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Eosfinex Opens for Trading, Launches on Mainnet EOS

Bitfinex have today announced the completion of eosfinex, an on-chain trading platform built on EOSio technology. According to the press release shared with ForkLog, eosfinex has been developed with a focus on the combination of decentralization and low latency and to further the abilities of peer-to-peer value exchange, allowing for high volume trading on the EOS blockchain.


German Crypto Banking Firm Bitwala Raises €13 Million

Berlin-based Bitcoin bank Bitwala announced that it has raised €13 million (around $14.5 million) in a Series A funding round led by Sony Financial Ventures and NKB Group. Existing investors Earlybird and Coparion contributed half of the funding.

As per the announcement, the funds will be used to expand the company’s customer base, add new staff and launch Bitcoin accounts for businesses.

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Founded by Jan Goslicki, Benjamin Jones and Jörg von Minckwitz in 2015, Bitwala is currently the only European platform that combines a regular bank account with a Bitcoin wallet and trading options. Customers can easily buy and sell Bitcoin, online or on mobile, with fast liquidity directly from their bank account, hosted by solarisBank.

Bitwala’s co-founder and CTO, Ben Jones, said in a statement:

“Today, we are offering a bridge for both mainstream users and blockchain buffs, who want to interact with the emerging blockchain ecosystem – the growing digital economy spreading across the globe. While there is still huge upside potential, it has already been a humbling experience to see the ecosystem grow and for Bitwala to play such an important part in that.”


Eosfinex Opens for Trading, Launches on Mainnet EOS

Bitfinex have today announced the completion of eosfinex, an on-chain trading platform built on EOSio technology. According to the press release shared with ForkLog, eosfinex has been developed with a focus on the combination of decentralization and low latency and to further the abilities of peer-to-peer value exchange, allowing for high volume trading on the EOS blockchain.


Eosfinex Opens for Trading, Launches on Mainnet EOS

Bitfinex have today announced the completion of eosfinex, an on-chain trading platform built on EOSio technology. According to the press release shared with ForkLog, eosfinex has been developed with a focus on the combination of decentralization and low latency and to further the abilities of peer-to-peer value exchange, allowing for high volume trading on the EOS blockchain.


Bitcoin Lady Alena Vranova on Her Past with Trezor Wallet, Today’s Role at Casa and New Methods of Protecting Private Keys

She is well versed in economics and finance and driving a motorcycle, but, most importantly, she loves Bitcoin with all her heart. A professional in marketing and business development, Alena Vranova is a co-founder and former CEO of SatoshiLabs, one of the oldest companies in the Bitcoin industry best known for its Trezor hardware wallet.

Today, Alena Vranova is the Head Strategy and Business Development at Casa, a US-based company working in the field of cryptocurrency assets security and the provider of hardware Bitcoin and Lightning Network full nodes.

In an interview with ForkLog, Alena Vranova tells how she came to Bitcoin and started things at SatoshiLabs, also she shares some details about her current work at Casa and the solutions the company is offering in the field of private key protection and the development of multisig systems.


German Crypto Banking Firm Bitwala Raises €13 Million

Berlin-based Bitcoin bank Bitwala announced that it has raised €13 million (around $14.5 million) in a Series A funding round led by Sony Financial Ventures and NKB Group. Existing investors Earlybird and Coparion contributed half of the funding.

As per the announcement, the funds will be used to expand the company’s customer base, add new staff and launch Bitcoin accounts for businesses.

Es ist offiziell. 🎉

Wir freuen uns, unsere Series-A über 13 Mio.€ bekannt zu geben. 🚀


Founded by Jan Goslicki, Benjamin Jones and Jörg von Minckwitz in 2015, Bitwala is currently the only European platform that combines a regular bank account with a Bitcoin wallet and trading options. Customers can easily buy and sell Bitcoin, online or on mobile, with fast liquidity directly from their bank account, hosted by solarisBank.

Bitwala’s co-founder and CTO, Ben Jones, said in a statement:

“Today, we are offering a bridge for both mainstream users and blockchain buffs, who want to interact with the emerging blockchain ecosystem – the growing digital economy spreading across the globe. While there is still huge upside potential, it has already been a humbling experience to see the ecosystem grow and for Bitwala to play such an important part in that.”


