Tag Archives: Exchange News

What are some experts saying about the rise and fall of FTX, which at one point was one of the largest and most popular digital currency exchanges in the world? FTX Has Crashed and Burned Craig Erlam – senior market analyst at Oanda – recently formed the following opinion about all the drama surrounding the crypto trading platform: For a long time, bitcoin has aligned itself with broader risk appetite in the markets, but it goes without saying that Tuesday was not one of those days....

Crypto firm Block Mate Ventures has launched a new platform that will allow its customers to engage in instant crypto transactions. Traders and investors can log onto the website and instantly purchase assets like bitcoin and Ethereum in mere minutes or seconds. Block Mate Ventures Seeks to Make Crypto Purchases Faster The purchases can be done through credit cards or other local payment methods. Block Mate Ventures is introducing a new simplified interface that will be easy and readable...

It’s happened again, folks. Another digital currency hack is in the books. This time, the victim is Deribit, a cryptocurrency exchange based in the Central American nation of Panama. Deribit Has Lost a Lot of Money At the time of writing, as much as $28 million in crypto assets have been stolen. The exchange confirmed the incident in a tweet a few weeks ago, claiming that it’s BTC, ETH, and USDC hot wallets had been compromised by malicious actors and inherently drained of the units they...

With FTX filing bankruptcy and Sam Bankman-Fried now leaving the throes of his once-great company, Congress and the elites in Washington are once again turning up the volume on their arguments for regulating the crypto space. Congress Is Coming After FTX There have been far too many accidents this year in the world of crypto. With companies like Celsius suddenly halting withdrawals and then filing for bankruptcy and assets like the Terra Luna (allegedly) stable coin crashing to the ground,...

A rumor was swirling around online that the nation of El Salvador in Central America had tons of bitcoin locked away in the FTX exchange, which has now filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. However, many industry heads – including Changpeng Zhao of Binance, the company that at one point was likely to purchase FTX and save it from its present string of problems – are saying this is not true, and that the country is not in any danger. El Salvador Says It’s Not Tied to the Failed Exchange El...

FTX, one of the world’s biggest and most popular digital currency exchanges, has filed for bankruptcy. This was abruptly followed by the formal resignation of the company’s founder and head executive Sam Bankman-Fried. FTX Has Fully Gone Under The company has been in hot water for the past several weeks. FTX experienced what’s been referred to as a “liquidity crunch” and initially sought the aid of its main rival Binance to bail it out of the dark hole that had been created for it. It...

Crypto exchange Coin Check is looking to follow in Coinbase’s footsteps and wants to be listed on the Nasdaq. The firm is aiming to complete a merge with a special acquisition company by July of next year so it can be listed on the stock exchange. Coin Check Wants to Be Like Coinbase Coinbase – the western world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchange – started a trend in April 2021 that many new companies apparently want to copy. The company got itself listed on the Nasdaq,...

Crypto trading platform 24 Exchange has joined hands with a network called Talos, which is a provider of digital asset trading technology. Together, they are giving customers access to new forms of crypto-based liquidity that will allow them to engage in quick and easy transactions and financial settlements. 24 Exchange and Talos… The Perfect Match? Dmitri Galinov – the CEO and founder of 24 Exchange – commented in a statement: By integrating into the growing Talos...

Earlier in the year, the Justice Department announced it had seized billions in crypto funds from a heist that occurred in 2016. Many customers of Bitfinex had their money stolen during that heist, and they learned that approximately $70 million of the recovered funds were likely theirs. Funds Stolen from Bitfinex Have Not Yet Been Returned One such victim – Frankie Cavazos – said he lost about 15 BTC units from the 2016 attack. Upon hearing that his money had been...

Coinbase is in hot water after close to 100 customers have filed lawsuits against the western hemisphere’s largest digital currency trading platform. Customers Are Angry with Coinbase These customers are accusing Coinbase of turning a blind eye to a scam that ultimately cost them more than $21 million in digital currency funds. The problem stems from the Coinbase Wallet, which last fall, directed users upon being downloaded to fraudulent or phony websites that allowed...