Today the charter of the Libra Association is signed. It included 21 organizations, and another 1,500 companies want to join the Libra project, and PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, Mercado Pago, Stripe and eBay left the organization.
The futures platform of the Binance exchange reported for the first month of operation. The maximum trading volume on the site reached 74 647 BTC, and the daily volume as of October 14 is 69 158 BTC. On October 8, Binance Futures was named the largest crypto derivative platform.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which filed a lawsuit against the Telegram Open Network (TON) cryptocurrency project, used the information received from startup investors to draw up a charge for the court.
The LongHash resource found that 63.1% of failed ICO projects were closed due to the loss of investor interest, another 30% turned out to be fraudulent, and the rest failed due to an unsuccessful business model or ceased to exist because they were launched for fun.
On October 14, CEO of Bitstamp exchange Nieich Kodrich recorded a transaction worth $ 930 million, or 112,027 BTC, on the Bitcoin network. Perhaps the transaction was carried out by the Bitstamp exchange itself to transfer funds to the wallets of the custodian BitGo, with which it recently entered into a partnership.
The British company CoinShares in the coming weeks will issue a DGLD token, secured by gold. A digital coin was created on the Bitcoin blockchain.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) notes the growing popularity of its bitcoin futures. The number of contracts for this option increased by 61% per year. Almost 50% of CME Bitcoin futures were sold to residents of Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Financial Institutions Regulatory Agency (FINRA) granted Grayscale Investments permission to launch a cryptocurrency-based publicly traded index fund. The Digital Large Cap Fund (DLC) portfolio under the GDLCF ticker includes Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin indices.
The leading Swiss stock exchange SIX announces the launch of an exchange-traded product (ETP), created on the basis of Binance Coin, under the ticker symbol ABNB. It was created by fintech company AmunAG, the author of eight other similar products.
Dan Larimer, CTO of Block.One, the company that created the EOS blockchain, proposed measures to increase network decentralization and the reliability of block manufacturers.