The cryptocurrency market never ceases to amaze. One of the most popular centralized exchanges – Bitfinex – spent over $23 million worth of fees to send $100K USDT using Ethereum’s network. In what seems to be the most expensive transaction made on Ethereum, Bitfinex, the well-known cryptocurrency exchange, paid over $23M worth of ETH. Interestingly...Read More
One of the most popular decentralized exchanges, dYdX, has reached a significant milestone in its development as the overall trading volume on a 24-hour period surpassed that of the largest US-based centralized exchange – Coinbase. dYdX Surpasses Coinbase Built on the Ethereum blockchain, dYdX is a DEX supporting perpetual, margin, and spot trading, as well...Read More
InputOutput (IOKH), the technology company behind the Cardano open-source blockchain project, announced in the ongoing Cardano Summit 2021 that it has partnered with decentralized blockchain oracle network Chainlink. Tremendous Respect for Cardano As per the announcement, the partnership will see Cardano integrate Chainlink’s oracles to support developers as they prepare to start building smart contracts...Read More
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) have recently issued a staff notice addressing improper marketing practices from Crypto Trading Platforms (CTPs) in the country and offered clarity on what rules to keep in mind. Cleaning Up CTP Advertising The regulators’ notice was released earlier this week on...Read More
In just three weeks, roughly one-third of El Salvador’s population has started to employ the Bitcoin wallet Chivo actively. As such, the country’s president updated that more people will soon be using the app than they have bank accounts in all local banking organizations combined. The smallest and most densely populated Central American country made...Read More
During a period of major corporate and institutional interest in the crypto industry, nearly 5,000 new tokens have emerged in the last 12 months, averaging over 10 new coins per day, new data shows. Cryptocurrency Boom of 2021 As can be observed on CoinMarketCap’s homepage, the number of existing cryptocurrencies has recently surpassed 12,000. This...Read More
Robert Kiyosaki – founder of Rich Global LLC and Rich Dad Company – recently told his followers to invest in Ethereum before “the biggest crash in history.” Thus, the author of the best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad added ETH to BTC, gold, and silver as his most-preferrable investment instruments. Kiyosaki’s Plea: Invest in Crypto...Read More
The strategic partnership aims to introduce Cardano’s blockchain technology to DISH’s telecom services, likely to boost Cardano’s adoption and benefiting DISH’s users with 8 million digital identities (D.I.D) on phones satellite. DISH and Cardano Speaking at the Cardano Summit 2021, Hoskinson said that while the main idea was to create a network where users can...Read More
Ark Investment Management has doubled down on its support for the social media platform led by Jack Dorsey. Interestingly, the latest substantial shares purchase came just a day after Twitter announced it would enable BTC tips. As reported by Benzinga, Cathie Wood’s investment manager has purchased nearly 124,000 shares of Twitter on Friday. With the...Read More
According to a survey, approximately every third swing state resident would like to see local authorities legalizing cryptocurrencies as a payment option. While general support towards private digital currencies is on a high level, the locals still need to learn more, the research revealed. Texas and Wisconsin Rank First The London-based polling firm Redfield &...Read More
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA – would reportedly require local digital asset providers to take additional steps in preventing criminals from employing cryptocurrencies. The watchdog would also turn its sight towards bitcoin ATMs as it believes that drug dealers often use these machines. FINMA Targets Criminals Operating with Crypto According to a...Read More
Following today’s events, Senator Pat Toomey says that the ongoing cryptocurrency crackdown in China is a considerable opportunity for the United States. Earlier today, reports revealed further regulatory pressure on cryptocurrencies in China. This time, the country seems to target mining and trading. Although not many of it was new, the announcement triggered a market-wide...Read More
There are no boring days in crypto, and this week, like a lot of others, has managed to definitively prove it. The past seven days have been an absolute rollercoaster in the cryptocurrency market, so let’s start with Bitcoin. BTC’s price was sitting comfortably at around $47,500 last Friday and started improving slowly throughout the...Read More
COTI, an enterprise-grade fintech platform that empowers organizations to build their payment solutions, recently announced that it will be partnering with Cardano’s stablecoin hub, Ardana. The collaboration will introduce stablecoin crypto-to-fiat payments aimed at the Cardano community, in addition to consumers and merchants worldwide. Speaking in a statement, COTI’s CEO, Shahaf Bar-Geffen, said, “Today, COTI...Read More
The market suddenly turned red today following what seems to be another wave of regulatory efforts to crack down on cryptocurrencies in China. This left over $400 million liquidated in less than a day. As CryptoPotato reported, China continues with its efforts to further crack down on the entire cryptocurrency market. The country’s national bank issued a...Read More
