Binance US is launching today. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has confirmed that Binance Coin (BNB) will be listed as well as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin and XRP.
Japan’s messaging app LINE has launched a crypto trading platform Bitmax. Initially, it will allow users to trade five types of cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin.
The VanEck Solid Bitcoin Trust decided to withdraw its Bitcoin ETF proposal filed earlier this year on January 30, 2019. The withdrawal comes just a month before SEC’s final deadline of the verdict.
The price of XRP has surged with 16% in the past 24 hours with commentators believing that the gains come as a result of a response to reports a looming fork of the token.
The altcoin markets just woke up suddenly with Ethereum and XRP leading the way adding 7% and 16% correspondingly. Despite Bitcoin price makes no major movements, this may mean that the market is starting to mature.
The U.S. arm of Binance is set to open today at 8 AM (EST). Binance US will however not be available to about 13 states in the U.S., will be free and will only list a few assets including BTC, ETH, and XRP in this initial phase.
At CFTC, Coinbase’s Dorothy D. DeWitt will be responsible for the supervision of derivatives platforms, including bitcoin futures, swap data repositories, as well as for the evaluation of the new platform-traded products.
Using its internal DLT-based settlement service dubbed Wells Fargo Digital Cash along with company’s U.S. dollar-linked stablecoin, Wells Fargo is going to enhance its operational efficiencies.
According to a recent study, wealthy young people have a prominent proportion of investment in digital assets. AOFEX is here to enhance the protection of rights and interests of investors.
For Binance, Mars Finance is the first strategic investment in China since 2017, when Beijing banned digital coin trading and the exchange withdrew from this market.
The lottery draw for the earlier announced Band Protocol has been completed with more than 9% of winning tickets. The Binance announcement also states that BAND trading pairs have been launched, and also includes airdrop details.
A prominent billionaire venture capitalist, Tim Draper, has predicted that the Bitcoin price will rise past $250,000 by 2022 en route to gaining mass adoption and a market cap of over $1 trillion.
BitPay users will be able to accept Ethereum for payments, store Ethereum in a BitPay wallet and get access to Ethereum on BitPay prepaid Visa cards.
After months of testing, the Hedera Hashgraph has finally launched its public network which promises to have unmatched speed in the entire distributed ledger space. Hedera has also begun the distribution of its native HBAR tokens.
As part of the UBI initiative to weather the onslaught of automation, Tron’s Justin Sun give $1000 to 100 people every month from next year totaling $1.2 million in one year.