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

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…

February 12, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Electroneum heads to Japan crypto exchanges with Quoine partnership

Electroneum has today announced that it has agreed a strategic partnership with Japanese crypto platform Quoine. Quoine was the first exchange platform to achieve full regulatory approval from the Japanese Financial Services Agency (JSFA). It is one of very few global exchanges to have been accepted by Deloitte and Touche as an auditing client and…

February 08, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

Is Binance being hacked?

Binance is one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. It just came under fire and doubts whether the Hong Kong-based exchange is being hacked. Binance is currently under halt in trading activities and said it won't resume trading or enable customer withdrawals until Friday due to a continued blackout that is essentially the result…

January 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

bitFlyer launches in Europe, becomes first bitcoin exchange to be regulated in Japan

bitFlyer, the Tokyo-based operator of the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, today announced its launch into Europe. Having been granted a Payment Institution (PI) license to operate in the European Union it has become the first Bitcoin exchange to be regulated in Japan, the US and Europe, making it the most compliant virtual currency exchange in…

December 27, 2017 BY Mariela Naydenova

Binance overtakes Bittrex, Bithumb and Bitfinex as the largest crypto exchange

Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange that was launched just five months ago, became the largest exchange in the world by trading volume with $2.8 billion traded since Tuesday according to data from Coinmarketcap.com. The company recently stated they had now reached 2.9 million users on their platform since their launch in July of 2017. “We are…

Bitcoin astounds again – Testing $9,000, share up to 61% - What’s next?

December 20, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bitcoin exchange Coinbase temporarily halts Bitcoin Cash trading

Shortly after announcing on a blog post that customers will be able to buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase, the digital online platform for trading cryptocurrencies has already moved to disable trading of its newest asset. Bitcoin Cash was created by a fork on August 1st, 2017. Bitcoin fell more than 10…

December 11, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

France aims to become financial center allowing Blockchain trading in unlisted securities

Will this help bring France closer to overtaking London as a European financial trading center? Despite taking a very hard line when it comes to advertising and trading of leveraged financial instruments including Forex pairs and CFDs, France is looking to become a blockchain financial center. France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in a…

October 31, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Cryptocurrency gets a regulated trading venue as CME launches Bitcoin Futures

This might be the sign that Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have finally arrived as real tradable commodities that are here to stay. And, that the ‘establishment’ is finally buying in. Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that it intends to launch Bitcoin Futures in the fourth quarter of 2017, pending all relevant regulatory…

October 13, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Saxo Bank adds Ethereum ETN trading to its online trading platforms

Copenhagen based multi asset broker Saxo Bank has announced that it now offers clients access to trade the Ethereum Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) issued by XBT Provider AB which were listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm stock exchange earlier this week. As previously announced, Saxo Bank also offers clients access to two Bitcoin Tracker ETNs also…

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