Exchanges

Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange OKX has recently conducted a poll asking its users to vote on their preferred meme-inspired cryptocurrency listed on the platform, with one of the options being Shiba Inu ecosystem token $BONE. Following its results, the exchange listed its token and became one of its largest holders. According to data from the Ethereum […]

In an upcoming testimony, U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Chair Gary Gensler is set to share his thoughts on crypto markets and regulation at a U.S. Congress hearing. It is important to note that these comments reflect his personal views, and he makes it clear that he is not speaking on behalf of the […]

The crypto world is debating the SEC’s proposed amendments to exchange regulations, which could impose additional burdens on crypto platforms and hamper innovation, according to Commissioner Hester M. Peirce (aka “Crypto Mom”). The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on April 14 that it is reopening the comment period and providing supplemental information for […]

Defying the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) claims that XRP is a security, Uphold, which is a global multi-asset digital trading platform, has remained steadfast in its support for the embattled digital asset. On December 22, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed an action against Ripple Labs Inc. and two of […]

Galaxy Digital Holdings Inc. (OTCPK:BRPHF) CEO Mike Novogratz voiced his concerns about the US regulatory environment for the crypto industry in a recent interview. According to what Novogratz said in his interview with The Block’s East Coast Managing Editor Nathan Crooks, the crypto industry is “under assault” by U.S. regulators. The Galaxy Digital CEO believes that […]

Popular cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex has announced that it will wind down its U.S. operations due to the challenging regulatory and economic environment. Founded in 2013 by Bill Shihara, Richie Lai, and Rami Kawach, Bittrex has been a prominent player in the crypto space. However, this decision does not impact Bittrex Global, the international arm of […]

The native token of the popular decentralized exchange dYdX has surged more than 200% over the past 30 days as its trading volume keeps on rising and investors move their funds off of centralized exchanges in the wake of FTX’s collapse. According to market data, the price of the exchange’s governance token $DYDX has now […]

On Monday (16 January 2023), Nik Bougalis, the former Director of Engineering at Ripple, shared his thoughts on the attempt by Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, co-founders of bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (“3AC”) to raise funds for a new crypto exchange. On 21 October 2022, Bougalis, who had been working on the […]

 On Thursday (29 December 2022), Coin Metrics Co-Founder Nic Carter looked at how various major centralized exchanges are doing in terms of providing Proof of Reserves (PoR). Here is how Carter, who has long been a strong proponent of custodial service providers in the crypto space having a Proof of Reserves program, explains this concept: “Proof […]

Santander UK, which is a British bank wholly owned by Spanish multinational financial services firm Santander Group, is advising its customers that there will soon be limits imposed on payments to crypto exchanges. According to a recent notice (on the company’s website) aimed at customers, the bank has seen “a large increase in UK customers […]

Kraken, a leading crypto exchange, says that Co-Founder and current CEO Jesse Powell is giving up his CEO role and becoming chairman of the board of directors. According to Kraken’s press release, Dave Ripley, who has been the COO for the past six years, will become the CEO once Kraken has completed its COO search. […]

On Monday (September 5), multi asset class financial trading platform BlueBit did the Shiba Inu ($SHIB) community another favor to complete an impressive hat trick that started roughly three weeks ago. Here is what Binance Academy says about Shiba Inu: “Shiba Inu (SHIB) is a dog-themed meme cryptocurrency named after a Japanese dog breed. It was created […]

On Monday (August 15), Brazilian financial services giant XP Inc. (NASDAQ: XP) announced that it had opened its crypto trading platform XTAGE to clients. According to a press release issued by XP on May 12, XTAGE, which is built on Nasdaq’s trading technology, “represents a key milestone in democratizing access to the digital assets market in Brazil”, and is […]

On Thursday (August 11), crypto exchange Kraken released the results of its “second 2022 Proof of Reserves audit”, which has been expanded to include seven digital assets. These seven cryptoassets are $BTC, $ETH, $USDT, $USDC, $XRP, $ADA, and $DOT. According to Kraken’s blog post, “a Proof of Reserve audit is a trail-blazing accounting procedure that […]

The chief executive officer (CEO) for major crypto exchange Coinbase recently explained how his company decides which altcoins to add to the platform. Speaking in an interview with computer scientist Lex Fridman, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said that the company begins by evaluating an altcoin’s status as a security: “We basically have a test of […]

On Wednesday (August 3), blockchain security firm PeckShield reported that around $4.8 million has been transferred out of crypto exchange ZB. On its website and in its Twitter bio, ZB calls itself the world’s most secure crypto exchange, as you can see from the screenshot below (taken at 6:27 p.m. UTC on August 3): Here […]

