other digitized representations of value or ownership” according to Brian Trackman of LabCFTC. The primer provides a high-level overview and explains the CFTC’s views
CFTC Publishes Digital Assets Primer
The
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has published a
Digital Assets Primer to provide information to the public about emerging concepts in digital assets. The document is said to be part of a series by LabCFTC, a relatively new division at the Commission that focuses on innovation in financial services.
Brian Trackman, LabCFTC Senior Counsel and lead author of the primer, said the document builds upon a publication released in 2017 that focused on virtual currencies. This document incorporates crypto as well as smart contracts and other “digitized representations of value or ownership.”
LabCFTC Director and Chief Innovation Officer
NanoVMs Launches Investment Round On StartEngine
NanoVMs, the unikernel infrastructurecompany that runs software faster andsafer than Linux has launched aninvesting campaign with StartEngine.The startup has already raised over .
Wallet Factory and Belize Bank to build a mobile payment platform and digital wallet in Belize
Wallet Factory and Belize Bank tobuild a mobile payment platform anddigital wallet in Belize March 29,2021 – Wallet Factory, an .
Provider of SaaS for Financial Institutions Fininbox Doubled Revenue in 2020
March 11th, 2021. According to AntonZujev, Head of Business Developmentand Sales at Fininbox, the doublingof revenue even during the pandemic .
BuildStream launches investment round on Republic
YC Funded BuildStream LaunchesInvestment Campaign for Supply ChainQuality Inspection Marketplace App,Raising $1M From Users and the Crowd.NEW YORK, Feb 21, 2021 .
NanoVMs Launches Investment Round On StartEngine
NanoVMs, the unikernel infrastructurecompany that runs software faster andsafer than Linux has launched aninvesting campaign with StartEngine.The startup has already raised over .
Wallet Factory and Belize Bank to build a mobile payment platform and digital wallet in Belize
Wallet Factory and Belize Bank tobuild a mobile payment platform anddigital wallet in Belize March 29,2021 – Wallet Factory, an .
Provider of SaaS for Financial Institutions Fininbox Doubled Revenue in 2020
March 11th, 2021. According to AntonZujev, Head of Business Developmentand Sales at Fininbox, the doublingof revenue even during the pandemic .
BuildStream launches investment round on Republic
YC Funded BuildStream LaunchesInvestment Campaign for Supply ChainQuality Inspection Marketplace App,Raising $1M From Users and the Crowd.NEW YORK, Feb 21, 2021 .
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