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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LeapRate Exclusive... Tokenization on Blockchain has been a steady trend throughout 2018. It seems that everything is being tokenized on Blockchain from paintings, diamonds and company stocks to real estate. Former MD of Morgan Stanley Patrick Springer recently joined LeapRate to talk about asset tokenization and explained why rebalancing your asset allocation might be the next best…
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The blockchain education is undoubtedly booming. Ripple, for example, has donated $50 million for a blockchain research program, which is being adopted by major universities such as Princeton and UCL. The goal of the program is to encourage blockchain research and give the opportunity for exciting new developments and partnerships. Now, the first Middle East…
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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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Momentum continues to build for the introduction of a Bitcoin Exchange-traded Fund (ETF). Wall Street veteran Ric Edelman, the chairman of Edelman Financial Services, is confident that a Bitcoin ETF may soone become a reality. During a CNBC appearance on its “ETF Edge” segment, Edelman was asked if the SEC would ever give its approval…
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A realtor in the Philippines just listed 3 properties whose owner is open to accepting payment in cash as well as in crypto (i.e. bitcoin and litecoin). Dr. Joel Advincula, a licensed realtor and broker, has recently posted three properties owned by Jonha Richman on his Facebook timeline stating that the owner is accepting cash…
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Crypto enthusiasts have long anticipated the day when large institutional investors would jump onboard the Crypto train, but a host of concerns related to potential price manipulation, volatility, liquidity, and safety have always stood in the way. It is known that many such investors have gone through the backdoor, using traditional brokers with an OTC-desk.…
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Monax, a company that develops digital legal systems, today announced that it the beta launch of its Monax platform was now available to the public. The platform is a workspace built around business relationships, which allows users to capitalize on digital contracts to mitigate risk and to operate efficiently. The Monax platform is targeted at…
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The concept of a stablecoin is not new news. The fact that Jamie Dimon, the CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), has continually bashed Bitcoin is not new news either, nor is the fact that his bank’s developers have been silently working in the background on ways to leverage blockchain technology to the bank’s benefit.…
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Fundamental Interactions (FI) today launched its patented automated-hedging service for trading tokens. The software will be used to automate the process of liquidity sourcing as well as hedging in order to optimize the issuing, trading and settling token transactions. The new software will be offered within FI’s Neutron suite of products as a plug-in. The…
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