Coinbase, profits of 2 billion from 2012 to date
At a Vanity Fair event, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the exchange had profits of $ 2 billion. He claimed that, although the crypto market suffered last year, Coinbase posted significant profits. During the same period, the exchange obtained investments worth $ 550 million.
Currently, the company is valued at $ 8 billion.
Binance lists DOGE cryptocurrency and Nigerian currency trading pairs
The Binance exchange listed the first pairs of fiat-crypto trading, but not with the ruble, as expected. The first trading pairs are with the Nigerian currency Naira. Deposits are made with the help of American payment company Flutterwave.
At the same time, the Binance.US platform has listed the DOGE cryptocurrency, one of the few tokens with a positive price evolution in the last 24 hours. The US-based exchange was launched in September and initially included six cryptocurrencies: bitcoin, ethereum, XRP, bitcoin cash, Litecoin and tether.
Since then, IOTA, Algorand, Zchas and Dash have been added.
Paxful announces over 800,000 new wallets in a year
P2P Paxful bitcoin trading platform has added over 800,000 portfolios in the last 12 months. Most of the growth came from African countries – Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya.
Artur Schaback, co-founder and COO of Paxful, said the three countries have “reduced access to the traditional financial market”, hence the interest in cryptocurrencies.
Currently, Paxful offers services to 3 million customers through crypto wallets.
“We have registered 15 million transactions on the whole platform in the last year, an increase of 65% compared to the previous period”,
Paxful announced on Thursday. Kenya and India, in particular, have seen a steady increase in volume in recent weeks.
Telegram postpones the broadcast of GRAM until April 30, 2020
Investors in the Telegram blockchain project have decided to accept the postponement of the six-month GRAM token issue. The SEC recently blocked the distribution of tokens on the grounds that they are unregistered securities. In this connection, Telegram requested the approval of the majority investors to postpone the issuance of GRAM, otherwise offering the possibility to return the investment.
“We are pleased to share with you that we have successfully obtained the consent of the significant majority of investors to extend the deadline for launching the network until April 30, 2020. We would like to thank everyone for your support. This extension allows us to continue the necessary regulatory work described in our last email, “
it is mentioned in a message sent to investors.
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