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Blade

Blade is a cryptocurrency-to-cryptocurrency trading platform that trades perpetual derivatives contracts. The contracts are not available to U.S. residents. The platform is scheduled to launch in early September 2019. 
== Products and Services ==
Blade offers a number of trading contracts for cryptocurrency, including perpetual derivatives and cryptocurrency margin trading, similar to BitMEX.
=== Perpetual contracts ===
Blade primarily offers two types of perpetual contracts: "vanilla" perpetuals and "inverse" perpetuals. Vanilla perpetuals are contracts in which profit and loss (P&L) is denominated in the quote currency, or the second currency named in a trading pair (in the case of their XRP/USDT contracts, for example, the quote currency is USDT). Inverse perpetuals are more complex contracts in which the P&L is denominated in the underlying currency (in the previous example of XRP/USDT, the underlying currency would be XRP).
Blade offers contracts on bitcoin, Ripple, Binance coin, Monero, Zcash, and Dogecoin paired against Tether. The exchange does not accept any fiat currency, but does offer a BTC/USD contract that can liquidate bitcoin into U.S. dollars.
Blade offers perpetual derivatives contracts, which are called that because they have no termination date.
=== Margin trading ===
Blade also offers margin trading with up to 150-times leverage.
== History ==
Blade was founded by Jeff Byun and Henry Lee, who previously started a delivery startup that was acquired by Square in 2017. The company raised $4.3 million in seed investments from Coinbase, SV Angel, A.Capital, Slow Ventures, Justin Kan and Adam D’Angelo, the former chief technology officer of Facebook, among others.
== References ==
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Blake Brockway

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Blake Brockway is a Chicago-based lawyer, former regulator and general counsel who serves as an associate general counsel for TP ICAP.
Brockway previously served as an assistant general counsel for Empower. He has also been an an executive principal and associate general counsel for the OCC and an assistant general counsel for National Futures Association.
== Background ==
Prior to serving at National Futures Association, Brockway was a vice president and assistant general counsel for Bank of America.
He also has been in private practice as an associate attorney with Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.
Brockman was a compliance specialist with principal trading firm Spot Trading LLC. He was also a law student observer at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
== Education ==
Brockway holds a Bachelor of Science degree in the field of agricultural business and economics from Iowa State University and a Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University.
== References ==	
Category:National Futures Association - Former Employees
Category:Bank of America - Former Employees
Category:Katten Muchin Rosenman - Former Employees
Category:Spot Trading - Former Employees
Blake Imel

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Blake Imel was an economist who worked for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for 22 years. Imel worked for USDA's Economic Research Service and the commission's predecessor agency, USDA's Commodity Exchange Authority, before joining the CFTC in 1974.
He died in 1997 at the age of 52 after suffering a heart attack while on a hike in a favorite park, Prince William Forest Park.
Imel was honored with a moment of silence at the CFTC's Agricultural Advisory Committee meeting in 1997 by Commissioner Joseph Dial.
He was lauded by Dial as "an integral part of the Commission's major policy decisions concerning the futures industry and agriculture."
== Background ==
Imel was born in Lafayette, Indiana on October 5, 1944. He graduated from Frankfort High School in 1962.
He lost his parents as a teenager and lived with his uncle Ralph and Aunt Phyllis on a farm near Frankfort, Indiana.
He moved to Washington in 1970 to work for the Agricultural Department's Economic Research Service.
He served as deputy director of the CFTC's Division of Economic Analysis, and acting director in the two years before his death.
Imel served the CFTC as acting chief economist and was involved in decisions about hedge to arrive and cash forward legal proceedings, and testified that cash forwards contract transactions were essentially futures contracts.
He wrote a book published by the CFTC titled, "The CFTC's hedging definition: Development and current issues."
== Education ==
Imel held a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics from Purdue University and a doctorate in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin. 
== References ==	
Category:CFTC - Former Employees
Category:Deceased
Blake Tiedeman

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Blake Tiedeman is the Director of Real Estate Operations for the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. He has been at MGEX since January 2008. 
In this position, Tiedeman works to implement strategies to maximize tenant procurement and retention opportunities in a tough commercial real estate environment. He also oversees all areas of tenant relations and building operations at the Grain Exchange Buildings and develops real estate business initiatives. 
== Background ==
Tiedeman began at MGEX as the Assistant Building Manager in January 2008 and was promoted to Director, Real Estate Operations in November 2008. Along with his work at MGEX, he has more than 15 years of experience in the hospitality and property management industries and is currently serving as a City Council member for the City of Wyoming, Minnesota. 
== Education ==
Tiedeman graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Stout with a B.S. in Hotel/Restaurant Management. He has a Masters Degree in Organizational Management from Concordia University, St. Paul. 
== References ==
Category:MGEX
Category:Minneapolis Grain Exchange
Category:Minneapolis Grain Exchange
Blanche Lambert Lincoln