Baltic Honeybadger 2019 Welcomes Saifedean Ammous, Dr. Adam Back and Other Prominent Bitcoin Experts

The Baltic Honeybadger conference is a major Bitcoin event in both Riga, Latvia and the world, dedicated to Bitcoin and the technologies built around it. The goal of the conference is to create an educational and community-driven event with high-profile speakers from all around the world, and coming from different backgrounds — from technical engineers and cybersecurity professionals to business owners and bestselling authors.


Eosfinex Opens for Trading, Launches on Mainnet EOS

Bitfinex have today announced the completion of eosfinex, an on-chain trading platform built on EOSio technology. According to the press release shared with ForkLog, eosfinex has been developed with a focus on the combination of decentralization and low latency and to further the abilities of peer-to-peer value exchange, allowing for high volume trading on the EOS blockchain.


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​​The US president has made his first-ever public comments about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, stating that they “are not money” while their “value is highly volatile and based on thin air.”

Taking to Twitter in early hours on Friday, Donald Trump said:

“I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity.”

After falling down close to $11,000 on Thursday evening, the price of Bitcoin not only stayed unaffected by Trump’s comments, but even went up to over $11,700 on Friday morning, with the following correction taking it slightly below $11,600.

US president meanwhile also took aim Facebook’s Libra project, insisting that the world’ largest social network and other token issuers must “face global regulations” if they intend on “becoming banks.”


Blockchain Startups Raised $822 Million in H1 2019 – Report
 
Blockchain and crypto startups have raised $822 million in 279 separate venture capital deals in H1 2019, writes Cointelegraph citing a report by Outlier Ventures released on July 2.

According to the research, titled State of Blockchains Q2 2019, 159 deals out of total 279 were seed stage ones, which shows that a sufficient number of enterprises have moved from proof of concepts in the industry, launching “fully developed open-source projects” instead.

In this regard, Outlier Ventures cited the United States’ largest bank, JPMorgan, and Big Four auditor Ernst & Young (EY), who open-sourced codes enabling transactions on Ethereum (ETH) blockchain earlier this year.

At the same time, the dynamics of venture capital investment in the space has somewhat declined, according to Lawrence Lundy-Bryan, Partner and Head of Research at Outlier Ventures. According to him, the frequency of large VC raises in blockchain industry has “diminished” so far, as compared with the “outsized performance of the 2018 bull market.”

Traditional VC investment in blockchain and crypto saw a threefold increase in the first three quarters of 2018 as industry firms raised $3.9 billion by late September in 2018. To wit, three more billion would need to be raised over the next three months to match the figures seen in 2018.

Still, crypto exchanges have continued to attract investment in the first half of 2019 despite increased regulatory activity, Lundy-Bryan noted, adding that South Korean exchange Bithumb has alone raised $200 million in H1 2019.

Also worth noting is the increasing popularity of exchange listings in the form of initial exchange offerings (IEOs), as well as another trend of direct investment into protocols in exchange for both tokens and equity.

Founded in 2013, Outlier Ventures claims to be Europe’s first venture firm focused on blockchain technology. In June 2019, the company launched The Convergence Alliance, aiming to bring together a network of enterprises, startups, governments and regulators to collaborate on raising industry standards and launching new projects. The alliance members include German tech company SAP, Deutsche Telekom and Land Rover Jaguar.


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BiteBTC Crypto Exchange Pulls an Alleged Exit Scam. CoinMarketCap Warns of Withdrawals Being Halted

BiteBTC, a little-known cryptocurrency exchange allegedly based in Singapore, has halted withdrawals and is blocking clients’ accounts, several affected users. A similar warning was also posted by CoinMarketCap.

From what we know at this point, on several occasions the exchange asked traders to provide sources for their funds and proofs of ownership. BiteBTC also required users to prove their identity by providing bank account or credit card statement to ensure a full compliance with AML/KYC rules.

However, even after successful verification users had their accounts blocked while trying to withdraw assets from the exchange.

BiteBTC’s Twitter page suggests thatthe exchange is based in Singapore. According to the official website, First Financial LLC, allegedly based in Seychelles, seems to be BiteBTC’s operator, but the domain for the firm’s website is registered in the U.S. Therefore, it’s not immediately clear to which regulations the exchange is subjected.

