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Just a day after its official public listing, Coinbase is already creating multi-billion-dollar success stories. The popular angel investor and founder of Initialized Capital, Garry Tan, told his story in which he turned a $300,000 invested in Coinbase upon the company’s launch into $2.4 billion. Tan’s Initial Story with Armstrong and Coinbase Long before Coinbase became the US’s largest crypto exchange and be valued at about $100 billion, Brian Armstrong’s brainchild had a...

Following yesterday’s freefall in which bitcoin risked dipping below $60,000, the asset has bounced off and recovered about $2,000 of value. Most altcoins have also regained some ground, with some more than others. Apart from the top performer DOGE, Bitcoin Cash has spiked by 25% and has re-entered the top ten. Bitcoin Reclaims $62K After the latest all-time high registered earlier in the week of $65,000, the primary cryptocurrency reversed its price trajectory. Bitcoin...

Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and BlackRock are all huge companies in the financial space, but they cannot hold a candle to Coinbase, which is arguably on track to becoming one of the largest – if not the largest – crypto exchanges across the globe. Coinbase Is the Biggest One on the Block Coinbase has now been trading publicly on the Nasdaq for a couple of days, and the exchange – which was already quite large – is growing thanks to its new IPO (initial public offering)....

Stock market expert and television personality Jim Cramer allegedly would not mind being paid in bitcoin. Heck, he said he might even demand it in the coming future. Jim Cramer: I Want BTC-Based Paychecks His comments stem from a recent news story that MicroStrategy – one of the first official institutions to publicly support bitcoin and buy billions of dollars-worth of the digital currency – would be paying its board of directors’ salaries and fees in BTC rather than...

Besides the token burn, Gate.io has undertaken the initiative to buy back GT tokens from the secondary market.In a bid to raise the value of the GateToken coin, the Gate.io platform burned GT tokens worth $40 million in the first quarter. By reducing the coins in circulating supply and developing the market to increase the demand, Gate.io expects the GT token value to rally further amid the ongoing bull market and in the future.“According to Block.info, Gate.io burned 10237374.905268 GT in Q1...

This week was particularly eventful in the cryptocurrency market. Without a doubt, the highlight of it was the direct listing of Coinbase shares on Nasdaq. This is the first major cryptocurrency exchange to go public, and it did so in style. The trading opened at around $381 per share (ticked COIN), putting an opening value of around $100 billion. But that’s not the only exciting thing that happened. The week started off with a blast as bitcoin surged past $60K on Saturday....

Brevan Howard intends to diversify into various digital assets beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum. Brevan Howard, an asset management firm with approximately $10 billion in AUM, is reportedly eyeing the crypto market, according to a report by Bloomberg. Bloomberg reported that the firm hedge fund is ready to invest 1.5% of a $5.6 billion portfolio into cryptocurrencies.Notably, the cryptocurrency investment dubbed ‘initial allocation’ will be headed by Johnny Steindorff and Tucker Waterman,...

Justin Sun, the CEO and founder of Tron and BitTorrent, says that he expects the popularity of the USDT stablecoin to increase.For the first time, the volume of Tether transactions on the Tron blockchain has surpassed that of Ethereum blockchain. This is according to available data on CoinMetrics.According to the data, the total market cap of the Stablecoin on the Tron blockchain stood at $24 billion while that of Ethereum is at $23.4 billion. This spike in transaction volume was largely due...

Dogecoin is where all the rage is in the cryptocurrency market throughout the past 24 hours. DOGE is up almost 200% in the past day and almost 500% in the past week. With the latest surge, it has also managed to become the 6th largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, surpassing Cardano’s ADA. Dogecoin Now Bigger Than Cardano As CryptoPotato reported earlier, the popular meme coin, DOGE, made headlines by painting a fresh all-time high at around $0.30. While this, in...

On the 12th of April, Grab completed a SPAC merger with Altimeter Growth Corp. The merger generated almost $40 billion.Singaporean multinational transport company Grab is reportedly considering a secondary listing in Singapore. Grab’s move for a secondary listing in its home market came after the transport company listed on Nasdaq through a special acquisition company (SPAC) in the US. Grab Seeks Secondary ListingCiting reliable sources, Reuters revealed that the secondary listing would make...