LocalBitcoins has partnered with blockchain intelligence firm Elliptic to gain access to new blockchain monitoring tools that can help prevent the illicit use of its services. LocalBitcoins has partnered with blockchain intelligence firm Elliptic — the latest move in the veteran peer-to-peer exchange’s fight against criminal activities on its platform. Speaking to Cointelegraph, chief operating […]
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Aave is climbing the DeFi and market cap rankings as its flash loans see daily volume exceeding $100 million. Decentralized finance (DeFi) loan protocol Aave has seen an explosion in the number of flash loans issued — with the daily value of said loans growing more than 1,000% since the start of July from $11 […]
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U.S. online brokerage TradeStation will soon launch its own cryptocurrency lending service. United States-based TradeStation, a subsidiary of Japanese firm Monex Group, is planning to launch a crypto lending service. The plan was announced in Monex’s earning report published on July 29. Called “Crypto Earn” the new lending service is “C2B2B” that lends institutions borrowed […]
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Bakkt breaks another record with more than 11,700 Bitcoin futures contracts traded on Tuesday. Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary, Bakkt, is reporting record numbers of trades for its monthly Bitcoin futures contracts as BTC prices made a new high for the year. The institutional investing platform reported its highest ever figure for Bitcoin monthly futures on Jul. […]
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Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust currently holds $4.3B assets under management, but this growth may be due to ‘in kind’ purchases. Crypto fund manager Grayscale Investments has managed to increase its assets under management by another $1 billion in less than two weeks. According to an update posted to Grayscale’s Twitter account on July 28, the investment […]
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Ads boasting that the price of the controversial HEX token has risen 11,500% in four months appeared at English Premier League soccer games. Richard Heart’s controversial HEX token has launched an advertising blitz in the U.K., plastering ads on London public transportation, in newspapers, and during English Premier League soccer games. As reported by Twitter […]
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Hackers have transferred roughly $38.7M out of $1.3B worth of Bitcoin from wallets connected to the infamous 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex. Some of the 119,756 Bitcoin that was stolen from crypto exchange Bitfinex in 2016 has started moving again. According to a series of tweets posted by Whale Alert on July 27-28, wallet […]
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As Bitcoin rallied through $10K, derivatives markets started to show signs of excessive leverage but the market remains tilted toward bulls. Bitcoin (BTC) price finally woke up and surged to a new 2020 high but as the markets surged past $10,000, some traders seem to have opened excessively leveraged long positions. This effect became more […]
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The leaders of two tech giants are using nationalism to win back the governments of their respective home countries after stumbling over crypto launches. Two icons of tech — one American, one Russian — are hard at work trying to win back the jilted governments of their home countries by stirring up concerns over foreign […]
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Ciara Sun, head of global markets at Huobi Group says more institutional crypto investors are entering the market. Ciara Sun, head of global markets at Huobi Group, took part in a Cointelegraph China Great Bay Area International Blockchain Week pre-event interview on July 27. She stressed that although security and lack of infrastructure services might […]
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