Bakkt has made it known that it has been granted approval by the necessary regulators and therefore will be launching its much-awaited platform for daily and monthly futures in the U.S. on the 23rd of September this year. Since the firm announced the coming of physically delivered futures in August 2018, it has become a...Read More
Brian Armstrong talked about institutional investors in the cryptocurrency space on Twitter earlier this week, saying the question of whether or not institutions will adopt cryptocurrencies has been answered. Coinbase is reportedly seeing hundreds of millions of dollars per week pouring in from legacy financial institutions. Custody Woes The main issue cited by institutions looking...Read More
On August 15, the San Francisco-based digital currency exchange Coinbase announced that it had acquired the cryptocurrency custody service Xapo’s institutional branch. The business move puts Coinbase in the limelight, making it the largest custodial service for digital assets worldwide, with more than $7 billion under custody. Also Read: Hong Kong Protest Leader Hopes to...Read More
Crypto exchange Coinbase disclosed a potential vulnerability Friday, announcing that a tiny fraction of its customers’ passwords were stored in plain text on an internal server log. However, the information was not improperly accessed by outside parties, the exchange said. In a post-mortem shared with CoinDesk, Coinbase outlined “a password storage issue,” impacting less than...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has completed the acquisition of Xapo’s custody business in a deal reportedly worth $55 million. Coinbase announced this acquisition on August 15, 2019, noting that the acquisition will help prop up Coinbase Custody, which has over $7 billion worth of assets stored for more than 120 clients. Xapo is a Hong Kong-based...Read More
By CCN.com: The privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash has fallen by nearly 15 percent this week as Bitcoin’s dominance approaches 70 percent. According to CoinMarketCap, Zcash was trading at slightly over $66 seven days ago but is now just under $56, a decline of approximately 15 percent that forced its market cap below $400 million. Zcash has...Read More
While Coinbase is still the place many Americans go for their first cryptocurrency purchase, another crypto exchange has them backpedalling. As the Malta-based exchange Binance continues its rise to the top, Coinbase is making moves to ensure they don’t become “Yahoo!” to Binance’s “Google.” The San Francisco-based platform just announced that they’re looking to add...Read More
Major United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase shut down its Chicago office and scaled down the development of its matching engine. Major United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase shut down its Chicago office and scaled down the development of its matching engine, Fortune reports on April 23. Per the report, the exchange will consolidate the high-frequency trading...Read More
