The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) will increase its monthly limit on open positions to 10,000 BTC or 2,000 contracts. Increased spot-month position limits in CME Bitcoin futures will be available Sept 30, pending reg review. Limits will increase to 2K contracts, equal to 10K bitcoin, to provide customers greater flexibility to trade and hedge bitcoin […]
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Dapper Labs, the developer of the game CryptoKitties, raised $ 11.2 million to create the Flow blockchain, Forbes reports. Investors included Andreessen Horowitz, Digital Currency Group and Warner Music Group. They have acquired stakes in the company, but will be able to convert them into Flow native tokens after approval by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Flow blockchain is focused on […]
Huobi cryptocurrency exchange could become a public company in Hong Kong through the reverse takeover of electronics maker Pantronics Holdings Limited. This is evidenced by the application posted on the site. Soon, the company, whose main shareholder is the Huobi Group, may change its name to Huobi Technology Holdings Limited. The deal on the purchase of 221 million ordinary shares last August cost Huobi $ 77 […]
The Ethereum Classic network hosted the Atlantis hard fork aimed at increasing interoperability with Ethereum. So, we have arrived in Atlantis! Looking good so far. Classic Geth, Parity and MultiGeth are in consensus, now 23 blocks after the fork. There is some mining on the old chain, with 2 blocks produced so far. @ InputOutputHK Mantis has dropped off […]
TON Labs, the developer of the infrastructure for the Telegram Open Network ecosystem, has announced the public launch of TON Labs Node Startup Edition, a complete set of development tools for the TON blockchain. This edition of ForkLog said company representatives. According to the developers, the source code of the TON blockchain, published on September 6, is an implementation of the Proof-of-Stake algorithm with sharding from Telegram. TON Labs […]
Alfa-Bank, in partnership with the Russian retailer X5 Retail Group, launched a service for managing payments, credit-deposit products and liquidity based on the Waves Enterprise blockchain solution. This is stated in the press release of the bank. A service called Distributed Treasury and Cash Management (DTCM) is intended for corporate customers of the bank. The application is powered by Waves Enterprise technology. “The key difference between DTCM is that […]
Spain's largest bank Santander issued a $ 20 million bond and tokenized quarterly coupons on the Ethereum blockchain. The bank has delivered delivery against payment on chain. ? Santander launches the first end-to-end #blockchain bond. More details at ? https://t.co/uW76t6xIiT pic.twitter.com/J8KFmH3yoY – Banco Santander (@bancosantander) September 12, 2019 purchased an annual bond with a quarterly coupon of 1.98% at the market price […]
French authorities intend to levy income taxes on converting cryptocurrencies to fiat. Cryptocurrency trading does not require paying taxes without fiat transactions, Bloomberg reports citing Finance Minister Bruno Le Mer. The official added that when buying goods and services for cryptocurrencies, VAT will be charged. A similar tax policy is approved in Portugal, where the conclusion in […]
Fundstrat agency co-founder Tom Lee said that the Trump administration’s actions regarding electronic cigarette manufacturers prove that the president can ban anything. This is un-related but shows White House can issue an 'executive order' banning anything. And could even ban bitcoin. Not expecting it. But with current White House, there is “nothing out of […]
Digital Financial Assets Bill Done. It will be considered at a meeting with Finance Minister Anton Siluanov as early as next Wednesday, September 18. This was stated by the head of the State Duma Committee on the financial market Anatoly Aksakov, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. Judging by his words, the authorities still have not decided on the cryptocurrency market regulation vector: “In principle, in order to […]