{"id":7996,"date":"2025-01-16T10:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T10:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=7996"},"modified":"2025-01-16T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T10:47:12","slug":"nomura-backed-komainu-receives-75m-bitcoin-investment-from-blockstream-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=7996","title":{"rendered":"Nomura-Backed Komainu Receives $75M Bitcoin Investment From Blockstream Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Komainu, a crypto custody joint venture between Nomura, Ledger and Coinshares, has raised $75 million in a strategic investment from Blockstream Capital Partners, the company said in a press release on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is novel in that it is funded with bitcoin (BTC). <\/p>\n<p>Komainu will establish its own BTC treasury to manage the crypto supplied by Blockstream, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The investment will be used to expedite the custody firm&#8217;s strategic growth plans and for the adoption and integration of Blockstream technologies, Komainu said.<\/p>\n<p>By using Blockstream&#8217;s Liquid Network, Komainu will be able to significantly reduce off-exchange margining and settlement times.<\/p>\n<p>Blockstream executives Adam Back, PeterPaul Pardi and Nicolas Brand will join Komainu&#8217;s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted that Komainu is adopting Blockstream&#8217;s various technology streams to enhance its institutional service offering,&#8221; said Adam Back, CEO and co-founder of Blockstream Corp, in the release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is testament to the fundamental veracity of Bitcoin-related technologies and applications and marks the first time that these have entered the institutional arena,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/video\/nomura-backed-komainu-aims-to-capitalize-on-the-need-for-mature-crypto-infrastructure\" target=\"_blank\">Nomura-Backed Komainu Aims to Capitalize on the Need for Mature Crypto Infrastructure<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Komainu, a crypto custody joint venture between Nomura, Ledger and Coinshares, has raised $75 million in a strategic investment from Blockstream Capital Partners, the company said in a press release on Thursday. The deal is novel in that it is funded with bitcoin (BTC). Komainu will establish its own BTC treasury to manage the crypto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-7996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}