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According to Forbes, in 2018 in the cryptoindustry there were mergers and acquisitions (M & A) totaling $ 559 million. The largest transactions of last year were the acquisition by Circle startup Poloniex for $ 400 million, and the purchase by Coinbase of the Earn project for $ 120 million. Also , the largest US cryptocurrency company acquired analytical services for $ 14.8 million […]

New York-based payment startup SendFriend, focused on the use of XRP tokens for international money transfers, closed a $ 1.7 million round of financing from Barclays Bank and fintech company Ripple, CoinDesk reports. Mastercard Foundation, MIT Media Lab, Techstars Incubator, Mahindra Finance, 2020 Ventures and 8 Decimal Capital also participated in the round. Note that SendFriend got into the business accelerator […]

TradeBlock researchers have concluded that investor interest in bitcoin futures on the US stock exchanges CME and Cboe is gradually fading. We published a new report analyzing #bitcoin futures trading activity over the past year: https://t.co/3udwo6wQie pic.twitter.com/uMBDffnsnx – TradeBlock (@TradeBlock) 7 January 2019 p. Regulated futures contracts were launched almost overnight – […]

The leading South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb launched the OTC platform for institutional investors and Ortus traders. What digital assets will be presented in the listing of the site is still unknown. This is stated in a press release. Ortus is headquartered in Hong Kong, however, offices are also located in the UK, Japan, Australia and Argentina. Note that platform clients will have to undergo a strict KYC / AML procedure. It is noteworthy that Ortus […]