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• Circle Trade, the trading operation of Circle, has increased its minimum ticket size on bitcoin trades to $500,000.
• The move comes during a trading lull in the market for digital currencies across crypto exchange venues.
• Chief executive Jeremy Allaire told Business Insider the size of block trades has grown significantly since the beginning of the year.

Trading activity at one of the largest cryptocurrency trading shops is picking up despite a lull across exchanges that trade crypto.

In an interview with Business Insider, Circle chief executive Jeremy Allaire said the size of block trades made by Circle Trade, the firm's over-the-counter trading desk, has grown since the beginning of the year.

That's despite a sharp decline in cryptocurrency trading volumes across retail exchanges. Per data from CoinMarketCap, 24-hour trading volumes are down to about $20 billion a day from all-time highs near $70 billion at the beginning of the year.

But "the market is robust" for Circle.

"The minimum ticket size has moved up to $500,000 with an average of $1 million," Allaire said.

Some transactions, according to Allaire, are larger than $100 million. Previously, the minimum ticket size for a trade at Circle was $250,000.

"That water mark will continue to rise," Allaire said.

OTC trading occurs off exchange venues, such as Coinbase's GDAX or Kraken, for instance. The point of such desks is to provide a platform for high-net-worth crypto-holders and institutions to make large trades without impacting the broader market.

As an alternative to crypto-exchanges, they typically have deeper liquidity to support such transactions. One industry insider told Business Insider that deeper liquidity in OTC markets has played into the growth of a number of trading shops.

"If I have $5 million, I can't do that trade on GDAX," the person said.

OTC desks can also provide a more secure alternative to crypto exchanges, which are known for hacks and outages.

Circle, which counts investment bank Goldman Sachs as a a strategic backer, trades more than $2 billion in cyptocurency a month. It recently opened operations in Asia, Bloomberg reported.

Recently, Circle announced it acquired Poloniex, a cryptocurrency exchange. It plans to scale the business by bringing it to new markets, adding the number of coins on its platform, and enabling fiat-to-crypto transactions.

Elsewhere in the cypto OTC market, DRW's Cumberland operates a trading desk. Kraken, as Business Insider first reported, recently launched their own, too.

A person familiar with operations at Genesis, another cryptocurrency trading shop, told Business Insider its average trade size has increased to about $300,000. The company trades $1 to $2 billion a month, the person said.

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At the Genesis London blockchain conference held in February by Binary District, Cornell professor, cryptocurrency expert, and computer scientist Emin Gün Sirer said in an interview that a study done by prestigious university Cornell has shown the Ethereum blockchain network is currently more decentralized than bitcoin. Ever since the debut of Ethereum in 2015, false

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The Supreme Court of Russia has ordered the St. Petersburg City Court to review an appeal against blocking bitcoininfo.ru, a cryptocurrency website, according to RAPSI, the court’s press service. In 2016, the Vyborgsky District Court of St. Petersburg granted a prosecutorial request to block the website, according to the court. The court held that information about

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Uncertainty in the cryptocurrency mining market has led to the world’s leading chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor, to lower its revenue forecast for the year. Adding insult to injury, weakness in demand for Apple’s iPhone, for which Taiwan Semi is the supplier, is also weighing on this year’s expected sales. Meanwhile, bitcoin mining was the champion of 2017, helping to

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Indian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure has advised users on its website that it has been working with authorities since last week’s theft of 438 bitcoins and has asked for patience as it prepares the claims process. The company’s legal team is reviewing contracts and preparing the claims form for users to peruse. The exchange has been

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Over the past seven days, the cryptocurrency market has increased in value from $324 billion to $385 billion, as the bitcoin price increased from $8,000 to $8,800 and other major cryptocurrencies also recorded gains in the 10 to 20 percent range. South Korea Premium is Back Up until last week, the price of cryptocurrencies including

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• $99 million worth of litecoin was sent in a single trade on Thursday.
• The transaction took just two-and-a-half minutes to clear and cost only $0.40 in fees.
• Crypto bulls are pointing to the trade as evidence that cryptocurrency is better for sending money than traditional payment systems.

LONDON — A huge litecoin trade is turning heads in the cryptocurrency community.

$99 million-worth of litecoin was sent between two cryptocurrency wallets in a single trade on Thursday, attracting attention on Reddit. The identity of the parties involved in the transaction is not known.

