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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 […]

Analysts of the Israeli firm Whitestream found several Bitcoin addresses mentioned in the official media channels of the Palestinian "Hamas", in particular – Telegram-chat, in the context of attracting donations. According to the publication Globes, one of the addresses is located on the platform Coinbase. #helloworld check it with bitcoin.https: //t.co/Xu9DKXurpw@bareshet @globesnews #bitcoin #hamas #gaza #blockchain – whitestream – Blockchain Intelligence […]

Specializing in financial technology, Apex Clearing is preparing to launch a crypto-protodial service, reports Business Insider. Users of the new solution called Apex Crypto will be able to open cryptocurrency accounts for the purchase and sale of tokens. The service will be available in most US states. At first, Apex Crypto will support Bitcoin, Live, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. In the future, the company may expand […]