Crypto Exchange


Finance

Crypto Exchange OKCoin Suspends Trading of Miami and NYC CityCoins

The exchange said “unexpectedly low liquidity” poses risks to users, which the platform tries to avoid.

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Finance

Coinbase Expands in Brazil, Allows Crypto Purchases With Brazilian Reals

Previously, the exchange's users in Brazil could purchase crypto only with a credit card.

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Finance

Crypto Exchange Orca to Block U.S. Traders From Website

The top decentralized exchange on Solana will restrict U.S. trading activity on orca.so beginning on March 31.

Orca founders Yutaro Mori (left) and Ori Kwan (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Coinbase Starts ‘Wallet as a Service’ Companies Can Build Into Their Own Apps

The U.S. crypto exchange says the new service could help companies “to help bring the next hundred million customers into Web3 through a seamless wallet-onboarding experience.”

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Finance

Coinbase Acquires One River Digital Asset Management

The crypto exchange is expanding its move beyond the core business of retail trading.

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Finance

Host of Crypto Firms, Including Coinbase, Paxos and Galaxy, Jump Ship From Silvergate Bank

Coinbase's change is specific to banking in U.S. dollars and doesn't affect payment instructions in pounds or euros.

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Policy

Indian Crypto Exchange BitBNS Says Law Enforcement Advised Against Making Hack Public

A $7.5 million hack of the exchange in February 2022 was uncovered earlier this week by ZachXBT, a pseudonymous crypto sleuth.

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Policy

Justin Sun Says Hong Kong’s New Licensing Regime Could Shift Policy in Mainland China, Eventually

In the interim, if granted a VASP license, the Tron founder says Houbi will launch a new exchange, Huobi Hong Kong, to comply with regulators.

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Consensus Magazine

‘Italian FTX’ Leaves Users in Limbo, Citing ‘Difficulties in Liquidity Management’

The Rock Trading, one of the oldest crypto exchanges in the world, said Tuesday it was pausing its operations, raising fears about its future.

Andrea Medri, founder of The Rock Trading (YouTube)

Tech

Coinbase's New Layer 2 Blockchain, Base, Has Rocky Rollout

The much-anticipated protocol struggled to process user transactions, then became the target of some Twitter shade for changing some terms of a contribution pledge on the fly.

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