bitbank, a Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange has today officially added Ether (ETH/BTC). Dealings, deposits/withdrawals, and trading APIs have all been activated.
As of July 12th, the market capitalization of Ether stands at 2 trillion yen, it has become the second leading digital currency network, growing to around half of the size of Bitcoin.
This is the final listing of the planned introduction of top cryptocurrencies announced back in April. Within the last couple of months, bitbank has also added Ripple (XRP) and Litecoin (LTC).
The current price of ETH stands at around 21,500 yen.