Huobi Japan is now a wholly-regulated crypto exchange, supervised by the Financial Services Agency in Japan. The cryptocurrency exchange was created through a merger between Huobi Group and BitTrade. The Founder and CEO of Huobi Group commented on the milestone: This is an important milestone for us," said Leon Li, Huobi Group Founder and CEO. "Firstly,…
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Bithumb, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is looking to go public in the US through the mechanism of reverse merger. Bithumb can become the very first crypto exchange to be traded publicly in the United States. The holding company of Bithumb, BTHMB, which is based in Singapore, is seeking to be listed in…
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Blockport, the European social crypto trading platform, kicks off 2019 by moving out of the beta version of its exchange. User funds will be stored on the blockchain and most leading cryptocurrencies and tokens will be available for trading on the exchange. Over the past several months, our team has worked incredibly hard to get…
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In the latest chapter of the continuing saga of Cryptopia, Binance has stepped forward and claimed to have frozen a portion of the stolen assets from the beleaguered crypto exchange. New Zealand police and the High Tech Crime Consortium (HTCC), an agency that deals with cybercrime, are presently conducting their investigation. All trading activities have…
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Blockchain assets exchange platform Gate.IO has just announced that it has launched a new perpetual BTC/USD contract feature. BTC/USD is going to be with optional leverage scalings from 1-100. The feature also includes the following contracts: ETH/USD, EOS/USD, XRP/USD, BCH/USD, BSV/USD, LTC/USD, TRX/USD, ADA/USD, XMR/USD, and XLM/USD. The current maximum principal for every investor is…
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Earlier this week, the news of the first hack of a crypto exchange in 2019 hit the airways. The Cryptopia exchange in New Zealand suspended operations, citing “significant losses”. Local police are investigating, with very few details forthcoming. The lack of information has led to widespread speculation as to the nature of the hack, whether…
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Huobi Derivative Market (Huobi DM), Huobi’s crypto asset trading service, has just announced its total trading volumes and it soared past USD $20 billion. Huobi DM has recently expanded its cryptocurrency contract trading services to include EOS. Apart from EOS, crypto asset contract trading service also includes taking long and short positions on Bitcoin (BTC), and Ethereum (ETH). We’re pleased with…
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Coinbase is poised to revolutionize its own business model; from expanding its portfolio of alt coins to making interesting, strategic acquisitions. The most recent one is an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup acquisition. The startup in question is called Blockspring. The company makes tools for managing and collecting data from APIs. While the deal's value has not…
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The Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan’s regulatory watchdog, will either give the green light to seven new crypto exchanges to commence operations in the country in the next two months or delay the licenses for a subset of the group. The FSA had instituted new procedures relating to exchange license applications in 2018 to accommodate…
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One of the top cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, Bittrex, has recently rolled out an OTC trading desk with 200 cryptocurrencies. This means that the execution of block transactions will be possible for various fiat/crypto pairs. The cryptocurrencies that will be supported with the new service are all offered by Bittrex. According to the exchange,…
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