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Bluesky Digital Assets Corp., Releases a Snapshot of its Q1 2021 Performance, Achieves Quarterly Result Record of $1,000,000 CDN in Gross Revenue

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Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – April 1, 2021) – Bluesky Digital Assets Corp., (CSE: BTC), (CSE: BTC.PR.A), (OTC Pink: BTCWF), (“Bluesky” or the “Corporation”) released today an unaudited snapshot of its Q1 2021 incoming gross revenue performance.

In total, the Corporation’s Q1 2021 incoming gross revenue total from its active digital crypto mining operations amounted to $739,435 CDN in the quarter. The gross revenue total of $739,435 CDN is comprised from the sale of $445,415 CDN worth of crypto mining assets and the implied value of unsold crypto mining assets currently held in the Corporation’s digital exchange house. As at March 31, 2021, the implied and combined value of digital mining assets held in the Corporation’s digital exchange house amounted to $294,020 CDN.

Operational costs to mine the crypto assets amounted to approximately $165,000 CDN and therefore the gross margin achieved for the Corporation’s digital crypto mining operations for Q1 amounted to 78%.

The operational costs that are stated in this press release are for the Corporation’s digital crypto mining operations only, and do not include the Corporation’s other corporate operating costs which include legal, auditing, transfer agent, marketing, IR, general administrative, consulting and management fees. The Corporation will release its full Q1 2021 results via its unaudited interim financial statements on May 31, 2021.

The gross revenue respective totals from the Corporation’s active digital assets mining operations for Q1 2021 represented significant and material increases, with an increase of 628% over Q1 2020’s gross revenue total, and it also represented an increase of 238% over the Corporation’s Q4 2020 gross revenue total.

Substantial increases to revenue for Q1 can be quickly recognized with the Corporation’s Q1 2021 gross revenue totals from its active mining operations amounting to an increase of 5% of what the Corporation successfully mined in all of fiscal 2020 as the Corporation’s total gross revenue from its active mining operations amounted to $702,504.00 CDN in fiscal 2020.

Thus far in fiscal 2021, the Corporation’s monthly incoming gross revenue average from its digital crypto mining operations amounted to $246,478 CDN per month vs. the monthly average $58,542 CDN per month achieved in fiscal 2020. The monthly average achieved thus far in fiscal 2021 represents a dramatic increase of 321% vs. the fiscal 2020 monthly average.

The Corporation has now successfully increased its incoming gross revenue totals from its active digital crypto mining operations for five consecutive quarters and it has successfully increased its incoming gross revenue totals from its active digital crypto mining operations in seven out of the eight last quarters with Q4 of 2019 being the only exception.

On March 19, the Corporation realized a significant gain as it exited a portion of its legacy business segment for the amount of $319,149 CDN. The initial investment in this legacy business segment amounted to $50,000 CDN and therefore the Corporation grossed $269,149 CDN from the exit. With the proceeds from the legacy business exit and combined with the revenue from the Corporation’s active digital crypto mining operations, the Corporation brought in a combined $1,008,584 CDN in gross revenues for the quarter which represents an all-time high and a corporate record for a quarterly result.

The Corporation will release its full fiscal 2020 results via its 2020 audited financial statements on April 30, 2021, and as previously stated in this press release, the Corporation will release its full Q1 2021 results via its unaudited interim financial statements on May 31, 2021.

The Corporation anticipates a significant increase to its gross revenue totals in Q2 2021 vs. its Q1 2021 total as the Corporation is still in the process of receiving and putting into production its Pandaminer order which consists of $915,000 CDN worth of GPU mining rigs. Once these GPU mining rigs are installed and put into full operation, the GPU mining rigs will significantly expand the Corporation’s current and active digital mining capabilities. It is anticipated that once this equipment is put online it will increase the Corporation’s overall generic hashing power by 54,000 Mh/s, this reported estimated value is before any customizations and or optimizations. The Pandaminer order was previously announced via press release on February 8, 2021 and at the time of this report, as an update, is targeted to be in full production within the next 30-60 days.

