Crypto Exchange Backed by Fidelity, Schwab, Citadel Launches With Trading of 4 Cryptocurrencies

The cryptocurrency speech backed by Charles Schwab, Citadel Securities, Fidelity Digital Assets, Paradigm, Sequoia Capital, and Virtu Financial has launched and completed a caller backing round. The level offers the trading of 4 cryptocurrencies.

EDX Crypto Exchange Launches

EDX Markets announced Tuesday “the palmy motorboat of its integer plus marketplace and the completion of an concern circular with caller equity partners.” According to the announcement and the caller exchange’s website:

Products traded connected EDX see bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH), litecoin (LTC), and bitcoin currency (BCH).

EDX offers “a unique, non-custodial exemplary designed to mitigate conflicts of interest,” the announcement adds. In addition, the level has “introduced a retail-only punctuation to the crypto markets, allowing participants the payment of amended pricing for retail-originated orders” and plans to motorboat EDX Clearing aboriginal this twelvemonth “to settee trades matched connected EDX Markets.”

The institution besides precocious closed a backing circular with the information of caller strategical investors, including Miami International Holdings, DV Crypto, GTS, GSR Markets Ltd., and HRT Technology. The firm’s founding investors see Charles Schwab, Citadel Securities, Fidelity Digital Assets, Paradigm, Sequoia Capital, and Virtu Financial. Bitcoin.com News archetypal reported Schwab, Citadel, and Fidelity planning to motorboat a cryptocurrency trading level successful June past year.

EDX Markets launched astatine a clip erstwhile the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is cracking down connected unregistered cryptocurrency trading platforms and securities tokens. The securities regulator has charged the Nasdaq-listed crypto speech Coinbase with respective securities instrumentality violations. SEC Chairman Gary Gensler has besides stated that all crypto tokens, different than bitcoin (BTC), are securities.

Supporters of EDX Markets are not the lone ones remaining bullish astir the U.S. crypto manufacture contempt regulatory uncertainty. Blackrock, the world’s largest plus manager, filed to launch a bitcoin spot with the SEC past week. This determination is wide regarded arsenic an exertion for a bitcoin exchange-traded money (ETF), which the SEC has truthful acold rejected each applications for.

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