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Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D-AR) is a former U.S. Senator. 
She held off a strong challenge from Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter in the June 8, 2010 primary for the party's Senate nomination. Her victory gave her a chance to win a third term in November of 2010 and avoid the fate of other incumbents turned out of office that year. However, she was defeated in the 2010 general election by Rep. John Boozman.
Lincoln successfully added a provision in the Senate-passed Financial Overhaul Bill that could force banks to spin off their lucrative derivatives businesses into separately capitalized affiliates. But no such provision was in the House-passed bill. 
== Background ==
Lincoln began her career in 1992 as the U.S. Representative for Arkansas’s First Congressional District. She became the youngest woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 3 in 1998 at the age of 38. She made history again when she was tapped as the Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. 
The daughter of a rice farmer, Lincoln is the first woman to lead the agriculture committee and as Arkansas senator, represents some of the biggest U.S. rice and cotton producers.
Lincoln played a key role in the compromise that led to passage of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 which is also known as the Farm Bill.
Lincoln founded and currently chairs the bipartisan Senate Hunger Caucus to help focus the nation's attention on families and children that go hungry in America.
She is also one of the Finance Committee's top ranking Democrats and was the first woman Democratic Senator to lead a Finance Committee Subcommittee. 
She is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions and Family Policy for the 111th Congress. Lincoln also serves on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Senate Special Committee on Aging. She plays an influential role in approaching the following issues; farm policy, nutrition, social security, health care, tax policy, international trade, energy policy, aging issues and benefits for Arkansas's military service members, veterans and their families. 
Lincoln was named chair of Rural Outreach for the Senate Democratic Caucus by Majority Leader Harry Reid. In this position, she looks to revitalize rural America including investments in biofuels development, farm programs and education. 
She also co-chairs "The Third Way" which is an organization dedicated to finding creative solutions to old problems. 
== Education ==
Lincoln received a bachelor's degree from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She also studied at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
== References ==
Category:Financial Reform
Category:Law Makers
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Block

A block is a collection of data entries, which are stored on a blockchain. Each block is timestamped and encrypted once it has been added to the blockchain, making it almost impossible to alter. New blocks are added typically by set increments of time. For example, Ethereum's blockchain adds new blocks every 15 seconds.
The very first block in a blockchain is referred to as the "genesis block."
== References ==
Category: digital assets
Category: definitions
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
BlockMatch

BlockMatch is a dark pool alternative trading system (ATS) operated by Instinet Europe. It is scheduled for launch in March 2009 and purportedly will offer reciprocal access to other dark pools, including SmartPool and NYSE Arca Europe. 
By bringing together multiple third party buying and selling interests, BlockMatch is also a multilateral system or Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) .
BlockMatch is intended for buy-side executions of more than 10,000 shares; reportedly it will use 'indications of interest,' (IOIs) which represent an investor's interest in purchasing securities that have not yet been issued.
== References ==
Category:European Dark pool
BlockTower Capital

BlockTower Capital was formed by a Goldman Sachs alumnus, Matthew Goetz, and a former University of Chicago endowments risk manager, Ari Paul, to invest in digital currencies. The company launched in August 2017 and raised $140 million, including venture capital investments from Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
In September 2018, Bloomberg reported that not only was BlockTower weathering the decline in cryptocurrency prices but that the company had expanded its number of employees and opened a second office in New York City. 
In March 2021, Bloomberg reported that Marc Lasry - billionaire hedge fund manager and owner of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team - and J. Christopher Giancarlo, former chairman of the CFTC - invested undisclosed amounts of money in BlockTower Capital. 
 
