Announcements

Smartphone manufacturer Apple Inc. announced a new Tap-to-Pay feature on the Apple Pay app. Stripe will be the first company to offer Tap-to-Pay to their business clients. The merchant will need to have at least an iPhone XS and maintain different payment methods, including cryptocurrencies. According to a press release on February 8, Apple announced…

Valkyrie Funds announced the launch of the Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF, the exchange-traded fund focused on Bitcoin mining operators. ETF will focus on firms that employ at least 77% renewable energy. The Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI) began trading on February 8 on the Nasdaq. It invests in publicly traded miners using renewable energy as…

According to a Monday announcement, the Canadian branch of accounting giant KPMG allocates Bitcoin and Ether to its corporate treasury. The firm’s executives “expect to see a lot of growth” in DeFi, NFT, and metaverse areas in the years to come. “Cryptoassets are a maturing asset class,” stated Benjie Thomas, the firm’s Canadian managing partner…

New tokens that can be traded on BitOasis include Cardano, Solana, Polkadot and Cosmos. Seven other tokens including Terra, Shiba Inu, Avalanche and Polygon to follow in February Solidifies its position in MENA as market leader with 35+ tokens listed – nearly 3 times the number of crypto-assets as other regional platforms Move aims to…

Polygon, a decentralized Ethereum scaling platform, has raised $450 million in a private token sale led by Sequoia India. The funding will be used to build Web3 decentralized applications or dApps, including Polygon PoS, Polygon Edge, and Polygon Avail. This is Polygon’s first major financing round since the project began in 2017. According to Bloomberg,…

Solana Labs, the developer team behind the Solana blockchain, announced Solana Pay, a new point-of-sale (POS) payment product that lets merchants accept crypto payments with near-instant finality and affordable fees. The payment solution is billed to be a game-changer that will help merchants interact directly with their customers by rewarding customer loyalty in a unique…