Trading of Ethereum Classic goes live on Bithumb

It was announced today from Korea cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb that Ethereum Classic (ETC) trading has begun. The company made this announcement last week that listing was imminent. Recent volume in ETC has seen the cryptocurrency top 40 billion won, and it is accounting for the 6th most valued in the overall crypto market cap. ETC has seen its value go up more than 10x since the start of the year.

Bithumb has the largest number of domestic membership among exchanges with of 430,000 Korean users.

On the 28th of last month, the exchange was ranked 5th in crypto volume on Coinhills, and World Coin Index has the exchange ranked 12th at the time of writing in global trading volume calculations.

Bithumb also stated today their planned Ripple listing will be postponed, XRP was to begin trading on Monday of this week.