The US crypto exchange Coinbase added Stellar Lumens XLM to its Coinbase Pro platform for full trading. Trading on the XLM/USD, XLM/EUR, and XLM/BTC order books will soon start in phases, beginning with post-only mode and proceeding to full trading should Coinbase's metrics for a healthy market be met. Support for XLM will be immediately…
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Decred (DCR), a community-led cryptocurrency, yesterday announced that it had officially listed on OKCoin, a fiat-to-crypto exchange, which is its first pairing with a fiat currency within the United States. The listing will allow authorized OKCoin users to withdraw and deposit their Decred (DCR) holdings, and as from today they will also be able to…
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SIX, a European Financial Markets Infrastructure provider, has chosen Corda Enterprise’s R3 blockchain infrastructure as the foundational blockchain technology behind its SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), which is a digital asset trading, listing, custody and settlement service. Corda Enterprise is the commercial version of Corda customized to cater for businesses that require robust operational and security…
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Drive Markets just announced the launch of its institutional crypto and fiat currency exchange, offering derivatives trading for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple and Ethereum. Drive Markets has teamed up with industry leader, MetaTrader, to bring a familiar trading experience to the cryptocurrency markets for brokerage firms, banks and funds. MetaTrader is used by 50M+…
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LMAX Digital, the institutional crypto currency exchange operated by LMAX Exchange Group, which operates a leading FCA regulated trading venue and has become one of the leading liquidity providers to FX brokers worldwide, announced that it has received an in-principle decision on the firm’s application for a license as a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Provider from…
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QuadrigaCX, the crypto storyline that keeps on giving, took another bizarre twist, as investigators determined that Gerry Cotten, the CEO of the exchange, had cleaned out the cold storage account balances as far back as April 2018, presumably transferring them to QuadrigaCX accounts at other exchanges. Ernst & Young reported these finding to the court,…
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The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) just added NEM’s XEM token to its Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX). XEM was brought to the GBX-DAX by the Sponsor Firm Techemy and will have trading pairs with USD, BTC, and ETH on the GBX-DAX. Six new tokens have already been listed on the exchange since the beginning of 2019,…
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The Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX) Group yesterday announced the successful deployment of an online stock exchange prototype that included a test bond issuance on the Global TestNet’s Securities Trading Asset Classification Settlement (STACS) Network. The prototype is based on the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) used by the STACS Network to meet the needs of capital…
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In February 2019, Coinbase, the largest US cryptocurrency exchange, acquired blockchain analytics startup, Neutrino. The Italian company was acquired for an undisclosed amount of funds, and even right after the acquisition, Coinbase faced immediate backlash over the move since Neutrino had some suspicious roots in its development as a company and especially in its team.…
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Coinhive, a crypto exchange with a ne’er-do-well reputation and based out of Germany, has announced that it will be shutting its doors this week. Its Monero mining script will no longer be supported. The firm cited multiple money related reasons, but in the end, it claimed that its operation was no longer “economically viable”. In…
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