The second-largest stock exchange in the world is partnering with investment management firm VanEck to bring a host of new cryptocurrency financial products to market. That partnership was officially unveiled during CoinDesk’s Consensus: Invest conference, when Gabor Gurbacs – VanEck’s director of digital asset strategy – announced the move to “bring a regulated crypto 2.0 futures-type contract” to the market. …
The exchange announced Tuesday that it’s implementing the Irisium Surveillance platform to monitor for suspicious activity and market manipulation. Following Bitstamp’s recent partnership with Cinnober, a tech provider for mainstream financial markets and a partial owner of Irisium, the crypto exchange will now adopt a tool that entities such as Asia Pacific Exchange Pte Ltd (APEX) use to detect illicit behavior. “We …
Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has renamed its Tether (USDT) Market to be a combined Stablecoin Market (USDⓈ), according to an announcement published Nov. 26. This will purportedly allow the exchange to support more trading pairs of stablecoins. The exchange also notes that USDⓈ is not a new stablecoin, but the symbol of Binance’s new stablecoin market. Binance will deliver a …
Australia’s Blockchain Music Pty Ltd launches their Audio Exchange Protocol, Emanate, this week. The much anticipated EOS-based project has spent the year building prototype technology on EOSIO and perfecting one of the most exciting token economies seen in the blockchain world. Emanate was invited by Block.One to showcase their technology at Blockchain Live in London this year, they have been …
The Philippine government-owned Cagayan Economic Zone Authority has unveiled a plan to attract Japanese, Korean and Australian companies to its “Crypto Valley of Asia.” The authority is also cracking down on crypto companies operating within its economic zone without a license. Ceza’s Crypto Valley of Asia The Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (Ceza) announced last week its plan to attract companies …
Academic institutions from all corners of the world are offering classes on cryptocurrencies and supporting research initiatives in this burgeoning sector. From New York to Tokyo, universities are spearheading a plethora of crypto-themed courses. Two New Accelerators at Columbia University IBM and Columbia University have announced two new accelerator programs for blockchain developers. The programs will support 10 different startups, …
Businesses in the state of Ohio are now permitted to settle tax payments using Bitcoin (BTC). State Treasurer Josh Mandel, who initially proposed the integration of Bitcoin to the state to facilitate the growth of the local cryptocurrency industry, stated that he views the dominant cryptocurrency as a legitimate form of currency. “I do see [bitcoin] as a legitimate form of …
The first round of Emanate’s public pre-sale is now open. Having just closed a $500,000 seed round, the EOSIO based project is available to the public for the first time via a strictly limited early-bird pre-sale. Emanate was one of five projects chosen by Block.One to demonstrate the power of EOS at Blockchain Live back in September. Discover Emanate here. …
Mike Novogratz, ex-Goldman Sachs partner and founder of Galaxy Digital, has said that he expects cryptocurrency to “flip next year” in an interview published by Financial Times (FT) Nov. 23. During the interview, Novogratz said that “this year has been challenging” for Galaxy Digital – a company that he hopes will become “the Goldman Sachs of crypto” – adding that …
In common law systems, it is precedent that informs judicial approaches to new and previously unaddressed matters. The precedent that will likely shape the body of U.S. case law on fraudulent initial coin offerings (ICOs) is currently being forged in a federal court in the New York borough of Brooklyn, where a 39-year old entrepreneur, Maksim Zaslavskiy, has pleaded guilty …
