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Last weekend marked the second anniversary of the notorious COVID-19-induced bitcoin crash in which the asset dumped by 50% in a day to below $4,000. While many naysayers rushed to declare BTC’s death (again), the subsequent 24 months turned out to be quite positive, given the fact that the asset added another zero to its USD price, was adopted by numerous institutional investors, and even legalized in a country. What Happened Back Then? It has been two years, but it almost...

Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Sequoia is betting big on the leading Solana NFT marketplace – Market Eden. OpenSea happens to be the leader in the NFT space, however, its dominance appears to be dwindling. There are now newer platforms backed by some of the biggest investors that may have been contributing to this trend. Magic Eden’s $27 Million Funding Round According to the latest reports, Magic Eden is set to announce $27 million in Series A. Leading the round is...

Bit IRA – a leading digital currency firm that allows customers to fund their retirements with bitcoin and other forms of crypto – announced in a press release last week that it’s ending its monthly fees. Bit IRA Eliminates Fees for Customers Overall, customers of Bit IRA are slated to save nearly $30 per month. Their savings will come to more than $350 per year. While this may not seem like much, Jeremy Warner – head of sales at Bit IRA – explained in an interview that...

After weeks of debates and delays, the EU has voted against banning the use and mining of proof of work digital assets, such as bitcoin and ether. CryptoPotato reported earlier the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) framework developed by the European Union, which had one rather threatening note that sought the de facto ban of PoW cryptocurrencies. The digital asset community, led by MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor, opposed the draft, saying it could become a trillion-dollar...

The XRP Ledger Foundation, the independent non-profit entity behind the development of the XRP Ledger, has announced the launch of the initial phase of the Token Assessment Framework. It comes following a collaboration with Grant Thornton Baltic, a business advisory service provider. XRPL Foundation’s New Token Assessment Framework According to the official blog post, the main objective of the framework is to provide transparency for investors in the XRP Ledger (XRPL)...

The Swiss startup “bitcci” has launched its first local token store in the heart of the emerging European crypto hotspot Northern Cyprus to market its own payment token “bitcci cash” to the general public. bitcci is a consortium of Swiss enterprises that is currently in the ICO phase and doing an IEO on several exchanges at the same time. The ICO’s soft cap of $5 million has already been reached. bitcci frees the sex business from tensions and problems by establishing a...

SingSing, a community-driven platform that connects Superfans with their favorite singers, launched music NFTs. The platform is set to revolutionize the music industry and make it decentralized and more accessible to fans. The Singsing NFTs would become a medium of exchange as well as a direct form of interaction for artists and fans. According to the BPI/ERA report 2020, though SuperFans only accounted for more than 10% of singers’ fandom population, their spending...

Stellar lumen price started a fresh decline from well above the $0.1900 zone against the US Dollar. XLM price is now trading near $0.1800 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a crucial contracting triangle forming with resistance near $0.1850 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken). The pair could continue to decline if there is a clear move below $0.1750. Stellar lumen price is trading in a bearish zone below $0.1900 against the US Dollar, similar to...

Ripple price is struggling to clear the $0.80 resistance zone against the US dollar. The price is now trading above $0.72 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a major bullish trend line forming with support near $0.7450 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex). The pair could start a fresh increase unless there is a clear move below the $0.7080 support zone. Ripple price is trading in a bullish zone above $0.7080 against the US...

Binance Holdings Ltd. is currently in deliberations over a license to operate in Dubai, thereby boosting its presence in the Middle East. This was first reported by Bloomberg, citing a ‘person familiar with the matter’. Binance anticipates an accreditation to operate as a service provider in the Dubai World Trade Centre ‘free zone’ as soon as possible. This comes after the EU clarified that crypto ‘is falling under the sanctions imposed by them upon Russia and Belarus’. The...