Tagged: exchange

June 8, 2018 @ 8:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Huobi Group, a fast growing digital asset solutions provider, is now accepting listing submissions from European and Australian blockchain companies on the Huobi Autonomous Digital Asset Exchange (HADAX). On HADAX, teams may self-submit an application online to list their project for community voting. Following an… Read More

June 7, 2018 @ 3:52 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Notorious crypto exchange Bitfinex had its services suspended for three hours May 5th in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attack that flooded Bitfinex’s online operations and overwhelmed its site. “The platform is under extreme load. We are investigating,” wrote Bitfinex on its website status… Read More

June 2, 2018 @ 11:17 am By Cali Haan  |  

In a recent conversation with Brazilian nationals, including a bank manager and an accountant, I was told that Bitcoin is “not popular” in Brazil. That may be about to change. Brazilian site Portal do Bitcoin have reported that representatives from the third largest cryptocurrency exchange… Read More

June 1, 2018 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based Coinage has launched the Coinage Exchange. This new cryptocurrency exchange is designed to make trading in crypto easier for traders and investors. Coinage Exchange is a mobile first platform that says it wants to bring cryptocurrencies to the masses on both Main Street… Read More

May 30, 2018 @ 10:51 am By JD Alois  |  

The Republic of Malta has added another cryptocurrency exchange to its roster of blockchain startups based in the Mediterranean Island. BitBay, based in Poland, announced yesterday it had decided to “suspend the activity” of the exchange in its home country as it set up shop… Read More

May 29, 2018 @ 7:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

VRBex, a cryptocurrency and security token exchange that prides itself on being founded and operated by a team with some serious finance cred, is looking to raise up to $100 million in equity, according to a Reg D 506c filing with the Securities and Exchange… Read More

May 28, 2018 @ 8:38 am By Cali Haan  |  

South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and the fifth largest exchange in the world has announced it will cut off new and existing users trading from 11 countries identified by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as lax on money laundering and terrorist financing. Effective May… Read More

May 25, 2018 @ 5:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase grew this week. The digital currency exchange acquired Paradex, a platform that describes itself as “an elite, peer-to-peer trading platform focused on speed, reliability and non-custodianship.” This also becomes a way for Coinbase to broaden its reach into more crypto. Paradex posted a comment… Read More

April 28, 2018 @ 2:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bermuda’s premier and minister of finance David Burt announced on Friday he has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Burt revealed in the announcement:  “The Binance Group is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and an international… Read More

April 26, 2018 @ 12:35 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bloomberg is reporting today that a Chilean anti-monopoly court has ordered Chilean banks Estado de Chile and Itau Corpbanco to restore account services to the Buda cryptocurrency exchange, at least until a lawsuit brought against the banks by Buda is resolved in court. Crypto-trading services… Read More

April 25, 2018 @ 10:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

This should really come as no surprise. NASDAQ is open to becoming a cryptocurrency exchange. The regulated exchange says it is already providing its technology to other crypto exchanges so taking the additional step would not be that difficult. Speaking on CNBC today, NASDAQ CEO… Read More

April 23, 2018 @ 11:44 am By JD Alois  |  

VRBex Inc., a new cryptocurrency exchange that is being led by former BBVA bankers, has announced an initial coin offering that is kicking off today. VRBEX said it will operate an exchange and security-token trading platform, along with storage and payments in cryptocurrency. The VRBex platform will… Read More

April 23, 2018 @ 10:15 am By Cali Haan  |  

In a form letter correspondence consistent with the low service levels crypto clients have come expect, Coinbase, operators of the planet’s 11th largest crypto exchange, pulled the plug on payments to the Wikileaks store April 20th. In a screenshot of the letter posted by Wikileaks,… Read More

April 20, 2018 @ 12:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tim Draper backed Bitbounce is launching a new cryptocurrency exchange. Bitbounce may be best known for the issuance of Credo tokens via an initial coin offering in 2017 that raised $11+ million. Bitbounce’s first focus was a cryptocurrency spam solution using the Credo token to… Read More

April 20, 2018 @ 9:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Estonia licensed Midex reports having closed on more than $ 20 million during their initial coin offering (ICO). Midex’s goal is to become a fully compliant, cryptocurrency exchange operating in multiple jurisdictions with the appropriate regulatory approvals. Midex expects to officially launch their crypto exchange… Read More

April 19, 2018 @ 11:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bithumb recently had its audit report published in the Korean Financial Supervisory Services disclosure system and the information provided is enlightening. Bithumb was said to be holding just shy of $6 billion in crypto at the end of 2017. Sure, prices have fluctuated since that… Read More

April 19, 2018 @ 9:07 am By Cali Haan  |  

The CEO of San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, Jesse Powell, has fired back at a letter from the New York Attorney General’s office asking cryptocurrency exchanges to provide detailed information on their business practices within two weeks. The 34-point request for info was sent to… Read More

April 13, 2018 @ 2:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

A subsidiary of Yahoo Japan is getting into the cryptocurrency space with an investment in the parent company of BitArg Exchange, CMD Lab. A post on the Tokyo based exchange home page stated; “Today, the Company decided to accept capital participation from Z Corporation, a… Read More

April 6, 2018 @ 3:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital wallet and crypto exchange Coinbase is adding an investment arm to their company. In a blog post, the company announced the creation of Coinbase Ventures – just the latest expansion of the digital asset platform. Coinbase said they are “rooting for the best and… Read More

March 25, 2018 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Aspiring “crypto-bank” Crypterium says it will see its token trade on the HitBTC exchange beginning March 26th. The CRPT coins are already trading on EtherDelta but this may not be an official agreement between the company and exchange. Crypterium has stated: “Do not rely on P2P… Read More