The cryptocurrency world may have seen better days, given the fact that the crypto world just collapsed, as Bitcoin’s price is again the $4,000 price level and the crypto market cap losing $8 billion. And while ICOs are “regulated” in a variety of ways across the world, some cryptocurrency companies are getting real “muscle” behind…
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The year has began and so have the attacks by cyber criminals. Coinbase, the US largest cryptocurrency exchange, was forced to cease the trading of Ethereum Classic after the network experienced unusual high hashing power. The burst was caused by an unknown miner. Coinbase has publicly announced through a blog post that they have detected…
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Market Synergy can now be used by brokers and hedge funds, offering digital assets to their client base, for institutional standard cryptocurrency connectivity and security and take a FIX feed or ISP link to Bitfinex’s digital asset gateway. Institutional firms and professional traders can now connect to Bitfinex through Market Synergy. Swiss-based Market Synergy was selected to design…
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The Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan’s regulatory watchdog, like many other oversight agencies around the world, is doing its level best to deal with digital currencies in an accommodative way without stifling innovation. The job is going to get tougher. According to an unnamed FSA staff member, the regulatory agency has received 190 cryptocurrency exchange…
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As if investors did not have enough to worry about when they choose to invest in new digital tokens, KuCoin, a cryptocurrency exchange operating out of Singapore, announced that it will be delisting ten coins on its exchange for noncompliance with its Special Treatment Rule framework. The company notes that this framework is “designed to…
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The M&A market in the cryptocurrency market was quite high in 2017, when companies were looking to get an extra edge to their portfolios by acquiring promising crypto startups. At the time, the crypto market was booming, and even cryptocurrency hedge funds emerged. While the M&A crypto frenzy has subsided since last year, when Bitcoin's…
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Last month, crypto derivatives exchange LXDX has opened its platform access, so traders would be able to create accounts and begin Know Your Customer (KYC) processes ahead of the live trading launch. The cryptocurrency exchange has just announced that the platform is now officially open to the public for live spot trading. People will now have…
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As the largest US cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase is definitely working towards providing more and more quality services to its large user base. While just recently, a user had to convert BTC, for example, to EUR in order to buy another cryptocurrency, this is no longer the case. Coinbase now lets users trade on a crypto-to-crypto…
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Binary options platform and broker turned blockchain company TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) has announced that the CEDEX blockchain diamond exchange has gone live in Beta mode, allowing investors to trade diamonds as a financial asset class. Last year, LeapRate reported that TechFinancials has partnered with private banking expert Saar Levi to start a new venture called CEDEX.com. TechFinancials…
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Having last week been granted a full license as a provider of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) under Gibraltar’s Financial Services Regulations 2018 DLT framework, the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), has now released new fiat onboarding capabilities. In addition to US Dollars (USD), clients can now onboard using British Pounds…
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