Bitfinex adds 12 new tokens as crypto exchange’s daily trading volume hits $500 million LeapRate

April 08, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Bitfinex adds 12 new tokens as crypto exchange's daily trading volume hits $500 million

Digital asset trading platform Bitfinex has announced the introduction of 12 new token listings to its trading platform. The crypto exchange, which services for digital currency traders and global liquidity providers, announced the introduction to the platform of the following tokens: Aion (AION), IOSToken (IOST), Request Network (REQ), Raiden Network (RDN), Loopring (LRC), BnkToTheFuture Token (BFT), Cofound.it…

March 30, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

How profitable are the world’s top crypto exchanges?

The top ten cryptocurrency exchanges are bringing in as much as $3 million per day in profit, according to Bloomberg calculations. Considering that cryptocurrency did not even exist until 2009, profit at that level is absolutely astonishing compared to the historical development of other industries. It is easy enough to understand how cryptocurrency exchanges make…

March 23, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

TMX Group launches first ever public cryptocurrency brokerage desk by a major exchange

Well it does look like Bitcoin continues to go more 'mainstream', with some of the world's leading trading venues finally taking note of the large crypto trading volumes driving results at some of the leading online brokers. TMX Group, a Canadian financial services company that operates market exchanges including the Toronto Stock Exchange, and Paycase…

March 16, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Swissquote launches first actively managed multi-cryptocurrency Certificate traded on SIX Swiss Exchange

Swiss online banking and brokerage leader Swissquote Group Holding SA (SWX:SQN) has announced that it has launched the first actively managed multi-cryptocurrency Certificate, called "Multi-Crypto Active Index". The Multi-Crypto Active Index allows mainstream investors to invest in a diversified portfolio of four different cryptocurrencies through a traditional financial vehicle publicly traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange.…

March 12, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Australian Digital Currency exchange opens OTC desk for institutions

Independent Reserve, the Australian Digital Currency exchange, announced that it has opened Australia’s first over-the-counter trading desk for institutions wanting to make large digital currency trades. CEO Adrian Przelozny said the lack of block trading venues had been a barrier for institutions to participate in digital currency investment. Digital currency markets are just like any…

February 21, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Bitcoin exchange BitFunder and founder Jon Montroll charged with fraud

The SEC alleges that BitFunder and its founder Jon E. Montroll operated BitFunder as an unregistered online securities exchange and defrauded exchange users by misappropriating their bitcoins and failing to disclose a cyberattack on BitFunder’s system that resulted in the theft of more than 6,000 bitcoins.

February 17, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

Crypto20 - the first tokenized crypto-only index fund

The cryptocurrency market has become extremely complex and with more and more coins, ICOs, tokens, products and services coming up every week, the average person can definitely become perplexed as to what to buy, when to sell and which currencies to hold. To the rescue comes Crypto20, the first tokenized crypto-only index fund. The index…

February 17, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

What caused the overcharging of Coinbase customers?

Many argue that online exchanges are a rip-off for users, especially when fees range anywhere from 1% to 8%. Coinbase, one of the world’s most popular digital wallets, overcharged thousands of dollars its customers instead of just taking the normal transaction fee. It recently came clear that the overcharging happened due to a bug linked…

February 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Gold-backed cryptocurrency Puregold.io partners with Orca and payment gateway COSS Exchange

Offering the first payment gateway using cryptocurrency supported by gold, Puregold.io just announced that it has entered into a partnership with Business Operating System (BOS) pioneer Orca. Puregold's ICO is now live, and is offering a 10% bonus. Orca, an easy-to-use, intelligent BOS based in Singapore and Malaysia, is used in food and beverage (F&B)…

INTL FCStone’s Carsten Hils discusses the impact the current crisis has on FX markets

February 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bitfinex and EOS partner to build high performance decentralised exchange

EOS, a blockchain protocol that enables horizontal scaling of decentralized applications, and Bitfinex, a cryptocurrency exchange offering state-of-the-art services for digital currency traders and global liquidity providers, have just announced EOSfinex — the first high performance decentralised exchange to be built on EOS.IO technology. EOSfinex will combine the scalability and speed of EOS.IO with Bitfinex’s expertise to…

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