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After Bakkt officially launched its futures contract offering yesterday, the market seemed to lose some weight, disappointing general expectations. The market is also anxious about today’s Congress hearing.
Bakkt Bitcoin Futures traded 73 contracts on the first day while getting a lukewarm response from the market. Experts said that Bakkt futures would see an incremental demand going ahead.
Kik Interactive CEO Ted Livingston announced today that the company is shutting down Kik Messenger to focus on its cryptocurrency Kin, the target of a lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Binance US will offer the trading facility in crypto-to-crypto and fiat-to-crypto trading pairs in 37 states across America. It also plans to offer commission-free trading from November 1st, 2019.
With Bakkt trading 29 Bitcoin Futures contracts as of writing, experts say that Bakkt will see a gradual scale-up and incremental demand due to its nature of physical delivery.
Facebook has finally released the full list of the fiat currencies which will back Libra. While it may not come as much of a surprise, what remains yet to be seen is how France and Germany will be encouraged to accept Libra.
Bakkt’s Bitcoin Futures contracts are available in two options ‘Daily and Monthly contracts’ will settlements taking place in physical Bitcoin tokens.
Payment processing startup Stripe raised $250M in a new round of funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $35B. The company anticipates lots more digital commerce that may flow through its payments tech.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the world’s largest options and futures exchange, announced today that its thriving Bitcoin futures contracts will include options as early as 2020.
Bitcoin price has climbed back above $10,000, just days before Bakkt officially launches. Could back be the long-awaited Bitcoin savior? Will we see another all-time high before 2019 is over?
Ripple has recently moved to court making strong counter-allegations on one of the plaintiffs claiming XRP is a security. The company has filed a motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s claims.
Coinbase announced that it plans a possible addition of 17 new cryptos to its platform including Telegram provided that the assets meet set technical standards and comply with applicable laws.
Mike Novogratz said that despite Telegram approached him for the TON’s private token sale participation, he refused them multiple time due to his early skepticism about the project.
Electronic Arts (EA) is not one of the traditional firms that are going the crypto way. However, a recent tweet from the company sought to mislead the crypto community that it was and succeeded quite well at it.
As it was expected, today, on September 19, Huawei has officially introduced its Mate 30 series. The launched Mate 30 Pro and Mate 30 do not have any preinstalled Google’s services.