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Trevor George Smith Jr., better known for his stage name Busta Rhymes, is now officially a Bitcoin holder. He broke the news in a tweet following yesterday’s discussion between Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Cathie Wood. CryptoPotato reported earlier in July that Busta Rhymes is looking into the cryptocurrency market. It took him less than a few days to officially become a Bitcoin HODLer. Today, he broke it to his 3.8 million followers that he’s bought BTC and that he’s looking...

Wyre, a blockchain payments provider, announced today that developers around the world are now able to provide USDC stablecoin to customers in the Polygon ecosystem. The feature was made possible through a partnership with Polygon. Wyre Integrates With Polygon Wyre said in a press release shared with CryptoPotato that the integration of its Checkout API with Polygon will allow developers to quickly and easily provide a fiat-to-USDC on-ramp for their users. Meanwhile, the...

Tether, the company behind the biggest stablecoin by means of total market cap – USDT – has announced that CREAM Finance has become the first DeFi protocol to support their Euro-pegged EURt token. According to a recent press release, CREAM Finance – a well-known DeFi protocol, has become the first to integrate Tether’s EURt stablecoin into its lending platform. Users on the platform will be able to access EURt for lending and for borrowing. Meanwhile, they can also do so...

Celer Network, the layer 2 scaling platform, has announced that its multi-chain network is live on the mainnet. Dubbed cBridge v1.0, it will enable users to transfer assets across several blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, and Arbitrum. cBridge v1.0 Goes Live on Mainnet The blockchain-based project announced its latest milestone in a press release shared with CryptoPotato. The statement informed that cBridge v1.0 aims to “tackle a few of...

While the world worries about the fall of Bitcoin prices, billionaires are increasingly enamored with the cryptocurrency. A recent Goldman Sachs study revealed that at least 45% of family offices are interested in investing large amounts of money in cryptocurrencies. Family offices are firms in charge of managing the money of billionaires such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google co-founder Sergey Brin or Alibaba’s Jack Ma. Generally, each office manages the wealth of a family....

While being skeptical about offering bitcoin investment options to its clients, the American multinational investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co has admitted that demand for the asset class has increased significantly. Growing Demand for Bitcoin In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Mary Callahan Erdoes, JPMorgan’s director of Asset and Wealth Management, noted that most of the company’s clients view bitcoin as an asset class. To maintain its client base, Erdoes stated that...

Elon Musk has a funny theory about why Dogecoin (DOGE) might conquer the crypto space. In his panel discussion with Jack Dorsey and Cathie Wood at “The B Word” online event,  Elon Musk expressed an amusing theory about Dogecoin as an aside. When asked about the meme coin’s prospects, Tesla’s Founder first explained the traditional theory of Occam’s razor: “The simplest explanation is the most likely explanation.” He then expressed one of his friend’s variants of that theory:...

The world’s largest NFT marketplace, OpenSea has recently raised $100 million from industry investors in a recently-concluded Series B funding round led by leading American venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz. Making NFT Trading Accessible to More Users In an official press release published Wednesday, OpenSea noted that it will use the funds to expand its reach into several new international markets to make NFT trading accessible to more users. The project also added...

Core Scientific, a digital asset mining firm, aims to be the next company from the crypto space in line to become publicly traded at a $4.3 billion evaluation. Instead of an IPO, Core will merge with a SPAC called Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp. As reported on July 21st, Core Scientific, a crypto miner with operations in several US states, plans to go public on Nasdaq through a merger with Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp – a special...

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and State Street Corporation joined four other institutions in backing the digital asset exchange Pure Digital. Furthermore, America’s oldest banking organization plans to expand its crypto offerings to clients. BNY Mellon Diving Deeper into Crypto According to a recent Financial Times report, one of the largest custodian banks – BNY Mellon – publicly declared its support towards the London-based cryptocurrency exchange Pure Digital....