Saham Holding, a financial technology and securities firm based in Saudi Arabia, has announced today that it has enhanced its overall trading experience with the launch of the MetaTrader 5 platform on the Saudi Stock Exchange. With the development, Saham has become the first firm to begin providing real Saudi market data through MetaTrader 5. Saham now distributes real-time and historical data for all Saudi financial instruments. The MetaTrader 5 platform is now available to all its traders through desktop and mobile applications. The firm stated it has built its…
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Compliance Platform Sardine Closes $19.5M Funding Round to Eliminate Fishy Crypto Transactions
The Sardine platform has now added instant bank Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfers for crypto on-ramps, removing the traditional three to seven-day waiting period for consumers to gain access to their funds. Sardine assumes the fraud, regulatory compliance and legal risks of the ACH transactions. Source
Aave launches Web3 social media platform, Lens Protocol
Aave (AAVE), the decentralized finance lending platform, launched the Lens Protocol ecosystem on the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain as their way to challenge centralized social media platforms like Twitter or Facebook. What started with an open letter to garner support around the idea that content creators should own and control their digital identities, led to developing a Web3-native social network powered by nonfungible tokens (NFTs). In a Twitter Spaces conversation the company hosted this week, Stani Kulechov, CEO and founder of Aave, described the mission behind Lens Protocol. “We wanted to build a…
Romanian Cryptocurrency Platform Tradesilvania.com Appoints Mihaela Drăgoiu, Former Head of Supervision and Control Directorate of FIU Romania (ONPCSB) As the New Risk and Regulatory Affairs Director
February 9, 2022 – Cluj-Napoca, Romania Tradesilvania, the premium platform for cryptocurrency and digital asset investments, has announced the expansion of the company’s compliance and management team by appointing Mihaela Anamaria Drăgoiu as the new risk and regulatory affairs director. Mihaela Anamaria Drăgoiu is the former head of the prevention, supervision and control directorate of FIU Romania (ONPCSB), with over 20 years of experience in the institution. She has been involved in developing the legal framework (primary and secondary legislation) in the field, including the act 129/2019 – which after the…
Aave Launches Web3, Smart Contracts-Based Social Media Platform Built on Polygon – Blockchain Bitcoin News
The decentralized finance (defi) lending platform Aave has revealed the launch of a Web3 social media platform called the Lens Protocol. According to the team, Lens is a “Web3, smart contracts-based social graph” that is built using the Polygon blockchain. Defi Project Aave Drops the Lens Protocol, Platform’s Intent Is to ‘Empower Creators to Own the Links Between Themselves and Their Community’ For quite some time now, decentralized social media has been a Holy Grail to many cryptocurrency advocates. While it is obvious that social media platforms could leverage crypto…
Canadian Crypto Platform Newton Raises $20M Round at $200M Valuation
Canadian wealth and asset management company CI Financial has taken a minority stake in crypto trading platform Newton as part of its $20 million Series B funding round. Source
DeFi’s Aave Launches Web 3 Social Media Platform ‘Lens’
In the case of Lens, interoperability and composability will be key features of the new platform. According to the Lens website, the protocol’s name comes from Lens Culinaris, a “tall, branched plant” that has “a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria. If the roots are left in the ground, they will provide a source of nitrogen for its neighbor.” Source
Privacy-focused applications platform Aleo raises $200M
Zero-knowledge applications platform Aleo has raised $200 million in a solid investment round, pushing the company forward and supporting its goals to develop products and services that encourage and assist developers in building applications on top of its decentralized network. The Series B investment round was led by Kora Management LP and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, which invest in fintech projects within emerging digital economies. Samsung Next also participated in the raise along with Tiger Global, Sea Capital, Slow Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Aleo is building a network that…
Protesters migrate to crypto fundraising platform following GoFundMe ban
Truckers protesting the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Canada have turned to Bitcoin-based crowdfunding platform Tallycoin, following a barrage of mounting political pressure from all sides that culminated in GoFundMe axing their “Freedom Convoy Campaign.” GoFundMe pulled the campaign and $9 million in donations on Friday in response to reports of violence, which it claimed broke its terms of service. Initially, donors needed to apply to have their funds refunded. However, following a flurry of criticism, the platform backtracked on Saturday, deciding it would automatically refund donors instead. Shortly after GoFundMe…
A “unifying Web3 platform” will onboard 1 billion users by 2026, says Harmony COO
Li Jiang, chief operating officer at Harmony, believes that a bridge connecting all existing blockchains is key to onboard the first 1 billion users on Web 3. “We think that the future is multichain and cross-chain, that you should be able to move assets very easily from one chain to another, with good prices, with good rates and very fast,” he told Cointelegraph in an exclusive interview. Harmony is a layer-1 blockchain protocol that aims at creating bridges with all major blockchains and becoming a “unifying Web3 platform” by 2026.…