Cryptocurrency markets have been having a tough time. Bitcoin, the best known coin in the crypto piggy bank, traded at an all-time high of over $65,000 per coin November 2021, according to data compiled by Statista. But that was then. Earlier this month, Celsius Network, a crypto “bank,” filed for bankruptcy after its customers lost an… Read More >>
SEC Penalizes Poloniex via Digital Assets Case
Boston-based crypto-asset exchange Poloniex is paying more than $10 million in disgorgement and a civil penalty to the SEC to settle allegations that it once was operating as “an unregistered online digital asset exchange” in the U.S., according to the regulator. “Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, Poloniex agreed to the entry of a… Read More >>
NY State’s Cryptocurrency Task Force to Consider Regulation
With Wall Street and other industries in mind, the New York state government has set in motion the creation of a digital currency task force that will investigate legislative and regulatory recommendations, among other issues, for the burgeoning cryptocurrency marketplace and the growing usage of blockchain technology. The task force got its final approval late… Read More >>
Canadian Securities Exchange Embraces Blockchain & Tokenized Technologies
The Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) reports that it will introduce a securities clearing and settlement platform that employs blockchain technology, and that will “enable companies to issue conventional equity and debt through tokenized securities, which would be offered to investors through security token offerings (STOs).” “Unlike blockchain-based cryptocurrencies,” says the CSE, which bills itself as… Read More >>
Integral Readies Market Data Support for Crypto Currency Pairs
Integral Also Launches iOS App Foreign exchange (FX) technology vendor Integral is now offering market data support for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin via its trading platform, the Open Currency Exchange (OCX), officials say. The expanded market data coverage will include the top pairings of: BTC/USD; ETH/USD; BCH/USD; and LTC/USD. Over the coming weeks,… Read More >>
Cryptocurrency Transactions & Operations Start to Emerge
Malta-based Exante, an online foreign exchange, futures, and stocks retail brokerage, has added five cryptocurrency assets onto its terminal -– Litecoin, Ethereum, Monero, Zcash, and Ripple. They join its Bitcoin instruments, which were the first regulated cryptocurrency to make their debut four years ago. The global market for cryptocurrency-based instruments is rapidly gaining ground as… Read More >>
Ops Gets on the Blockchain Revolution Bus
Bitcoin, a so-called crypto-currency, may fade before anyone really understands what it was or how it could actually have prevailed in financial services. However, out of Bitcoin’s ashes has risen the humbly named Blockchain technology. The distributed ledger technology that has been propping up Bitcoin has come to the attention of major industry players. This… Read More >>
