TeraExchange Brings Multisig Security to Bitcoin Derivatives Platform
TeraExchange has announced a new partnership with bitcoin security firm BitGo, a deal both parties view as a step toward bringing traditional trading standards to the bitcoin industry. The partnership, the companies said, will position TeraExchange as the only player in the bitcoin exchange industry to provide clients with the ability to collateralize bitcoin derivative trades. BitGo will provide multi-signature block chain services for the USD/BTC swaps on TeraExchange's platform, and in turn, TeraExchange will provide its clients with multi-signature escrow accounts where neither party....
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TeraExchange, a New Jersey-based swap execution facility has launched its first regulated platform for Bitcoin derivatives and a spot BTC price index. The company that is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC, announced the launch of the platform on Friday September 12th, 2014. Growing Demand for Bitcoin Derivatives. In a press release, the company stated that the Bitcoin Derivatives and Bitcoin Price Index platforms were created to meet the growing demand by global merchants, payment processors, miners and hedge funds for an efficient hedging tool. This new....
MGT Capital Investments has entered into an agreement with Tera Group that would find the operator of the first regulated bitcoin derivatives platform TeraExchange going public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) MKT, the leading equities capital market for small cap companies. The New Jersey-based company framed the news as that which would open up the NYSE to a bitcoin venture for the first time. TeraExchange CEO Christian Martin and president and COO Leonard Nuara explained that the company had been looking to enter the capital markets for three months, and that in MGT it was able to....
Update Sept 18: The popular cryptocurrency exchangeHitBTC signed an agreemen with TeraExchange, a swap execution facility registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to provide an accurate and timed reference point for the first regulated platform for Bitcoin derivatives. According to the agreement, HitBTC’s trading data is included in the TeraExchange Bitcoin Price Index. The Tera Bitcoin Price Index employs a dynamic algorithm that compiles and filters data on a real-time basis from a number of widely utilized global Bitcoin exchanges. HitBTC executes and maintains the....
Today, 13% of Bitcoin is protected by multisig technology. A growing minority of Bitcoin users employ a multi-signature wallet, which uses more than one private key to access the wallet. By using this approach, wallets are much less vulnerable to security breaches, as no single party possesses all the information necessary to decrypt the wallet. Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan tweeted about the significance of the multisig uptick: More cryptocurrency wallets offering multisig support. More Bitcoin wallet providers have recently enabled multisig functionality, as it seems to be headed....