Blocktrade.com is reportedly the first fully regulated cryptocurrency exchange to go live for beta testing, according to a company announcement. The company is still in the process of obtaining a Multilateral Trading Facility, or MTF license, under the MiFID II framework. An MTF is a trading system where multiple parties may trade in financial instruments. […]
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Other than a temporary dip to just below $7,900, Bitcoin has been holding at over $8,000 since it broke through the resistance on July 24th. The market has been strong, but not everybody has been a winner this week, particularly when it comes to regulatory oversight. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected Tyler […]
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There has been quite a bit of chatter about Coinbase lately, most notably its cryptocurrency custody service, targeted at high net worth individuals and financial institutions. The company has also been engaged in a number of other activities, including its GiveCrypto fund to end poverty, and its investment in a new stablecoin, Reserve that’s also […]
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The price of XLM has been surging since Stellar’s July 17 announcement of Sharia compliance certification for payments and asset tokenization. This makes Stellar the first DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) to obtain such certification from the Shariyah Review Bureau (SRB) according to the announcement. As the entire cryptocurrency market has been recovering over the past […]
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IBM has joined a number of competitors in developing a stablecoin pegged against the US dollar. Built on the Stellar Lumens (XLM) platform, Stronghold USD is an experiment designed to help banks and other financial institutions to process payments quickly and securely. The Stellar token was created in a partnership between IBM and the startup, […]
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BlackRock, one of the largest international companies involved in mutual funds, ETFs and closed-end funds confirmed that it has formed a team of financial experts to explore cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Since the announcement, Bitcoin jumped 4% from $6,377 to $6,627 in just seven hours, according to CoinMarketCap, with the altcoin market seeing gains of […]
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Monaco, a blockchain startup in Hong Kong made news after it purchased crypto.com for several million dollars. Since then, the company announced its new cryptocurrency-backed Visa card at the TechCrunch conference in Zurich, Switzerland. Kris Marszalek, CEO of the company discussed how the new MCO Visa card gives people the option to spend their digital […]
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Harvard University is stepping up its curriculum on blockchain technology, cryptocurrency and investing. In partnership with Reflective Ventures, the Harvard Undergraduate Blockchain Group (HUBG) will offer courses designed to improve cryptocurrency investment literacy. HUBG will provide students with an opportunity to learn the basics of blockchain technology, while engaging organizations and open-source communities. According to […]
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Open Mineral, a Swiss trading platform for metal concentrates is bringing together a blockchain consortium to improve mineral supply chains, including trading and logistics. According to Reuters, Open Mineral will collaborate with ConsenSys, a US blockchain startup. Together they will establish Minerac, to optimize mineral trading and supply chains. According to Boris Eykher, CEO of […]
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There is a new social engineering attack on Mac users who discuss cryptocurrency investing in Slack and Discord groups. The attacker first presents themselves as the administrator of the various chat groups, and asks the victims to type a command into the terminal window. The result is that a 34 mb file is downloaded, which […]
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