Owner of Singapore based firm FinanceFirst Pte. Ltd has provided more insights in a recent blog post. He claims that BiteBTC website has fraudulently stated the company as an operator. He also filed a police report against the exchange for a theft of identity.

First warning signs in regard to BiteBTC appeared back in February, when users started complaining about withdrawals being delayed or halted with no clear reasons.


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​​Bakkt’s Bitcoin Futures Contracts Expected To Launch In July 2019

Bitcoin futures exchange Bakkt has announced it is moving forward with its plans to launch physically-settled Bitcoin futures contracts. In an announcement on Monday, May 13, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)-backed company broke down the product, saying that it would be testing the products this summer.

In a blog post, Bakkt’s CEO Kelly Loeffler wrote that after closely cooperating with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the company will be working with its customers over the next several weeks to prepare for user acceptance testing (UAT) for futures and custody, which is expected to start in July.


Bitcoin Futures & Custody: Bakkt’s differentiated approach
User acceptance testing for bitcoin futures custody and trading planned for July

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No specific launch date was announced though, neither did Kelly Loeffler explicitly say that Bakkt’s proposal to self-custody BTC and clear it through its parent company’s warehouse (Intercontinental Exchange’s ICE Clear US) had been approved.

“We expect to use UAT to ensure that customers have time to onboard and can test the trading and custody model we’ve built to their satisfaction,” she wrote.

As per announcement, Bakkt will list two different futures contracts: a daily settlement Bitcoin future, “which will enable customers to transact in a same-day market,” and a monthly futures contract, which will enable trading in the front month and across the forward pricing curve.

The firm says that price formation in these benchmark contracts will be supported by “proven tools” to detect abusive or disruptive trading practices, including wash trades. That means that the settlement prices on ICE Futures U.S. will be based on prices discovered in Bakkt’s physical delivery contracts without relying on unregulated cash markets.

The futures contracts will be margined by ICE Clear US, including the collection of initial margin collateral and variation margin to manage risk.

“This approach is consistent with capital-efficient risk management practices in global futures markets, ranging from oil and gold to interest rates and equity index futures,” says the company.

Bakkt will also place $35 million of its own funding into the clearinghouse risk waterfall, which, according to the firm, “puts our own ‘skin in the game’ and aligns our interests for market integrity and safety with market participants.”

For physical delivery and secure storage of Bitcoin, an integrated custody service will be fulfilled by Bakkt’s qualified custodian, subject to regulatory approval. Safekeeping will be supported by insurance, cybersecurity, and comprehensive compliance, including an anti-money-laundering program and blockchain analytics.

Kelly Loeffler added that Bakkt is also working with the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) to become a trust company and operate as a qualified custodian for digital assets, alongside the CFTC-regulated futures products.

As reported by ForkLog last month, LedgerX, a crypto derivatives provider, is planning to become the first U.S. company to offer physically settled Bitcoin futures contracts. Should they succeed in getting this license, then the firm will beat Bakkt to the first place.


​​Bitcoin Price Soars to $7,500 to Establish New 2019 High

The price of Bitcoin is up more than 25% in the past few days having shortly jumped over $7,500 mark on Sunday, May 12. This is the highest level since early August 2018, with the flagship cryptocurrency setting a new multi-month high for the fifth day in a row now and having rallied for over 70 percent in the last six weeks.

Just yesterday, BTC broke the $7,000 mark on the back of the highest trading volume levels since the April 1st rally. Bitcoin’s market cap has also added $30 billion in value since the beginning of May, going over $130 billion earlier today.

By comparison, the combined market cap of all other cryptocurrencies has only risen by $10 billion during the same period of time. Standing by 59.3%, Bitcoin’s dominance rate is now the highest since its $20,000 all-time high price in late 2017.

Meanwhile Arthur Hayes, the CEO at BitMEX, the world’s leading exchange for trading cryptocurrency derivatives, revealed that the platform’s daily Bitcoin volume surpassed $10 billion on Sunday, which was quite remarkable taking into account that historically the market has demonstrated volume dips during weekends.

Even though Bitcoin was leading the rally, it is not the crypto posting the highest price hike in 2019.

