The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reported an increase in enforcement actions in the last fiscal year, partly due to a rise in cryptocurrency cases and spoofing schemes. According to The Wall Street Journal, the federal derivatives-market regulator also handed out around $900 million in penalties, higher than the amount in five of the eight […]
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Overstock subsidiary Medici Ventures is investing in VinX , which is making a blockchain solution that monitors the ingredients of wine on their journey between the vineyard and the glass, according to reports. The idea is to enable wine futures to be sold and traded on a secure platform, with the goal of preventing fraud by […]
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After being unveiled in July of this year, the zero-fee decentralized trading platform StellarX has now been fully launched. StellarX, a Stellar-based zero-fee decentralized crypto exchange has left its beta phase and was fully launched Friday, September 28. The launch was announced in a blog post by Interstellar, the company behind the platform. The exchange, […]
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U.S. judge ruled that crypto tokens are a commodity, yet again. This week, a United States federal district judge ruled that an allegedly fraudulent crypto token meets the definition of a commodity. That brought the case under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) purview, which has long argued that virtual currencies constitute commodities. Here what […]
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New research into publicly available records shows that U.S. government agencies have tripled their investment in blockchain intelligence firms this year. New research into publicly available records shows that U.S. government agencies have tripled their investment in blockchain intelligence firms this year, according to a Diar report published September 24. As Diar outlines, blockchain analysis […]
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Good news for traders across the world; global banks, along with international trading companies, have recently announced the first blockchain-based platform, called Komgo, that will allow financing for trading of commodities ranging from oil to wheat. The platform, which will be developed in partnership with blockchain technology company ConsenSys, will go live later in 2018, […]
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