Announcements

BitOasis, the prominent crypto asset trading platform in the MENA region, announced new features that make buying and selling crypto assets easier. The platform allows users to search for tokens they wish to buy or sell using their balance in AED or SAR. The swap feature on BitOasis Core will also help make crypto-to-crypto trading…

Goldman Sachs announced it became the first major US bank to have made an over-the-counter (OTC) cryptocurrency transaction. The bank bought an OTC Bitcoin non-deliverable option (NDO) from Galaxy Digital. The bank’s first OTC crypto transaction could spur other Wall Street giants to follow suit. An OTC Bitcoin NDO sounds complicated, but it basically means…

Fate certainly has a sense of irony. While Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus are engaged in an armed conflict, their citizens have rushed to explore cryptocurrencies. For Ukrainians, it is a way to bring closer the victory, but for citizens of Russia and Belarus, it is a desperate attempt to break away from their severely compromised…

Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans to integrate NFTs into the Instagram platform, but it’s still unclear what this will look like. The news continues Meta’s narrative that it is moving closer to its proposed ‘metaverse’ goal. According to Engadget, NFTs are coming to Instagram, as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told SXSW. “We’re working on bringing NFTs…

Ex-Meta employees have secured a $200 million funding round from crypto VC giants to develop their own version of the notorious crypto project Diem. Recently, Meta (formerly Facebook) abandoned its grand plans to create a digital currency and sold the remaining assets to Silvergate Capital for $182 million. The deal showcased how Meta is left…

Gauntlet, a DeFi financial-risk modeling platform for crypto lending, raised a new round of funding that pushed its valuation to $1 billion. The company plans to use the capital injection to scale the platform to operate on multiple networks and expand into new areas such as gaming. On March 14, Gauntlet said that it had…