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The cryptocurrency space continues to expand beyond its borders as Grayscale has partnered with the professional American football team, the New York Giants. As a result, the largest crypto asset manager will become the “Presenting Sponsor” of the NFL team’s charity foundation. The four-time NFL champions announced the collaboration with Grayscale earlier today in a press release. It reads that the latter has become the Official Digital Currency Asset Management Partner of...

Crypto custody firm New York Digital Investment Group said that soon US banks would have the opportunity to buy, hold and sell BTC through their existing accounts. NYDIG also added that it would launch other services such as benefits paid in the cryptocurrency and a new type of bank account, which gives dividends in BTC. Another Step Towards BTC Adoption According to a CNBC report, customers of some banks in the USA will soon have the chance to operate with the first-ever...

Galaxy Digital Holdings, the cryptocurrency-focused financial services company ran by Michael Novogratz, has agreed to purchase the digital asset custodian BitGo. Both parties commented that the acquisition aims to enhance institutional investors’ crypto experience. Founded in 2013, BitGo is a digital asset trust and security company headquartered in California. In the following eight years, the firm reported it was responsible for 20% of all global BTC transactions, and it...

April turned out to be a record-breaking month for several cryptocurrencies, but also for the world’s leading digital asset exchange – Binance. The company reported its highest futures trading volume ever of more than $2 trillion. Binance Futures Trading Volume Over $2T The Malta-based crypto exchange giant published its April results yesterday, highlighting the record-breaking numbers in terms of trading volume for its futures platform. The statement said Binance Futures...

A brief panic episode following a statement by Janet Yellen caused the markets to close the day with red candles all over the place. In a videoconference with The Atlantic, Janet Yellen, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, signaled that Joe Biden’s administration may be aiming to raise interest rates as a way to save the economy after the imbalance caused by measures to combat the Coronavirus pandemic. A *Not So* Good Idea When asked about what actions would be on the table to...

People’s Bank of China and Alibaba Group’s affiliate Ant Group have joined forces to create a platform supporting the central bank digital currency. According to Global Times, PBoC has been working together with Ant and Tencent for the last three years on developing the e-CNY. A Move Towards e-CNY VOA News announced on May 3rd that the Chinese central bank and Alibaba’s associate Ant Group have signed a deal on developing a digital yuan with mutual efforts. The move will be...

The global adoption for the popular meme coin Dogecoin continues with the listing on the Winklevoss-run exchange – Gemini. At the same time, the token skyrocketed to yet another all-time high above $0.6 and it became the fourth-largest crypto, surpassing Ripple (XRP). CryptoPotato reported earlier today Dogecoin’s spectacular performance in this year, charting YTD gains of nearly 10,000%. However, that was hours ago, which in the cryptocurrency and Dogecoin, in particular,...

There are no boring days in the cryptocurrency market. In a couple of hourly candles, the entire market turned red and lost over $100 billion of its capitalization. The total liquidations in the past 24 hours are worth almost $2 billion, according to data from Bybt. The largest single liquidation order happened on Huobi. It was an ETH position with a dollar value of a whopping $74.5 million. A little less than 196K traders were liquidated. Leading the way in the past hour is...

The head of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, recently gave his comments on the two largest cryptocurrencies – BTC and ETH. According to him, people nowadays need alternative coins for the new type of transactions, which may drive the price of ether up. CZ also predicted that many central bank digital currencies would be very different than public coins. Ethereum’s Rally As Ethereum’s price continues to be the hottest topic in the past couple of days within the entire cryptocurrency...

Dogecoin continues to gather people’s attention with a listing on eToro, another Twitter engagement from a popular brand, and being used as a payment method for MLB tickets. At the same time, the price of the meme coin skyrocketed to a new all-time high at nearly $0.5. The Latest Pro-Dogecoin Developments The Shiba Inu-inspired meme coin has received endorsements from multiple celebrities in the past few months. After Elon Musk, who has been vocally supportive of the asset...