As NFTs grow in popularity, more creators and users want to mint them, which can be costly if using Ethereum. Creating ERC-20 fungibles or ERC-721 non-fungibles uses gas, and as everyone is painfully aware, gas is expensive at the moment. Addressing this, ConsenSys has announced Palm, which promises 99% efficiency over current proof-of-work networks. We’ve...Read More
Speaking at a City and Financial Conference today, John Glen said authorities need to regulate stablecoins due to the threat it poses should a major firm dominate the sector. “There is the potential for some firms to swiftly achieve dominance and crowd out other players due to their ability to scale and plug into existing...Read More
With collaboration from the NBA, highlight clips have become NFT collectible cards. Canadian technology company Dapper Labs continues its lucrative streak by nabbing a whopping $305 million dollars from new investors. Private Equity Firm Cotue Rakes in Big Names The New York investment company Coatue Management, responsible for several other technology investments, has sealed a...Read More
A global open-source hybrid blockchain protocol, eXchange inFinite (XinFin), has partnered with the enterprise software firm R3. As a result, the latter’s DLT-based platform Corda will use the XDC token as the primary settlement coin. The Bridge Between R3’s Corda and Blockchain Networks In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, both parties announced the collaboration,...Read More
A few months after it filed a lawsuit against Ripple for conducting an unregistered security offering, the SEC has done the same against another blockchain project. This time, it’s going for LBRY – a project operating a decentralized content publishing platform. $11M Worth of Unregistered Securities Offering? Based in New Hampshire, US, LBRY Inc is...Read More
The latest report by on-chain analysis provider Glassnode has unraveled more details on Bitcoin spending habits that could suggest that market sentiment is still bullish. Glassnode observed that held coins are beginning to mature, and continued outflows from exchanges demonstrate accumulation is not slowing down. #Bitcoin held above $50k last week as early signs of...Read More
On March 31, Cardano will become a fully decentralized platform, this means that over 1,800 community pools will be responsible for block production. Since the release of the Shelley update in July 2020, Cardano was slightly criticized by the DeFi community for issuing their own blocks while its SPO (stake pool operator) was being developed,...Read More
PayPal will reportedly announce later today that it has started allowing consumers from the US to use cryptocurrency to pay at the millions of merchants that the payment processor supports. PayPal, the world’s leading online payment processor, will announce later today that it has started allowing US customers to use their crypto within its network, Reuters reports....Read More
Positive news for the blockchain-based payment processor Ripple, as District Judge Analisa Torres has approved XRP holders to intervene in the ongoing legal case against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Additionally, the company has acquired a 40% stake in the large Asian cross-border payments firm – Tranglo. XRP Holders to Intervene in the SEC...Read More
Latvia’s flag air carrier, airBaltic, has reaffirmed its pro-cryptocurrency approach by enabling customers to make bookings with other digital assets, including Ether (ETH), Dogecoin (DOGE0 and Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Those tokens have joined the list of four USD-pegged stablecoins and the first-ever cryptocurrency – Bitcoin. DOGE and ETH to Be Used for Air Travel AS...Read More
Justin Sun, the CEO of TRON and BitTorrent, has doubled-down on his NFT-related endeavors by announcing a designated fund. Called JUST NFT Fund, it aims to close the gap between the most recent craze in the blockchain space and artists wanting to release their own non-fungible tokens. Sun’s NFT Fund Justin Sun, and his blockchain-based...Read More
A few months after launching Bitcoin custodial services in the US, the nation’s oldest bank, BNY Mellon, has doubled-down on its interest and involvement with the first-ever cryptocurrency. It has published a report attempting to determine bitcoin’s value by comparing BTC with gold and referring to the popular stock-to-flow model. BNY Mellow Evaluates BTC It...Read More
Visa is to become the first large payments network to use a stablecoin as a settlement currency. By partnering with the popular cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com, the San Francisco-headquartered giant will offer a crypto settlement system for fiat transactions based on the Ethereum blockchain. According to the announcement from earlier today, Visa has joined forces with...Read More
According to data from DappRadar, and the platform itself, the total value locked for the DeFi DEX PancakeSwap has reached $5.5 billion in BNB equivalent. The platform tweeted the milestone all-time high over the weekend, adding that it includes all liquidity pools combined. TVL figures vary depending on the data provider but most are in...Read More
Two suspects have been accused of stealing almost $500,000 from unsuspecting victims in fraudulent bitcoin transactions in Hong Kong. Fake It Till You Steal It According to a report by the South China Morning Post on Tuesday (Mar. 23, 2021), the victims, aged 33 and 31, were deceived by two con artists in a fake...Read More
