Tag: Exchange

Options Technology Opens a Low-Latency Door to Japan's Alternative Exchange

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Options Technology has added the Japan Alternative Market to its connectivity lineup, making the proprietary trading system accessible to its clients through AtlasFabric, the company’s global trading network, Options announced today (Thursday). Singapore Summit: Meet the largest APAC brokers you know (and those you still don’t!) JAX operates as a Proprietary Trading System under Japanese financial regulation, offering an alternative venue alongside the country’s established exchanges for equity trading, price discovery, and liquidity access. Options said it joined the project as a founding partner at launch, handling both trading connectivity…

CTFC Hits KuCoin With $500,000 Penalty, Bans Exchange From Allowing US Users To Trade on Platform

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has levied a $500,000 penalty and restrictions against crypto exchange KuCoin’s operator, barring it from allowing US users to trade on its platform without proper registration. The CFTC says a federal court in the Southern District of New York entered a consent order against Peken Global Limited, the entity behind KuCoin. The order finds the company allowed US participants to access its trading platform without registering as a foreign board of trade. The court has imposed a $500,000 civil monetary penalty and permanently enjoined…

Citadel Securities-Backed Crypto Exchange Enters The Fray

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Bitcoin Exchange Inflows Flash Rare Signal As Large Deposits Return

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On-chain data shows the average Bitcoin exchange deposit has ballooned to a significant size, a potential sign that whales are making inflows. Average Bitcoin Exchange Inflow Hits 2.62 BTC As pointed out by CryptoQuant community analyst Maartunn in an X post, the mean Exchange Inflow has shot up for Bitcoin. The “Exchange Inflow” here refers to an indicator that keeps track of the BTC transactions that are heading toward centralized exchanges from self-custodial wallets. In the context of the current topic, the version of the metric that’s of interest is the…

Crypto Exchange Bithumb to Delay IPO until after 2028: Report

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According to the company CFO, Bithumb was “strengthen[ing] accounting policies and internal controls” ahead of its IPO plans, already delayed from 2025. South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb is reportedly expecting its initial public offering (IPO) sometime after 2028, in another delay after restructuring and regulatory hurdles. According to a Tuesday report from Maeil Business News Korea, a Bithumb official said that it would “focus on preparing for the listing until 2027.” CFO Jeong Sang-gyun said at the company’s annual shareholder meeting that Bithumb was “strengthen[ing] accounting policies and internal controls”…

174 Registered CASPs, but Only 14 Can Operate a Centralized Crypto Exchange (CEX)? – Legal Bitcoin News

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MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored by LegalBison’s Co-Founding and Managing Directors: Aaron Glauberman, Viktor Juskin and Sabir Alijev. LegalBison advises crypto and FinTech companies on MiCA licensing, CASP and VASP applications, and regulatory structuring across Europe and beyond. If the EU has already issued 174 MiCA licenses, why are there only 14 actual crypto exchanges on the list? To demystify this, we need to decode what the public registers are really telling us about how crypto businesses are setting up in Europe. That contrast,…

Polymarket Secures $600M From Intercontinental Exchange in Final Funding Tranche – Crypto News Bitcoin News

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ICE and Polymarket The owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), ICE, disclosed the transaction on Friday morning. The company also expects to purchase up to $40 million of Polymarket securities from existing holders, a secondary component that rounds out what was originally framed as an investment arrangement of up to $2 billion. The October 2025 deal marked ICE’s first direct commitment to Polymarket, a prediction market platform where users wager on the outcomes of real-world events. That initial tranche totaled $1 billion. The latest investment completes what ICE…

BTCC Wins Most Secure Digital Asset Exchange by Pan Finance, Marking 15 Years of 0 Security Breaches

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March 26th, 2026 – LODZ, Poland BTCC, the world’s longest-serving cryptocurrency exchange, is proud to announce it has been awarded the Most Secure Digital Asset Exchange (2025) by Pan Finance, a trusted source of global financial intelligence with a readership of over 200,000 across 150 countries. The recognition comes as BTCC celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2026, a milestone defined by an unmatched security record in the industry. Since its founding in 2011, BTCC has never suffered a single security breach. Across 15 years of operation serving over 11 million…

Ripple Positioned At The Center Of The New York Stock Exchange Tokenization Initiative

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Ripple is being viewed as a key player in the evolving push toward tokenized financial markets, as the New York Stock Exchange advances its plans to bring traditional assets onto blockchain rails. This development signals a broader shift on Wall Street, where traditional infrastructure is beginning to intersect with blockchain-driven innovation, settlement layer, and transition from legacy systems to faster and more transparent digital infrastructure. How Ripple Is Positioned At The Core Of Financial Transformation Wall Street has just surrendered to Ripple, as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) takes…

Ethereum Staking Ratio Hits Record 31.4% As Exchange Supply Crashes To 2016 Lows

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Ethereum is trading below $2,200. The market is volatile. And yet, quietly, the structural case for ETH has never looked more constrained on the supply side. A new CryptoQuant report reveals that 38.31 million ETH — roughly 31.4% of the total supply — is now locked in staking, an all-time high. That is not a footnote. It is the most significant supply development in Ethereum’s recent history, and the price has not caught up to it yet. Related Reading The data is unambiguous: the ETH 2.0 Staking Rate indicator just…