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The popular decentralized cryptocurrency exchange aggregator, 1inch Network, will be expanding to Arbitrum. In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the team revealed that the move is aimed at lowering transaction costs and improving throughput and withdrawal speeds. Arbitrum is an Ethereum scaling solution built using Optimistic Rollups, and it allows developers to cross-compile contracts for running on Arbitrum. This is aimed at ensuring full compatibility with Ethereum...

JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank are among the financial institutions that are opposing the new rules that would require them to set aside a dollar in capital for every dollar of Bitcoin they own. The rules were proposed in June by a group of global central bankers and regulators known as the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision (BCBS). The Global Financial Markets Association, which includes the two banks and 5 industry associations, published a letter this week,...

American professional basketball team Philadelphia 76ers has announced a partnership with the leading cryptocurrency exchange CryptoCom. The initiative will see the popular NBA club launch its non-fungible token (NFT) on the digital asset trading platform. Philadelphia 76ers Partners CryptoCom Announcing the partnership in a press release today, 76ers noted that fans interested in obtaining the digital collectibles can log on to the CryptoCom NFT platform to get access. The...

Online payment giant PayPal has announced a new app offering multiple financial services previously foreign to the platform – including “crypto capabilities.” PayPal’s New App Features As reported by Newswire, the new app will introduce the ‘PayPal Savings’ service in partnership with synchrony bank, a savings account that offers APY rates of 0.4% with no monthly fees or minimum necessary balance. While this is still well below rates offered by many centralized and...

A federal judge in New York has denied Ripple Labs’ motion to order the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to produce records of its employees’ crypto transactions in an effort to prove that the agency did not consider XRP to be a security. The SEC Wins One Against Ripple According to an official transcript, Ripple filed the request on August 27. Their rationale for the request was that if it were discovered that the SEC employees had traded XRP, it would at a...

Sam Bankman-Fried – CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX – opined that the 17-hour network outage which Solana (SOL) experienced last week was due to its rapid growth. He also said stablecoins are an essential part of the ecosystem and urged the US regulators not to ban them. Solana Was Down Because It Grows Too Quickly In a recent interview for Bloomberg, the Founder and CEO of FTX – Sam Bankman-Fried – shared his stance on hot topics such as Solana’s disruption and...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission could greenlight a Bitcoin futures ETF as early as October this year, said Bloomberg’s Senior Commodity Strategist – Mike McGlone. He also doubled down on his $100,000 price prediction for BTC by the end of the year, adding that the cryptocurrency is on its way to replace gold, similarly to how the car outplaced the horse as the most utilized transportation tool. Bitcoin Futures ETF Coming Soon? The topic of whether the US securities...

David Ignatius of the Washington Post interviewed SEC chair, Gary Gensler, on the cryptocurrency landscape, where the latter provided his approach to regulating the digital asset industry. Gensler expresses optimism for the possibilities crypto provides for enhancing finance, but he also believes that most of the space should fall under regulatory supervision – including stablecoins. At the start of the interview, Gensler commented on the recent market crash in the market of...

CNBC’s Jim Cramer opined that the Evergrande debt crisis in China could keep causing severe disruption in financial fields, including the cryptocurrency market. He also advised people sitting on unrealized gains from their investments to take “something off the table” before losing it. ‘Don’t Let It Become a Loss’ The American TV personality Jim Cramer shared his stance on the recent crypto decline and the ongoing crisis with one of China’s leading real estate companies –...

Bitcoin’s most recent downturn also took a toll on the addresses that are in profit – they decreased from 82% to 70% in less than a couple of days. As CryptoPotato reported yesterday, the entire cryptocurrency market tumbled following a broader collapse of stocks throughout the world amid rising debt crunch fears in China. This saw over $800 billion worth of both long and short positions liquidated, and Bitcoin’s price tumbled to as low as $40,200 earlier today. The sharp...