Kazakhstan’s new Digital Development Minister, Bagdat Mussin, has reportedly asserted that the country is already in talks to attract a significant investment worth over $700 million to expand the cryptocurrency mining sector in the Central Asian nation. Kazakhstan Aims For $700M Investment For Crypto Mining The plans for attracting 300 billion tenges ($715 million) of...Read More
Named after the fermented Korean dish, Kimchi is a fork of the wildly popular SushiSwap protocol that was forked from Uniswap late last week. Launched on Tuesday, September 1, Kimchi has already accrued almost $250,000 in liquidity in less than 24 hours, according to its dashboard. In the first few hours after its launch, the...Read More
Bitcoin briefly jumped to above $12,000 but has retraced since then. In the last few hours, the entire market appears to be taking a break. Bitcoin Tested $12K To No Avail The past 24 hours have been rather impressive for the cryptocurrency field, with the entire market cap gaining over $13 billion from yesterday’s bottom...Read More
A joint venture between the British multinational investment bank HSBC, Singapore Exchange (SGX), and state-owned investment company Temasek has completed its first digital bond issuance of $300 million worth of corporate bonds on SGX’s digital asset platform by employing blockchain technology. $300M Of Corporate Bonds Replicated Digitally With DLT The collaboration between the three entities,...Read More
The three-year-long class-action lawsuit against Tezos for supposedly violating securities laws in the US with its 2017 ICO has come to an end after Judge Richard G. Seeborg approved the $25 million settlement offer brought by Tezos earlier this year. Lawsuit Targeting Tezos: The Backstory The company had little time to celebrate its successful initial...Read More
The ongoing DeFi craze shows no signs of slowing down as the total value locked (TVL) in different protocols continues to increase by the day. As CryptoPotato reported earlier today, SushiSwap, the protocol that is attempting to fork the world’s leading decentralized exchange Uniswap by introducing a liquidity reward token called SUSHI, topped $1.2 billion...Read More
Inspired by Brexit, a group called Yes California is leading the charge for separation of California from the United States. And it seems, cryptocurrency will form the backbone of the financial system in the independent country of California. California To Ditch The US For Freedom, & The US Dollar For Crypto According to the latest...Read More
The crypto industry is scrambling to find a solution for the unfeasibly high gas fees that make smaller transactions on the Ethereum network financially unviable. The 2020 DeFi boom and explosion in yield farming platforms have strained the Ethereum network so much that whales and minnows alike are now fighting for block space to get...Read More
Launched just last week as a fork of Uniswap, SushiSwap has gained traction as the hottest thing in DeFi at the moment. It aimed to build on the popular token swapping protocol but offer a native token as a reward to liquidity providers. Uniswap only offers a 0.3% share of its trading fees to those...Read More
Bitcoin continues to improve its position slowly and is currently hovering above $11,900. However, double- and even triple-digit price pumps from lower-cap alts continue to decrease BTC’s dominance to a yearly low of beneath 57%. 2-Year High For ETH, Sushi Enters Top 100 Ethereum doubles-down on its recent price pump with another 10% increase. ETH...Read More
The leading American exchange Coinbase announced today a renewal of its board of directors, incorporating two prominent experts from the technology industry. In an official announcement posted on Coinbase’s blog, Brian Armstrong, the company’s CEO and co-founder explained that they had made two significant replacements to their board of directors. The Hello’s First on the...Read More
The security of Monero (XMR) users could soon be at risk after cryptocurrency intelligence firm CipherTrace announced the creation of tools that enable law enforcement to track transactions on the privacy-oriented blockchain. CipherTrace Claims Ability to Track XMR Transactions According to a press release from Aug 31, CipherTrace collaborated with the US Department of Home...Read More
IOV Labs has announced the integration of RIF Gateways & Chainlink’s decentralized blockchain oracles into its ecosystem, thus enabling developers to access critical price feeds and data resources generated outside the blockchain network. Decentralized Oracles on Top of Bitcoin’s Network The firm’s smart contract platform, the RSK Network, is designed to leverage Bitcoin’s hash power...Read More
An anonymous Bitcoin investor by the name “1400BitcoinStolen” claimed on Sunday that he lost 1400 BTC after “foolishly” installing an old version of the popular Electrum wallet, but turned out to be a phishing scam. A Trap Explaining the unfortunate incident, the victim said he had not been able to access the funds since 2017....Read More
TRON dApp developers have just acquired new capabilities after TRON announced a partnership with Band Protocol. The deal means that third-party devs will be able to utilize Band’s oracle solution to obtain tamper-proof price feeds and other external data sources. Reliable oracles are regarded as one of the most critical capabilities for a blockchain to...Read More
