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Jump Trading, a secretive Chicago high-speed trading firm, has partnered with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to provide students with a launch pad to create crypto companies.
Here are the current prices of major cryptocurrencies:
What’s happening:
- The SEC charges a third Centra cryptocurrency ‘mastermind’ with fraud over its $32 million ICO
- Goldman Sachs just made its first crypto hire to explore a potential bitcoin trading desk
- Bitcoin cash has risen 80% over the last week
- Someone transferred $99 million in litecoin — and it only cost them $0.40 in fees
- ‘We’re innovating at the cusp of a whole new ecosystem’: A former Goldman Sachs exec explains why she made the leap to blockchain
- ‘The market is robust:’ Goldman Sachs-backed Circle doubles minimum bitcoin trade size to $500,000
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