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With the current craze surrounding everything NFT-related, CryptoPotato is happy to announce its plans to mint an NFT on the Cardano blockchain when these capabilities are enabled. The NFT Craze It’s safe to say that non-fungible tokens are this year’s hot topic. From CryptoKitties, CryptoPunks, and Hasmasks, to celebrity music and the NBA highlight reel, creators are digitizing everything, turning it into scarce, unique, and indivisible tokens that are oftentimes auctioned...

With so many companies getting involved in the bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) game as of late, it makes sense that a large financial firm such as Fidelity Investments would throw its wrench into the pot. Fidelity Is Looking to Establish a Bitcoin ETF Fidelity was one of the first financial brokers to offer digital currency trading and storage services to its clients in 2018. Now, it’s cementing its status even further as the ultimate crypto haven by preparing...

Shortly after announcing plans to enable its institutional customers access to the first-ever cryptocurrency, Morgan Stanley has doubled down by filing documents with the SEC to allow 12 of its funds to gain BTC exposure through the Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust or cash-settled futures.  CryptoPotato reported back in February that a unit of Morgan Stanley Investment Management called Counterpoint Global explored whether or not to enable its investors to receive access to BTC. ...

[PRESS RELEASE – Limassol, Cyprus, 1st April, 2021, Chainwire] Blockchain-based casino Playza has launched on the TRON network. Playza offers a fair and transparent online gaming experience for crypto users in eligible jurisdictions, with a range of traditional casino games available. There will be no sign-ups, withdrawals or deposits and no forms to fill out. At launch, Playza will exclusively support TRON and TRX tokens for deposits, though plans are in place to support...

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer]  [Hong Kong/April 1st, 2021] – as.exchange, the innovative derivatives exchange, today announces the launch of a peer-to-peer (P2P) trading feature on its platform with the purpose of empowering users to buy and sell cryptocurrency from one another, making trading easier than ever before. By facilitating secure direct fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat trades between users and merchants, the P2P marketplace advances crypto adoption...

Tesla boss Elon Musk is known for influencing the sudden growth of cryptocurrencies, which could be in the form of tweets or investments. SpaceX To Put DOGE On The Moon After publicly supporting Dogecoin (DOGE), the popular billionaire has once again thrown his weight behind DOGE, causing the cryptocurrency to reach a six-week high. In a tweet today, Musk noted that one of his companies, SpaceX, will put “a literal Dogecoin” on “a literal moon.” SpaceX is going to put a...

[Press Release – London, England, 1st April, 2021] Reef Finance, the universal DeFi liquidity aggregator, has launched the V1 testnet of Reef Chain, dubbed Maldives. The release marks the first time that developers and users can take the Reef platform for a spin, allowing them to test and deploy smart contracts built in Solidity, the smart contract language used by Ethereum. Reef Chain is based on Polkadot’s Substrate framework, and is built in Rust. To maintain full...

In another whopping purchase, Justin Sun, the founder of one of the largest blockchain-based projects, TRON, and the CEO of BitTorrent, has bought Picasso’s “Femme nue couchée au collier” for $20 million.  Besides that, he has also bought “Three self portraits” by Andy Warhol for $2 million, and he plans to tokenize both and launch them on the JUST NFT Fund in the weeks to come. Justin Sun’s Forray into Digital Art Continues Justin Sun is well-known within the cryptocurrency...

The first quarter of 2021 was no doubt one of the most thrilling in bitcoin history. It started on a high note and closed it with the same vibe. Despite the periodic price drops that BTC experienced, Q1 of 2021 came out the best since Bitcoin’s inception. Historical data shows that Q2 has been even better, raising the question if bitcoin would be heading further north. The Best Q1 Ever The end of March signified the end of the first yearly quarter. Bitcoin ended the quarter...

The Wall Street trading company, Phemex, strikes again – this time with plenty of creativity. Until April 2nd, you can sign up to be part of the QR Art Phemex is planning to put at auction on OpenSea as an NFT. This marks the first NFT made entirely by a trading community, everybody having a chance to get paid for the beauty of their crypto wallet. But what is an NFT? In case you don’t understand what is with the massive hype over Non-Fungible Tokens, note that they...