YFI has undoubtedly been the best performing cryptocurrency of the past month in terms of pricing. The governance token of Yearn Finance was announced on July 17th by Andre Cronje and has since taken off in a way no one probably expected. What started as a “0 value” token is currently trading at around $36,000...Read More
Huobi Futures, the derivatives platform of the popular cryptocurrency exchange Huobi Group, will launch Bitcoin options trading starting September 1st. The company explained that more sophisticated investors are entering the digital asset market, and their BTC options release aims to meet their demand. Huobi Futures Adds BTC Options Trading Announced earlier today, the Singapore-based platform...Read More
After the launch of short Bitcoin (SBTC) ETP on Boerse Stuttgart, Germany’s second-largest stock exchange, the crypto trading product is now available on Xetra. This is a significant breakthrough for 21 Shares, which has already tasted success with eleven other institutional-grade crypto exchange-traded products. Short Bitcoin ETP Gets Listed on Deutsche Xetra Germany is Europe’s...Read More
More than 1.1 million test Ether (ETH) tokens are now staked by validators on Ethereum 2.0’s Medalla test network. Validator participation is trending at 74 percent, which is well above the 66 percent threshold. The average staking balance of 32 ETH has been maintained by validators, who are now almost 38,000. This comes amidst the...Read More
As yield farmers scramble to deposit their crypto collateral in the latest and greatest thing in DeFi, volumes on the Uniswap DEX have surged to record levels. The milestone was noted by Ethereum developer and Uniswap creator, Hayden Adams. 🤯 Wow, @UniswapProtocol 24hr trading volume is higher than @coinbase for the first time ever 🦄...Read More
Bitcoin continues to increase in price slowly and is currently hovering at $11,650. Larger-cap altcoins are in the green as well, as Ethereum’s 4.5% increase has taken ETH to $420. Altcoins On The Move The top ten cryptocurrencies have been recovering since last week’s dumps, and most of them have marked gains in the past...Read More
Recent data indicated that the HODLing mentality towards Bitcoin prevails as the number of coins that haven’t moved in two or more years has reached a three-year high. At the same time, miners are following suit as their BTC holdings have reached a two-year high. HODLing Mentality Among BTC Investors Prevail The analytics firm Glassnode...Read More
OKEx has become one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the past several years. The company’s growth is continuously emphasized by the trading volume and the growing user base. CryptoPotato recently had the opportunity to do an exclusive interview with the CEO of the company – Jay Hao.Hao spoke of the challenges OKEx has to...Read More
Spencer Schiff, the son of the well-known economist, gold-bug, and permanent Bitcoin basher Peter Schiff, recently purchased an undisclosed amount of BTC. Aside from criticizing the primary cryptocurrency once again, his father prompted the community to send Spencer a belated birthday present, not in gold but in BTC. Schiff Jr. Appreciates Bitcoin, Unlike His Dad?...Read More
The use of cryptocurrencies in Venezuela has thrived over the years, and although they may not be the revolution that many expected, they have managed to fit into the financial thinking of the people there more strongly than in other countries. The status of crypto and blockchain technology in the country has evolved significantly. A...Read More
Polkadot has quickly gone up the ranks and became one of the biggest cryptocurrency projects. Its native token DOT was recently denominated at a 1:100 ratio. After the event, early Polkadot investors can benefit from a nearly 2,000% ROI. This became possible following the latest company developments, mainnet launch news, and DOT listings on several...Read More
Bitcoin seems stable after recovering from its drop to $11,100 and trades above $11,500. However, massive gains are evident among lower-cap alts and DeFi tokens, including YFI that doubled BTC’s all-time high. As such, Bitcoin’s dominance over the market has decreased by over 1%. YFI To $40k, Low-Caps Surging It’s no secret that the DeFi...Read More
Yearn Finance is undoubtedly all the rage in the cryptocurrency field right now. Up just shy of 80% in the past 24 hours, it peaked at almost $39,000 on Binance. Now, industry proponents such as the CEO of one of the world’s largest Bitcoin margin trading exchanges are making bold predictions about its price. Arthur...Read More
It has long been questioned as to why Bitcoin is priced in U.S. dollars when they are two entirely different entities. One is an inherently weak currency that has been continuously devalued for almost 50 years, and the other is a mathematically finite digital store of value. In a recent blog post by entrepreneur, Sylvain...Read More
Yearn Finance, the DeFi protocol that took the entire crypto field by a storm, continues to break new grounds. Its governance token, YFI, suddenly shot up to 77,000 BUSD on Binance in what appears to have been some sort of a mishap. In any case, the cryptocurrency continues to impress as its price already surpassed...Read More
