2019-9-6 12:07 |
Japanese messaging giant LINE has received regulatory approval for its new domestic cryptocurrency exchange
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LINE, provider of Japan's most popular messaging app, has just been approved for a cryptocurrency business license in the country.
2019-9-6 13:15 | |
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Deribit is teaming with institutional traders' messaging service Paradigm to facilitate block trades of bitcoin and ether derivatives.
2019-8-23 16:18 | |
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In its 130-page document, Kik claims the US Securities and Exchange Commission "twisted facts" and took quotes out of context when it decided to sue the messaging app for its $100 million Kin token ICO.
2019-8-8 19:07 | |
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Canadian instant messaging company, Kik, has hit back at the US regulator trying to sue its ICO with a giant public document. Kik Implies ICO Trial Was SEC Publicity Stunt Following that news that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was taking Kik to court in June, the company has now released a response in which lawyers dissect its allegations on a sentence-by-sentence basis.
2019-8-8 14:00 | |
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Kik Interactive Inc. , the Canadian instant messaging company, was sued by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] two months ago, with the SEC accusing the firm of an unregistered token sale which raised $100 million.
2019-8-7 13:30 | |
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Cryptocurrencies are usually used for monetary transactions, but they can also be used to share data. Many coins have a dedicated “memo” field, but broadly speaking, any cryptocurrency that allows custom data can also be used to exchange messages.
2019-7-4 23:39 | |
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Line Corporation, the firm in charge of Japan’s largest messaging app, Line Messenger, is set to be approved for its BitMax bitcoin exchange from the Financial Services Agency (FSA), reports Bloomberg on June 20, 2019.
2019-6-21 20:00 | |
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Japan’s Financial Services Agency may issue a license as early as this month that would allow the messaging app Line to open an exchange, allowing its users to trade cryptocurrency, including Line's native token, Link.
2019-6-21 19:23 | |
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By CCN Markets: Line, the most widely utilized messaging application in Japan with more than 80 million users is set to receive approval from Japan’s Financial Services Agency as early as June to launch a crypto exchange, according to a Bloomberg report.
2019-6-21 16:05 | |
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Japanese messaging company Line Corp is reportedly gearing up to launch a cryptocurrency exchange, The report comes just days after fellow tech giant Facebook announced the launch of Libra. According to Bloomberg, which cites people close to the matter, Line could receive its license this month, with exchange operations expected to begin a few weeks after it gets the green light.
2019-6-20 14:34 | |
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LVC Corporation, the crypto- and blockchain-focused arm of Japanese messaging giant Line, is allegedly close to obtaining an FSA-issued crypto exchange operating license
2019-6-20 14:14 | |
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Japanese messaging giant LINE may soon be able to open a cryptocurrency exchange for its 80 million users based in the country.
2019-6-20 10:00 | |
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Telegram, one of the fastest growing messaging apps in the world, will for the first time make its Gram token available to retail investors through Liquid exchange. The exchange said that the limited listing will be available from July 10 and that a full public sale is planned for October.
2019-6-12 09:06 | |
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It appears that encrypted-messaging app Telegram is finally going forward with the public sale of its Gram tokens, as announced in a press release on June 11, 2019. This comes after the messaging app initially canceled its earlier public ICO plan, amid a firestorm of SEC clampdown on the funding mechanism.
2019-6-12 21:00 | |
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Telegram has reversed its earlier decision to not carry out a public sale of its native token Gram by announcing a listing on the Liquid cryptocurrency exchange. U-Turn for Telegram? In a press release issued on Tuesday (June 11, 2019), the messaging platform declared that it would be going forward with a public initial coin offering (ICO) for its Gram token.
2019-6-11 16:00 | |
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Telegram, the messaging giant which took the cue from Facebook to veer into the cryptocurrency and blockchain world, is finally ready to make its mark. According to a press release, the encrypted messaging application will work with cryptocurrency platform Liquid for the public sale of Telegram Open Network [TON].
2019-6-11 12:52 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued messaging app Kik over their 2017 ICO for its KIN token. Officials allege that the ICO constituted an unregistered securities offering.
