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Cryptocurrency leaderBlockchain.com has acquiredArtificial Intelligence Exchange.

AiX, also based inLondon, hasdevelopedan AI chatbot for negotiatingover-the-countertrading.

Terms have not been disclosed for the acquisition, which Blockchain.com said wouldboost its institutional offering.

’steam includes former employees at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.

A mammoth £219 million funding roundvalued Blockchain.com at £3.8 billionin March, while italso raised around £87m from ‘macro investors’ barely a month before that.

The Series C round featured partners of DST Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners and VY Capital, with participation from other existing investors from around the world.

The London firm is billed as themost popular place to securely buy, store, trade and use cryptocurrency.

Led byCEO and co-founder Peter Smith, it says its platform is trusted by 70m wallets, with more than $620bn in transactions having gone through the platform since 2013.

More than 31m verified users in200+ countries useBlockchain.com’sproducts and it has seen a three-times increase in active users over the past 12 months alone.

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TheAiXteam brings deep engineering, trading, and operational expertise from some of the world’s most respected financial institutions, including JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs,” Smith wrote in a blog post.

AiXCEO Jos Evans spent15 yeartrading and broking in derivatives markets. In fact, he previously launched and sold a brokerage, which was a pioneer in creating new commodity derivatives.

AiXCOO, Taylor Cable helda number ofroles — including Senior Trader, Project Manager and Portfolio Manager — at Louis Bacon’s Moore Capital Management for over 15 years.

When we raised our Series C last month, I shared our vision to aggressively expand our products, grow our customer base, and to pursue M&A opportunities that bring new products and ideas into the company.

Given that ourinstitutionalmarkets businesses are rapidly growing, it’s fitting thatAiXjoin us to accelerate development of products and solutions for Institutions.

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