Researchers Find Discrepancies With Top Exchange Volumes

This month the Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI) published a research report that claims quite a few of the top cryptocurrency exchanges are overstating their trade volumes or participating in wash trades. BTI explains that out of 130 of the top cryptocurrency trading platforms researched, the organization estimates that every 24-hours over $6B worth of digital … Read more

Crypto Exchange Okex Introduces Stricter KYC Rules

Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Okex is enforcing tightened identity verification procedures. Daily withdrawal limits will soon depend on the KYC level passed by its users. The changes will apply to customers of Okex’s partnering platforms as well. Also read: Report: North Korea to Hold a Crypto Conference Withdrawal Limits to Depend On the Level of … Read more

9 Major Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Get You in the Game

With over 1,800 cryptocurrencies and a ton of exchanges, it can be hard to know which one to use, as exchanges vary in how their customers can trade. Some, like Coinbase and Gemini, allow you to get your feet wet in the industry and start out with fiat currencies. Other exchanges only trade crypto-to-crypto. This … Read more

Altcoin Purge Begins: Okex Delists 28 Token Pairs

As part of what some observers are calling a purge of alternative coins during the cryptocurrency bear market, Hong Kong-based exchange Okex announced they would be delisting and hiding certain token pairs, more than two dozen in total. It comes at time when the exchange is dealing with its own internal problems in a year, … Read more

Weekly Blockchain Industry Report-17th Issue: Bitcoin ETF

(August 4th –August 10th, 2018) This week, the crypto market continued the bear trend. Major cryptocurrencies suffered price delince more than 10%. Among which, XRP got hammered and experienced greates loss of 26.2%. Apart from emotional factors, the major reason for this hit is the news that SEC rejected the application of Bitcoin ETF. We’ll … Read more

Exchanges Round-Up: Chinese Court Backs Coinnice Repatriation, CZ Demos Binance DEX

In recent news pertaining to cryptocurrencies, a Chinese court has rejected an appeal from a trader disputing a previous decision that mandated he repay the value of 5 BTC accidentally credited to his Coinnice account, the CEO of Binance has demonstrated the company’s upcoming decentralized exchange (DEX), and Okex’s head of operations has discussed the … Read more

The Weekly: Coinbase Increases Limits, Shapeshift Acquires Bitfract, Okex Launches Coinall

In this week’s daily editions of Bitcoin in Brief we reported about Coinbase increasing trading limits, Shapeshift acquiring Bitfract, Okex launching a white label platform called Coinall, and much more. The most commented-on article during the week covered the ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ author, Robert Kiyosaki, which came out in favor of cryptocurrencies. Also Read: … Read more

The Daily: Ledger Adds Coins, Okex Launches Coinall, Exmo Partners with Mistertango

Covered in The Daily on Friday are several announcements crypto users may find interesting. Ledger has added support for 8 new coins and crypto exchange Okex is launching a white label platform. Also, Exmo will offer its European users faster payments and transfers in partnership with Mistertango, and Estonian startup Citowise has integrated credit card … Read more

OK blockchain report: Bear returns after the BTC ETF got rejected, should investors HOLD?

Weekly Blockchain Industry Report (16th Issue) 2018.7.28-8.3 OK Blockchain Capital. Zhe Su Market Overview   The past week’s daily average global market capitalization of cryptocurrency was $290.49 billion and the daily average transaction volume was $15.17 billion, indicating an incline of 8.26% and an incline of 8.26% respectively. The daily average market capitalization of the … Read more