Israel launches trials of its tokenized digital state bonds

    Israel’s Ministry of Finance and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) are preparing to issue a blockchain-based digital state bond. In partnership with Fireblocks and VMWare, they are set to perform live testing of a new platform soon. The Israeli government and TASE are partnering with digital asset infrastructure firms Fireblocks and VMWare to perform…

    To buy Bitcoin, MicroStrategy raises corporate bond sale by $100 million

    The publicly traded company MicroStrategy, a big enterprise software developer, announced Tuesday that it raised its corporate bond sale from $400 million to $500 million to satisfy investor demand. The revenue will be transferred to purchase funds in Bitcoin above the 92,079 BTC the firm accumulated before. Unnamed sources said to Bloomberg, the sale was…