2019-6-5 12:05 | |
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In a turn everyone should’ve seen coming, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing messaging app Kik for its initial coin offering (ICO). In court documents released yesterday, the SEC outlined that Kik’s sale of one trillion “Kin” tokens was not registered with the SEC.
2019-6-5 11:26 | |
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Kik Interactive Inc. , a messaging service, responded to the enforcement actions taken against it by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]. In a press release, Chief Executive Officer of Kik, Ted Livingston, said that they had been expecting this and now, they “welcome the opportunity to fight for the future of crypto.
2019-6-5 10:30 | |
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As expected, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Kik Interactive Inc. The regulatory body alleges that the social messaging firm turned crypto company broke securities laws when it held its $100 million ICO in 2017.
2019-6-5 00:00 | |
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In 2017, messaging service Kik raised $100 million during its Kin token ICO. The US Securities and Exchange Commission now claims the ICO constituted an illegal securities offering.
2019-6-5 21:48 | |
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Kin, a crypto-project based around messaging app Kik, recently made headlines as the organization launched the DefendCrypto. org dubbed fund against the US Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC].
2019-6-3 04:00 | |
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The firm behind Kik, a Canada-based messaging app, is going to court with the US Securities and Exchange Commission… The post Controversy Arises Around KIK $5M Fund To Take On the SEC appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-30 21:51 | |
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After Craig Wright’s barrage of lawsuits and the campaign to raise money for Hodlonaut, there’s a new movement/initiative in crypto, the “defend crypto” movement/fund organized by the Kin Foundation.
2019-5-29 17:00 | |
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Kin, the cryptocurrency project launched by the firm behind the messaging application Kik, has asked the crypto asset space for donations to fund a potential legal battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
2019-5-29 00:00 | |
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Kik, the embattled messaging startup behind the Kin cryptocurrency, is now crowd-sourcing donations to help fund its legal battle with US regulators. The Defend Crypto Fund is said to be tailored specifically to fight the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) “on behalf of the future of crypto in the [United States].
2019-5-28 17:30 | |
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On May 13th, Hyperledger launched Hyperledger Aries which is a set of tools intended to improve interoperability of different types of blockchain-based data. It is a shared infrastructure of tools that enables the exchange of blockchain-based data, supports peer-to-peer messaging in various scenarios, and facilitates interoperable interaction between different blockchains and other distributed ledger technologies […]
2019-5-15 16:53 | |
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China’s most popular messaging app, WeChat, will ban crypto trading and transactions on apps by the end of May.… The post WeChat To Ban Crypto Trading And Exchange Activities, Binance CEO Says It’s Good Long Term appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-8 09:19 | |
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CryptoNinjas Binance Labs, the venture arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, today announced a grant of USD $15,000 to each of its first three open-source Fellowship projects. Ironbelly, a mobile wallet for the Grin blockchain HOPR, a privacy-preserving messaging protocol Kitsune Wallet, an upgradeable on-chain wallet Ironbelly, HOPR.
2019-4-12 17:11 | |
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Huobi Prime successfully completed its first initial exchange offering (IEO) on Huobi Prime this afternoon. The sale concluded in a matter of seconds, and raised $3. 4M – proving that investor enthusiasm for the new token sale format isn’t confined to Binance Launchpad.
2019-3-27 22:47 | |
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The Ultimate Power Group – SWIFT Partners Up With Major Banks While SGX Begins Trials On Blockchain-Backed Voting According to SWIFT, the financial messaging juggernaut, it has officially partnered up with a range of banks across the world, as well as the Singapore Stock Exchange in order to create and subsequently test out a blockchain-based […]
2019-3-7 05:07 | |
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Financial messaging giant Swift has teamed up with Singapore Exchange and several major banks to trial a DLT platform for shareholder voting.
2019-3-6 18:00 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission took a fairly harsh view on ICOs, judging almost all to be undeclared securities. But isn’t that response just reactionary, over-broad and perhaps even a little bit lazy? Canadian messaging company, Kik, are fighting back, and the industry as a whole should be glad that they are.
