The US-based NASDAQ-listed business intelligence company MicroStrategy continues with its bitcoin acquisition spree, as the company recently purchased over 3,900 BTC. Consequently, the firm now holds nearly 109,000 bitcoins in total. Tweeting on Tuesday (August 24th, 2021), MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor revealed that the firm has added 3,907 bitcoin to its stash, bought at an...Read More
The valuation of the company has risen above $3 billion after completing the Series B round in which some of the participants included iFinex and Baillie Gifford. Blockstream aims to use the funds towards manufacturing mining chips. As reported by Canadian media on August 24th, Blockstream has further solidified its positioning as a cryptocurrency unicorn...Read More
The Switzerland-based financial institutions – Crypto Finance Group, InCore Bank, and Inacta – have selected Tezos to create on-chain digital products through a new token standard for asset tokenization. InCore Bank would also enable additional digital services with XTZ – the native cryptocurrency of the blockchain network. Tezos to Power The New Token Standard According...Read More
The President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele has revealed the structure for the upcoming implementation of the Bitcoin Law on September 7th, with the Chivo wallet app also available for download on the same day. Chivo Wallet App Comes With Zero Commission In a tweet thread on August 23rd, President Nayib Bukele said that the...Read More
Cal Athletics – the sports teams representing the University of California, Berkeley – and FTX have signed the first sponsorship between a college athletic department and a cryptocurrency platform. As part of the $17.5 million deal, the team’s home ground will change its name to FTX Field at California Memorial Stadium. At the same time,...Read More
Centre, the issuer of popular stablecoin USDC, has revealed that it will convert the asset reserves back to cash and U.S. treasury bills only. In an official blog post on Monday, the Centre Consortium noted that it now intends to “hold the USDC reserve entirely in cash and short duration US Treasuries.” The organization said...Read More
After launching on August 19th, the algorithmic liquidity protocol BENQI has already reached $1B in TVL. Meanwhile, the price of Avalanche’s native cryptocurrency has been soaring. Big Support for BENQI BENQI is collaborating with AVAX in a joint liquidity mining program, in which $3M worth of AVAX will be provided as incentives to users of...Read More
San Francisco-based online publishing platform Substack has enabled support for bitcoin payments for subscriptions to publications through the use of the Lightning Network. Substack has collaborated with OpenNode, a bitcoin payment processor, for the BTC payment option. OpenNode made the announcement via a press release on Monday (August 23rd, 2021). With the latest development, readers...Read More
The Poly Network drama seems to be officially over as the hacker has returned the remaining $141 million, according to a blog post from the DeFi project. ‘Full Asset Restoration’ Begins As per the announcement, at 8:39 AM UTC, Mr. White Hat gave his private key to the 3/4 multi-signature wallet in an embedded message,...Read More
Tavanir – Iran’s Power Generation, Distribution, and Transmission Company – revealed that the ban on cryptocurrency mining would be lifted as early as September 22nd. The country’s authorities would allow digital asset miners to restart their operations legally, hoping to see a decline in energy consumption by the end of summer. Crypto Mining Is Back...Read More
Visa announced on August 23rd that it had spent nearly 50 ETH for a CryptoPunk non-fungible token. Thus, the US behemoth continues to showcase its support for the cryptocurrency industry. The global payments tech firm took it to Twitter on August 23rd to announce the acquisition of CryptoPunk #7610. The transaction was completed on August...Read More
The San Jose-based online payments giant PayPal is launching its cryptocurrency services in the United Kingdom less than a year after the company first introduced the feature in the United States. Eligible customers in the UK will be able to buy, sell, and hold bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies through the PayPal platform beginning this week....Read More
According to a recent research, US cryptocurrency investors have allocated on average $1,707 in such assets. 37% of them admitted they would not touch these funds even if they must cover a necessary bill or an important payment. Somewhat expectedly, the celebrity who influences most of the respondents’ crypto-related decisions is Elon Musk. Many Americans...Read More
The owner of Bitcoin mixer Helix and resident of Ohio, Larry Dean Harmon, pleaded guilty to a one-count conspiracy to launder monetary instruments. Previously, US prosecutors alleged that the Bitcoin mixer laundered over $300 million. Bitcoin Mixer Operator Pleads Guilty Harmon pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the District of Colombia on...Read More
According to a recent survey, millennial investors have allocated 12% of their wealth in the digital asset market while xennials and generation X have respectively distributed 9.2% and 6.3%. However, those born between the late 1970s and the early 1980s have profited the most from those investments. Crypto Trends among The Generations The cryptocurrency exchange...Read More
