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Bluesky Digital Assets Corp., Enters into a Strategic Relationship with Monbanc Corporation, Expands Current Mining Capacity, and Appoints New Director

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Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – March 28, 2022) – Bluesky Digital Assets Corp., (CSE: BTC), (OTCQB: BTCWF), (“Bluesky” or the “Corporation”) is pleased to announce that effective of the date of this press release, the Corporation had entered into a strategic working relationship with Monbanc Corporation (“Monbanc”) with the purpose of immediately expanding the Corporation’s current mining operations and with the goal of expanding and diversifying digital mining operations in the State of Texas. Monbanc is a well-established institutional digital asset mining, trading, and finance Company that specializes in mining hardware procurement, data centre operations, and has global supply chain relationships with Industry leading mining hardware manufacturers that are well suited to add value to Bluesky’s mining operations.

In entering the strategic relationship, the Corporation has acquired One Million Canadian Dollars Canadian ($1,000,000.00 CAD) worth of ASIC and GPU mining rigs from Monbanc in exchange for 6,060,606 Common Shares of the Corporation. The ASIC and GPU mining rigs are currently online and in operation at the Corporation’s mining facilities. The 6,060,606 Common Shares issued to Monbanc, to complete the acquisition, were issued at a price of $0.165 CAD per Common Share. The issuance of the Common Shares to Monbanc will not result in a change of control of the Corporation, within the meaning of applicable securities laws and the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange. All Common Shares issued to complete the acquisition of the ASIC and GPU mining rigs from Monbanc will be subject to a four month plus one day hold period.

With this immediate addition of already mining additional assets, and in light of the positive trending crypto market over the last calendar 2021 year, the Corporation is well positioned to see an increase in realized revenue from this additional and increased mining presence and stands to benefit from the current trend of an evolving crypto market value.

The Corporation is also pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Daniel W.K. Rafuse, LL.L LL.B to the Corporation’s Board of Directors with immediate effect. Mr. Rafuse will leverage his industry expertise and assist Bluesky in the strategic growth and planning of the Corporation’s crypto mining operations going forward. Mr. Daniel W.K. Rafuse is the Chairman and the founder of Monbanc Corporation. Previously, Mr. Rafuse served as the chairman for the Canadian Pension Tribunal. Mr. Rafuse has spent the last half of decade leading several large blockchain mining concerns.

Daniel Rafuse, Chairman stated: “I am elated to be joining the Board of Directors of Bluesky Digital Assets Corp. I have long been a champion of Canadian cryptocurrency miners and Bluesky Digital Assets Corp., is a public company that is very well positioned for growth in 2022. Monbanc has provided Bluesky access to Monbanc’s hosting facilities in Texas which currently have a combined pipeline of 175 MW. Texas is a very friendly environment for low cost mining and we believe we can get the most upside on Bluesky’s investment of equipment in Texas. From the perspective of the Monbanc leadership team, this acquisition of ASIC equipment by Bluesky from Monbanc, is truly a ‘win win’ deal for both organizations and this only the beginning of the relationship.”

Ben Gelfand CEO stated: “The acquisition of equipment and the strategic relationship we have entered into with Monbanc, presents many significant and immediate benefits to the Corporation as this relationship, and the equipment we have just acquired, will allow Bluesky to further expand its active mining operations on an expedited basis. Furthermore, the depth of the Corporation’s Board has been greatly expanded with the appointment of Daniel W.K. Rafuse joining our Board of Directors. We will be making further announcements in the near future regarding the progress of the expansion efforts of our Texas based operations.”

Anthony R. Pearlman, COO stated: “From an operations perspective, today’s announcements further strengthen and complement our mining operations by better diversifying our geographic presence for our mining facilities and at the same time expands our active mining inventory. The diversification of locations between Quebec and Texas serves as a risk mitigation strategy against potential regional outages by avoiding not having all of our machines in one region. The addition of a Director with substantial relationships and experience in our sector further adds an additional level of value to our mining machine buying power and contributes to the strategies we execute on with and for our mining focus.”

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’s digital currency mining may re-invest its mining profit. 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 www.blueskydigitalassets.com www.blueskyintel.com

About Monbanc Corporation

Monbanc offers a wide variety of support services to both publicly traded and private cryptocurrency mining companies including digital asset mining hosting solutions, trading finance, hosting repair and fleet management. For more information on Monbanc and the services Monbanc provides and offers please visit the company website at www.monbanc.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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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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