Stox's ICO has successfully raised $33 million in 34 hours last week, making the ICO the seventh biggest of 2017. The token sale for the cryptocurrency STX ended over night on Thursday after participants contributed roughly 148,000 ETH. Last month, Bancor announced that the invest.com Group will use the Bancor protocol to launch Stox, a…
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Tech Bureau, a fintech and cryptocurrency solutions company announced COMSA, a complete Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fundraising platform built on the NEM protocol meant for the streamlining of cryptocurrency funding . COMSA will debut its own Initial Coin Offering, which will be followed by Premium Water Holdings and CAMPFIRE, Inc.; two more ICOs slated to…
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Along with the addition of a new instrument, Global forex broker Admiral Markets has made several more announcements following their previous news regarding the possibility of a hard fork in Bitcoin's blockchain. The hard fork did happen! Starting from 1 August, 2017, the blockchain has split in two: Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) – with the…
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CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) and Gemini Trust Company, LLC today announced an agreement that provides Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated (CBOE) and its affiliates with an exclusive global license to use Gemini’s bitcoin market data for bitcoin derivatives and indices. Gemini is a digital asset exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell,…
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Leverate, the financial trading solutions provider, announced the launch of a new web trading platform dedicated to cryptocurrencies. Leverate has launched a dedicated web and mobile platform to answer the increasing demand for trading in cryptocurrencies. SIRIXCrypto can be easily integrated into any new or existing business looking to offer cryptocurrency trading to its clientele.…
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Match-Trade Technologies LLC, headquartered in Irvine, California, has announced the launch of a new cryptopayment gateway which will enable various institutions to handle payments in the most popular cryptocurrencies. Since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009, cryptocurrencies market is constantly gaining popularity among clients around the world. As a result, Match-Trade is responding with innovative…
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The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has taken note of recent articles in the media referring to virtual currency ATMs and the installation of a first such ATM in Malta. The MFSA informed that a virtual currency (also known as cryptocurrency) such as Bitcoin is an unregulated digital instrument used as a form of money…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has issued an investigative report cautioning market participants that offers and sales of digital assets by "virtual" organizations are subject to the requirements of the federal securities laws. Such offers and sales, conducted by organizations using distributed ledger or blockchain technology, have been referred to, among other…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that has issued an order granting LedgerX, LLC registration as a derivatives clearing organization under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA). Under the order, LedgerX will be authorized to provide clearing services for fully-collateralized digital currency swaps. LedgerX, which was also granted an order of registration as…
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Borsa Italiana and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have announced they are building a blockchain solution to digitize the issuance of securities for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. Designed to simplify the tracking and management of shareholding information, the new system intends to create a distributed shared registry containing a record of all shareholder transactions,…
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