The meme-inspired cryptocurrency $BABYDOGE has recently been listed on a popular cryptocurrency exchange, Poloniex, as its keeps on processing token burns and trending on social media thanks to its supporters. According to a bot tracking cryptocurrency listings on exchanges, Poloniex listed $BABYDOGE at the beginning of August and now has the meme-inspired cryptocurrency trading against […]

On Monday (July 25), Reuters reported that Brazilian financial services giant XP Inc. (NASDAQ: XP) “expects to open its digital assets trading platform to clients by mid-August, initially offering bitcoin and ether but with plans to expand it by the end of this year.” As you may remember, on May 12, CoinDesk reported that XP […]

Plaid, which is a leading open banking platform, has announced the addition of read-only support for several major crypto exchanges.  According to a report by TechCrunch, Plaid had previously integrated with several large crypto exchanges (such as Coinbase and Robinhood) on an ad hoc basis. The addition of read-only support gives an indication that the […]

Crypto exchange OKX is reportedly paying more than $20 million to sponsor in the upcoming season one of the clubs in the Premier League, which is “the top level of the English football league system.” According to a report by Forbes, OKX has reached an agreement to expand its existing partnership with Premier League club Manchester City. […]

CZ, Co-Founder and CEO of the world’s largest centralized crypto exchange (CEX) by trading volume, recently shared his thoughts on decentralized finance (DeFi) and decentralized exchanges (DEXes). Speaking in an interview with the two co-hosts of the Bankless podcast, Binance chief Changpeng “CZ” Zhao predicted that DeFi and decentralized exchanges (DEXes) would be far superior […]

PayPal is a fintech giant that started offering users the ability to buy, sell and store crypto in October 2020. It has well over 400 million users and partly thanks to its reputation and battle-tested security, users have always wanted to be able to transfer crypto from Binance to PayPal. On June 7th, 2022 PayPal […]

On Saturday, Johnny Lyu, Co-Founder and CEO of crypto exchange KuCoin, said that there was “no ‘immense suffer’ from any ‘coin collapse’, “no plan to halt withdrawal,” and that “everything on KuCoin is operating well.” KuCoin, which was launched in September 2017, has its operational headquarters in Seychelles. It “offers over 700 digital assets, and […]

Recently, 30-year-old American billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried (aka “SBF”), who is the Co-Founder and CEO of crypto exchange FTX, shared his thoughts on the crypto space. According to his bio, before FTX, SBF was “a trader on Jane Street Capital’s international ETF desk”, where he “traded a variety of ETFs, futures, currencies, and equities, and designed their […]

Higher quality cryptocurrency trading platforms have been steadily gaining market share over the last few quarters, to the point they now command over 90% of the cryptocurrency space’s trading volumes. According to CryptoCompare’s latest Exchange Benchmark report, Top-Tier crypto trading platforms have been seeing their market share of total exchange volumes grow since August 2021. […]

On Wednesday (March 30), Jenna Wright, Managing Director at LMAX Digital, was interviewed by James Harris, Commercial Director at leading digital asset market data provider CryptoCompare, at this year’s CryptoCompare Digital Asset Summit. LMAX Group is “a global financial technology company and the leading independent operator of multiple institutional execution venues for FX and crypto […]

Netcoins, which is one of Canada’s oldest and most popular crypto trading platforms, has launched support for two meme-based cryptoassets with highly passionate communities. Netcoins, which was founded in 2014, “started out by providing a Virtual Bitcoin ATM solution to over 170,000+ stores across 3 continents, and also operated a private brokerage service for institutional […]

Binance, the world’s largest cryptoasset exchange, has been granted a license to conduct operations in Dubai following the country’s recent legislation regarding digital assets.   According to a report by Reuters, the company announced that it had obtained a Virtual Asset license from Dubai’s recently formed Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA), allowing the exchange to […]

The meme-inspired cryptocurrency Shiba Inu ($SHIB) has overtaken the native cryptocurrency of the FTX exchange, $FTT, as the second-largest holding the largest Ethereum whales have in their portfolios, behind $ETH itself only. According to data shared by whale monitoring resource WhaleStats, the largest Ethereum whales have been adding SHIB to their holdings over time to […]

$AVAX, the native token of  smart contracts platform Avalanche, is coming soon to one of the world’s longest running crypto exchanges (as well Europe’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume). What is Avalanche ($AVAX)? Below is a brief description of Avalanche from its developer documentation: “Avalanche is an open-source platform for launching decentralized applications and enterprise […]

