El Salvador’s decision to adopt BTC as a legal tender has rattled the cages in Central and South America. Argentina’s president was the latest to showcase support to some extent in a recent interview. Speaking to the local media outlet Caja Negra, Alberto Fernandez touched on the topic of digitalization and where the country stands...Read More
The multi-investment DeFi platform Dao Maker has become the latest victim to a security breach in the industry. The attackers have managed to affect over 5,000 accounts holding USDC. At first, Wu Blockchain took it to Twitter to indicate that the popular platform has fallen victim to a hack. The perpetrators supposedly transferred out USDC...Read More
Paris Saint-Germain has reportedly paid a portion of Leo Messi’s welcoming package in its own fan token – $PSG. As it became well-known recently, Lionel “Leo” Messi couldn’t continue his contract with his previous team Barcelona as the club failed to stay within the financial limits incorporated by La Liga. Paris Saint-Germain, arguably the wealthiest...Read More
Axie Infinity (AXS) is among the latest digital assets to be listed for trading on Coinbase Pro. As it typically happens with similar developers, its price jumped by nearly 30% in a matter of hours after the announcement. The leading US exchange outlined the latest set of coins to find a place on the Coinbase...Read More
Ripple announced that one of the leading non-bank remittance service providers in South Korea – Global Money Express Co. LTD (GME Remittance) – had joined its network. As a result, the financial institution can now connect to Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) and initiate payments between South Korea and Thailand. GME Looking to Expand According to...Read More
The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company has doubled down on its BTC endeavors through a partnership with New York Digital Investment Group. Both parties aim to enable institutional clients of the insurance behemoth to receive BTC exposure. According to the announcement dated August 11th, the insurance broker, founded a decade and a half ago, has...Read More
The Indian governing body will reportedly take measures to eliminate the use of cryptocurrencies as part of the country’s financial system. However, the existence of digital assets issued by the State is not threatened. Cryptocurrencies Fund Illegal Activities According to a recent report by The Economic Times, the government of India plans to crack down...Read More
The global investment management company VanEck has filed again for a Bitcoin Strategy exchange-traded fund (ETF). The US firm has tried several times in the past few years but the SEC is yet to approve a single BTC ETF. New York-based investment firm VanEck submitted an application to the SEC to roll out a BTC...Read More
Charles Hoskinson, Cardano’s founder and CEO of blockchain research company Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), has urged the U.S. crypto community to rally against the recently proposed taxation policy. Hoskinson first took it to Twitter earlier this week, calling on digital asset proponents in the U.S. to rally in Washington DC to vent their grievances...Read More
The interoperability protocol PolyNetwork has been exploited on Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, and Ethereum. The perpetrators have set a record within the decentralized finance space by swiping more than $600 million from at least three wallet addresses. Earlier on August 10th, PolyNetwork announced on its Twitter account that it had experienced a security breach. Important...Read More
BitMEX has collaborated with AC Milan and will become the soccer team’s Official Sleeve Partner and the Official Cryptocurrency Trading Partner. After the partnership, the logo of the derivatives exchange will be featured on the sleeve of the men’s and women’s playing kit. According to the announcement from August 10th, BitMEX and AC Milan have...Read More
The large US movie theatre chain, AMC Theatres, will add bitcoin as a payment option by the end of the year, said the organization’s CEO Adam Aron. Thus, the number of global brands adopting BTC keeps growing after the recent announcements from Philipp Plein, Sheetz, Quiznos, and more. Founded in 1920, AMC Entertainment Holdings is...Read More
The Italian authorities shut down 32 Telegram groups that offered fake COVID-19 passes to thousands of people. The criminals preferred cryptocurrency payments for the illegal service. Cryptocurrencies in Exchange for a Green Pass According to a recent report by Reuters, the Italian police halted the operation of several groups on the online messaging application Telegram....Read More
Global fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. announced today that UBS – the world’s largest private bank – has now joined its distributed ledger repo (DLR) platform. What Broadridge Offers Broadridge is a corporate services company and global fintech leader that provides technological solutions for banks, mutual funds, and other corporate issuers. Their DLR platform...Read More
Key senators have reached an agreement on IRS reporting rules for cryptocurrencies, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) announced in a tweet Monday. The industry and regulators await further details, but it looks like lawmakers have found clarification on who is and isn’t a broker in the blockchain business. Sen. Portman said in a tweet early...Read More
