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Crypto Exchange OKX Officially Debuts in Brazil, Offers Trading With Advanced Features
28.11.2023
Source: Pixabay Crypto platform OKX announced its official launch in Brazil, offering users with advanced crypto features including trading and staking rewards. The roll-out would feature a Web3 wallet in Brazil, providing a secured and trusted gateway to DeFi and crypto trading. The company said...
Today in Crypto: Banxa and Cardano’s Yoroi Wallet Enable In-app Fiat On/Off Ramping, Bybit Reveals Personality-Based Trading NFT/USDT Competition
27.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / RareStock Get your daily, bite-sized digest of crypto and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. __________ Wallet news Web3 on-and-off ramp solution Banxa announced that it, in partnership with Cardano’s Yoroi Wallet...
OKX launches crypto exchange, wallet services in Brazil
27.11.2023
The global cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 service provider launched a local exchange and Web3 wallet in Brazil as the country continues its competitive crypto streak
BRC20 Token ORDI Dips 10% in a Week After a 319% Monthly Surge, Nears Record High
25.11.2023
The price of the BRC20 token ordi (ORDI) slid more than 10% this week against the U.S. dollar after recording substantial gains over the three weeks prior. Despite the recent downturn, ORDI has risen over 300% during the last 30 days and it’s a touch over 25% away from surpassing...
Today in Crypto: Binance Shows Greater Net Flows Resilience, Capital is Flowing Out of US into Asia, OKX Applies for Hong Kong VATP License
24.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / Diego Get your daily, bite-sized digest of crypto and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. __________ Market news Contrasting with the crisis experienced by exchanges like FTX, Binance has demonstrated greater resilience...
Celebrating Kaspa’s 2nd Birthday: $1M Airdrop Campaign With OKX, Coinpal.io
22.11.2023
PRESS RELEASE. Massachusetts, USA, November 22nd, 2023, Chainwire. Kaspa, the revolutionary open-source, decentralized, and fully scalable Layer-1 blockchain network, is thrilled to announce its 2nd birthday celebration. To commemorate this significant milestone, together with industry leaders...
Crypto Exchanges Including OKX, Bybit & Bitstamp ‘Working with Russian Arbitrators’ on Bankruptcy Cases
21.11.2023
Source: Oleg/Adobe One of Russia’s biggest banks says international crypto exchanges such as OKX, Bybit, and Bitstamp are “cooperating with Russian arbitration managers” in bankruptcy investigations. Per Vedomosti, the Sberbank enforcement and bankruptcy department chief Evgeny Akimov said that...
Tether Freezes $225 Million in USDT After DOJ Investigation, Calling It ‘Largest-Ever Freeze of USDT’
21.11.2023
Tether has announced the “largest-ever freeze of USDT in history.” In collaboration with crypto exchange Okx, Tether froze $225 million in USDT following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The tokens were allegedly linked to an international human trafficking...
Tether Confiscates 225M USDT Involved in Pig Butchering Romance Scam
20.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock After months of investigation, USDT stablecoin maker Tether has announced the confiscation of $225 million of its tokens involved in a pig butchering romance scam. The announcement, conveyed through a press release, detailed Tether’s collaboration with the OKX crypto...
Osaka Digital Exchange to Start Security Token Trading Platform
20.11.2023
The platform, Start, will begin operating on Dec. 25 with a $20 million real-estate securities issue
Latam Insights: Argentina’s Massa Proposes Blockchain Oversight, Drex Will ‘Kill’ Lesser Cryptos in Brazil
20.11.2023
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: Argentine presidential candidate Sergio Massa has proposed to use blockchain for state oversight, the Brazilian securities regulator president stated (CBDC)...
One year on: Top 3 gainers after the 'FTX crash bottom'
19.11.2023
Bitcoin has more than doubled in price since the FTX collapse a year ago, but several other coins such as Chainlink have seen ever bigger gains since
The Protocol: Ethereum Layer-2s Keep Coming as OKX Apes In
15.11.2023
In this week's edition of The Protocol newsletter, we share a few trends stand out to close 2023: the proliferation of Ethereum layer-2 networks, the ascendancy of zero-knowledge cryptography and the appearance of tokens, smart contracts and now file hosting on the Bitcoin blockchain
Today in Crypto: 46.5% of Web3 Fund Loss is Result of Traditional Web2 Security Issues, Investment in Blockchain Gaming Hits $1.5 Billion in 2023
15.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / AhmadSoleh Get your daily, bite-sized digest of crypto and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. __________ Security news While developers and researchers generally focus on designing and coding the smart contract protocol...
OKX Ventures makes seed round investment in Kakarot
15.11.2023
OKX Ventures carries out a seed round funding in Kakarot, which is a Type 2.5 ZkEVM worded in Cairo. This is a Turing complete programming language. Cairo o has been created to collect into Cairo Assembly (CASM), helping to bring about implementation signs. In turn, these signs are utilized...
OKX releases new zKEVM Layer-2 network ‘X1’ using Polygon CDK
15.11.2023
OKX recently announced the release of its new zkEVM layer-2 network, X1. The exchange has only launched a testnet of the network for now. The leading Web3 ecosystem collaborated with Polygon Labs to design the network. The secure and highly performant Ethereum-based ZK L2 network has been built...
OKX joins Komainu and CoinShares for institutional segregated asset trading
15.11.2023
Sebastian Widmann, head of strategy at Komainu, believes this is a necessary step to attract institutions to adopt digital assets
Crypto Giant OKX Goes Live With Off-Exchange Derivatives Trading
15.11.2023
Asset manager CoinShares along with crypto custody joint venture Komainu are aiming for TradFi standards in derivatives settlement with much reduced counterparty risk
Okx Announces Compliance-Focused Expansion to Brazil
15.11.2023
Okx, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced it will expand to Brazil in the coming months to offer a regulated crypto platform to Brazilian customers. The exchange, which chose the country as its entry doorstep to Latam, aims to fulfill the regulatory requirements still being...
OKX Collaborates with Polygon Labs to Launch Testnet of X1, A High-Performance zkEVM Layer-2 Network
14.11.2023
OKX partners with Polygon Labs to test new layer-2 network X1. Image by AndriiKoval, Adobe Stock. On Tuesday, the sixth largest cryptocurrency exchange OKX announced a partnership with blockchain platform Polygon Labs to launch a test network for X1, a new zkEVM layer-2 solution designed to improve...