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The new spot trading feature will have zero maker and taker fees, meaning there will be no margin for the exchange. Deribit, the world’s largest crypto options exchange, is expanding its offerings by launching its zero-fee spot trading. Per the announcement, the company will launch a zero-fee spot exchange by April 24. With this development, Deribit now offers a full spectrum of trading opportunities to its clients. The move comes shortly after Binance ended its zero-fee spot trading...

VC giant Andreessen Horowitz noted that more systems will help in offering more robust decentralization for the Optimism platform. On Wednesday, April 19, the crypto wing of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced its blockchain infrastructure plan of working on a roll-up client for Optimism (OP) dubbed Magi. This helped Optimism’s native OP token to recover from the broad market sell-off on early Wednesday. Yesterday, the Optimism (OP) token price jumped all the way...

Coinbase received its license to operate in Bermuda on April 19th. The action was taken to keep up with the company’s campaign for “global scale to go broad and deep”. Coinbase plans to launch a coastal derivatives exchange in the next week, after it acquired a license to function in Bermuda from the Bermuda Monetary Authority. Coinbase applauded Bermuda as an excessively reputed and professional financial regulator in its announcement. Coinbase had long been looking to inaugurate an...

The researchers at Project Meridian identified several benefits of synchronization including reduction of risk, time, and cost invoked in settling a range of transactions. In a joint financial program dubbed Project Meridian, the Bank of England and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub London Centre investigated the use of modern technology to advance financial payments through real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems. The Project Meridian used central bank money...

Sales activity linked to the collection has already taken off since the announcement. It appears that the recent indictment of former US President Donald Trump has not deterred him from his Web 3.0 focus. Taking to one of his social media platforms on Tuesday, Trump announced the launch of “Series 2” of his NFT collection – Trump Digital Trading Cards. The statement on Truth Social reads: “I am pleased to inform you that, due to the great success of my previously launched DIGITAL TRADING...

The news comes as crypto companies are looking outside the United States and China for regulatory clarity. Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has received regulatory approval to operate in Ireland. The company successfully registered its Irish subsidiary Payward Europe Solutions Limited with the Central Bank of Ireland as a virtual asset service provider (VASP) on April 18. The VASP license allows the crypto exchange to legally operate in the country. 📣 We’re pleased to announce that Kraken...

Coinbase Global shares have gained more than 91 percent YTD to trade around $69.72 on Tuesday amid Bitcoin’s 2023 pump. Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) was served a Wells notice from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an undefined portion of its listed digital assets, Coinbase Earn, Coinbase Prime, and Coinbase Wallet. With several other top centralized exchanges including Bittrex and Binance under the SEC’s radar, Coinbase Global has begun exploring global options,...

The Nike Virtual Studio launch of the OF1 is also in tandem with the ideologies as it seeks to preserve the legacies of the Nike sneakers in all of their glory to collectors. Web 3.0 startup, Nike Virtual Studio is set to release the Our Force 1 (OF1) Non-Fungible Token (NFT) token as it seeks to power the accessibility to custom utilities for communities linked to its growth across the board. As detailed in a blog post, the chain of events leading to the release of the OF1 collection will...

Starbucks mailed to Odyssey beta testers with the subject line “We’re Getting Closer” suggesting that a public rollout will happen soon. Following its NFT drop that sold out in a matter of minutes, Starbucks is now all set to inaugurate another collection this week and claims that a public launch for its Odyssey Web3 rewards programs is being awaited. On Wednesday, April 19th, Starbucks will introduce its First Store Collection which consists of more than 50,000 NFT stamp collectibles...

The very first ChainChronicles NFTs will be issued in May and collectors who sign up for the subscription in April will get 20% off their first purchases. Software services platform EverdreamSoft, branded as the first outfit to launch the first blockchain-based game has launched a subscription-based Non-Fungible Token (NFT) collection dubbed ChainChronicles. As contained in a press release shared with Coinspeaker, the new collection is built up on the ideologies behind the company’s...