Category: Exchanges

Crypto Exchange Coinbase Lists New Ethereum-Based NFT Marketplace Altcoin

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Top US crypto exchange Coinbase has rolled out support for a brand-new, Ethereum (ETH)-based non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace project. Blur (BLUR) went live on the exchange on Tuesday, the same day as the new token’s airdrop. Blur launched its NFT marketplace four months ago and has processed over $1.4 billion in gross merchandise volume. Users who traded NFTs on Blur or created collections that traded on the exchange have 60 days to claim their BLUR tokens from the airdrop, according to the project’s Twitter account. BLUR is trading around $0.82…

Australian Crypto Exchange Digital Surge Set to Come Back Online After Stakeholders Sign Recovery Plan

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This is the first successful restructuring of a Australian cryptocurrency exchange, according to Michael Bacina, digital asset specialist and partner at Piper Alderman. “Digital assets face challenging legal issues, and it took the hard work of knowledgeable specialists to get here. The deal is a testament to the goodwill seen throughout the blockchain community in Australia,” Bacina added. Source

DBS Sees 80% BTC Trading Surge on DDEx Exchange in 2022

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DBS Group Holdings, an investment holding company from Singapore, announced on Wednesday that its DBS Digital Exchange (DDEx) crypto exchange Bitcoin Bitcoin While some may still be wondering what is Bitcoin, who created Bitcoin, or how does Bitcoin work, one thing is certain: Bitcoin has changed the world.No one can remain indifferent to this revolutionary, decentralized, digital asset nor to its blockchain technology.In fact, we’ve gone a long way ever since a Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz made BTC’s first official commercial transaction with a real company by trading 10,000 Bitcoins…

Coinbase Will ‘Happily’ Defend Crypto Exchange’s Staking Services in Court, Says CEO Brian Armstrong

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says that the staking services offered by the US crypto exchange are not securities. Hot on the heels of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shutting down the staking service of rival crypto exchange Kraken, Armstrong says that Coinbase will mount a legal defense of its staking service if the need arises. “Coinbase’s staking services are not securities. We will happily defend this in court if needed.” Last week, following the SEC’s actions against Kraken, Coinbase’s chief legal officer Paul Grewal argued that existing US…

Russia Releases Bitzlato Co-Founder Anton Shkurenko After Questioning – Exchanges Bitcoin News

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Russian authorities have released the recently arrested co-founder of crypto exchange Bitzlato, said to have processed illicit funds worth millions of U.S. dollars. Anton Shkurenko, who was questioned in Moscow, denies the French charges against him that became the reason for his brief detention. Shkurenko Says Potential Case Against Him in Russia Won’t Interfere With Bitzlato Relaunch Russian prosecutors have asked France to send materials from its investigation into the seized digital asset exchange Bitzlato in order to determine whether to initiate additional proceedings in Russia, the platform’s co-founder Anton…

Top US Crypto Exchange Coinbase Adds Circle’s Euro-Backed Stablecoin to Listing Roadmap

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Customers at top US crypto exchange Coinbase could soon trade their digital assets with a euro-backed stablecoin. The exchange added Euro Coin (EUROC) to its listing roadmap on Thursday, putting the stablecoin on the path to being tradeable. Euro Coin is issued by Circle, the global fintech company known for working in a consortium with Coinbase to issue USD Coin (USDC), the second-largest dollar-pegged stablecoin. Circle says Euro Coin is “100% backed by euros held in euro-denominated banking accounts,” in order to ensure it’s always redeemable at a 1:1 ratio…

FTX liquidators report exchange held $2.4M ‘fleet of vehicles’ in the Bahamas

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The joint provisional liquidators of FTX Digital Markets — the firm’s subsidiary in the Bahamas — has released a report on the company’s physical assets in the island nation. According to affidavit filed by a PricewaterhouseCoopers partner with the Bahamas’ supreme court on Feb. 8, FTX’s joint provisional liquidators, or JPLs, said the company had purchased 52 properties in the Bahamas, including units “in the name of individual employees or relatives of SBF, despite FTX Digital providing the funding”. These properties, which included housing for FTX employees and commercial office…

Crypto Exchange Binance Adds Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Three Other Altcoins As Verifiable Digital Assets

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The world’s largest crypto exchange platform by volume is adding Shiba Inu (SHIB) and three other altcoins to its list of verifiable crypto assets. In a new company blog post, Binance says its introducing zero-knowledge (zk) SNARKS, a verification method that keeps information secure, to its proof-of-reserves identification system. Binance also says it’s adding four altcoins, including SHIB, Polkadot (DOT) and Ethereum (ETH) challenger Solana (SOL), as well as fan token-focused crypto project Chiliz (CHZ). “Continuing the efforts in providing transparency on user funds, Binance is excited to introduce zk-SNARKs,…