Texture Capital, an institutional marketplace for private capital, has been granted Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) membership approval to commence operations as a digital securities broker-dealer and operate an Alternative Trading System (ATS). 

Digital asset exchange operator CrossTower has announced USD150 million traded on its platform since its launch in May, and a record USD60 million in volumes traded in October.  

Buoyed by growing institutional appreciation of the potential of digital assets, ByteTree Asset Management has launched with the aim of offering professional investors means to access the asset class in a regulated manner, with the highest quality operational and legal structures. 

Tether.to, a blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, has risen above USD17 billion in market cap.

BtcTurk, Turkey’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and Tether, a blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, have made tether (USDt) tokens available on BtcTurk | PRO. 

The Crypto Finance Group is launching stop loss and stop limit orders for over 15 currency pairs enabling new quant trading strategies for institutional and banking clients. 

According to data presented by AksjeBloggen.com, the market capitalisation of the world's second-largest crypto coin, ethereum, has soared by 213 per cent YTD to USD44.3 billion, a 2.5 times bigger increase than the leading cryptocurrency bitcoin.

Regulated DeFi project KingSwap has achieved USD4 million in transaction volume in its first three days on Uniswap. KingSwap is a high-yield liquidity platform that offers extensive staking rewards, digital collectibles, and fiat conversions.  

Belgo-Estonian fintech, Osom Finance has unveiled its new quant trending technology for crypto, developed by tech and finance veterans from Credit Suisse and KBC, specially designed for financial institutions and traders looking for a simple way to gain exposure to a very diversified set of crypto assets.

The SSW Group, which carries out proprietary trading in the asset classes of equities, ETPs and bonds, has launched a flagship private cryptocurrency fund as part of its expanding digital asset offering. The fund is managed in Gibraltar by SSW Group.