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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, the university will receive the payment entirely in digital assets. FTX Enters into New Waters According to a recent press release, the...

It’s been a rather big year for crypto thus far, but what will the future bring? Many analysts are weighing in where bitcoin and its altcoin cousins will be standing in the next five to ten years. Where Will Crypto Be in the Next Few Years? Dave Abner – head of global development at Gemini – said in a statement: There’s tremendous focus and attention being paid to [the crypto industry]. One of the big focuses we have been seeing over the past few months is on regulation....

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 the decision was prompted by its commitment to increasing transparency and exploring new opportunities to collaborate with the USDC community. It noted...

Bitcoin is and always has been the world’s number one digital currency by market cap, but according to Nigel Green of the deVere Group, Ethereum will soon rise to the top of the crypto ladder. Nigel Green: We Will Soon See ETH at the Top In a recent interview, Green mentioned: Ethereum will continue to outperform bitcoin in 2021 and will, ultimately, exceed its rival’s value. Ethereum is the number two largest cryptocurrency in the world, second only to BTC. This makes...

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 the former’s protocol. Any user borrowing or exchanging ETH, wBTC, LINK, USDT, DAI, or AVAX will be eligible for these rewards. More...

David Marcus – the head of Facebook’s blockchain department – says that the social media company’s new cryptocurrency wallet Novi is ready to go. David Marcus Is Ready to Unleash Novi Novi has been a long time in the making. The wallet is designed to accompany the firm’s new Diem cryptocurrency, which many fans and anticipators still refer to as “Libra.” That was the name the currency originally traveled under when initially announced in the summer of 2019. As a former...

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 would be able to pay with BTC for subscriptions on the Substack platform. However, this...

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, retrieving the 28,853 ETH and 1,032 WBTC (Wrapped BTC) left and giving Poly Network the green light to return full asset control to users. The team had to...

[PRESS RELEASE – Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 23rd August, 2021] OpenSwap, the interchain DeFi Hub and liquidity booster for traders, has raised $1.5 million in its latest funding round. Led by prominent VC firms NGC Ventures and Coin98 Ventures, the round attracted investment from BR Capital, Legos Capital, Double Peak Group, Prime Block Capital, Illusionist Group, and All In Ventures. Several notable angel investors also contributed. The latter group included StakeDAO CEO Julien...

Many reports in the past have confirmed that bitcoin’s price increase is often followed by a significant rise in interest in the leading cryptocurrency, especially from retail investors. Now, though, the situation seems rather different. Bitcoin Price and Interest Usually Correlate As reported in Q3 last year, when bitcoin started hitting highs after highs, months after a severe crash during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impressive price movements received wide...