FTX Future Fund, the philanthropic fund of FTX Co-Founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (aka “SBF”) is investing up to $1 billion this year “making grants and investments to ambitious projects in order to improve humanity’s long-term prospects.” According to the website of Future Fund, which is “funded primarily by Sam Bankman-Fried, with major contributions from Caroline […]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the subsequent backlash of economic sanctions against the country, has reportedly resulted in ruble trading pairs surging on the cryptocurrency market.  According to a report by Frank Chaparro for The Block that was published on March 1, Russian investors are becoming increasingly active on crypto exchanges. Since Russia’s invasion of […]

Crypto Exchange Gemini has announced that it is now supporting $SOL, the native token of Solana, which is “an open source project implementing a new, high-performance, permissionless blockchain” that is maintained by the Geneva-based Solana Foundation. Yesterday (February 28), Gemini announced on its blog that it has added support for $SOL. Currently, $SOL is supported for […]

Recently, Sam Bankman-Fried (aka “SBF”) shared his experience of co-founding the popular crypto exchange FTX and growing it to a $32 billion valuation in just three years.  Speaking in an interview with Insider, SBF revealed that he decided to found his own crypto exchange in 2019 after growing annoyed with using what he called “crappy” […]

On Wednesday (February 9), one of Brazil’s oldest and most popular crypto exchanges announced its support for Shiba Inu ($SHIB). Here is what Binance Academy says about Shiba Inu: “Shiba Inu (SHIB) is a dog-themed meme cryptocurrency named after a Japanese dog breed. It was created in 2020 by an anonymous developer named Ryoshi, who […]

On Tuesday (February 1), highly popular meme-inspired cryptocurrency Shiba Inu ($SHIB) was welcomed by another cryptoexchange in the world’s 17th most populous nation. Here is what crypto payment processor said about the Shiba Inu project back in December 2021 when it announced in a blog post that $SHIB fans would finally be able to “buy, store, swap and […]

The founders of popular cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX are set to acquire one of the oldest banks in Germany, Bankhaus von der Heydt, which was formed back in 1754. The move will help establish a regulated cryptocurrency products powerhouse in Europe. According to an announcement published by BitMEX a company founded by its CEO Alexander Höptner […]

Highly popular meme-inspired cryptocurrency Shiba Inu ($SHIB) has landed in Mexico, getting listed on one of its most popular crypto exchanges. Here is what crypto payment processor said about the Shiba Inu project last month when it announced in a blog post that $SHIB fans would finally be able to “buy, store, swap and spend with this […]

In December, a total of 1,464 bitcoin options contracts were traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, showing volume went up 20.6% compared to November. This is the highest level seen since May when crypto prices were at an all-time high and appeared amid a crypto market meltdown. According to CryptoCompare’s December 2021 Exchange Review report, […]

The co-founder and chief executive officer of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has outlined his top priorities for the industry to tackle in the coming years.  In a series of tweets, FTX chief Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) highlighted his roadmap for the crypto space, including the biggest challenges to overcome. SBF started by outlining what crypto had managed […]

Two major crypto exchanges have listed highly popular dog meme cryptocurrency Dogelon Mars ($ELON), helping the price of this Ethereum-powered token to surge over 37% in the past 24-hour period. What is $ELON? Here is the backstory for Dogelon Mars: “In the year 2420 a young Dogelon Mars was born onto the beautiful red sands of Mars where he […]

On Wednesday (December 8), one of the world’s oldest and most popular crypto exchanges announced details about its upcoming support for the following cryptoassets: Shiba Inu ($SHIB), dYdX ($DYDX), Gala ($GALA), and Perpetual Protocol ($PERP). Bitstamp, which was founded in 2011, got registered in the UK in 2013 and in Luxembourg in 2014. It has […]

On Tuesday (November 30), the world’s hottest dog meme cryptocurrency Shiba Inu ($SHIB) managed to jump over $AVAX, the native token of smart contracts platform Avalanche after a 24% price surge in the past 24-hour period. What Is Shiba Inu ($SHIB)? Here is how South Korean crypto exchange Korbit described this meme-based cryptocurrency when it announced on November […]

Although even before today’s Covid-related market correction the price of $ADA was heading down as the result of eToro announcing that it plans to delist $ADA on its U.S. platform, crypto quant Benjamin Cowen, Founder and CEO at “Into The Cryptoverse” says the death of $ADA is greatly exaggerated. It all started on Tuesday (November […]

Meme-based cryptocurrency Shiba Inu ($SHIB) started trading today on a popular crypto exchange in South Korea. On Monday (November 22), Coinhako, one of Singapore’s oldest crypto trading platforms rolled out the red carpet for the members of the Shib army: The next day, Korbit, one of South Korea’s oldest crypto exchanges, announced that it would […]

