Boston-based Circle is buying one of the largest exchanges in North America, making it a serious competitor to Coinbase, Bittrex and Kraken. According to Fortune journalists, the transaction amount is $400 million.
Circle deals with cryptocurrency trading and everything connected with it. The company's subsidiary, Circle Trade, is one of the largest over-the-counter cryptocurrency platforms in the United States. It carries out an impressive number of cryptocurrency transactions worth $2 billion per month. Moreover, the minimum size of transactions is $250 thousand.
The Circle company has existed since 2013, in the summer of 2016 it was valued at $480 million. Major investors of the company: Goldman Sachs, Baidu and venture capitalist Jim Breuer. The latter is known for having invested about $9 million in Bitcoin platforms back in 2013.
“I'm sure we'll see major retailers around the world start using Bitcoin-based systems,” he told the New York Times six years ago.
Poloniex, which trades almost 70 types of cryptocurrency pairs, felt the need to transfer exchange fees to fiat. Often, the exchange conducted them through Circle Trade.
Not long ago, Poloniex faced a number of problems that were caused by the increase in clients. User complaints about problematic withdrawals of funds, account blocking and lack of communication with support have become more frequent.
According to https://www.newsbtc.com
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