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…
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Leaprate Exclusive... The cryptocurrency trading platform Overbit went live 10 days ago, on February 18th 2019. It allows cross-market trading using Bitcoin as the underlying asset and is an all-in-one platform, offering the ability to buy and sell cryptocurrency and various financial products. Users will be able to buy and sell currency transactions, stocks around the…
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The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) has just added the OmiseGo (OMG) token to its Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX). OMG will have trading pairs with USD, BTC, and ETH on the GBX-DAX. The GBX Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX) was launched to the public in July 2018 and already has quite a selection of tokens (ICNQ, Stellar Lumens XLM, Tron (TRX), Ripple XRP, EOS,…
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Coinbase is improving the trading experience for its professional traders by adding the third largest cryptocurrency by market cap, XRP, to its Coinbase Pro platform. The US crypto exchange announced the addition on Monday, February 25th. While trading will not be enabled right away, users of the professional platform will be able to transfer XRP…
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Paxful, a Bitcoin trading platform that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions, today announced that it has partnered with BitMart to create a joint venture. BitMart is a cryptocurrency trading platform serving over 600,000 customers globally, hence, the partnership is a way for the two companies to scale their operations and improve the liquidity offered to their customers.…
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When the CEO of Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange died, the password for his computer "died" with him. As a result, $190 million in deposit were lost. On 31 January, QuadrigaCX filed an application for creditor protection with the supreme court of Nova Scotia, after months of transaction delays.The company hired Ernst & Young as an independent…
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Last month, CoinFLEX was reported to be launching futures contracts to its Asian clients in February 2019. The new contracts for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum will provide possible leverage of up to 20 times. The new product has now gone live, as CoinFLEX launched its physically delivered cryptocurrency futures exchange. The platform is based in Hong…
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The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) has just added Sponsor Firm KR1's OST token to its Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX). OST is the sixth new token that has been listed on the exchange since the beginning of 2019, added to ICNQ, Stellar Lumens XLM, Tron (TRX), Ripple XRP, and EOS. Nick Cowan, Managing Director and Founder of…
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Coinbase is on a roll. It has made another major acquisition, soon after the US exchange acquired Blockspring and soon after it made major improvements in its offerings to clients. The largest US crypto exchange even added a stablecoin to its portfolio. Coinbase just made a very interesting acquisition. Buying Neutrino, an Italian blockchain surveillance company…
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Crypto exchange compromises have become common as rain, where stories detail how easy it is to hack these trading venues and how many millions have been lost over and over again, but these storylines usually disappear in a day or two. Not so with the Canadian fiasco of 2019, the never-ending saga of the beleaguered…
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