KRAKEN BOUGHT CRYPTO-DERIVATIVES PLATFORM “CRYPTO FACILITIES” According to a press release, the San Francisco-based Kraken exchange acquired the British regulated crypto-derivatives platform “Crypto Facilities”. The exact amount of the transaction is not specified, it is said only that it is expressed “nine-digit…

COINLAB WANTS TO RECOVER  $16 BILLION FROM MT.GOX INSTEAD OF THE PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED $ 75 MILLION It is expected that users of the infamous cryptocurrency exchange Mt.Gox will be able to return about 1 billion dollars. The former head of the Bitcoin Foundation and…

THE MESSENGER LINE AND THE JAPANESE HOLDING COMPANY NOMURA WILL OPEN THEIR OWN CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE The Japanese financial holding Nomura and the developer of the messenger LINE signed a partnership agreement to create a crypto-exchange. The developer of the popular application Line…

HEAD OF PANTERA CAPITAL: “IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO WORRY ABOUT CRYPTO WINTER” CEO of the leading Pantera Capital Fund, Dan Morehead said that all conditions for institutional investors have been created in the cryptocurrency market for the first time. However, there…

The organizers of the crypto-project Zilliqa, which deals with the problems of scaling and speed of decentralized systems, announced the launch of its main network – the first full-fledged public blockchain with support for sharding technology. Preparation for today’s launch was carried…

Co-founder and co-chairman of IOTA Board of Directors Dominik Schiener told that stolen in a hacker attack tokens for $11 million discovered and stored as evidence in a joint investigation with Europol. On January 24, it became known that a joint investigation…

Association of credit unions, CULedger included in the R3 consortium, has closed a financing round of Serie A, which could attract investment of $10 million for the development of a blockchain digital identifier. CULedger, which is a member of the R3 global…

Cryptocurrency, the possibility of joint release of which is considered by the Central banks of the UAE and Saudi Arabia, will be called “Aber”. The study of the technical requirements of the issue of “Aber” is also intended to find out whether…

GEMINI EXCHANGE HAS SUCCESSFULLY PASSED THE AUDIT Auditing giant Deloitte conducted SOC 2 type audit of bitcoin exchange Gemini. According to representatives of the platform, the audit was successful and the security measures meet the standards of the traditional financial industry. The…

FUJITSU: BLOCKCHAIN HAS INCREASED POWER DISTRIBUTION EFFICIENCY BY 40% Japanese IT giant Fujitsu has developed a blockchain-based system for the exchange of electricity between corporate consumers. The aim of the project is to promote a more stable distribution of energy supply during…

FIDELITY PLANS TO OFFICIALLY LAUNCH ITS CRYPTO-CUSTODIAL SERVICE THIS SPRING The launch of the crypto-custodial asset by management company Fidelity Investments may take place in March. The asset storage component of Fidelity Digital Asset Services LLC (FDAS) is already running and is…