2019-1-29 12:00 | |
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On December 7, 2018, Ethereum developers held their bi-weekly meeting to finalize on Constantinople, one of their major upgrades on the network. Following this forthcoming upgrade, Bitbox has declared its support for the new Ethereum hard fork.
2019-1-5 19:18 | |
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Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder.
2019-1-1 19:31 | |
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On December 19, a crypto exchange OKEx announced the official launch of perpetual swap on its website and app. Perpetual swap is OKEX’s latest derivative product characterized by no expiry and delivery.
2018-12-21 22:08 | |
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DappGram, a Telegram-like app used in blockchain field was launched in New York, attracting much attention of the regional blockchain players. Users in all regions of the world can use it for unobstructed communication.
2018-11-23 21:30 | |
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Gab. ai, the social messaging platform born in 2016 as an answer to the “Big Social Monopoly” of extant social media giants, has lost access to its PayPal account. PayPal: Gab Should ‘Find Alternative’ Gab, which in June saw itself unexpectedly banned from US cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Coinbase, did not receive an explanation from PayPal, the company’s decision being effective immediately.
2018-10-29 22:00 | |
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Japanese messaging app, LINE Corp, today announced that its token, LINK, was listed exclusively on BITBOX cryptocurrency Exchange. LN Trading Pairs The LINK (LN) token, according to LINE Corp is available exclusively on its cryptocurrency exchange, BITBOX.
2018-10-17 19:54 | |
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The crypto exchange launched by Japan’s largest social network, LINE, announced the listing of its own token LINK (LNK) for trading against Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether. LNK Up For Trading on Bitbox Bitbox, the cryptocurrency exchange launched by messaging giant LINE, announced that it will list its very own token for trading against major digital currencies.
2018-10-17 06:00 | |
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Japanese Messaging Giant LINE Corporation has announced the launch of its LINK (LN) token, exclusively available on the company’s native exchange, BITBOX. LINK can be traded for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether.
2018-10-17 23:08 | |
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Messaging giant LINE's Bitbox exchange has made its LINK token available for trading against bitcoin, ethereum and tether.
2018-10-16 13:00 | |
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Some governments in Africa are starting to take hard measures against cryptocurrencies and companies in the industry. Regulators in Zimbabwe have shut down two crypto exchanges in the country with the intention to stop crypto-trading activities.
2018-10-7 10:21 | |
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As another Japanese exchange gets hacked, their corporate bosses step in to bail them out. At the same time, the country’s biggest messaging app announces plans for a token economy.
2018-10-7 14:00 | |
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LINE recently launched their first crypto exchange, BitBox. The messaging app is looking to cash in on the rise of virtual currencies. Read more here. The post Japan’s LINE Launches Crypto Exchange BitBox appeared first on CoinCentral.
2018-9-19 18:11 | |
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Kin Ecosystem Foundation, the nonprofit governance organization for the Kin cryptocurrency, has announced the appointment of Matthew DiPietro as its chief marketing officer (CMO) today, September 18, 2018.
2018-9-18 19:38 | |
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The Japan based messaging app company Line has started giving out its new cryptocurrency LINK to users as compensation. The company made the announcement today saying the distribution of the currency will be done through its exchange BitBox, a cryptocurrency-to-cryptocurrency exchange, as reward for trading with BitBox.
2018-9-5 19:05 | |
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LINE, the popular messaging application, announced on Aug. 31 in a press release the launch of LINK, LINE’s cryptocurrency token, and LINK Chain, LINE’s blockchain network. The LINK token will be exclusively available on LINE’s cryptocurrency exchange BITBOX this September.
2018-9-4 15:49 | |
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Line is growing its presence in the cryptocurrency universe in a big way. A month after launching its own cryptocurrency exchange desk BITBOX, the Tokyo-based messaging titan has now launched its own cryptocurrency called ‘LINK’ alongside a blockchain network called ‘LINK Chain’.
2018-8-31 14:18 | |
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