FTX.US to Buy LedgerX in Bid for US Crypto Derivatives
The move paves the way for Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire to gain a foothold in the restrictive U.S. derivatives scene. FTX.US is acquiring crypto derivatives…
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Crypto Long & Short: How Oil Going Negative Could Open the Door for Bitcoin ETFs
This will always be remembered as the week when oil went negative. The economic repercussions of this are staggering and will take months to fully…
Congressman Budd Defends Blockchain in Testimony to House Ways and Means Committee
North Carolina Congressperson Ted Budd highlighted two bills he hopes will receive bipartisan support, The Cryptocurrency Tax Fairness Act and the Virtual Value Tax Fix…
Bakkt Exchange May Be Seeking New York License for Crypto Custody: Report
The owner of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), is reportedly eyeing a New York license for its long-delayed crypto exchange Bakkt. With Bakkt’s launch…
UK Crypto Exchange Coinfloor to Launch Trading of Physically Delivered Bitcoin Futures
CoinfloorEX, a unit of the United Kingdom cryptocurrency exchange Coinfloor, has been reorganized to offer trading of physical Bitcoin futures on the Asian market. The CEO of the company has…
US Lawmakers File Bill to Exempt Cryptocurrencies from Securities Laws
Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives are seeking to exempt cryptocurrencies and certain other digital assets from federal securities laws. The “Token Taxonomy…
Institutional Crypto and a New Generation of Wall Street Leaders
Donna Redel is an angel investor focusing on financial technology, blockchain and emerging technologies, professor of blockchain and a former chairman at the Commodity Exchange.…
US Bills Seeks to Protect Cryptocurrency Investors from Market Manipulation
Two US congressmen introduced bipartisan legislation designed to prevent cryptocurrency price manipulation and position the United States as a leader in the crypto industry. Democrat…
Nasdaq Comms VP Confirms Bitcoin Futures in H1 2019: ‘We’re Doing This No Matter What’
On Monday (3 December 2018), Joseph Christinat, Vice President of Communications at Nasdaq, confirmed that the second-largest exchange in the world (by market cap) will definitely be launching a…
US CFTC Chairman: Distributed Ledger Technology May Help in Monitoring Trading Markets
Christopher Giancarlo, the chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), recently said that distributed ledger technology (DLT) may help regulatory authorities monitor trading markets more…