The Corporation is also still in the process of receiving and installing its recently announced order of $1,273,000 CDN worth of high hash rate ASIC mining machines, which once received and put into full production will significantly expand the Corporation’s current and active digital mining capabilities with an anticipated Bitcoin asset focus. It is also anticipated that once this equipment is put online it will increase the Corporation’s overall generic hashing power by 19,000 Th/s this reported estimated value is before any customizations and or optimizations. The ASIC order was previously announced via press release on March 9, 2021

Furthermore, the Corporation has not yet achieved a full quarter of revenue from the $500,000 CDN worth of mixed mining hardware technology which consisted of GPU and ASIC equipment and of which the Corporation put online and into full production in late February of this year. At the time of activation this equipment increased the Corporation’s overall generic hashing power by approximately 30,000 Mh/s.

The Corporation implemented and undertook a significant expansion program in Q1. In total, the Corporation has acquired $2,688,000 CDN worth of ASIC and GPU Mining equipment of which $500,000 CDN of the $2,688,000 CDN in equipment is online. With all schedules tracking to plan, the majority of the remaining $2,188,000 CDN worth of equipment is targeted to be put online in the next 30-60 days. With all plans remaining on track and with a continued positive trend in the crypto overall market holding or increasing, the Corporation anticipates that the Q2 gross revenue totals from the Corporation’s active mining operations may in all likelihood supersede Q1 total. The Corporation is in active negotiations to acquire additional mining assets and the Corporation anticipates that it will continue its plans of expansion into Q2 and moving forward.

Mr. Ben Gelfand, Bluesky CEO stated: “We have continued to demonstrate our abilities to deliver on our commitments to our shareholders and investors by following through on our business plans and objectives. This latest snapshot for our Q1 results clearly represents a tremendous improvement in our numbers and profitability, keeping this a continuing positive trend is a primary goal.”

About Bluesky Digital Assets Corp.

Bluesky Digital Assets Corp, is building a high value digital currency enterprise. Bluesky mines digital currencies, such as Bitcoin and Ether, and is developing value-added technology services for the digital currency market, such as digital mining proprietary software. Offering a complete ecosystem of value-creation, Bluesky is targeting reinvesting appropriate portions of its digital currency mining profits back into its operations. A percentage of the profit will be invested in the development of a proprietary Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) based technology. Overall, Bluesky takes an approach that enables the Corporation to scale, and respond to changing conditions, within the still-emerging digital currency industry. The Corporation is poised to capture value in successive phases as this industry continues to scale.

For more information please visit Bluesky at: https://www.blueskydigitalassets.com

For further information please contact:

Mr. Ben Gelfand
CEO & Director
Bluesky Digital Assets Corp.
T: (416) 363-3833
E: [email protected] 

Mr. Frank Kordy
Secretary & Director
Bluesky Digital Assets Corp.
T: (647) 466-4037
 E: [email protected]

Forward-Looking Statements

Information set forth in this news release may involve forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws. The forward- looking statements contained herein are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. The forward-looking statements included in this document are made as of the date of this document and the Corporation disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable securities legislation. Although management believes that the expectations represented in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities described herein and accordingly undue reliance should not be put on such. Neither CSE nor its Regulation Services Provider as that term is defined in the policies of the CSE accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. We seek safe harbor.

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To view the source version of this press release, please visit https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/79201

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Central banks and the FinTech sector unite to change global payments space

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The BIS, along with seven leading central banks and a cohort of private financial firms, has embarked on an ambitious venture known as Project Agorá.

Named after the Greek word for “marketplace,” this initiative stands at the forefront of exploring the potential of tokenisation to significantly enhance the operational efficiency of the monetary system worldwide.

Central to this pioneering project are the Bank of France (on behalf of the Eurosystem), the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Korea, the Bank of Mexico, the Swiss National Bank, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. These institutions have joined forces under the banner of Project Agorá, in partnership with an extensive assembly of private financial entities convened by the Institute of International Finance (IIF).

At the heart of Project Agorá is the pursuit of integrating tokenised commercial bank deposits with tokenised wholesale central bank money within a unified, public-private programmable financial platform. By harnessing the advanced capabilities of smart contracts and programmability, the project aspires to unlock new transactional possibilities that were previously infeasible or impractical, thereby fostering novel opportunities that could benefit businesses and consumers alike.

