{"id":401787,"date":"2019-10-18T17:36:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/?p=401787"},"modified":"2024-06-11T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T12:14:49","slug":"buy-high-and-sell-low-circle-dumps-poloniex-crypto-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/news\/buy-high-and-sell-low-circle-dumps-poloniex-crypto-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy High and Sell Low? Circle Dumps Poloniex As Crypto Market Interest Wanes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today, Circle<\/a>, a US-based finance firm, has revealed that it is \u201cspinning out\u201d crypto trading platform Poloniex into its own independent company, in \u201can effort to create a competitive internationally-focused cryptocurrency exchange.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Circle first acquired the crypto exchange back in February 2018<\/a>, around peak interest in the crypto market. Does the company switching gears signal that interest has left the crypto market? Or are there additional implications for the US-based company around the regulation potentially coming to the space?<\/span><\/p>\n Back in February 2018, before the bear market and dreaded crypto winter got fully underway, Goldman Sachs-backed finance firm Circle, acquired cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex<\/a> for $400 million. Even major finance brands were FOMOing into the emerging market.<\/span><\/p>\n Circle failed to elevate the status of the crypto platform, and it fell far behind Coinbase, Binance, and other industry leaders, prompting Circle to \u201cspin out\u201d the crypto platform into its own independent firm, called Polo Digital Assets, Ltd.<\/span><\/p>\n 1\/5: We are spinning Poloniex out from Circle into a new company with backing by an investment group that plans to spend more than $100M developing the exchange to offer new features, services and assets to global customers.<\/p>\n — Poloniex Exchange (@Poloniex) October 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nPoloniex to \u2018Spin-Out\u2019 Into Own Independent International Crypto Brand<\/span><\/h2>\n
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