The failure of FTX shows that the world needs more decentralized finance, not less. Sam Bankman-Fried and the small group of people who controlled FTX ran the company like a bank from 2008 - contrary to the original ethos of crypto.
Agreena, the world’s leading soil carbon platform, has announced the world’s first product to enable instant and seamless real-currency payments for carbon credits on-blockchain.
Last month, President Biden issued an executive order for “ensuring responsible development of digital assets”. The order places ”the highest urgency” on the research and development of a United States “digital dollar”.
Following our fundraise last summer, we’ve been busy hiring new team members. We are proud to announce that six experienced professionals have joined Monerium expanding the team from seven full-time people to thirteen people in six countries.
Based on undertakings received from the registered exchange service provider LCX AG in Lichtenstein, including copies of correspondence between LCX and the Lichtenstein authorities, Monerium EMI ehf has frozen EURe 611,000.- transferred from LCX’s wallet on January 9, 2022
Tokeny Solutions and Monerium have teamed up to improve the accessibility of security tokens by bringing the digital euro to secondary transfers. Tokeny’s Billboard solution provides a white-label secondary market platform for security tokens, whilst Monerium is a regulated e-money issuer on blockchains. The partnership aims to allow traditional investors to benefit from the investment opportunities brought by blockchain at ease.
Monerium is excited to introduce a partnership with LCX, a leading blockchain innovator based in Liechtenstein. Together, Monerium and LCX will leverage each other’s legal and technology infrastructure to expand their respective businesses and provide new and enhanced services.
Monerium is pleased to announce we have partnered with Alkemi Network, they enable CeFi institutions to use DeFi with KYC / AML verified access to deep liquidity and reporting via their borrowing and lending protocol, Earn.
Monerium has just submitted a response to the European Commission’s proposed MiCA regulation. We welcome the EC’s effort to create legal certainty around crypto assets but make the following suggestions and observations.
Monerium will be placing regulated fiat money on Fuse’s low fee, high throughput blockchain in order to offer micro-economies a payment solution that is scalable, frictionless and cost-effective.
Cashlink and Monerium have partnered to jointly offer players in the financial industry to utilize Euro-on-Chain and tokenized securities for on-chain securities settlement enabling real-time delivery-vs-payment transactions and automated actions. Financial institutions thus benefit from competitive advantages through early positioning on DLT-powered Capital Markets 2.0.
We are pleased to announce a partnership with Lucinity, a pioneer in combining human experience and judgement with advanced machine learning algorithms to mitigate the risk of money laundering. At Monerium we are committed to fostering a more transparent and efficient financial system by helping our customers conduct their business ethically and in compliance with the law, without implications from bad money.
Our mission at Monerium is to make money smarter, so that it can be exchanged fast, with minimal friction, and without intermediaries. We also think it’s important that our e-money is accessible on all major blockchain platforms. That is why we are excited to announce that we will be offering the euro on the Algorand blockchain in Q1 2021.
Earlier this month, the European Central Bank (ECB) issued a report to examine the “possible issuance of a digital euro”. There is no need to. The European Union, along with Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, and the UK, already has a framework for digital currency: e-money.
We've created a short demo video to showcase how we can use a decentralised exchange platform like Uniswap to exchange EUR for GBP without any intermediaries only using smart contracts to execute this exchange.
In his recent blog “Understanding Ethereum by studying the source code”, Monerium CTO Gísli Kristjánsson describes the Ethereum protocol as expressed in the golang geth client.
About 1.7 billion adults are unbanked , i.e. without an account at a financial institution or through a mobile money provider. The World Bank has made it a priority to promote financial inclusion. Access to and use of formal financial services is considered a key to drive development, and key in helping people escape poverty.
On May 5, the ECB published a report which concludes that “promoters of stablecoins should design their arrangement in such a way that they comply with existing regulations … such as the Electronic Money Directive (EMD).”
Monerium was invited to co-present at Consensus 2020 with supply chain payments and marketplaces leader Tradeshift. Together, we discussed use cases and pilots for supply-chains using Monerium e-money on blockchains.
After nine years and $773M of funding, only 25% of cross-border payments made through Transferwise settle within 20 seconds or less. Some don't settle until the following day - or days later. That is not surprising. In spite of being a leading payments challenger, Transferwise is optimizing an outdated infrastructure of closed payment systems and corresponding banks.
Regulated & programmable digital cash now available on-chain across the EU, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein as US Dollars, Euros, Icelandic krona and British Pounds.
2019 was a big year for Monerium as the team secured its e-money licence in June and became the first e-money institution authorized to issue e-money on blockchains.
Regulated & programmable digital cash now available on chain in the UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, and Lithuania as US dollars, euros, and British pounds.
Monerium, the world’s first and only authorized provider of licensed e-money for blockchains, and Tradeshift, the leader in supply chain payments and marketplaces, announce the successful completion of a transaction that marks a major step forward in business payments and finance.
At Monerium, we are mindful of the social context in which we operate. We believe that responsible capitalism should not only create value for direct stakeholders but also positive externalities for society.
It’s been a busy summer at Monerium. While Facebook was talking about their proposed cryptocurrency and blockchain linked to a basket of fiat currencies, Monerium was issuing fully licensed fiat-denominated e-money on an established blockchain, Ethereum.
In cyberspace “code is law” which governs many digital services. But cyberspace does not exist in isolation, users ultimately live in societies governed by laws and regulations set and enforced by governments. For users, laws and regulations are protocols which define their interactions.
Monerium co-founder Jon Helgi Egilsson spoke at the “The Future of Money — Central Bank Digital Currency and Beyond” conference on June 15, 2019, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Founded in 2015, the Monerium team backgrounds include central banking, finance and cloud services, financial regulation & compliance, and cryptocurrency. However different, we share the belief that the global financial system requires rebuilding, and that blockchains, e-money, and cryptocurrency play a foundational role in making finance more efficient and reliable.
We propose a new exchange rate model using interest rate differential (IRD) time series as the input, and we fit the new model with empirical data for calibration. We assume that exchange rate modeling cannot be based on the response to a single shock but must instead be based on the response to a series of shocks, as previous shocks could still be playing out and affecting the overall response.
Reykjavik-headquartered Monerium today announces the closing of a seed funding round led by the Nordic VC fund, Crowberry Capital, with the participation of NY-based blockchain software technology company, ConsenSys, and Hof Holdings, bringing total funds raised to $2M (USD).
At the beginning of Monerium, the team set out to partner with one of the financial institutions in Iceland to research in depth how the future of financial services could be impacted by Blockchains.
This partnership was essential in order to fully dive into every aspect of today’s financial world.
Founded in 2015, the Monerium team backgrounds include central banking, finance and cloud services, financial regulation & compliance, and cryptocurrency. However different, we share the belief that the global financial system requires rebuilding, and that blockchains, e-money, and cryptocurrency play a foundational role in making finance more efficient and reliable.