OKEx Adds More Coin-Margined Perpetual Swaps for Real-Time Settlement

news The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs is holding its hearing on regulatory frameworks for cryptocurrencies and blockchain today. The open session, titled “Examining Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Currencies and Blockchain,” is set to start at 10:00 a.m. EST (14:00 UTC). It’s not so far been made clear if the event will…

Apr 17, 2020 at 16:50 UTCPhoto by Birmingham Museums Trust on UnsplashBlockchain Bites: Binance vs. Ethereum, MicroBT vs. Bitmain, Libra vs. the WorldToday, Binance unveiled plans for a new smart contract blockchain competing with Ethereum, Bitcoin miner manufacturer MicroBT looks to beat Bitmain to market, and the road ahead for stablecoins looks bumpy."The industry needs…

The SEC charged two brothers with attempting to defraud more than 80 investors in a $60 million Ponzi scheme. The brothers allegedly told investors one of them had created a “bot” that operated on a crypto asset trading platform, which could identify arbitrage trading opportunities. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged brothers

There are free-riders in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. At least, that's the contention of a new paper, shared with CoinDesk on Monday, written by ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, Microsoft researcher Glen Weyl and Ph.D. of economics at Harvard, Zoë Hitzig. And free-riders pose a problem. Described in the paper, free-riders are people or businesses that profit from the…

SpankChain, a cryptocurrency project focused on the adult industry, has suffered a breach that saw almost $40,000 in ethereum (ETH) stolen. In a blog post published Tuesday, the SpankChain team disclosed the hack, saying 165.38 ETH (worth around $38,000 at the time) had been lost at around 18:00 PST on Saturday. The intrusion, which the post…

Sep 1, 2020 at 08:00 UTCUpdated Sep 1, 2020 at 08:13 UTCBitMEX mobile app interface (BitMEX)Leading cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BitMEX has launched a mobile trading app in 140 countries, the exchange told CoinDesk. Announced Tuesday morning, the product launch comes two weeks after BitMEX’s first-ever identity verification requirement was announced earlier in August. Built completely…

Jul 27, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Jul 27, 2020 at 13:21 UTCHedera Hashgraph (CoinDesk archives)Distributed public ledger Hedera Hashgraph’s native cryptocurrency HBAR is now available for purchase through Israel-based global fiat payment processor Simplex, the companies announced Monday.  In a statement, Simplex said the integration will enable users to buy and sell HBAR with a…

Oct 27, 2020 at 16:57 UTCUpdated Oct 27, 2020 at 17:23 UTCDEFI T-BILL: Yield Protocol's programmatic money market offers stable interest rates just like a Treasury bill.(Wikimedia/CoinDesk)This Paradigm-Backed Startup Is Offering DeFi’s First ‘T-Bill’“What is the time value of money?”That’s the age-old question Allan Niemerg, former head of research and investments at Cumberland DRW and founder…

Sep 17, 2020 at 16:04 UTCBlockchain Bites: Uniswap’s Token, Kraken’s Bank, Bitcoin’s NewbiesUniswap issued a governance token, Kraken is the world’s first crypto bank and there are more “newbie” bitcoin investors than any time in the past two years. Top shelfCrypto’s bankKraken Financial, a newly formed division of the popular crypto exchange, has become the first…