The popular cryptocurrency exchange Huobi Global is taking advantage of its competitors’ setbacks to break into new markets. The latest chess move involves a partnership with Latamex —Settle Network’s on and off-ramp fiat-to-crypto payment gateway— with the goal of enabling purchases and sales of cryptocurrencies with fiat money in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The exchange...Read More
A recent study revealed that 73% of senior executives at financial institutions fear their companies will fall behind in terms of development if they fail to adopt virtual currencies and blockchain technology. 76% believe that digital assets will replace fiat money in the next 5 to 10 years. Crypto Would Swap Physical Money The multinational...Read More
The European soccer team Philips Sport Vereningin – better known as PSV Eindhoven – has signed a partnership with a local cryptocurrency exchange. Part of the terms dictates that the club will receive the entire sponsorship in bitcoin. PSV Gets BTC The European club announced the partnership with Anycoin Direct earlier this week, highlighting that...Read More
Luna Yield, a Solana-based cross-chain yield aggregator and decentralized exchange, might have rug- pulled after the official website and social media channels were taken down today, according to SolPad, Solona’s finance launchpad. Nearly $10M Stolen After Luna’s official website, Twitter, Telegram, and other channels were deleted, users feared that the team behind the protocol might...Read More
The Mayor of Cool Valley, a city in Missouri, is planning to distribute bitcoin worth up to $1,000 to the inhabitants. However, there is a condition attached to such a plan. Five-Year HODL Condition According to a report by local news outlet KSDK on Thursday (August 19, 2021), Jayson Stewart has revealed intentions to give...Read More
This week was entirely positive in the cryptocurrency market as almost everything is trading well in the green. It wasn’t without its hurdles, so let’s jump straight to it. Bitcoin managed to push towards $48K last Friday, but the week was filled with choppy price action and a somewhat expected downturn. By Thursday, BTC’s price...Read More
Australian detectives from the Criminal Proceeds Squad have seized a record-breaking haul of bitcoin worth nearly A$8.5 million (more than $6 million) in Victoria. Local media reported Friday that the seizure was the largest amount of cryptocurrency ever confiscated by police in Australia and was part of an investigation into online drug trafficking on the...Read More
Leading crypto exchange Binance has recently increased its customer verification requirements amid mounting pressure from global financial regulators. All Binance Users Must Verify their Accounts In an official announcement on Friday, Binance said that all new users must complete “Intermediate Verification” procedures to gain access to services such as cryptocurrency deposits, trades, and withdrawals, with...Read More
In his second crypto-focused endeavor in the private sector, Former SEC chairman Jay Clayton will be joining a $2 billion crypto-custodian based in Israel, known as “Fireblocks.” Why Clayton Joined Fireblocks Fireblocks was launched in 2019 and has seen impressive growth since, having already acted as custodian for over $1 trillion in assets and scaled...Read More
America’s largest digital asset exchange will expand its cryptocurrency holdings on the balance sheet with a $500 million allocation, said the company’s CEO, Brian Armstrong. Furthermore, he promised that the firm will invest 10% of its profit going forward. Coinbase to Put More Crypto on Balance Sheet Brian Armstrong, the chief operating officer of Coinbase,...Read More
BlackRock, a $9 trillion multinational investment behemoth, has purchased considerable stakes in two BTC mining firms – Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) and Riot Blockchain (RIOT). The institution, which has previously shown an appetite for the crypto industry, has put approximately $383M in both. Citing a mandatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Forbes reported...Read More
A few months after dabbling with the idea of getting on the cryptocurrency bandwagon, Wells Fargo has filed documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a designated Bitcoin fund. According to the filing with the Commission, the US financial institution has partnered with FS Investments and New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG)...Read More
Following the success of its first six parachain auctions, Kusama – Polkadot’s Canary network, goes ahead and announces the dates and details for the next 5 auctions. Kusama Goes Ahead With 6 More Parachain Auctions According to materials shared with CryptoPotato, Kusama will schedule the next five parachain auctions on its network. The dates for...Read More
Over 95,000 ETH – over 287 million – have been staked in the ETH 2.0 contract in a day, as per data from on-chain and market data platform CryptoQuant. It seems the number of new depositors is fewer compared to the number of deposits, which, according to Young Ju, CEO of CryptoQuant, is a firm...Read More
The meme-inspired cryptocurrency, Dogecoin (DOGE), has continued to take the top spot in crypto trading activities on Robinhood ever since it shot into the limelight earlier this year. In its earnings report, the American financial services company pointed out significant increases in its crypto revenue in 2021 Q2 compared to last year’s second quarter. The...Read More
