Bakkt CEO: Crypto Trading Platform Won’t Support Margin Trading

Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany's central bank, and Deutsche Börse, owner of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, have completed a blockchain trial investigating the technology's potential in securities settlement. The two announced in a joint press release on Thursday that two blockchain prototypes built to their specifications had "successfully" supported the settlement of securities transactions, payments (including interest)…

Apr 30, 2020 at 13:36 UTCUpdated Apr 30, 2020 at 14:00 UTCYouNow event (Credit: Randy Miramontez / Shutterstock.com)YouNow’s Regulated Crypto Project Props Will Migrate to Algorand BlockchainThe cryptocurrency project launched by video live-streaming platform YouNow is ditching its private network and migrating onto public blockchain Algorand.The move comes as the Props project seeks higher throughput…

May 8, 2020 at 11:49 UTCUpdated May 8, 2020 at 11:54 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/Daniel FungFirst Mover: Search Interest in Bitcoin’s Halving Reaches Fever Pitch as Price Hits $10KWith fewer than four days left till bitcoin's halving, popular interest in the once-every-four-years event is reaching a fever pitch.Google Trends, a barometer for gauging interest in trending search topics,…

Russia's president Vladimir Putin signed the digital ruble bill into law today, allowing the country's central bank to issue its own digital currency.The digital ruble, which the Bank of Russia has long been mulling over, will be used for payments along with other methods, according to the new amendments to Russia's Civil Code. The digital…

news The Danish Tax Agency has got the green light to collect trader information from local cryptocurrency exchanges to see if they are paying their dues. The agency, in Danish called the Skattestyrelsen, announced Monday that this is the first time the country’s Tax Council has given it access to crypto traders’ data – information that includes…

UPDATE 18:27 UTC, 10/13/18: Block creation on Ropsten testnet continues to feature zero transactions, indicating Constantinople may have failed to activate. UPDATE 17:36 UTC, 10/13/18: Block 4,230,000 has been mined, but features zero transactions. Ethereum's main test network, Ropsten, is currently at a standstill. Code for ethereum's upcoming hard fork, dubbed Constantinople, was set to be activated on…

news Overstock’s tZERO security token trading platform has once again failed to close on a capital injection by the targeted date. In a letter to shareholders Thursday, Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne said the $100 million investment led by Makara Capital and GSR Capital that was agreed upon in February and scheduled for completion in mid-April…

Circle deployed its euro stablecoin on the Solana network to boost on-chain foreign exchange transactions and remittances.The company said it intends EURC to be a regulated e-money token under EU regulations.Stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Financial said its euro-backed stablecoin EURC is live on the Solana (SOL) blockchain, which is known for cheap, speedy transactions and

Aug 27, 2020 at 00:42 UTCUpdated Aug 27, 2020 at 00:43 UTC(Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk)Messaging giant LINE has launched a wallet for users to manage digital assets and a blockchain platform where developers can issue their own tokens, tokenize digital assets, and run decentralized applications (dapps). LINE’s development platform aims to allow companies to easily…