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Binance has launched a new crypto asset pegged 1:1 to Ontology called ONT-33D on its DEX using its new BEP2 standard. Binance plans to issue about 1.5 million ONT-pegged tokens and will continue to mint more in response to market demands. Binance’s Focus On Increasing Wrapped Assets Binance has recently focused on its DEX as one of the main core use cases of its Binance chain. The DEX currently boasts a trading volume of $400,730 over the past 24 hours. Binance could be taking a page out of...

Amid lockdowns prompted by the spread of the novel coronavirus, Russian citizens have withdrawn more cash from banks and ATMs since the start of March, than they did in the whole of 2019. A report reasoned that people are afraid that banks may not function during the quarantine. For Russians, Cash Is Still King According to a recent report, Russians withdrew about 1 trillion rubles ($13.6b) from cash machines and bank branches since the start of March. This is more than the total amount...

An Asian asset management company has successfully cleared licensing conditions with Honk Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission regarding a Bitcoin fund. It now aims to surpass $100 million in assets under management (AUM) in its first year. The First Regulated Bitcoin Fund in Hong Kong Venture Smart Asia is an Asian asset management company, and its blockchain arm, Arrano Capital, became the first asset manager to successfully clear licensing conditions with the Securities and Futures...

HDR Global Trading Limited, the owner of leading derivatives platform and crypto exchange, BitMEX, has announced its support in the fight against the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic through a COVID-19 Response Fund that is worth millions.  As of Monday morning, April 20, the number of confirmed cases of the pandemic across the world has reached 2,414,098 with 165,153 deaths. The figures continue to surge as researchers and scientists are still struggling to solve the COVID-19 challenge...

Another cryptocurrency-related scam led to the arrest of 14 Chinese men near Singapore. By impersonating successful investors, the perpetrators tricked victims using chat groups in popular Chinese messaging apps into sending them digital assets. 14 Chinese Men Arrested For A Crypto Scam According to a recent local report, the Chinese men conducted the fraudulent operation for at least two months. Authorities were surveilling the group for the past several weeks. They made the arrests On...

Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari wrote Thursday that banks should cancel dividends and sell shares to raise cash. Kashkari said these measures would be necessary to create a cash buffer going into a potentially drawn-out recession. Because should the banks fail to have enough cash on hand, a wave of defaults could trigger a financial crisis. Kashkari wrote: “The most patriotic thing they could do today would be to stop paying dividends and raise equity capital, to ensure...

Facebook’s future cryptocurrency project scaled back this week. At the same time, local Chinese reports indicate the country is advancing notably on its CBDC. Summarized information from this past week alone suggests the nation could be pushing the digital currency release as a response to Libra’s change of plans. Libra’s Less Ambitious Plans Facebook shook the world last year, announcing a “single global digital currency” dubbed Libra. Per Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the social media giant,...

The popular cryptocurrency data aggregator, CoinGecko, reviewed the events in the digital asset market in Q1 2020. According to the report shared with CryptoPotato, Bitcoin ultimately ended up losing 11% of its value, but some altcoins and stablecoins managed to record gains and decreased BTC’s dominance.  Bitcoin’s Q1 Data The unexpected outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic put pressure on most financial markets, including cryptocurrencies. With the violent price fluctuations in Q1 2020, most...

dForce, a Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that is backed by Multicoin Capital, has reportedly been exploited. According to a popular DeFi monitoring resource, the total value locked (in USD) in dForce, was reduced from around $25 million to almost nothing in a matter of hours. DeFi Lending Protocol Exploited A well-known DeFi protocol, dForce Network, was reportedly exploited recently. Its lending solution, Lendf.Me, representing an open-source money market protocol, was...

At the time of this writing, Bitcoin is trading at $7,230 with $32.46B volume and a $132.56B market cap after trading below $7,000.00 for most of the past week. Those who have been “long the dip” when it hit the $4,000’s market have already almost doubled their money. The question remains to be seen as to what the weeks that lie ahead predict for the price of Bitcoin and whether or not the bottom is already in. Has Bitcoin Already Bottomed? With the impacts that COVID-19 had initially,...