Kraken Digital Asset Exchange announced the addition of new pairs for trading between ripples (XRP) and four fiat currencies (EUR, USD, JPY, and CAD). The new trading pairs mean that clients who want to buy or sell XRP in exchange for their preferred fiat currency can now do so directly. What are the new trading…
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Forex and CFD provider AvaTrade just announced the addition of 3 rising digital currencies - Ethereum, Dash and Ripple, to its trading portfolio. These currencies show a drastic augmentation of 1,000-4,000% in the past year. Combining them alongside Bitcoin, which doubled in the last 6 months, the cryptocurrencies' market share has grown significantly recently. The latest…
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The Swiss based company AlgoTrader which provides algorithmic trading solution to support automated Bitcoin trading just announced that has added an automated Bitcoin algo trading - an algorithmic trading software that allows trading of cryptocurrencies on a fully automated quantitative basis. Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are a hot trading topic this year. Many banks are already establishing blockchain-based…
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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange announced that the price of bitcoin and the total market cap for digital assets are each shattering previous records. Bitcoin was over $1500 yesterday, while the digital assets total market cap was nearing the $40,000,000,000 mark. These numbers represent new all-time highs for an industry that is becoming increasingly popular among…
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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange launched support for tether-USD (USDT/USD) trading on March 29 and now adds 2x leveraged margin trading for this pair. Further enhancements to the margin program include higher 5x leverage for other trading pairs: Bitcoin-USD (XBT/USD): 5x Ether-bitcoin (ETH/XBT): 5x Ether-EUR (ETH/EUR): 5x Ether-USD (ETH/USD): 5x Margin trading for USDT/USD will help…
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SuperCharger FinTech Accelerator, along with main partners, Standard Chartered Bank – also a founding member, and Fidelity International, today announced the successful outcomes of the programme enabling international growth stage companies to expand their operations within Asia. Standard Chartered Bank has initiated Proof of Concept projects with two companies: Robo-advisory for wealth management: Bambu is…
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Dash, the rising alternative to bitcoin, today announced a partnership with one of the world’s oldest bitcoin exchanges with the largest selection of digital assets and national currencies, Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. Which DASH pairs will be available for trading? DASH/USD (Dash - US Dollar); DASH/BTC (Dash - Bitcoin); DASH/EUR (Dash - Euro). The partnership…
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Bitcoin exchange Gatecoin just announced that GUPBTC markets are now live. GUPs will trade as IOUs until April 29th, 2017. The Gatecoin team announced the launch of IOU trading for Matchpool’s Guppy token (GUP) on their exchange. This comes just a week after the ethereum-based matchmaking platform raised ETH 125,000 (~USD 5.5 million) during their…
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Financial technology provider Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), J.P. Morgan, Northern Trust and Banco Santander today announced the successful completion of a pilot which employs a blockchain technology to enhance global proxy vote transparency and analytics. The pilot, Broadridge’s first application of blockchain technology, provides transparency by adapting distributed ledger technology capabilities to provide daily…
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New shareholder voting prototype serves as next step in TMX's emerging digital strategy TMX Group (TSX: X) announced a new Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) prototype as part of its strategy to maximize efficiencies and solve day-to-day client challenges across its various business areas. The company developed the electronic shareholder voting system prototype based on DLT,…
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