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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Yet again, the SEC is under the watch by so many Bitcoin enthusiasts and investors. The agency has a new deadline to rule on the eventual emergence of a Bitcoin ETF, a decision that needs to take place by April 5th, 2019. For a second time, a proposal for a Bitcoin ETF was submitted by…
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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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One overused metaphor in business is that, when a new product does not go well, the management team changes its name, re-brands it, and re-launches it, as if it were a truly newer product all together. This approach to accepting failure and moving on would not be so laughable, if the new product was diametrically…
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HBUS, the company behind the Huobi.com marketplace for digital assets today announced that it has introduced three new tokens into its existing portfolio of tradeable digital assets. The three tokens are Monero (XMR), Stellar Lumens (XLM) and Steem (STEEM), which has led to the creation of nine new tradeable pairs on the Huobi.com platform. Today’s…
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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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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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