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SoftBank has made enormous investments into the crypto space recently. For example, it has invested $200 million in a Brazilian company Mercado Brazil.SB Northstar, an investment unit of Japanese corporation SoftBank, has agreed to invest $75 million in Block.one’s cryptocurrency exchange, Bullish. The filing done with the SEC on July 9, 2021, showed that SoftBank will buy $7.5 million units of shares at $10 each.The Tokyo-based company had previously invested $300 million in a private...

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Aside from a brief spike of over $1,000, bitcoin’s struggles continue as the asset is still well below $32,000. The alternative coins have also lost some more steam, with ETH standing beneath $1,900 and BNB close to breaking below $300. Bitcoin Dipped to a 3-Week Low BTC’s hurdles continue ever since the asset failed to breach $35,000 earlier this week. The bears took control over the market at that point and kept pushing it south. Initially, bitcoin decreased beneath...

What the heck ever happened to bitcoin serving as a tool that works against inflation? Bitcoin garnered this reputation last year during the coronavirus pandemic, but as it turns out, prices are continuing to rise, and the world’s number one digital currency by market cap has seemingly failed to get in the way. Bitcoin Is Not Working to Halt Inflation Many analysts are beginning to wonder why bitcoin is allegedly refusing to do its job. For the longest time, bitcoin was...

Summer is often a mixed time for cryptocurrency. In both 2018 and 2019, assets like bitcoin and Ethereum ultimately garnered mild gains here and there that caused several analysts and financial heads to think that the space was entering a period of recovery following massive prior drops. Cryptocurrency Sees Its Figures Drop During June This time around, however, cryptocurrency has been suffering heavily, and it does not look like things are on the verge of recuperating....

Spores Network, a new creator-centric NFT and DeFi platform, has announced that it raised about $2.3 million from investors in a just-completed funding round. Cardano’s First Full-Stack DeFi Platform In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, Spores noted that it is stepping up its game to become the first full-stack NFT and DeFi platform to integrate with the Cardano blockchain. Spores pointed out that to further increase the reach of the rapidly growing NFT market to...

It was a tough week price-wise in the cryptocurrency market. The total capitalization lost around $100 billion as every single coin from the top 20 is in the red. Some lost more than others, but we’ll get to that later. Kicking it off with Bitcoin. It had a relatively calm week, and even though it’s down about 3% over the period, it’s still not as bad as a lot of the altcoins. BTC was trading at around $34,000 last Friday, and apart from a brief positive spike on Monday, it...

It was also revealed that Xiaomi posted year-on-year smartphone shipment growth that beats that of Samsung and Apple. In the mobile phone market, Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) might be a more renowned name but it was overtaken by Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi in the last quarter. According to data from Canalys, the Chinese firm was the second-largest smartphone maker in the second quarter. The data revealed that Xiaomi had 17% share of global smartphone shipments which is only behind that of...

The news comes as a relief to the Ripple community, which claims that the exchange medium can not be considered as a security.US-based tech firm Ripple Labs has ticked off an additional win in a court battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As Ripple braves a lawsuit alleging it of deceiving sponsors about its XRP cryptocurrency, the District Court Judge has rejected SEC’s proposal to repress the removal of the William Henchman, SEC’S Division of Corporation Finance.In...

The 30% stake acquisition in LMAX Group will help investment giant J.C. Flowers to expand its institutional services as well as step into overseas markets like Asia. On Thursday, July 15, investment group J.C. Flowers announced the acquisition of a 30% stake in crypto trading platform LMAX. The LMAX Group specializes in offering crypto and FX trading to institutional clients.As a result of the deal, J.C. Flowers shall be investing $300 million at $1 billion valuations. However, the...