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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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After Know Your Customer debacle, BitMEX reports 100% of users are verified

Controversial crypto derivatives trading platform BitMEX says its entire user base has completed the obligatory Know Your Customer process.

BitMEX has announced the completion of its user verification program, becoming one of the largest crypto trading platforms with a fully certified customer base.

As part of the process to verify its entire use base, BitMEX says open positions held by unverified accounts have been closed.

Back in Aug. 2020, the platform revealed plans to undertake a comprehensive user identity verification exercise. The move came amid increasing regulatory scrutiny over the platform's notoriously lax Know Your Customer, or KYC, policies. 

As previously reported by Cointelegraph, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission charged BitMEX for illegally operating a derivatives trading desk. The New York District Attorney also brought up criminal charges against some of the company’s principal actors including former CEO Arthur Hayes.

In response, BitMEX announced plans to revamp its Anti-Money Laundering and trade surveillance protocols in November 2020. According to Thursday’s announcement, user verification has been mandatory for deposit, trading and withdrawal functions since early December 2020.

As part of the announcement, BitMEX also noted that $100 billion has been traded on the platform since achieving full user verification status.

BitMEX CEO Alexander Höptner said that the move was a major step in becoming a high-performance platform:

“It places us in an advantageous position to capitalise on the surge of users – both retail and institutional – who are seeking a platform on which to trade crypto derivatives confidently without sacrificing security, liquidity, or performance. It marks a bright start for BitMEX in 2021.”

Höptner, the former CEO of German stock exchange Borse Stuttgart GmbH replaced Hayes as BitMEX CEO back in Dec. 2020.

BitMEX transitioning to full user KYC status offers a glimpse of government regulators' increasing level of scrutiny for crypto exchanges. Indeed, gone are the days of the cryptocurrency “Wild West” where platforms operated with little to no oversight.

With regulators demanding stricter compliance measures, attention appears to be shifting to decentralized exchanges, or DEXs, which saw a 1,000% spike in trading volumes back in Q3 2020. 

Some of these decentralized platforms are now offering margin trading with the added advantage of zero KYC steps to ensure anonymity. Noncustodial crypto exchange ShapeShift has even transitioned to becoming a DEX onramp, ditching KYC for its users in the process.

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