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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....

The Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a temporary restraining order on a mother-son duo that embezzled more than $12 million from at least 277 investors. Throughout the years, the 86-year-old woman and her 54-year-old son promised to generate income for their clients via investing in securities and cryptocurrencies but instead swindled the funds for themselves. The Deceptive ‘Supercomputer’ The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it had stopped...

According to a recent survey, 7 out of 10 institutional investors asserted that they expect to purchase digital assets sometime in the future. What’s more, over half of the participants revealed they already have invested in cryptocurrencies. Institutional Investors Love Virtual Currencies A survey conducted by the financial services provider – Fidelity Digital Assets – found out that more than 50% of global institutional investors had already allocated some of their wealth...

According to a fresh release, companies that transfer BTC or other cryptocurrencies must collect information about the senders and recipients if proposed EU regulations come into force. In a bid to end anonymous cryptocurrency wallets, the Europoean Commission has proposed a law that would require companies that transfer BTC and other cryptos to collect information about the sender and the receiver. This, according to a recent press release, aims to crack down on illicit...