The BTC- and ETH-based perpetual swaps, are extremely similar to those innovated by BitMEX. The BFX products also offer 100x leverage and use the same interest rate mechanism. However, while BitMEX settles exclusively in BTC, BFX products settle in Tether."
Crypto exchange FTX has listed quarterly futures on tokenized stocks, offering up to 100x leverage. FTX partnered with German custody services firm CM-Equity, and Swiss tokenization solutions provider Digital Assets, for the new 24/7 offering. The underlying tokens, which allow traders to buy fractions of shares, are redeemable for the underlying stocks. As with FTX's other products, its equity trading offering won't be available in the United States.
The Japanese cabinet approved draft amendments to the country's financial instruments and payment services laws, which would cap leverage in virtual currency margin trading at two to four times initial deposits. Also all cryptocurrency exchanges that offer margin trading will have to register with the FSA.
Tencent will work with Waterdrop, which forms part of China's rapidly-expanding crowdfunded health insurance industry, to leverage Tencent's existing presence and experience in the field to create as yet undefined blockchain tools.
The World Economic Forum has teamed up with over 100 global supply chain and logistics leaders to standardize blockchain apps in the industry. The project aims to co-develop interoperable blockchain applications in the logistics industry and to leverage an open-source toolkit to deploy blockchain responsibly.
Gemini is partnering with Harbor, an all-in-one platform for tokenized securities offerings, to allow users to invest in deals using Gemini dollars (GUSD) and receive any future distributions or dividends of such deals in GUSD.
Open X refers to a new operational age where the financial services industry is moved onto a shared ecosystem or marketplace. In this new paradigm, players leverage data extensively and collaborate with other players to provide customers with a seamless experience.
CBDC can leverage the decentralized and secure advantages of blockchain. This enables P2P transactions, offers a more resilient payment infrastructure, reduces transaction costs, enhances information sharing capabilities and facilitates data reconciliation. Blockchain enabled payment solutions have been rigorously tested by central banks across North America, Europe and Asia.
"For a panel about a proposed cryptocurrency, Tuesday's Senate Banking Committee hearing was notably light on crypto talk. Bitcoin was barely mentioned during the two-hour session and most of the lawmakers seemed far less concerned with the technology than with who was planning to leverage it: Facebook."
While there have been incredibly successful crypto projects that have leveraged either a capped or uncapped sale, several prominent crypto projects such as the Algorand Foundation are turning to a Dutch Auction for their token distribution with the hopes of bringing more transparency to the process.
IDG-backed KuCoin has announced the beta launch of its derivatives trading platform, KuMEX. To start, the new platform will offer trading of its so-called Bitcoin Perpetual Contract (XBTUSDM).
In China, online lenders are filling the credit gap, leveraging cutting edge technology including artificial intelligence (AI) to make lending decision in just a second. Alibaba's MyBank and Tencent's WeBank make their lending decisions using AI, processing vast amounts of user data and information gathered from the mobile payment services they operate.
A rag-tag team of Israeli entrepreneurs is looking to leverage Facebook's cryptocurrency project for profits, even without the $10 million required to join the Libra Association. So far the newly established startup, Libracamp, has received more than 80 applications to participate in a virtual bootcamp for Libra developers starting in November.
A confusion of theories have surfaced to explain the cause of the savage decline, yet a compelling one is that it was fuelled-perhaps not started-by a series of liquidations and margin calls on 100x leverage crypto derivatives giant BitMEX.
"Right now, though, speed is of the essence. There is no time to create entirely new payments infrastructure to deliver coronavirus relief. Ideally, Treasury will find a way to leverage the infrastructure of the enormously successful Direct Express program to avoid sending paper checks. "
Santander said the solution, One Pay FX, will be coming to Mexico "in early 2020." Initially launched in 2018, One Pay FX is a money transfer solution and leverages RippleNet (formerly xCurrent) to settle cross-border transactions. It does not use XRP.