eToro adds Chainlink and Uniswap amid investor surge for crypto

Social investment network eToro announced today that bitcoin has been added as an investment option on the service's OpenBook platform, allowing their 3 million users to easily throw in a small investment. This three-click process is designed to be as simple as possible, and it's classified bitcoin as a stock in hopes of getting more investors attracted to it. eToro allows the investor to select an amount, or enter their own. eToro is currently quoting Mt. Gox pricing, and takes 1 percent of the transaction value for themselves. The company notes that trades are executed 4 times daily....

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According to eToro’s Q2 report, crypto drove the 125% surge in trading volumes in Q2, with crypto representing 73% of total trading commissions. Crypto grew to represent 73% of trading commissions on popular retail trading app eToro in the second quarter. eToro announced its Q2 results on Aug. 25, with the firm posting $362 million worth of total trading commissions and reporting its assets under administration had reached $9.4 billion. In an investor update released on the same day, the firm outlined that crypto-assets accounted for 73%, or $264.26 million of commissions, which marked a....

eToro is taking heat after calling in margin trades at the peak of Bitcoin’s record rally. A Wall Street Journal report published Jan. 12 claims European eToro users were given just four hours notice that the platform's margin trading services would be halted on Friday.EToro users were informed they must increase their margin collateral to 100% in an email sent at 4:46 UTC on Jan. 8. The platform closed the contracts of any European crypto trader who didn’t bolster their margin collateral to 100% by 9:00 PM. When the firm called in the margin trades, the users’ crypto was automatically....