According to a recent press release, the popular cryptocurrency exchange, Poloniex, has agreed to pay a fine upwards of $10 million to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The release reads that the company has agreed to pay the fine for operating an unregistered digital asset exchange. According to the order of the SEC,...Read More
In light of recent regulatory scrutiny on the entire industry from global watchdogs, digital asset exchanges have attempted to enhance their efforts in order to comply with emerging legislation. The latest to outline its strategy is FTX, as the company’s CEO explained. FTX’s KYC/AML Endeavors The cryptocurrency space saw massive growth in the past year...Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission has targeted the Cayman Island-based Blockchain Credit Partners (BCP), along with Gregory Keough and Derek Acree, for selling unregistered securities from February 2020 to February 2021. $30 Million Trough Token Sales According to a recent press release, the executives allegedly used smart contracts to sell two types of tokens that...Read More
The controversy surrounding the cryptocurrency taxation bill that might be passed in the United States has evoked a mixed reaction from crypto proponents. While the debate is still ongoing, Jack Dorsey, a popular Bitcoin advocate and CEO of the popular microblogging platform, Twitter, has recently shared his views on the matter. In a series of...Read More
The blockchain data provider Chainalysis revealed that Chinese cryptocurrency accounts had sent over $2.2 billion worth of digital assets to addresses tied to criminal activities such as frauds and darknet transactions in a period of around two years. However, large-scale Ponzi schemes are less popular in China than in other countries. Cryptocurrencies Fueled Illegal Operations...Read More
Cryptocurrency broker Voyager Digital Ltd has acquired Coinify ApS, a crypto payment system, in a deal valued at about $84 million. The integration of Coinify will accelerate Voyager’s expansion into Europe to meet the demands of the market and offer its products internationally. Making Digital Assets Accessible Globally According to the announcement, the deal is...Read More
The blockchain-based digital collectibles marketplace VeVe will begin selling Spider-Man non-fungible tokens this weekend. The initial series of NFTs will include five variations of the Marvel superhero, costing between $40 and $400. NFTs Caught in The Cobweb The comics book giant Marvel Entertainment partnered with the VeVe marketplace to launch the first official Spider-Man NFTs....Read More
According to a Coinbase research, 51% of British adults said they are “very interested” in taking out a loan using digital asset holdings as a guarantee instead of traditional methods. 39% revealed they are willing to employ cryptocurrencies to send and receive money in international transactions as well. Brits Want to Adopt Crypto for Transactions...Read More
The crypto community continues to rally the troops just hours ahead of the crucial vote on digital asset taxation from US Congress. This time, they have received support from one of the most influential people today – Elon Musk. CryptoPotato reported yesterday the controversy that arose from US authorities in regards to the country’s attempt...Read More
With the cryptocurrency industry gradually shifting to more environmentally friendly innovations to limit its carbon footprint, Elrond has recently announced that it is now carbon negative. Thus, it has become the first European blockchain project to achieve the feat. Elrond Becomes Carbon Negative According to a Thursday press release shared with CryptoPotato, the internet-scale blockchain...Read More
With new regulation and taxation on the cryptocurrency industry coming from the U.S., the situation just took another turn as President Joe Biden openly supported the highly unfavorable amendment proposed earlier by Senators Mark Warner and Rob Portman. Biden’s backing seems to target proof-of-stake assets, while mining appears untouched. Sitrep: Taxation and Regulation on Crypto...Read More
It was an exciting week in the cryptocurrency market with a lot of developments – both in terms of price and otherwise. Bitcoin went through a correction but managed to recover, while Ethereum’s long-anticipated London hard fork went live officially. Starting off with BTC’s price, the week was rather intense. Last weekend, we saw the...Read More
The world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange continues to tailor its product suite in a way that caters to customer protection regulations. In a recent announcement, the exchange revealed that users from Hong Kong “will not be able to open new derivatives products accounts,” with immediate effect. Moreover, “with effect from a date to be announced in...Read More
Just a day after the highly-anticipated upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain, Buterin commented that the event had paved the way for the migration to proof of stake (ETH 2.0). He also outlined EIP-1559 as the “most important part of London.” As reported yesterday, the Ethereum network went through one of its most-awaited and crucial hard...Read More
Zabo announced that it would join the digital asset platform Coinbase. However, the statement did not specify the terms of the deal, and the amount paid remains unrevealed. Coinbase’s New Acquisition According to a blog post, Zabo – a Dallas-based cryptocurrency data aggregator – will become part of the Nasdaq-listed exchange Coinbase. The Co-Founders of...Read More