Binance Coin BNB, the native token of the largest cryptocurrency exchange, saw a surge in its price by a massive 292.25%, followed by Litecoin LTC with 217.86% from January 2019 till May 2019.

BNB faced the brunt of Binance recently getting hacked. The coin fell tremendously; however, it managed to recover and noted a surge by 9.77% over the past day. At press time, BNB was valued at $21.06 when compared to its price 0f $5.93 in January 2019.

Litecoin followed BNB’s suit and registered a growth of 217% from January 2019 to May 2019. In January 2019, LTC was valued at $30.39, changing hands at $87.75, at press time. In the past seven days, LTC grew by 18.78% and a massive 15% in the last 24 hours.

As for BTC, today’s surge seems to have slightly cooled off as well, with the largest cryptocurrency currently changing hands at around $7,100 – $7,200.


Bitfinex Raises $1 Billion Via Private Token Sale

NEWS 13.05.2019
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has raised staggering $1 billion through a private sale of its native token LEO, the platform’s chief technology officer Paolo Ardoino‏ announced Monday, May 13.

According to him, the target was achieved in 10 days, with participation from large players representing the cryptocurrency industry as well as outside ventures.

Some unnamed companies invested over $100 million each, while others contributed investments of over $1 million each, Ardoino‏ claimed.

“Why? Because they know we are trustworthy, they recognize what we have been doing (without needing us bragging about it publicly) and they want us keep fighting for the industry whole,” Bitfinex CTO added in another tweet.
Paolo Ardoino‏ added ‘a correction’ in the thread saying that, since there was some misunderstanding, most of the money was raised by investor who subscribed directly with iFinex, Bitfinex’s parent company.

Following Ardoino’s announcement the price of Bitcoin, having retreated back to $7,000 on Sunday afternoon, is seeing solid gain again. At the time of writing, BTC is 5.50 percent up over the last 24 hours, trading around the $7,500 mark it saw yesterday.

Bitfinex announced the token offering earlier this month, days after the New York Attorney General’s office revealed that it was looking for more information about the exchange’s alleged cover-up of an $850 million loss. The missing funds, which were held by third-party payment processor Crypto Capital, have been seized by several authorities, iFinex has claimed.

In its official white paper for the token sale, released last week, the exchange said any funds recovered will be used to “repurchase and burn” outstanding LEO tokens.

Bitfinex is also expected to launch a dedicated platform for projects to raise funds via similar initial exchange offerings next month.


​​After Postponing Its IPO Listing, Bitmain Could Launch New 7nm Chip Miners
Despite calling off plans to go with its IPO application at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the beleaguered mining giant Bitmain Technologies is reportedly looking forward to the Bitcoin halving in May 2020. The company hopes it will boost the sales of its new 7nm chip miners planned to launch by the end of this year, South China Morning Post writes.

According to publication, the Beijing-based company is betting that its next flagship product will turn out to be a winner in the mining gear market, capturing an expected Bitcoin price rally. Citing a company source familiar with the matter, the publication says that the launch of yet another new Bitcoin mining rig by the end of 2018 will be the first time that Bitmain has put its 7nm chips into full-scale production.

Last November, Bitmain rolled out two new models known as the S15 and T15 – the first major update to its Bitcoin miner product line in nearly 2.5 years, as well as the first time it put its 7nm chips into test. By then its smaller rivals like Canaan Creative had caught up with their own 7nm chips, prompting analysts including Bernstein’s Mark Li to conclude that Bitmain “may be gradually losing technological edge” before its IPO application.

Now Bitmain is reportedly planning to release new S17 and T17 Bitcoin miners, powered by the second generation of 7nm chips, which are about 30 per cent more efficient than the first generation.

It was the same strategy Bitmain pulled off in 2016, the SCMP’s source said, when the company launched its Antminer S9 model on the eve of Bitcoin’s last halving. The following year, the S9 accounted for an estimated 60 per cent of shipments among all Bitcoin mining hardware.

However, since the demand for mining rigs is still low, and because Bitmain’s chip supplier, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), has no capacity available for its 7nm chips for now, both the 15 and 17 series are only transition products, the source added.

A TSMC spokeswoman declined to comment; Bitmain, while refraining from commenting on the issue, referred to its previous statements about the company’s adjustments.