=== Million Dollar Bet ===
In mid December 2017, 275 bitcoin calls were bought on LedgerX, a swaps execution facility (SEF). The calls had a strike price of $50,000 and were to expire more than a year later, at the end of December 2018. This transaction was effectively a bet that bitcoin would more than triple in a year, since the price of bitcoin was then about $16,500. The total price paid for the 275 calls was just under $1 million. 
A few days later the identity of the option buyer emerged: BlockTower Capital.
==References==
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Category: hedge funds
BlockTower Capital Advisors

BlockTower Capital Advisors is a crypto and blockchain institutional investment firm that applies professional trading, venture investing, credit underwriting, and portfolio management to digital and traditional assets. It uses and builds blockchain infrastructure to provide financial services, including securitizing traditional assets on-chain and working with credit originators to provide capital and support.
Blocktower Capital Advisors serves clients in the United States. 
The company has $1.7 billion in assets under management, according to the data provider PitchBook. 
== History ==
BlockTower was founded by Matthew Goetz and Ari Paul in 2017.
In May of 2024, BlockTower suffered losses because of a hack into its system in which the firm's main hedge fund saw some of its assets partially drained by fraudsters.
== Products and Services ==
BlockTower offers a number of strategies, including:
BlockTower Flagship: Active trading directional exposure focused on liquid crypto assets via a multi-strategy approach analyzing both top-down market regimes and bottom-up asset selection (beta augmented with alpha), and incorporating market neutral strategies where appropriate to the opportunity set. 
BlockTower Credit: Investing in real-world credit assets; traditional asset backed securities and structured lending solutions for fintech originators and non-bank lenders (eg, auto loans, trade finance, invoice factoring), and pursuing superior risk-adjusted returns using blockchain technology. 
BlockTower VC: Next-generation venture investing, applying the skills of both crypto-native and traditional VC to the growing web3 space; partnering with teams at the earliest stages as both investors and as users leveraging the BlockTower platform.
== Key People ==
* Matthew Goetz, CEO/Managing Partner/Co-Founder 
* Ari Paul, Chief Investment Officer/Co-Founder
== References ==
BlockVest

BlockVest is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. The company behind it, also called BlockVest, also plans on offering a cryptocurrency index fund to consumers, which tracks prices for the top 30 cryptocurrencies. Its initial coin offering (ICO) was halted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in October 2018.
== Background ==
BlockVest was founded in 2017 by Reginald Ringgold. In October 2018, the SEC obtained an emergency order halting BlockVest's ICO. The SEC published an official statement saying that BlockVest's claim that it was fully-regulated, a claim Ringgold has made personally, is false. The SEC said that BlockVest had never registered as a securities exchange. The statement referenced the "Blockchain Exchange Commission," an organization started by Ringgold, which prominently uses a logo very similar to that of the SEC. The SEC also accused the company of illegally using the SEC's seal without permission in order to market the exchange's release. Robert A. Cohen, the chief of the SEC Enforcement Divison of the SEC's Cyber Unit, said that the SEC "allege that this ICO is using both the SEC seal and a made-up crypto regulatory authority to trick investors into believing the ICO was approved by regulators. The SEC does not endorse investment products and investors should be highly skeptical of any claims suggesting otherwise."
The case went to court in Southern California. BlockVest argued that its tokens were used only to test the exchange, and that the majority of the investors in its ICO were friends and relatives of Ringgold. It also argued that its purported $2.5 million raised were mostly raised from a single investor, who had pulled out of the deal. Judge Gonzalo Curiel of the Southern District of California declared that the SEC's investigation of BlockVest had failed to demonstrate that BlockVest's ICO met the characteristics of a security under U.S. law.
A legal battle between the SEC and BlockVest continued and the Southern District of California ruled in favor of the SEC. In December of 2020, BlockVest were found to have fraudulently connected to the purchase and sale of securities, in the offer or sale of securities, and illegally offered and sold unregistered securities. The SEC had managed to prove that BlockVest had lied to the court and Ringgold had to disgorge over $770,000 to the SEC, who returned the money to investors that had been scammed. The court filed an additional permanent injunction against BlockVest and Ringgold.
== References ==
Category: digital assets
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: trading
Category: decentralized exchanges
Category: regulation
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Block trade

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A block trade is a privately negotiated securities, futures, options, or combination transaction executed apart from the public auction market, either on or off an exchange trading floor. There are minimum order-size requirements that vary according to product and order type, and eligibility for engaging in such trades is strictly regulated. Regulations vary by exchange. In futures trading, participation in block trades is restricted to Eligible Contract Participants as that term is defined in the Commodity Exchange Act.
Traditionally, a block trade has meant any trade over 10,000 shares, but today requirements vary. Typically, a brokerage firm is a party to the block trade with one of its customers, but the firm can also be used to bring two customers together in what is referred to as an “agency” block trade. 
== Block Trade Facilities ==
Many exchanges have a block trading facility that allows members to transact business of significant size as a bilaterally agreed transaction and then bring it to an exchange. A futures block trading facility has so far only been made available to large institutional investors who qualify as “eligible participants” under Part 36 of the CFTC rules. In the futures industry, once a block trade has been established, the parties to the trade can use the futures market to hedge their position and then to unwind it, thus bringing more trading volume to the exchange. 
Some exchanges require that the block trade be reported in 15 minutes or less, but reporting time differs between exchanges. It can vary with the size of the respective block trade. The larger the size of the block trade, the more time the parties need to hedge or offset their risks, and the more time they need to report it.
 
