Category: Cryptocurrency

May 21, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Firmo launches blockchain agnostic platform for cryptocurrency derivatives

Firmo, the company bringing financial contracts to the blockchain, just announced that it has launched its contract engine and simple domain-specific language. The simplicity of Firmo’s domain specific language opens the door for people without coding skills, to create safe and secure financial contracts on the blockchain. The Firmo Protocol, acting as an interface, provides…

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May 21, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Canadian regulator OSC warns against several cryptocurrency firms

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has warned investors about BTCReal, BitSerial, Hypercube Ventures LP, CabinCoin OÜ, and BaapPay Inc. These firms appear to be involved in schemes that target Ontario investors and encourage them to trade or invest in cryptocurrencies. BTCReal, BitSerial, Hypercube Ventures LP, CabinCoin OÜ, and BaapPay Inc. are not registered in Ontario…

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May 18, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

RoboForex introduces an opportunity to buy Bitcoin using fiat currencies

RoboForex, the Belize-based unit of the Retail FX brokerage group, has announced that it is introducing an opportunity for clients to buy Bitcoin (BTC) for fiat money. RoboForex stated that this innovation will allow the company’s clients to buy BTC, perform trading operations with this asset, and convert the cryptocurrency back to fiat money. Along with…

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May 17, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

The brand new stablecoin - EURS

After Goldman Sachs came down with its own cryptocurrency (Circle USD Coin - through its startup, Circle), now the next digital asset tied to another fiat currency is coming to life. The idea of "stablecoins", or digital currencies whose value is pegged to a fiat currency is a rather innovative idea, one that some argue…

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May 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

HSBC and ING execute live trade finance transaction on R3’s Corda Blockchain platform

Letter of Credit transaction facilitated bulk shipment of soybeans for Cargill HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HSBC) and ING Bank just anounced that they have successfully executed a live trade finance transaction for international food and agriculture conglomerate Cargill using R3’s Corda scalable blockchain platform. The blockchain transaction involved a bulk shipment of soybeans from Argentina, through Geneva’s…

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May 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe conducts May settlement of Cboe Bitcoin Futures

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has announced the settlement of the May expiry Cboe bitcoin (XBT) futures, the fifth contract settlement (January, February, March, April) conducted since the contract was introduced last December. The settlement price was $8,238.49, as determined by the 4:00 p.m. ET Gemini1 Exchange bitcoin auction. Cboe bitcoin futures, the first…

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May 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

smartTrade adds cryptocurrency trading on its FX Platform LiquidityFX

Multi-asset electronic trading solutions provider smartTrade Technologies has announced the addition of Cryptocurrencies to its FX Trading Platform, LiquidityFX (LFX). The Cryptocurrency market is growing fast, and a large percentage of the current trading volumes is concentrated on the top ten cryptocurrencies, which accounts for about 70% of daily turnover. It is also highly decentralized…

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