Bitmain Delays Hong Kong IPO
Earlier this week, Bitmain has postponed its stock market listing after failing to gain approval from the Hong Kong stock exchange (HKex). Bitmain filed last September for an initial public offering on HKex, but the company said Tuesday that its six-month application period had expired without receiving approval.

“We will restart the listing application work at an appropriate time in the future,” the company said on its website.

The Hong Kong exchange has not revealed details about its review process. Many suspect that the bourse questioned the stability and sustainability of the crypto-mining sector.

“We do recognize that despite the huge potential of the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, it remains a relatively young industry which is proving its value,” Bitmain said. “We hope regulatory authorities, media and the general public can be more inclusive to this young industry.”

Bitmain said it has taken steps for “rationalization and optimization,” including job cuts and a leadership change. The company also has integrated chip design, hardware and software operations.

Bitmain’s IPO listing was predicted to be the world’s largest crypto-related IPO, but the collapse of the application added to the news of the company’s economic retrenchments.

Samson Mow, CSO at Blockstream and one of the Bitmain’s starkest critics, stated that Bitcoin halving would not help Bitmain’s case if they were still around in May 2020. Mow argued that Bitmain’s main issue was not its failed IPO listing, but the non-competitiveness of Bitmain’s mining machines in the market.


​​German Ministry of Finance Presents Paper on Blockchain Securities Regulation
A paper on the regulation of blockchain-based securities has been published by the German Federal Ministry of Finance. In this document, the regulator discusses the introduction of regulations for electronic securities and the issuance of crypto tokens, defining the key points on the issue.

According to the announcement on March, 8, the paper stipulates that the regulation of electronic securities should be technology-neutral, which means that they could be based on blockchain, or distributed ledger technology (DLT).

Notably, the issuance of crypto tokens will not be subject to existing market regulations since crypto tokens do not represent securities, investment or other financial instruments according to the Securities Trading Act. However, initial coin offering (ICO) of crypto tokens is put up for discussion in the paper as investing in crypto tokens purportedly poses risks for investors.

The announcements also reads that, before proposing a draft bill on the subject, the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection and the Federal Ministry of Finance should come up with a comprehensive picture of the measures outlined in the key issues paper. Those measures aim to strengthen the role of Germany as one of the leading fintech countries.

Publication of the paper follows February’s statement by the chief executive body of the German government, the Cabinet of Germany, that the country’s blockchain strategy will be introduced by mid-2019. The Cabinet stated that they will undergo an online consultation process prior to introducing the blockchain strategy.

The strategy is reportedly being prepared by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Other relevant ministries are expected to contribute as well.


​​CFTC is ‘Diligently’ Working on All Crypto-Related Applications, Including Bakkt
United States regulator the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is actively working to approve multiple crypto-related applications, including for Bitcoin (BTC) futures from institutional trading platform Bakkt. As reported by Cointelegraph, a CFTC commissioner revealed the news in remarks to cryptocurrency news network Blocktv in an interview on March 19.

Answering a question about the status of Bakkt’s application, which has seen multiple delays, commissioner Dan Berkovitz avoided a direct update on the project, instead saying that the CFTC was trying to assist all cryptocurrency-related products in obtaining the necessary approval for launch in the U.S.

“We have a very interactive process with all the entities that come before us and are working diligently with all the applicants to process their applications and get their products on the market,” he said, adding:

“But we need to ensure that a crypto product, just like any other product that’s traded on our markets, meets all the standards.”

Asked whether Bakkt was now receiving special treatment from the CFTC, however, Berkovitz declined to suggest previous hold-ups had resulted in pressure to move forward.

“All of the applications before us we’re working very hard on with the applicants, including that one,” he added.

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal wrote that Bakkt was facing more difficulties in its road to getting the green light from regulators. Following a lack of consensus over how the platform would handle its Bitcoin futures, discussions nonetheless do remain ongoing.

“We are working through the regulatory review process and are looking forward to updating the market soon,” the publication quoted an unnamed ICE spokesperson as saying.

Bakkt, the brainchild of New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), was originally slated to debut in December, but regulatory compliance hurdles saw the date pushed back several times.

December 31, 2018, Bakkt announced it closed a Series A funding round, raising $182.5 million from 12 partners and investors.

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