11/04/2022
Here's this week's !
💰 begins moving $USDC reserves into a new BlackRock fund
Circle, one of the issuers of the USDC stablecoin, has an agreement with BlackRock to manage its USDC reserves. The two parties announced this week that the reserves will be moving into a dedicated fund set up by BlackRock.
However, the new fund will be temporary, as the ultimate goal is for BlackRock to place Circle’s funds into the Federal Reserve’s reverse-repo program.
https://bit.ly/3TboIfo
🏦 JPMorgan Chase & Co. executes its first DeFi trade using a public blockchain
JPMorgan Chase executed its first live trade on a public blockchain, signaling a tacit retreat from its long-held private blockchain approach.
The trade occurred as part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Project Guardian pilot. The two trials leveraged Aave and Uniswap on the Polygon blockchain.
For FX transactions, JPMorgan successfully tokenized Singaporean dollar (SGD) deposits, while SBI Digital Assets tokenized Japanese yen (JPY) assets.
In the second trial, DBS and SBI Digital Assets traded against liquidity pools of tokenized government bonds with DBS tokenizing SGD and Singapore bonds. SBI did the same for Japanese bonds and JPY currency.
https://bloom.bg/3WxjGg1
📱 Instagram plans NFT minting, trading tools
Instagram will soon offer built-in NFT creation and trading tools, but said in-app purchases will be “subject to applicable app store fees.”
At launch, Instagram will use the Polygon blockchain for NFT minting. The app will also pull NFT metadata from OpenSea so collection names and descriptions can be viewed on Instagram.
Today, Facebook and Instagram support displaying NFTs on the Ethereum, Polygon, and Flow blockchains, allowing users to connect their wallets to their accounts to display NFTs. Support for Solana and Phantom wallets is coming.
https://bit.ly/3sXPtcq