A group of cryptocurrency trading firms has come together to discuss ways to prevent the rising number of hacks and scams in the industry.
Ripple, market maker Cumberland, Michael Novogratz's Galaxy Digital Holdings and over 30 other firms met at a recent round-table event in Chicago for the initiative, Bloomberg reported Thursday.
CORA may also share information on actors defaulting on derivatives trades.
"A community-wide effort to improve compliance standards would prevent liabilities that might stem from trading with bad actors or dealers that trade with bad actors."
Such a move to bring more self-governance to the crypto industry is something that regulators have been keen to see, he added.
The event was organized by Crypto OTC Roundtable Asia, a "Loose association" of crypto businesses, according to Bloomberg.
The firms are yet to take any final decision on the next steps.
Notably, on the day of the event itself, hackers stole.
Blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace recently estimated that losses arising from cryptocurrency hacks and fraud may have already reached about $1.2 billion in the first quarter of this year alone.
The figure is almost 71 percent of the $1.7 billion loss seen over the whole of 2018, the firm said.
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