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Amun and Binance Launch BNB ETP on Swiss SIX Stock Exchange

Photo: Binance BlogBinance has partnered with premier exchange-traded product Amun AG to create an ETP that has the BNB token as the primary asset but listed in US dollar value. This development was announced today by the leading cryptocurrency exchange. Trading of the newly developed product (the Amun BNB ABNB) has started on the Swiss SIX exchange today.Changpeng Zhao CEO Binance indicated this in a tweet as well.A MAJOR step. Now you can trade $BNB ETP on Swiss Stock Exchange (Ticker:...

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Grayscale Investments Receives FINRA Regulatory Approval

Even though a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF) still has to assemble regulatory approval, Grayscale Investments manage to get a green light from FINRA in order to list, what it calls – the first publicly-traded digital currency index fund.After they’ve got Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s approval, the so-called Digital Large Cap Fund (DLC) will be listed on over-the-counter markets and trade under the initials GDLCF.This is company’s fourth publicly-quoted investment...

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Libra Association Claims It Has 180 Candidates to Join the Row of Its Members

After it seemed all the big-ones were leaving Facebook‘s backed cryptocurrency, it seems it still has its faithful believers. On Monday, in Geneva, Switzerland, 21 associations agreed to sign the Libra Association charter at last. The Libra Association named its board of directors as well a decision about people who will sit at the executive chairs.The first chair will be, as expected, Calibra’s CEO David Marcus who named 4 more people as his board fellows. That people are a partner with...

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CME Group Says Institutional Players Have Increased Appetite for Bitcoin Futures Contracts

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, a global derivatives marketplace with a wide range of futures and options products, has said that in the last quarter, its Bitcoin futures offering has increased considerably in popularity. According to the CME Group its open contracts surged by 61 percent in number from the same period about a year ago.The CME Group has said that the reason for this is a significant increase in demand from institutional entities that have increased their appetite...

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Google’s ‘Quantum Supremacy’ Is Not a Threat to Bitcoin and Blockchain

Google‘s latest attempt of attaining supremacy in quantum computing is giving jitters to crypto enthusiasts across the globe. Experts from the tech world say that quantum computing could likely make cryptography redundant which comes as a huge threat to the crypto industry.After Google’s recent talks on attaining quantum supremacy, Bitcoin enthusiasts are concerned whether it can pose a direct threat to the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Blockchain expert and author, Andreas Antonopoulos,...

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Forex Broker FXCM Trading Group Introduces New Crypo Basket Service for Retailers

The FXCM Group, an international online platform that offers foreign exchange (FOREX) trading, digital asset trading, as well as contracts-for-difference (CFD), has announced the start of a new offering for cryptocurrency baskets, targeted at the company’s retail patrons.According to an official FXCM press release, the new crypto basket is called CryptoMajor and will allow retailers handle a pool of five different digital currencies at once. The announcement specifies that the assets...

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Bitcoin Price Increases by 838,000,000% in Ten Years

Even though Bitcoin has been in a bit of a struggle recently it is still not just the biggest asset in the cryptocurrency market, but the best performing asset in the world, across all markets. The first fully decentralized digital asset began its journey in 2009 and is now slowly but surely disrupting the current traditional financial status quo.In its early days, Bitcoin did not catch much attention and even people who heard about it quickly wrote it off either as a scam or as something...

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TON vs SEC: What Is Telegram’s Next Move?

In an interesting but not entirely surprising turn of events, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked Telegram to halt issuance of its forthcoming GRAM tokens. In a press release dated Oct. 11, the Commission said that it had already “filed an emergency action” and also a restraining order against Telegram Group Inc. as well as TON Issuer Inc., a subsidiary of the former. This came just a few weeks before Telegram promised to officially issue the tokens to...

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Ripple CEO Believes XRP is Better for Payments than Bitcoin

Many people have always wondered what Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s position on Bitcoin has been and what his motivations were for developing XRP. He revealed all this and more in crypto evangelist Anthony Pompliano’s Off the chain podcast. The podcast revealed quite a bit of detail about XRP and also showed the mindset of the cryptocurrency innovator. In a rare moment of truth where he bared his soul during the podcast, Brad revealed his first encounter with Bitcoin occurred in 2012 at...

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Ted Livingston States Kik Messenger Is Not Shutting Down

Photo: Microsiervos / FlickrAt the end of September, we reported that a popular messaging app Kik made the world reel with the announcement about shutting down. At that time, Kik CEO Ted Livingston explained this decision with the company’s downturn position and the necessity to focus more on the development of its Kin (KIN) token. The company was also planning to cut down the number of its employees from over 100 people to a 19 person team. Besides, Kik has a legal battle against the U.S....

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