Trading operations, in the context of finance, refers to the processes and activities involved in executing and settling trades within financial markets. This includes the entire trade lifecycle, from initiation and execution to confirmation, clearing, settlement, and record-keeping. It also encompasses the management of verification and settlement of trades, ensuring trades are processed accurately and efficiently. ) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Based on a free-market ideology, bitcoin was invented in 2008 when an unknown entity published a white paper under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto.[5] Use of bitcoin as a currency began in 2009,[6] with the release of its open-source implementation.[7]: ch. 1  In 2021, El Salvador adopted it as legal tender.[4] It is mostly seen as an investment and has been described by some scholars as an economic bubble.[8] As bitcoin is pseudonymous, its use by criminals has attracted the attention of regulators, leading to its ban by several countries as of 2021.[9]#WalletConnect $WCT @walletconnect