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The VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin ETF proposal was withdrawn—again—from the SEC’s consideration prior to an October decision. Primer on VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin Shares VanEck-SolidX first submitted its proposal to list and trade shares of the “VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust” under commodity-based trust rules with the Securities Exchange Commission. Securities backed with gold or crude oil held in trust, […]

Binance made a strategic investment in crypto-data website Mars Finance. This is the first time the dominant exchange invested in a Chinese company since Beijing banned cryptocurrency trading in 2017. Growing crypto news outlet gets a boost from Binance Crypto exchange giant Binance has been on a roll in the past couple of months. The […]

A year after becoming top brass at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, Binance CFO Wei Zhou says his firm wants to “grow the pie bigger” and opening up an exchange in the U.S. just might be the best way to do it. “I think the underlying theme here is that 99.99% of […]

On Sept. 13, an attacker flooded the EOSIO network to drain $110,000 in EOS from a gambling dApp. During the process, many user-facing applications were unusable due to congestion. Here’s how the hacker did it, in detail. Basics of the network congestion exploit Four days ago, an attacker pushed the EOS network into “high congestion […]

Arthur Hayes, the CEO of BitMEX, responded to Changpeng Zhao’s false accusations of a Binance futures market maker attack—satirically. Hayes offered him a “copy/paste” course for 51 percent of his equity, alluding to earlier plagiarism accusations. Zhao replied he’d be happy to buy-in. CZ’s quick fingers get him in trouble, yet again The rivalry between […]

Segregated Witness (SegWit) transactions are on the rise and recently hit a new all-time high. SegWit adoption on the rise SegWit is a solution to the Bitcoin scalability problem that was implemented via soft fork on Aug. 2017. It splits a transaction into two segments—appending signature, or “witness” data from the original transaction. By removing […]

BitPay, the largest crypto payments provider, which facilitates over $1 billion in Bitcoin transactions annually, will add support for Ethereum. Companies which use BitPay for payment processing can now accept Ethereum for purchases.  Moreover, BitPay will provide users with the ability to store Ether in a BitPay wallet and provide access to Ether on BitPay […]

Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie is reportedly set to turn his three-year, $34 million contract into a blockchain tokenized bond. Investors will be able to put money into the contract and earn interest based on his basketball performance. Spencer Dinwiddie becomes the first athlete to put his contract on a blockchain After agreeing to a […]

Binance almost became the victim of a market maker attack in the early hours of Sep. 16. However, CEO Changpeng Zhao soon revealed that the “attack” on the new futures platform was actually the result of a bug, causing the crypto-community to criticize him for making hasty accusations. A “known” market maker allegedly attacks Binance […]

Genesis Capital, the lending arm of institutional OTC cryptocurrency firm Genesis Trading, just might be the biggest champion of the 2018 bear market, having built a multi-billion-dollar business off the back of Bitcoin’s 70 percent decline. CryptoSlate sat down with the CEO of Genesis Capital and Genesis Trading, Michael Moro, to learn more about why […]