The collaborative effort seeks to address and surmount a variety of structural inefficiencies that currently plague cross-border payments. These challenges include disparate legal, regulatory, and technical standards; varying operating hours and time zones; and the heightened complexity associated with conducting financial integrity checks (such as anti-money laundering and customer verification procedures), which are often redundantly executed across multiple stages of a single transaction due to the involvement of several intermediaries.

As a beacon of experimental and exploratory projects, the BIS Innovation Hub is committed to delivering public goods to the global central banking community through initiatives like Project Agorá. In line with this mission, the BIS will soon issue a call for expressions of interest from private financial institutions eager to contribute to this ground-breaking project. The IIF will facilitate the involvement of private sector participants, extending an invitation to regulated financial institutions representing each of the seven aforementioned currencies to partake in this transformative endeavour.

Source: fintech.globa

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TD Bank inks multi-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud

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TD Bank has inked a multi-year deal with Google Cloud as it looks to streamline the development and deployment of new products and services.

The deal will see the Canadian banking group integrate the vendor’s cloud services into a wider portion of its technology solutions portfolio, a move which TD expects will enable it “to respond quickly to changing customer expectations by rolling out new features, updates, or entirely new financial products at an accelerated pace”.

This marks an expansion of the already established relationship between TD Bank and Google Cloud after the group previously adopted the vendor’s Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for TD Securities Automated Trading (TDSAT), the Chicago-based subsidiary of its investment banking unit, TD Securities.

TDSAT uses GKE for process automation and quantitative modelling across fixed income markets, resulting in the development of a “data-driven research platform” capable of processing large research workloads in trading.

Dan Bosman, SVP and CIO of TD Securities, claims the infrastructure has so far supported TDSAT with “compute-intensive quantitative analysis” while expanding the subsidiary’s “trading volumes and portfolio size”.

TD’s new partnership with Google Cloud will see the group attempt to replicate the same level of success across its entire portfolio.

Source: fintechfutures.com

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MAS launches transformative platform to combat money laundering

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The MAS has unveiled Cosmic, an acronym for Collaborative Sharing of Money Laundering/Terrorism Financing Information and Cases, a new money laundering platform.

According to Business Times, launched on April 1, Cosmic stands out as the first centralised digital platform dedicated to combating money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing on a worldwide scale. This move follows the enactment of the Financial Services and Markets (Amendment) Act 2023, which, along with its subsidiary legislation, commenced on the same day to provide a solid legal foundation and safeguards for information sharing among financial institutions (FIs).

Cosmic enables participating FIs to exchange customer information when certain “red flags” indicate potential suspicious activities. The platform’s introduction is a testament to MAS’s commitment to ensuring the integrity of the financial sector, mandating participants to establish stringent policies and operational safeguards to maintain the confidentiality of the shared information. This strategic approach allows for the efficient exchange of intelligence on potential criminal activities while protecting legitimate customers.

Significantly, Cosmic was co-developed by MAS and six leading commercial banks in Singapore—OCBC, UOB, DBS, Citibank, HSBC, and Standard Chartered—which will serve as participant FIs during its initial phase. The initiative emphasizes voluntary information sharing focused on addressing key financial crime risks within the commercial banking sector, such as the misuse of legal persons, trade finance, and proliferation financing.

Loo Siew Yee, assistant managing director for policy, payments, and financial crime at MAS, highlighted that Cosmic enhances the existing collaboration between the industry and law enforcement authorities, fortifying Singapore’s reputation as a well-regulated and trusted financial hub. Similarly, Pua Xiao Wei of Citi Singapore and Loretta Yuen of OCBC have expressed their institutions’ support for Cosmic, noting its potential to ramp up anti-money laundering efforts and its significance as a development in the banking sector’s ability to combat financial crimes efficiently. DBS’ Lam Chee Kin also praised Cosmic as a “game changer,” emphasizing the careful balance between combating financial crime and ensuring legitimate customers’ access to financial services.

Source: fintech.global

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