Earlier today, eToro announced on its website that due to regulatory concerns, it would be “limiting ADA and TRX” for users based in the U.S. and that these users would “no longer be able to open new positions in, or receive staking rewards for, Cardano (ADA) and TRON (TRX)” but would be “able to close […]

On Sunday (November 21), the price of Crypto.com Coin ($CRO), the native token of the Crypto.com Chain, surged over 27%, reaching a new all-time high of 0.7439 at 5:12 p.m. UTC on FTX. What is $CRO? According to the crypto exchange Crypto.com, which was founded in June 2016, Crypto.com Coin ($CRO) is the native token of […]

The community behind the meme-inspired cryptocurrency Floki Inu ($FLOKI) has created a petition asking Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to list it on its platform. The petition has now been signed by over 30,000 users. According to its page on Change.org, the petition is asking to “get the recognition it deserves and get listed on Coinbase.” […]

$ADA, the cryptocurency with probably the most passionate community on social media, will soon be listed on one of the world’s longest running crypto exchanges (as well Europe’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume). On Thursday (November 18), Bitstamp announced that it is preparing to welcome $ADA. In a blog post published on November 18, […]

Singapore-based centralized exchange Crypto.com has signed another huge sponsorship deal, as the result of which the iconic sports area in downtown Los Angeles that is currently known as “Staples Center” will be renamed to “Crypto.com Arena”. Staples Center is “owned and operated by the Arturo L.A. Arena Company and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG); it serves as […]

Non-custodial trading platform StealthEX, which works with multiple centralized crypto exchanges, has announced that it now supports Dogelon Mars ($ELON), which is one of the most popular new dog meme cryptocurrencies. What is $ELON? Here is the backstory for Dogelon Mars: “In the year 2420 a young Dogelon Mars was born onto the beautiful red […]

On Friday (November 12), a top 15 (by trading volume) centralized crypto exchange listed popular dog meme cryptocurrency Floki Inu ($FLOKI). What Is $FLOKI? The idea of creating this cryptocurrency was born on June 25 after Dogecoin $DOGE) advocate Elon Musk tweeted that the name of his Shiba Inu dog would be “Floki”. Until recently, […]

Popular cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has revealed it won’t be listing the meme-inspired cryptocurrency Shiba Inu ($SHIB) just yet as it needs to work on how it will move through its listing review process. Kraken revealed in a tweet that it heard the so-called SHIBArmy about their intentions to get the cryptocurrency listed on the exchange, […]

Istanbul-based crypto exchange Paribu has listed Shiba Inu ($SHIB), thereby helping the meme-based cryptocurrency to surge to a new all-time high price. This is how Coinbase described the $SHIB token when it announced on June 15 that it was listing the extremely popular cryptocurrency on Coinbase Pro: “Shiba Inu (SHIB) is a token that aspires […]

Global exchange operator Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (which owns the Chicago Board Options Exchange) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to buy Eris Digital Holdings, LLC (ErisX), which “operates a U.S. based digital asset spot market, a regulated futures exchange and a regulated clearing house.” In a joint press release, the two […]

India-based crypto exchange Coin Switch Kuber announced on Wednesday (October 6) that it had “managed to raise a Series C Funding of $260 Million.” The app-based exchange was founded in June 2020 by Ashish Singhal (CEO), Govind Soni (CTO), Vimal Sagar Tiwari (COO), and Sharan Nair (Chief Business Officer). According to Wikipedia, Coin Switch Kuber, […]

Netflix recently announced an upcoming documentary on the story of now-defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX and the suspicious death of its founder, whom some blame for $250 million in customer funds that went missing. According to a press release issued by Netflix on September 23, the video streaming company plans to premiere in 2022 a […]

On Tuesday (September 28), Lykke Corp, which is a Switzerland-based FinTech startup that owns and operates the Lykke Wallet cryptocurrency exchange, announced the listing of Cardano’s $ADA token. According to Lykke’s press release, Lykke Wallet is “a commission-free cryptocurrency exchange integrated with a cryptocurrency wallet” that “makes it possible to buy and sell cryptocurrency, such […]

Higher quality cryptocurrency trading platforms have been steadily gaining market share over the last few quarters as both retail and institutional traders choose less risky platforms, according to a newly published report. According to CryptoCompare’s updated Exchange Benchmark, Top-Tier exchanges added 4% additional market share since February of this year and now control 89% of […]

FTX Trading Ltd., the company behind the popular cryptoasset trading platform FTX, has announced a long-term relationship with celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary (aka “Mr. Wonderful” on ABC TV series “Shark Tank“). According to the press release, O’Leary, a popular host on the hit investing show Shark Tank, will be taking an equity stake in both FTX […]