Genesis and Gemini’s SEC Charges Shine a Light on the Risks of Unregulated Securities

Genesis and Gemini were charged for Unregistered Offers and Sales of Crypto Asset Securities through the Gemini Earn Lending Program By Anastasia Samaras Last week, it was reported that through their cryptocurrency loan program, Gemini Earn, Genesis Global Capital, LLC, and Gemini Trust Company, LLC were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission “SEC” for soliciting and selling unregistered […]Continue Reading

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Key Takeaways: Benzinga’s 2022 Future of Crypto Conference

Upstream attended Benzinga’s crypto conference last week in NYC. Here’s what we learned sitting amongst industry thought leaders. By Anastasia Samaras Benzinga, the financial media and analytics platform, has recently joined Upstream’s strategic media community to raise visibility for the influx of issuers seeking a listing on Upstream’s blockchain-powered platform. Last week, the Upstream team […]Continue Reading

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How Upstream is staying warm this crypto winter

The fall of FTX, cryptocurrency, and a crypto winter. How Upstream’s unique methodology was built to prevent these issues and enforce failsafes By Vanessa Malone Upstream, a MERJ Exchange Market, is the first regulated exchange for digital securities and NFTs powered by a blockchain. As a blockchain-powered trading app, Upstream sometimes gets mistakenly looped into […]Continue Reading

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Upstream Welcomes Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee to Horizon’s Advisory Board

World-renowned computer scientist Charlie Lee joins Horizon’s advisory board as Upstream’s digital securities and NFT exchange prepares to scale By Fernanda De La Torre This week we announced that Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin and Director at the Litecoin Foundation, joined Horizon’s Advisory Board to focus on Upstream! Charlie Lee will work with Horizon […]Continue Reading

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81% of adults in the U.S. agree that there is a need for clearer crypto industry regulations

Ahead of U.S. midterm elections, a recent Grayscale national survey points to the bipartisan consensus that crypto is the future of finance By Anastasia Samaras A new national survey from Grayscale, conducted by The Harris Poll on its behalf, presented interesting findings about public perception surrounding the crypto market ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. 53% of […]Continue Reading

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Upstream Expands its NFT Market with Cash Accounts Powered by Nevada Trust Company ‘Digital Trust’

Upstream is focusing on NFTs for the masses and has streamlined NFT Purchases with USD Accounts along with Payments through PayPal, Debit, Credit by Fernanda De La Torre This week Upstream unveiled the advantages of its cash-first platform which enables traders to purchase NFTs using traditional bank payments through its partnership with Digital Trust and […]Continue Reading

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Chevy’s Initial Entry Into NFTs Highlights Key Considerations for Brands When Entering NFT Space

Chevy NFT Use Case shows Hurdles to Address when Implementing a Web 3.0 Strategy By Anastasia Samaras & Vanessa Malone Every day new brands enter the world of NFTs and Web 3.0, some presenting immediate success and others presenting hurdles that need to be overcome in order to bring other innovative NFTs to life. We’re […]Continue Reading

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Can the drops in the crypto market usher in a new wave of NFTs?

How the decline in the crypto market presents a chance for novel NFT types to emerge By Fernanda De La Torre Crypto markets down, new wave of NFTs to rise? Traditional and blockchain markets have taken a collective hit in the last few months. Bitcoin dropped by almost 38% in the last month.¹ Ethereum was […]Continue Reading

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Horizon’s technology powers first tokenized bond with secondary trading for its subscribers on Ethereum public blockchain

By Vanessa Malone This week we announced that our client Piemonte Holding, an A-rated Brazilian bank which develops and manages tailor-made investment products, has closed its R$ 66m (US$ 16.2m) private bond issuance and successfully completed the launch of a secondary market for the Piemonte “Smart Bond” on Ethereum using Horizon’s compliance, custody, and blockchain […]Continue Reading

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Key Takeaways from Dialogue with the Regulators: Navigating Blockchain & Fintech

We are happy to announce that Dialogue with the Regulators: Navigating Blockchain & Fintech was a great success. A big thank you to everyone who made it.  We welcomed senior regulators from the SEC, FINRA, CFPB, and Texas State Securities Board; blockchain trailblazers including Gemini, Paxful, Coinbase and financial service heavyweights such as Blackrock, UBS, […]Continue Reading

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