The Texas securities regulator has issued an emergency cease and desist order against a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment platform. Interestingly, the project’s latest initiatives included impersonating the world’s leading crypto exchange – Binance. Crypto Scam Impersonating Binance Halted in Texas According to the statement, Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles issued the cease-and-desist order against the alleged...Read More
Just a few months after America’s oldest bank announced bitcoin custody services, the Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley will start offering its clients access to BTC funds. Nevertheless, the bank has outlined bitcoin’s risky nature and said that only people with “an aggressive risk tolerance” should take advantage of the service. By citing an internal...Read More
Institutional investors employing the services of Grayscale Investments would have the option to choose from five new product additions. Namely, those are Basic Attention Token (BAT), Chainlink (LINK), Decentraland (MANA), Filecoin (FIL), and Livepeer (LPT). The company’s recently-appointed CEO, Michael Sonnenshein, broke the news on Twitter earlier today. Upon the addition of the five aforementioned...Read More
Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson is the latest to address the growing threat of fake cryptocurrency giveaways. He blamed social media platforms like Twitter and YouTube for inaction, threatened to delete his accounts, and said his company will investigate if these giant firms are actually benefiting from the ongoing scams. The Growing Threat of Crypto Giveaway...Read More
Graham Ivan Clark, the teenager who was the mastermind behind the hack of various Twitter accounts belonging to high-profile accounts back in 2020, has received a three-year jail term. Twitter Hack Mastermind Serving Time According to a report by the Tampa Bay Times, Clark pleaded guilty to the Twitter hack that happened last summer at...Read More
Originally planned for a March 15 launch, the Symbol platform is finally on mainnet following almost four years of development. The proof-of-stake enterprise grade blockchain enables the creation of specialized crypto assets with configurable properties that can act as security tokens. It is an evolution of the original NEM blockchain which was launched in March...Read More
In an attempt to serve as the next generation of DLT, Polkadot has announced plans to establish decentralized and trustless bridges to enhance interoperability among various networks. Parity Technologies is developing the first generic bridge that will enable all Substrate-based chains to connect and communicate with each other. Polkadot’s Decentralized Bridges The blockchain project behind...Read More
The legal dispute between Ripple and the SEC continues with full force as the payment processor has requested the Commission to produce documents regarding Bitcoin and Ethereum – as they were officially deemed not to be securities. At the same time, thousands of XRP holders have asked the federal judge in charge to serve as...Read More
AAVE, one of the market’s leading lending protocols, brings further offerings to its value proposition. In a recently released announcement, the protocol revealed that they have now enabled Uniswap and Balancer LP tokens to be collateralized on the platform. AAVE currently holds over $5 billion in total value locked, according to data from DeFi Pulse,...Read More
Decentralized finance representatives like Uniswap are bubbles that come and go, but Cardano is looking to run entire countries on its blockchain, said Charles Hoskinson. In a recent interview, the project’s founder also predicted that at least 100 protocols could switch from Ethereum to Cardano when it goes live. From Ethereum to Cardano While speaking...Read More
Since its March 14 peak of $61,000, Bitcoin has corrected by 12.3% to $53,500 during Asian trading on Tuesday, March 16, before recovering slightly to trade at current prices of $54,350 according to Tradingview.com. How Deep Will The Correction Go? The previous correction on Feb. 22 resulted in a pullback of 26% while the one...Read More
PancakeSwap, the largest and most popular decentralized cryptocurrency exchange and automated market maker (AMM) on Binance Smart Chain, might have had its DNS hijacked. Cream Finance is also under attack. In a tweet shared minutes ago, PancakeSwap’s official account revealed that the platform might have had its DNS (Domain Name System) hijacked. Until we are...Read More
After temporarily breaking the ice on bitcoin regulations, the Indian government is doubling down its efforts to restrain cryptocurrency use. A new bill on the way could place cryptocurrency holders and miners at risk of fines and possible jail time. New Indian Anti-Bitcoin Bill On the Cards A fresh Reuters report claims that India is...Read More
Michael Saylor’s business intelligence giant has kept its promise to allocate additional funds in the primary cryptocurrency. MicroStrategy announced on Friday that it had added another chunk of 262 bitcoins to its sizeable stack of over 91,000 tokens. The company’s founder and CEO, Michael Saylor, took it to Twitter on Friday to inform of the...Read More
More developments on the Ripple vs. the SEC legal front as the Commission has requested personal financial information of the company’s CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, and co-founder Christian Larsen. Simultaneously, the Japanese financial giant SBI Group has doubled-down on its support for Ripple by offering to pay its shareholders dividends in XRP. The SEC Seeks Personal...Read More