=== Chicago Mercantile Exchange ===
Rule 526 ("Block Trades") governs block trading in CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX products. Block trades are permitted in specified products and are subject to minimum transaction size requirements which vary according to the product, the type of transaction and the time of execution. Block trades may be executed at any time at a fair and reasonable price and are required to be reported to the CME Group Globex Control Center ("GCC") within five minutes of the execution time, except for Eurodollar, Housing and Weather futures and options which are subject to a 15-minute reporting requirement. Block trades executed when the GCC is closed must be reported no later than five minutes prior to the opening of the next electronic trading session for that product.
=== Australian Securities Exchange ===
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) introduced a block trading service on June 28, 2010. The platform, called VolumeMatch, is designed to help institutions transact large orders in Australian stocks, with the aim of reducing market impact and information leakage by allowing members to hunt for liquidity anonymously.
== References ==
Category:Trading Terms
Category:Definitions
Blockchain Association

The Blockchain Association is an American digital asset industry advocacy association.
== Overview ==
The Blockchain Association is an organization consisting of companies in the digital asset and blockchain industry. The Association is involved with advocating for policymaking that supports "American leadership" of these industries, according to its official website. Its board consists of general counsels and executives from companies like Ripple, Polychain Capital, Cumberland DRW LLC, and Circle.
== Membership ==
The Blockchain Association consists mostly of large exchange operators, mining firms, and other organizations in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. Its member organizations as of August 2020 are 0x, Anchorage, Binance.US, C-Labs, Circle, Coinlist, Compound, Cumberland DRW LLC, The Digital Currency Group, Electric Coin Co., eToro, Forte, Grayscale Investments, Hangar, Kraken, Maker, Orchid, Polychain Capital, Protocol Labs, Ripple, Stellar Development Foundation, Tokensoft, and USV.
The Blockchain Association's membership also included Coinbase for a time, but Coinbase left when Binance.US joined the association in August 2020.
== Key People ==
*Kristin Smith - Executive Director 
*Jacob Hample - Senior Manager - Public Policy 
*Miller Whitehouse-Levine - Manager - Industry Relations 
*Graham Newhall - Communications Advisor 
*AnnMarie Brockhouse - Executive Assistant
== References ==
Category:Bitcoin
Category: Regulation
Category: Exchanges
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Blockchain Technology Act

The Blockchain Technology Act is an Illinois state bill sponsored by Rep. Keith Wheeler (R) focused on legalizing blockchain technology and smart contracts. The law went into effect on January 1, 2020. 
Sections 1, 5, and 10 of the bill specifiy that "a smart contract, record, or signature may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because a blockchain was used to create, store, or verify the smart contract, record, or signature." The law also says that information presented as evidence during legal proceedings must not be excluded simply because it came from a blockchain or smart contract. Essentially, Blockchain Technology Act legitimized blockchains as a legal method of admissable record-keeping. Sections 15 and 20 state that under Illinois law, smart contracts could be used as legal contracts with some exceptions. These sections also describe acceptable conditions in which blockchains and smart contract applications could be applied to public utilities, leasing agreements, health insurance, and the public sale of material products and services, as well as guidelines for local taxation on relevant products and services.
== References ==
Category: definitions
Category: fintech
Category: Illinois
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Blockchain Transparency Institute

The Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI), a registered non-profit, states on its website that it is " . . . a group of Blockchain data researchers looking for more honesty and transparency in the cryptocurrency sphere. Knowing that this is the technology upon which our future society is being built, it is essential that a culture of trust and conscious integrity supports this endeavor." BTI lists two types of partners, nine "data research partners" and thirteen "investor class supporters."
In its first report published on August 26, 2018 BTI reported that more than two-thirds of the top cryptocurrency exchanges reporting to CoinMarketCap had falsified their traded volume reports. BTI's methodology is based on comparing the total numbers of unique site visits with reported volumes. BTI reported that Binance was the largest exchange by traded volume according to its estimates. It also found significant fault with data provided by Bitfinex and OKEx. The U.S. based exchanges appear to report accurately and Coinbase was observed to be the largest among them.
==References==
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: exchanges
Category: research
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki