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NFT ecosystem provider and creator of the ERC-1155 token standard, Enjin, has recently joined the United Nations Global Compact, a global organization that supports businesses working to adopt Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). First NFT Platform to Join the UN Global Compact In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, Enjin revealed that it would join the UN Global Compact as a Participant, the highest membership rank in the organization.  This positions Enjin as the...

Circle, the blockchain company behind the second-most popular stablecoin USDC, has partnered with the US multinational financial services giant – Mastercard. Both parties aim to facilitate crypto-to-fiat conversions and test using USDC as a settlement option. The partnership, announced by Circle on July 20th, will result in launching a pilot program that will assist both companies in a few endeavors. Firstly, Mastercard will start employing USDC to “facilitate crypto-to-fiat...

Ralph Hamers, the CEO of the Swiss multinational investment bank UBS Group AG, has no FOMO towards the cryptocurrency industry. He feels his organization is not missing out on any potential gains from this “untested” market. No Crypto Fomo: UBS CEO Speaking to Bloomberg TV, Hamers outlined the success of the financial institution that he runs in the past year. While commenting on the bank’s earnings and the expansion to other nations, he received a question in regards to what...

Bitcoin’s fall to the perilous support of $30K has made investors increasingly cautious, and warnings of a bearish force are already beginning to emerge even if the markets have already lost almost 50% of their total capitalization since the ATH just 3 months ago. Among the bearish voices is David Tice, a seasoned investor known for managing the Prudent Bear fund until he sold it in the midst of the 2008 crisis – coincidentally, the crisis that gave rise to Bitcoin. Hodling...

In its amended initial public filing (IPO) prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Popular stock trading platform Robinhood revealed that it is expecting its revenue to drop in Q3 2021 as a result of the cool-off in the trading activity of the cryptocurrency market.  Robinhood Expecting Drop in Revenue With Robinhood planning to go public this July, the trading app revealed in a revised SEC filing that a decrease in retail trading activity could...

Turkey’s Deputy Minister of Treasury and Finance – Şakir Ercan Gül – revealed that the officials have completed the draft bill with the regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies and will present it to the Parliament in October 2021. He opined that the Asian country needs to learn from Western Europe and the USA but should implement stricter rules. The Crypto Bill Is Ready According to a recent report, the Turkish Deputy Minister of Finance – Şakir Ercan Gül – stated that the...

Polygon, an easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development, has revealed that it is launching a new NFT-focused arm, dubbed Polygon Studios. Polygon Launches Gaming and NFT Arm In an official press release shared with CryptoPotato, Polygon noted that the new division will be focused on growing the global Blockchain Gaming and NFT industry, as well as bridging the gap between Web 2 and Web 3 gaming. The project stated that the gaming community on its...

Grayscale announced the release of its latest product called Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Fund to enable institutional investors to receive exposure to assets from that particular space. Some of the tokens represented in the fund will be Uniswap (UNI), Aave (AAVE), and Compound (COMP). Launched in 2013, Grayscale has become the largest digital asset manager with nearly $30 billion of AUM as of now. While its flagship product tracks the performance of Bitcoin, the firm has...

The co-founder of Magellan Financial Group – Hamish Douglass – opined that the crypto market is one of the “greatest mass delusions in modern history.” To him, the whole idea behind the virtual assets looks like a religion that millions of people strongly believe in. The Crypto Crash Is Inevitable Hamish Douglass – co-founder and CEO of the Australian investment company Magellan Financial Group (MFG) – warned investors to beware of the cryptocurrency market. In a recent...

Although the US Securities and Exchange Commission has failed to approve even a single BTC ETF application, the Grayscale CEO believes it’s a matter of “when, not a matter of if.” In a recent interview, Michael Sonnenshein also outlined that the current price correction has allowed long-term investors to accumulate more portions. BTC ETF: A Matter of When not if The topic of Bitcoin ETF has surged in popularity lately as Brazil and Canada already have multiple such products...