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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The biggest Canadian cryptocurrency exchange, Coinsquare, just acquired the zero-fee decentralized exchange StellarX. StellarX is built on the blockchain of Stellar. According to their blogpost, StellarX will continue develop and grow along the roadmap the exchange announced last fall. Coinsquare will add value by bringing top-notch programmers and designers that will help StellarX develop further.…
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ErisX moved one step closer to its second quarter opening by beefing up its executive staff with three industry veterans. Thomas Chippas, the CEO of ErisX, recently described his initiative’s primary objective: ErisX stands to provide the most robust, secure and regulated digital asset offering available to both institutional and individual participants. To achieve such…
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One of the biggest exchanges in the world, Nasdaq, is reportedly going to add Bitcoin and Ethereum indices to its global data service by the end of February, 2019. According to Nasdaq Trader: Effective Monday, February 25, 2019, Nasdaq, through its data dissemination relationship with Brave New Coin, will send real-time Bitcoin and Ethereum index…
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