Coinbase, the largest American cryptocurrency exchange, has just launched the Coinbase Card, a Visa debit card for its UK customers. Users will be able to make purchase online and in-store via the card. The information comes from a blog post from Coinbase on April 10th, 2019. The Coinbase Card is actually a normal Visa debit card…
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How can you economically determine if your crypto platform’s blockchain coding could be vulnerable to a major hacking compromise? The easiest way, it seems from a recent report, is to offer “bounties” to a group of professional hackers to scour the open-source code in the crypto universe for susceptible targets of entry, i.e., vulnerabilities. Various…
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eToro, the global, multi-asset, investment platform, has now officially launched its platform and cryptoasset wallet in the United States (32 states for now). eToro also informed today that it will be launching its own cryptoassets exchange, eToroX, on a global basis later this year. Leaprate reminds that the FX broker has joined the Blockchain Association as…
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Nice Actimize, a business owned by NICE (Nasdaq: NICE), was yesterday named by Circle as the company that will execute its market surveillance strategy, which also involves protection. Circle will use NICE Actimize’s Cloud Markets Surveillance (MS) product to strengthen its existing systems that prevent market manipulation on its trading and exchange products, which currently…
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Monax, a company that develops digital legal systems, today announced that it the beta launch of its Monax platform was now available to the public. The platform is a workspace built around business relationships, which allows users to capitalize on digital contracts to mitigate risk and to operate efficiently. The Monax platform is targeted at…
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Deutsche Börse Group and HQLAX have signed a Letter of Intent to form a strategic partnership for the creation of an innovative securities lending solution using the R3 Corda blockchain platform back in March 2018. Later on, Deutsche Börse Group has made an initial investment of a single-digit euro million amount in HQLAX S.à r.l. in exchange for a minority…
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Trading solutions provider Spotware has teamed up with Forex and cryptocurrency technology company Match-Trade Technologies, to bring a new quality of turnkey White Label solutions. Panagiotis Charalampous, Head of Community Management of cTrader at Spotware, has recently revealed in an exclusive LeapRate interview all about Spotware's flagship trading platform solution cTrader and Traders First approach. cTrader's offered White…
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The QuarkChain network is a peer-to-peer network based on blockchain, able to process up to 1 million transactions per second. Called by many the "the project to watch", QuarkChain incorporates a special design that allows for high throughput and quick, efficient distribution of data. According to Hacked, QuarkChain, with its special features, will be the…
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LiquidShare's European post-trade settlement infrastructure for shares in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using blockchain enters into pilot phase on Euronext’s markets today. LiquidShare is a European fintech venture which was launched last year and created by BNP Paribas, CACEIS, Caisse des Dépôts, Euroclear, Euronext, S2iEM and Société Générale with the support of Paris EUROPLACE. LiquidShare’s…
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Binance is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchange platforms in the world. The platform has just announced their launch of subsidiary accounts feature for institutional and high net worth investors. The request for such an option has been long awaited, as institutional investors have had a large impact on the cryptocurrency industry in the last…
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