In Thursdays edition of The Daily we feature stories that show cryptocurrency exchanges continuing to develop advanced services designed to attract institutional investors These include OTC trading derivatives and futures

Ethereums latest update went live at block 12244000 this morning

Since Bitcoin BTC was formally classified as a pseudocommodity crypto investors have been pestering regulators namely the US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC about how their favorite cryptocurrencies stack up Ethereum ETH in its current decentralized state was hinted at being in the same boat as BTC But for a majority of other cryptocurrencies primarily those issued via initial coin offerings ICOs pundits have hinted that they can be classified as securities