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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is furthering its plans to bring crypto exchanges under its regulatory purview – including DeFi exchanges.  The agency has announced that it is reopening an old proposal surrounding consumer protection laws to explicitly put digital asset trading within its scope.  Regulating DeFi Per a press release from the SEC on Friday, the reopening reiterates that existing rules governing securities exchanges also apply to digital asset...

Arthur Hayes – co-founder of BitMEX – believes the altcoin season (a time frame during which the alternative coins outperform Bitcoin and reduce its dominance in the crypto market) is already here. Assets like Ether (ETH), Arbitrum (ARB), and Dogecoin (DOGE) have marked substantial gains in the past 24 hours, whereas BTC has been relatively stable at a range of $30-31K. Enter the Alt Season In one of his most recent tweets, Hayes presented a price chart of Ether (ETH),...

Three major financial closures happened over the course of two weeks in mid-March. The institutions that shut their doors were Signature Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, and Silvergate. Despite all this, crypto assets like bitcoin appear to be rallying. Bitcoin Is Doing Well Despite Bank Turmoil Many analysts are offering different thoughts on the situation, one of which is Alex Kuptsikevich, a senior market analyst at FX Pro. He mentioned in a statement: Bitcoin faces an...

Soon after Elon Musk’s tweet, the Aptos token clocked a total trading volume of $460 million. On the technical chart, APT has formed a bullish pattern and could rally even further. In an interesting development, the Aptos token (APT) got an unexpected boost from the world’s second-richest man Elon Musk. In one of his cryptic tweets, which he deleted later, Elon Musk mentioned ‘AI’ and ‘APT’ spurring massive interest from the crypto community. This was enough to catapult the Aptos (APT)...

JPMorgan topped Q1 2023 revenue expectations by more than $3 billion on the back of higher Fed-facilitated interest rates.   JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) recently posted a Q1 2023 record revenue haul that beat analysts’ expectations. The banking giant’s record first-quarter revenue largely benefitted from net income on higher interest rates which surged 50% year-over-year (YoY). JPMorgan said its Q1 revenue came in at $39.34 billion compared to the $36.19 billion analysts expected....

This week saw the total cryptocurrency market capitalization soar above $1.3 trillion on the back of major increases from many coins. The sentiment has also improved considerably across the board. Bitcoin’s price managed to top the coveted $30K level – a point that we haven’t seen in 10 months. The week started relatively quiet as everyone was expecting the release of the Consumer Price Index. It’s largely used to gauge inflation in the US. Before its release, however, things...

Bitcoin cash started a decent increase above the $125 and $130 levels against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above the $130 zone and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a key bullish trend line forming with support near $129.20 on the 4-hour chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair must clear $135 and $142 to continue higher in the near term. Bitcoin cash price is climbing above $130 against the US Dollar, similar to Bitcoin....

Open-source blockchain platform EOS announced the beta launch of its Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) mainnet, designed to enhance interoperability between the network and the Ethereum Blockchain. The EOS Network Foundation (ENF) also inked a strategic partnership with market maker and investment firm DWF Labs through an investment deal of $60 million to further the platform’s growth and development. EOS Unveils EVM Mainnet According to a press release sent to CryptoPotato, the...

The Singaporean cryptocurrency miner – Bitdeer – expects to go public on April 14 after finalizing the SPAC merger with Blue Safari Group Acquisition Corp. The former displayed its intentions to enter Nasdaq in November 2021. However, shareholders of Blue Safari delayed the initiative three times in the past several months due to the harsh environment caused by the bear market. The ‘Significant Milestone’ As announced by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),...

Binance – the world’s largest and most popular digital currency exchange – is converting more than $1 billion of its stable currency BUSD (Binance USD) into bitcoin, Ethereum, and various other digital assets. Binance Is Converting a Lot of Its Stable Asset The news came about in a tweet issued by the company’s CEO Changpeng Zhao, who stated: Given the changes in stablecoins and banks, Binance will convert the remaining of the one billion Industry Recovery Initiative...