A thread about the transaction was the third most popular post on the litecoin sub-Reddit on Friday afternoon. Reddit users were impressed by data showing the transaction took just 2.5 minutes to settle and cost only $0.40 in mining fees.

"Worth surfacing up here that the $99 million transactions cost just $0.40 and took 2.5 mins. Holy moly," Reddit user b30, who authored the thread, wrote.

Other users pointed out that similar transactions in traditional finance would take days to clear, multiple parties to sign off, and carry hefty fees.

Some proponents of cryptocurrencies such as litecoin and Ripple's XRP say it has the potential to provide a cheaper, quicker, and more reliable alternative to the current payment rails, particularly when it comes to international transactions.

Litecoin is the sixth largest cryptocurrency by market value, with $8.4 billion-worth of LTC in circulation as of Friday. The cryptocurrency was created in 2011 as a quicker and cheaper alternative to bitcoin.

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• $99 million worth of litecoin was sent in a single trade on Thursday.
• The transaction took just two-and-a-half minutes to clear and cost only $0.40 in fees.
• Crypto bulls are pointing to the trade as evidence that cryptocurrency is better for sending money than traditional payment systems.

LONDON — A huge litecoin trade is turning heads in the cryptocurrency community.

$99 million-worth of litecoin was sent between two cryptocurrency wallets in a single trade on Thursday, attracting attention on Reddit. The identity of the parties involved in the transaction is not known.

A thread about the transaction was the third most popular post on the litecoin sub-Reddit on Friday afternoon. Reddit users were impressed by data showing the transaction took just 2.5 minutes to settle and cost only $0.40 in mining fees.

"Worth surfacing up here that the $99 million transactions cost just $0.40 and took 2.5 mins. Holy moly," Reddit user b30, who authored the thread, wrote.

Other users pointed out that similar transactions in traditional finance would take days to clear, multiple parties to sign off, and carry hefty fees.

Some proponents of cryptocurrencies such as litecoin and Ripple's XRP say it has the potential to provide a cheaper, quicker, and more reliable alternative to the current payment rails, particularly when it comes to international transactions.

Litecoin is the sixth largest cryptocurrency by market value, with $8.4 billion-worth of LTC in circulation as of Friday. The cryptocurrency was created in 2011 as a quicker and cheaper alternative to bitcoin.

SEE ALSO: The creator of $17 billion cryptocurrency litecoin has sold his entire stake

DON'T MISS: Litecoin surges after the CEO of an American Express-backed crypto startup explains why it's moving away from Bitcoin for smart contracts

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• $99 million worth of litecoin was sent in a single trade on Thursday.
• The transaction took just two-and-a-half minutes to clear and cost only $0.40 in fees.
• Crypto bulls are pointing to the trade as evidence that cryptocurrency is better for sending money than traditional payment systems.

LONDON — A huge litecoin trade is turning heads in the cryptocurrency community.

$99 million-worth of litecoin was sent between two cryptocurrency wallets in a single trade on Thursday, attracting attention on Reddit. The identity of the parties involved in the transaction is not known.

A thread about the transaction was the third most popular post on the litecoin sub-Reddit on Friday afternoon. Reddit users were impressed by data showing the transaction took just 2.5 minutes to settle and cost only $0.40 in mining fees.

"Worth surfacing up here that the $99 million transactions cost just $0.40 and took 2.5 mins. Holy moly," Reddit user b30, who authored the thread, wrote.

Other users pointed out that similar transactions in traditional finance would take days to clear, multiple parties to sign off, and carry hefty fees.

Some proponents of cryptocurrencies such as litecoin and Ripple's XRP say it has the potential to provide a cheaper, quicker, and more reliable alternative to the current payment rails, particularly when it comes to international transactions.

Litecoin is the sixth largest cryptocurrency by market value, with $8.4 billion-worth of LTC in circulation as of Friday. The cryptocurrency was created in 2011 as a quicker and cheaper alternative to bitcoin.

SEE ALSO: The creator of $17 billion cryptocurrency litecoin has sold his entire stake

DON'T MISS: Litecoin surges after the CEO of an American Express-backed crypto startup explains why it's moving away from Bitcoin for smart contracts

Join the conversation about this story »

NOW WATCH: A $700 billion investor explains why traders should brush off an ominous market signal that's flashing