Category: Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin
January 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Gate.IO rolls out new BTC/USD contract feature

Blockchain assets exchange platform Gate.IO has just announced that it has launched a new perpetual BTC/USD contract feature. BTC/USD is going to be with optional leverage scalings from 1-100. The feature also includes the following contracts: ETH/USD, EOS/USD, XRP/USD, BCH/USD, BSV/USD, LTC/USD, TRX/USD, ADA/USD, XMR/USD, and XLM/USD. The current maximum principal for every investor is…

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Huobi DM volumes
January 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Huobi DM hits US$20b in trading volume

Huobi Derivative Market (Huobi DM), Huobi’s crypto asset trading service, has just announced its total trading volumes and it soared past USD $20 billion.  Huobi DM has recently expanded its cryptocurrency contract trading services to include EOS. Apart from EOS, crypto asset contract trading service also includes taking long and short positions on Bitcoin (BTC), and Ethereum (ETH). We’re pleased with…

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Spotware upgrades cTrader Help Centre and Marketing Portal
January 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Spotware and Match-Trade Technologies launch cTrader White Label solution

Trading solutions provider Spotware has teamed up with Forex and cryptocurrency technology company Match-Trade Technologies, to bring a new quality of turnkey White Label solutions. Panagiotis Charalampous, Head of Community Management of cTrader at Spotware, has recently revealed in an exclusive LeapRate interview all about Spotware's flagship trading platform solution cTrader and Traders First approach. cTrader's offered White…

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Coinbase adds Stellar Lumens (XLM) on its professional trading platform
January 17, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Coinbase acquires Blockspring, Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup

Coinbase is poised to revolutionize its own business model; from expanding its portfolio of alt coins to making interesting, strategic acquisitions. The most recent one is an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup acquisition. The startup in question is called Blockspring. The company makes tools for managing and collecting data from APIs. While the deal's value has not…

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clone firm FCA warning
January 17, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Bitcoin FX Option clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Bitcoin FX Option. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…

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Japan
January 17, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

7 new Japanese crypto exchanges may come on stream in two months

The Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan’s regulatory watchdog, will either give the green light to seven new crypto exchanges to commence operations in the country in the next two months or delay the licenses for a subset of the group. The FSA had instituted new procedures relating to exchange license applications in 2018 to accommodate…

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January 16, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

The dynamic trio – Ford, Congo and Blockchain

Ford is going to implement blockchain to keep record of cobalt suppliers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as reported by Telegraph. Cobalt is the major metal used for the construction of batteries for electric vehicles. The proper quantity of metal supplied will be traced by a blockchain pilot program, launched by Ford, LG Chem,…

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