The world’s leading crypto exchange, Binance, is purportedly being investigated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission for allowing residents to trade derivatives without the necessary registration. Although Binance CEO CZ called the development “FUD,” the crypto market reacted with a sudden price drop. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported the CFTC had...Read More
Alameda Research, founded back in 2017, is one of the leading research and trading firms in the cryptocurrency industry. The company has announced a $20 million investment in the cross-chain DeFi operating system Reef Finance. Alameda Research has invested $20 million in the popular DeFi cross-chain operating system REEF Finance. According to a press release...Read More
While some Chinese companies have purchased BTC and ETH, others, such as the social media giant Weibo, have reportedly halted the accounts of three of the largest crypto exchanges – Binance, Huobi, and OKEx. Weibo has justified its decision by outlining “abnormal practices” and breaching security risks. Weibo Targets Crypto Exchanges It may not come...Read More
The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has announced that Bakkt Marketplace has become the 29th cryptocurrency company to receive BitLicense since 2015. This approval comes amid the firm’s endeavors to be publicly listed and to launch the long-anticipated Bakkt App. The NYDFS started granting such licenses to digital asset businesses in 2015,...Read More
Nexo, a financial service provider for digital assets, has announced a $150k donation to Brink, a non-profit dedicated to encouraging, nurturing, and supporting the open-source Bitcoin development community. This follows the contribution of Jack Dorsey, who recently granted 1 BTC to the organization as well. Nexo Donates $150K to Brink As Bitcoin continues to experience...Read More
Peter Schiff tweeted today that his son, Spencer Schiff, went all-in on Bitcoin during the last drop below $50,000. According to his father, a full 100% of his portfolio is now invested in Bitcoin. The elder Schiff has been a long-time Bitcoin detractor. However, his child’s interest in cryptocurrencies may expose him to some new...Read More
The initiative of international companies pouring funds into bitcoin has another representative in the face of the Israeli asset manager Altshuler Shaham. The company has allocated $100 million in the primary cryptocurrency through the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust in the second half of 2020. Israeli Asset Manager Puts $100M in BTC Founded in 1990, Altshuler Shaham...Read More
South Korea’s financial regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC), has announced new possible penalties for cryptocurrency exchanges based or operating in the country if they fail to comply with existing anti-money laundering (AML) rules. New Penalties for Crypto Exchanges in South Korea According to the FSC’s statement from earlier today, the newly-announced initiative will affect...Read More
Recent job postings suggest that the leading digital asset manager could be planning to develop and launch a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETFs). Grayscale is looking for nine employees for roles focusing on various ETF-related endeavors. Founded in 2013, Grayscale is a crypto asset manager enabling institutions to receive exposure to numerous digital assets through its...Read More
Coinbase announced today that it would list MATIC on its advanced trading platform, Coinbase Pro – the result is a quick upward surge which has resulted in a 35% gain. MATIC Skyrockets After Coinbase Announce Listing Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development platform, Matic Network (now Polygon) has rallied by 35%. The surge was fueled by...Read More
Nearly a year after filing a lawsuit against YouTube for failing to prevent XRP giveaway scams, Ripple Labs has settled the issue without disclosing any further details. In the other ongoing Ripple-related lawsuit, the SEC has asked Judge Analisa Torres to deny the payment processor’s motions to dismiss. Ripple Settles with YouTube CryptoPotato reported last...Read More
In an interesting twist of events, Twitter, the social media platform spearheaded by Jack Dorsey, one of Bitcoin’s most influential proponents, has now suspended some major cryptocurrency-related accounts. Twitter has suspended numerous accounts that are related to cryptocurrencies. Some of the most popular ones include those of PlanB, the creator of the Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model,...Read More
The NFT artwork has been created by legendary crypto artist Beeple, aka Mike Winkelmann, over a period of 13 years, hence the title ‘EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS’. The unique work is a collage of images that Beeple has posted every day since mid-2007 and it has attracted a monumental bid of $9.75 million with...Read More
Jack Dorsey, the CEO of one of the largest social media platforms, Twitter, will be converting the proceeds of the sale of the genesis tweet in Bitcoin and donate it to the GiveDirectly’s Africa Response Campaign. Earlier during the weekend, CryptoPotato reported that Jack Dorsey has put up the genesis tweet for sale. This became possible through...Read More
Parity Technologies aims at developing and releasing a generic asset parachain to serve as one of the first common-good chains on Polkadot. Dubbed Statemint, it would provide functionality for deploying various asset types, such as tokenized artwork or even central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Statemin to Come on Polkadot The press release shared with CryptoPotato...Read More
