SIX chooses Corda’s blockchain platform for its SDX digital exchange LeapRate

March 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

SIX chooses Corda’s blockchain platform for its SDX digital exchange

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…

March 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Drive Markets teams up with MetaTrader, launches crypto and fiat currency exchange

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+…

LMAX Exchange Group receives Gibraltar DLT license

March 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

LMAX Exchange Group expands crypto exchange with positive in-principle decision on Gibraltar license

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…

Craig Wright – Satoshi Nakamoto imposter or not – Judge not impressed

March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

QuadrigaCX’s sordid saga continues – Cold wallets cleaned out April 2018

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,…

March 06, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

XEM token just listed on Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange

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,…

March 06, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

GSX Group launches a digital stock exchange prototype

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…

Coinbase crypto exchange expands custodial services in Asia market

March 05, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

A not-so-sweet marriage: what happened with Coinbase and Neutrino?

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.…

Hong Kong crypto exchange Gatecoin ordered by court to shut down

March 04, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Crypto miner Coinhive set to close its doors citing economic reasons

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…

March 01, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Digix lists on Korean exchange to boost its local market presence

Digix, a blockchain platform that allows users to buy gold in divisible units, today announced that its DGX token has been listed on ProBit, a Korean exchange. The listing expands Digix’s presence in Korea following its recent collaboration with Blucon, a Korean-based global digital assets payment platform, which allows Korean residents to make daily purchases…

Match-Trade launches a Partnership Program

February 28, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Coinbase and SoFi - a new, promising "trading" partnership

Coinbase and San Francisco-located online lending company, SoFi, are partnering on a new trading “initiative”. SoFi plans to let its users trade cryptocurrencies on its platform with the help of Coinbase’s partnership. The news comes from CNBC. The new feature will be made available to SoFi’s clients on the SoFi Invest platform. The project is…

Category: Exchange