Documents show the startup has acquired a 6.2 percent stake in Australia’s Naked Brand Group. Swiss decentralized payment startup TokenPay has acquired a large number of shares in an Australian lingerie giant, a document originally issued on March 19 reveals. According to the filing, TokenPay purchased 1,840,216 shares of Naked Brand Group’s (NAKD) common stock, […]
Continue ReadingOKEx, OKCoin founder Star Xu announced OK Group partnership with blockchain-focused trust company, plan to launch stablecoin. Star Xu — founder of exchange services provider OKCoin and the world’s 6th largest crypto exchange OKEx — has announced OK Group’s partnership with blockchain-focused trust company Prime Trust, prospectively allowing the firm to launch its own compliant […]
Continue ReadingBinance’s Changpeng Zhao reacts to reports of exchanges’ faking trading volumes, says they are useful for transparency in the crypto industry The CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, said in an interview with Cointelegraph on March 27 that recent reports on fake trading volumes are useful for the crypto industry. CT speaks with Binance […]
Continue ReadingOver the last few weeks, the Lightning Network — Bitcoin’s off-chain scaling protocol — has made waves. Over the last few weeks, Bitcoin’s (BTC) second-layer scaling protocol, called the Lightning Network (LN), has gained a lot of traction, steadily proving to become a viable solution to BTC’s infamous scalability problem and even potential competitor to […]
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency exchange CoinBene has officially reassured users that its prolonged maintenance downtime is not due to a hack, as some had feared. Top-ranked cryptocurrency exchange CoinBene has reassured users that its prolonged maintenance downtime is not due to a hack, as some community members had feared. The exchange made its official announcement in an official […]
Continue ReadingSwiss mortgage bank Hypothekarbank Lenzburg has partnered with crypto asset manager TokenSuisse. Swiss mortgage bank Hypothekarbank (“Hypi”) Lenzburg has partnered with Swiss crypto asset manager TokenSuisse to expand the bank’s service offerings for crypto and blockchain firms. The development was announced on the bank’s official Twitter on March 25. Hypi Lenzburg is headed by CEO […]
Continue ReadingCrypto research firm Messari has launched a new index of 10 cryptocurrency exchanges on its OnChainFX dashboard. Cryptocurrency analytics firm Messari has added a new index for 10 cryptocurrency exchanges, the company announced in a blog post on March 26. Messari launched a new product dubbed “Real 10 Volumes” on its OnChainFX dashboard to limit […]
Continue ReadingCrypto exchange Coinbene has announced ongoing maintenance without a preliminary notification. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbene, ranked 16th on CoinMarketCap by adjusted volume, has announced it is undergoing maintenance on Tuesday, March 26, as the crypto industry discusses rumors that the exchange has been hacked. The official Twitter account of Coinbene Global, @CoinBene, has responded to a […]
Continue ReadingResearch had suggested 95 percent of exchanges’ volumes listed on the site were fake. Cryptocurrency market data resource CoinMarketCap (CMC) has promised to rearrange how it ranks member exchanges after research found overwhelming evidence of fake volume. The company confirmed the upcoming changes on social media on March 25. CMC is arguably the industry’s best-known […]
Continue ReadingMicrosoft-owned search engine and advertisement platform Bing noted that it blocked over five million cryptocurrency-related ads last year. Microsoft-owned search engine and advertisement platform Bing noted that it blocked over five million cryptocurrency-related ads last year in its “Ad quality year in review 2018” report published on March 25. Bing notes that the pseudo-anonymity of […]
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