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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The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) a regulated, institutional-grade digital asset exchange and token sale platform today announced that ICNQ was now officially part of its Digital Asset Exchange (DAX), which is specifically tailored to cater to professional crypto traders. ICNQ joins four other tokens that have been listed on the GDX-DAX this year, which are…
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Social crypto trading platform Blockport has announced that its users will now be able to use the Nexo platform to get crypto loans, offering them another alternative to selling their cryptocurrencies for fiat currencies. Blockport users can now keep their cryptocurrencies with all potential upsides, and leverage them to get instant access to cash. Blockport…
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As the crypto bear market drags on, the consequences of what has been termed Crypto Winter continue to spread across the globe, especially in South Korea, a known hotbed of cryptocurrency trading and popularity. Recent reports detail a level of carnage that matches in many ways the decline in market values over the past year.…
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The CEO OF Binance, Mr. Changpeng Zhao, recently held a Q&A sessions and shared some potential projects Binance might soon be working on. His said that his has the desire to form a partnership with Ripple and utilize xRapid. The more interesting news is that Zhao expressed a desire to add XRP pairs on the…
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We have all heard the stories of Bitcoin's first days, as pizzas were bought with thousands of coins. There are also stories that people committed suicide when they couldn't remember their passwords for their crypto accounts. Now, a new story makes headlines. The CEO of Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange died and took the password to his…
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Another day, another story about a crypto exchange losing millions in customer deposits, but this story has a bizarre twist that is almost too weird to believe. QuadrigaCX, once the largest Bitcoin-focused exchanges in Canada, revealed today that it could not refund $190 million of client deposits in Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether, and fiat currency holdings.…
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