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After a 10-month long regulatory battle with United States financial watchdogs, leading cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BitMEX has agreed to settle and will pay a fine worth millions of dollars. As confirmed by the exchange today, BitMEX has reached a $100 million resolution with the two U.S. regulators – the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Speaking on the settlement, BitMEX CEO Alexander Höptner noted that...

The recent bitcoin crash saw the world’s number one digital currency briefly trading below the $30,000 mark. At the time of writing, the asset has shot up to about $42,000 per unit, meaning it has gained roughly $13,000 in just a matter of weeks. Things are going better for BTC, and it looks like the crash may be over. According to Sam Bankman-Fried – one of the world’s youngest crypto billionaires – the recent drop could have been a lot worse and played out rather well...

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 Strategy ETF. The ETF will contain bitcoin futures, bitcoin funds, and various other investment instruments related to the primary cryptocurrency. According to...

Several members of the United States Congress are working together to propose an amendment to the new infrastructure bill that would better describe what crypto brokers are and lessen some of the tax burdens the bill is set to place on cryptocurrency investors. Will the Infrastructure Bill Change? The amendment is a bipartisan move coming by way of Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon (democrat) Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming (republican), and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania (republican)....

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 against the bill. This would be a bid to convince the country’s senators to amend the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) reporting...

With the increasing interest in blockchain gaming, the popular blockchain platform, TRON, has recently announced the launch of a new $300 million fund dedicated to supporting GameFi projects. TRON Launches $300M Fund to Support Game Developers In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, TRON noted that the fund dubbed TRON Arcade was launched in collaboration with the leading NFT project, APENFT, and the DeFi project, WINKLink. TRON Arcade is geared toward supporting...

XRP/USD – XRP Breaks Bullish Flag And Pokes Above 2020 Highs Key Support Levels: $0.8, $0.78, $0.7.Key Resistance Levels: $9.8282, $0.89, $1. XRP formed a bullish flag last week after retracing from the 200-day MA resistance at the end of July. The breakout of this flag pattern occurred over the weekend, which allowed it to break above resistance at $0.781 (bearish .236 Fib), climb above the July high, and poke beyond the 2020 high at $0.8282. The 4-hour chart shows the...

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] NearPad, the DeFi hub on NEAR’s layer 2 protocol – Aurora, has announced the successful close of its $2m seed round. The raise was led by NGC with participation from leading backers in the blockchain space including NEAR Foundation, OWC, Ellipti, LD Capital, Flow Ventures, Genblock Capital, Exnetwork, and SuperNova Fund. NearPad has set its sight on jumpstarting ecosystem growth on Aurora through its DAO-centric protocol. “We’re...

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 Notice:We are sorry to announce that #PolyNetwork was attacked on @BinanceChain @ethereum and...

SpaceSwap is happy to announce that starting on 10th August 2021, the platform’s native token MILK2 will become part of a united farming pool. Cohort 19 from UniFarm will start at 13:30 UTC on the appointed day and last for 180 days! This is a great opportunity for all MILK2 holders to stake their tokens and farm multiple-token rewards. UniFarm’s Cohort 19 will be going live on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). What is a ‘cohort’ and how does it work? An inventive farming...