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Founded in 1851, The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company is a US-based mutual firm with over five million clients. The Springfield, Massachusetts-headquartered giant is the latest traditional financial company that has allocated sizeable portions in the primary cryptocurrency.The Wall Street Journal reported earlier today that the insurance company had purchased $100 million in bitcoin for its general investment account.MassMutual employed the services of the New York-based fund...

Bitcoin, for the most part, has been on a serious spike as of late, but according to analysts from JPMorgan, the boost of the world’s number one digital currency by market cap is hurting gold.Bitcoin May Be Causing Harm to GoldIn a way, this makes total sense. For one thing, bitcoin appears to do well whenever there is chaos occurring in standard financial markets. We saw this throughout 2020, which was faced with harsh economic problems thanks to the growing coronavirus pandemic. The U.S....

The price of bitcoin has taken a nasty fall. At the time of writing, the currency has dropped by roughly $1,000 in the past 48 hours, bringing the price of the world’s number one cryptocurrency by market cap down to around $18,200. This is about five percent less than where it stood previously.Bitcoin Is Heading to the GutterIt appears the cryptocurrency space is being attacked from all sides as it’s not just bitcoin that has taken a nasty stumble. Additional currencies such as Ethereum,...

A few months following the soft-launch of the DBS Digital Exchange, the Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation announced the release of its digital asset trading venue. In addition, the investment holding company Singapore Exchange has announced it will take a 10% stake in the platform.DBS Digital Assets Officially AnnouncedCryptoPotato reported in late October that DBS Bank has successfully trialed its trading venue enabling institutional investors to access...

As the DeFi space continues to grow, ConsenSys has now announced a new offering from the leading wallet provider MetaMask. It will enable cryptocurrency funds, professional traders, and custodians with institutional-grade controls and applications for decentralized finance.The blockchain technology solutions provider ConsenSys has announced today a new offering oriented toward the growing space of decentralized finance (DeFi).In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the company reiterated...

XRP/USD: XRP Looking For A BreakoutKey Resistance Levels: $0.6, $0.7 $0.8Key Support Levels: $0.5, $0.4, $0.3After yesterday’s $35 billion crash in the crypto market, XRP had managed to recovery with roughly 10% gains at the time of writing. Despite the low buying volumes, it is still trading around $0.57 price levels.Meanwhile, the third-largest coin by market cap is holding a correction in a symmetrical triangle for the past weeks. Although, a breakout could be expected soon. The RSI has...

The US Department of Justice announced that the founder of the Oyster Pearl cryptocurrency project, Amir Bruno Elmaani, has been charged with operating a tax evasion scheme for millions of dollars and was arrested. The 28-year old Elmaani is charged with two counts of tax evasion, each carrying up to five years in prison.Oyster Pearl Founder Charged And ArrestedThe protocol, launched several years ago, was advertised as a digital data-storage platform employing the IOTA blockchain to store...

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] SnapEx, a fast-growing crypto contract trading platform, today announced the release of its new Android app that is updated with one-of-a-kind features and major user-interface improvements. This app update is hot on the heels of the most recent system upgrade to the SnapEx platform.New Trading Pairs and FeaturesWith the new app, SnapEx introduces three new trading pairs onto its platform, namely LINK (Chainlink), BNB (Binance Coin), and TRX (TRON)....

Bitcoin bears have successfully taken back control of the asset this week and are now trying to secure a daily close beneath the $18K for the first time since this month. The global crypto market capital has been steadily declining over the last seven days and is now back below $540 billion.Right now, the leading crypto is tiptoeing on the edge of the $1,300 CME gap which sits just $25 below the current price and extends all the way down to $16,995. In order to fill this gap, bitcoin’s price...

Massive amounts of Ripple’s XRP have been transferred to various exchanges, including $400 million sent to Bithumb in three separate transactions. One possible explanation for this could be the fact that there’s the SPARK (FLR) airdrop coming in two days, causing investors to capitalize on the opportunity and receive 1:1 FLR tokens on their XRP holdings. XRP Sent Around in Massive Chunks Over the Past 24 HoursData from the well-known whale-tracking transaction resource Whale Alert shows a...