KiwiSaver Growth Strategy recently invested 5% of its money into Bitcoin, according to his Chief Investment Officer, James Grigor. While several investors from KiwiSaver were not happy with the decision, Grigor believes Bitcoin has become a commodity, similar to gold, and has many features similar to it such as working as a store of value...Read More
Leading crypto fintech startup Circle Internet Financial has announced the launch of a payment solution for the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) market. It will enable investors and content creators to make payments using credit cards and cryptocurrencies. Promoting NFT Adoption The company stated in an announcement today that it hopes the initiative would get more investors...Read More
This week was tough across the board as both cryptocurrencies and legacy markets took a beating. Bitcoin was rejected at $60K and dropped all the way down to $50K, but, fortunately, it found support and is now attempting a recovery. The cryptocurrency started the week trading at around $59K and took a shot at the...Read More
While the cryptocurrency landscape in India is still faced with regulatory uncertainty, the government has directed that companies should disclose details of their crypto transactions and holdings. Possible Crypto Regulation for India? According to a document published on March 24, both public and private firms in India care to disclose details of their cryptocurrency activities...Read More
Institutions taking profits and rising interest rates have pushed bitcoin down in the past week, said the Director of Research at Forbes Crypto – Steven Ehrlich. Simultaneously, he outlined Ethereum’s growing adoption among institutions and the role it plays behind DeFi and NFT as the main reasons why ETH has outperformed BTC last year and...Read More
The recent NFT boom has seen several individuals make so much money from digital collectibles. Everything from artworks, virtual lands to sports cards, and even tweets have now become non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFT Investments Are Like Gambling With this raging NFT mania, investors are worried that this might be another bubble. More recently, John Egan,...Read More
Over 80% of participants in a recent poll answered that they believe bitcoin will be within a six-digit price territory by the end of the year. While only 16% said that BTC would be beneath $100,000, this only attests to the difference several months can make on the general sentiment in the crypto community. Bitcoin...Read More
Binance has hired two former executives from world-renowned regulatory organizations – Rick McDonell and Josee Nadeau. The popular crypto exchange aims to enhance its AML and CFT endeavors and develop more robust relationships with law enforcement bodies worldwide. The Malta-based crypto exchange announced the latest hirings in a press release shared with CryptoPotato. Rick McDonell...Read More
While doing the necessary work on the upcoming hard fork Alonzo, Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson said that his project would also focus on NFTs and NFT marketplaces. He noted that Cardano has already carried conversations with several such marketplaces about potentially transitioning to its blockchain. Cardano and the NFT Mania Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) are undoubtedly...Read More
Elon Musk continues to tease cryptocurrency aficionados. After numerous tweets about the meme-coin Dogecoin, the CEO of Tesla has his sight set on decentralized finance (DeFi). Elon Musk is undoubtedly one of the most interesting people involved with cryptocurrencies. Apart from being one of the richest men in the whole world, he’s also eccentric and...Read More
The Skrill digital wallet, launched by the specialized payments platform Paysafe, will expand its presence in the US by partnering with Coinbase. The largest US-based crypto exchange will provide new cryptocurrency white label solutions to Skrill, thus enabling users from nearly 40 states to buy and sell digital assets. Skrill Partners with Coinbase Launched in...Read More
The skyrocketing demand among institutions towards BTC seems to have changed CBOE’s approach. Two years after closing its Bitcoin futures platform, the CEO of the options exchange indicated that his organization plans to develop new initiatives focusing on various BTC-related products. The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), among the largest options exchanges in the US,...Read More
Cryptocurrency markets are a sea of red during the morning’s Asian trading session as Bitcoin losses are felt heavier across the rest of the ecosystem. Around $150 billion has exited markets over the past 24 hours as the total market cap fell from an intraday high of $1.81 trillion to current levels of $1.66 trillion....Read More
Major U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs has filed a prospectus with the U.S. Securities and exchange Commission (SEC) for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that could offer exposure to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In a recent document filing, Goldman Sachs is seeking approval from the SEC to launch an ETF called the ARK Innovation ETF. According...Read More
The chain-agnostic Layer-2 infrastructure, Cartesi, has partnered with the IOTA Foundation to expand the use cases of DeFi, gaming, and NFTs. Additionally, both parties aim to serve as the bridge between traditional technological solutions and blockchain. Cartesi Collaborates with IOTA Headquartered in Germany, the IOTA Foundation is a global not-for-profit establishment focusing on research and...Read More
