Cryptocurrency exchanges are increasingly finding themselves targeted by hackers. In a proactive move, Huobi decided to create an Investor Protection Fund – using a buyback scheme – to be used in case of an adverse external emergency. Over the last …
Japanese exchange Coincheck has been fully acquired by Monex Group, a Japanese brokerage firm, for 3.6 billion yen ($33.5 million). The group, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, had 4,229 billion yen ($39 billion) in assets under custody as of March 2018, …
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Quantstamp (QSP) is a security layer on top of the Ethereum blockchain that aims at ensuring that smart contracts do not contain programming flaws by providing proof of audit. To this purpose, the Quantstamp team has developed an AI algorithm …
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