Canadian firm Global Blockchain Technologies, listed with on Canadian Securities Exchange with the ticker BLOC, announced on Thursday that its subsidiary Hyperion Crypto Exchange partnered with Stellar to support Stellar-based assets on its exchange. Hyperion, co-founded by the current BLOC President and CEO Shidan Gouran, secured a $5 million investment from BLOC earlier this year.
Hyperion supports digital asset trading (it plans to add cryptocurrencies as well) on an alternative trading system (ATS) licensed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The arrangement was possible after Hyperion made a strategic investment in ATS operator Delaware Board of Trade (DBOT), which also allowed it to operate as a brok...
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