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) published a document reminding that digital assets are banned within the country and added that operating with exchanges will also be prohibited. As a result, BTC dumped by $3,000 in an hour. China’s negative stance on the cryptocurrency space has been wildly known for years, and the nation tends...Read More
Portfolio manager at Los Angeles-based TCW Group, Bryan Whalen, has stated that crypto investors are asking big institutions for loans against their digital assets. The comments came at a Morningstar Investment Conference this week, according to Bloomberg. Whalen went on to indicate that: “The market is starting to knock on the doors of big institutions,...Read More
VanEck continues with its cryptocurrency-related exchange-traded notes in Europe by launching such products tracking the performance of Solana, Tron, and Polkadot on the Xetra Deutsche Borse. Tron’s ETN has gone a step further as it will also go live on Euronext in Paris and Amsterdam, updated the project’s founder. VanEck, the global investment manager, outlined...Read More
The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) – Bhutan’s central bank – has joined forces with Ripple to launch a digital version of its national currency. The institution anticipates the initiative to boost the country’s financial inclusion by 85% in the next two years. Ripple and Bhutan Shook Hands The enterprise blockchain provider Ripple announced it would...Read More
Dubai World Trade Center Authority (DWTCA) announced recently that it has partnered with the UAE’s Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) to make cryptocurrency trading, issuance, and regulation completely legal within its jurisdiction – the DWTCA freezone. DWTCA Makes Crypto Activities Legal Notably, the agreement was signed by the acting CEO of the SCA Dr. Maryam...Read More
Fake cryptocurrency giveaway scams continue to pop up frequently, and the latest victim is the oldest bitcoin educational resource – BitcoinOrg. As of now, though, the website has been taken down, and the pseudonymous developer operating it has blamed it on Cloudflare. Earlier on September 23rd, users on Twitter outlined that the BitcoinOrg website has...Read More
Riccardo Spagni, the former Monero lead maintainer who was recently arrested for charges unrelated to the privacy token, has reported that US officials have released him from custody. CryptoPotato reported in early August when Spagni was arrested for alleged fraud committed between 2009 and 2011. The reports indicated that his crimes had nothing to do...Read More
The popular decentralized cryptocurrency exchange aggregator, 1inch Network, will be expanding to Arbitrum. In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the team revealed that the move is aimed at lowering transaction costs and improving throughput and withdrawal speeds. Arbitrum is an Ethereum scaling solution built using Optimistic Rollups, and it allows developers to cross-compile contracts for running...Read More
JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank are among the financial institutions that are opposing the new rules that would require them to set aside a dollar in capital for every dollar of Bitcoin they own. The rules were proposed in June by a group of global central bankers and regulators known as the Basel Committee for...Read More
Following confirmation that AMC would begin accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin for online payment, the company’s CEO has asked the Dogecoin community if AMC should add the meme coin among the cryptocurrency options. Almost 80% Want to Pay for a Movie Ticket With DOGE Adam Aron, CEO of the world’s largest movie theater...Read More
The US Securities and Exchange Commission could greenlight a Bitcoin futures ETF as early as October this year, said Bloomberg’s Senior Commodity Strategist – Mike McGlone. He also doubled down on his $100,000 price prediction for BTC by the end of the year, adding that the cryptocurrency is on its way to replace gold, similarly...Read More
David Ignatius of the Washington Post interviewed SEC chair, Gary Gensler, on the cryptocurrency landscape, his thoughts on his approach to regulating the crypto space. Gensler expresses optimism for the possibilities crypto provides for enhancing finance, but also that he believes most of the space should fall under regulatory supervision – including stablecoins. At the...Read More
The team behind Solana yesterday gave a detailed report on how its validators from all over the world rescued the network from an outage that lasted nearly 18 hours. IDO Bots Responsible for Solana’s Downtime According to the report, the network outage was a result of Grape Protocol’s IDO, which launched on the Raydium exchange...Read More
The major Brazilian bank – BTG Pactual – will enable its customers to trade digital assets directly through a new platform called Mynt. The offering will be available from the next quarter and will include the two leading cryptocurrencies – bitcoin and ether. The New Crypto Opportunity According to a local report, the initiative, which...Read More
A contract address belonging to the DeFi lending platform Vee finance has been exploited with the perpetrator swiping 8,800 ETH and 214 BTC. The attacker has not moved the funds yet, as Vee’s team claiming they have initiated contact to resolve the incident. The protocol announced hours ago that it had halted all services as...Read More
