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In a recent controversy brought to light by Amber AI, Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has been allegedly engaging in “market manipulation and fraud,” impacting $400 million in trades. Investors are unable to seek help from the courts due to regulatory exclusions. An Achilles Heel for Investors Despite Hong Kong having been among the first […]

In a press release today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against two Iranian-based criminals who were using Bitcoin to transfer—and seemingly launder—ransom-related funds. As a result of today’s actions, people who have engaged with these two addresses, and who may have consequently assisted these criminals, “could […]

An Ethereum token standard that represents fungible and nonfungible assets could spark a new wave of asset trading in the digital space. The popularity of cryptocurrencies has helped people everywhere wrap their heads around the idea of owning stuff in the digital space. But, owning other forms of digital assets is harder to embed in […]

The world’s second largest stock exchange, Nasdaq, is reportedly planning to introduce a Bitcoin futures market within the first quarter of 2019. The Bitcoin market has plunged by more than 80 percent across the spot markets, data from CryptoSlate has shown, but it hasn’t deterred the world second largest stock exchange from eyeing the lucrative […]

Coinbase launches its over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk for its institutional Prime customers today, with plans to integrate delayed settlement and Coinbase Custody. This move will reduce the costs of acquiring cryptocurrency for institutions and help reduce overall market volatility. Over-the-counter trading (OTC) occurs directly between trading parties instead of over an exchange. Many institutions (as […]

Securities Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton is reluctant to add digital currency ETFs, including Bitcoin ETFs, over fears of market manipulation, centralization, and custody security. Speaking at Consensus Invest in New York, Clayton said he will not support ETFs for a financial product until there are measures in place to ensure that it is free […]

Two more unscrupulous cryptocurrency scams were eliminated by Texas securities regulators. BitQyck and its bitqy token, and My Crypto Mine and its mining and investment activities, were both fraudulent projects operated to deceive the public and steal funds from investors. The perpetrators behind both scams were caught and prosecuted by The Texas Securities Board Enforcement […]

Ethereum is getting gutted during this market downturn, losing 60 percent of its value in the last three months alone. Despite the nosedive, enigmatic Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has held steadfast. From all-time highs in January, Buterin has lost nearly $470 million in the value of his ETH holdings. That said, he has shown no […]

Elevated Returns, a pioneer of Trophy Real estate Tokenization, has recently announced a partnership with Securitize, a compliance platform, and protocol for issuing and managing digital securities on the blockchain. This partnership will allow Elevated Returns to spur their real estate tokenization program in Southeast Asia through the Securitize technology issuance platform. Elevated Returns recently […]

Beginning Nov. 26, Ohio will begin accepting Bitcoin payments for twenty-three kinds of business taxes. The state will become the first in the United States–and one of the first governments in the world–to accept cryptocurrency. Up until now, there have been concerns that Bitcoin would not become a suitable means for conducting payments, instead, describing […]