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Dubai World Trade Center Authority (DWTCA) announced recently that it has partnered with the UAE’s Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) to make cryptocurrency trading, issuance, and regulation completely legal within its jurisdiction – the DWTCA freezone. DWTCA Makes Crypto Activities Legal Notably, the agreement was signed by the acting CEO of the SCA Dr. Maryam Al Suwaidi, DWTCA director-general Helal Saeed Al Marri, and an executive at the Dubai Department of Tourism...

A lot can change in the cryptocurrency markets in two months. Avalanche and its native cryptocurrency – AVAX – are prime examples. The token traded around $9 during the market-wide crash on July 20th but surged by triple-digits in this timeframe to reach a new all-time high at nearly $80 earlier today. This came after numerous consecutive records last week, before the market-wide crash. Registering such massive price increases in a relatively short time has caught the...

Riccardo Spagni, the former Monero lead maintainer who was recently arrested for charges unrelated to the privacy token, has reported that US officials have released him from custody. CryptoPotato reported in early August when Spagni was arrested for alleged fraud committed between 2009 and 2011. The reports indicated that his crimes had nothing to do with his work for the popular privacy coin Monero, as they were dated long before the inception of the network. Instead, his...

The United States Department of the Treasury plans to penalize cryptocurrency exchanges that assist in ransomware attacks. The first such sanctioned company would reportedly be the Czech Republic-based trading venue – Suex. Suex to Face Sanctions According to a recent report, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo alleged Suex of facilitating operations involving “illicit proceeds from at least eight ransomware variants.” On top of that, he added that 40% of the exchange’s...

The legendary football player – Tom Brady – once again demonstrated his support towards the digital asset industry. He said he would “love” to receive some of his earnings in Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), or Solana (SOL) tokens. ‘The Digital Age Is Upon Us’ Tom Brady – the seven-time Super Bowl champion and arguably one of the greatest football players – is, by all means, a strong crypto proponent. During a recent interview with Jim Gray on the Let’s Go Sirius XM podcast, he...

The popular decentralized cryptocurrency exchange aggregator, 1inch Network, will be expanding to Arbitrum. In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the team revealed that the move is aimed at lowering transaction costs and improving throughput and withdrawal speeds. Arbitrum is an Ethereum scaling solution built using Optimistic Rollups, and it allows developers to cross-compile contracts for running on Arbitrum. This is aimed at ensuring full compatibility with Ethereum...

JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank are among the financial institutions that are opposing the new rules that would require them to set aside a dollar in capital for every dollar of Bitcoin they own. The rules were proposed in June by a group of global central bankers and regulators known as the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision (BCBS). The Global Financial Markets Association, which includes the two banks and 5 industry associations, published a letter this week,...

Online payment giant PayPal has announced a new app offering multiple financial services previously foreign to the platform – including “crypto capabilities.” PayPal’s New App Features As reported by Newswire, the new app will introduce the ‘PayPal Savings’ service in partnership with synchrony bank, a savings account that offers APY rates of 0.4% with no monthly fees or minimum necessary balance. While this is still well below rates offered by many centralized and...

Sam Bankman-Fried – CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX – opined that the 17-hour network outage which Solana (SOL) experienced last week was due to its rapid growth. He also said stablecoins are an essential part of the ecosystem and urged the US regulators not to ban them. Solana Was Down Because It Grows Too Quickly In a recent interview for Bloomberg, the Founder and CEO of FTX – Sam Bankman-Fried – shared his stance on hot topics such as Solana’s disruption and...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission could greenlight a Bitcoin futures ETF as early as October this year, said Bloomberg’s Senior Commodity Strategist – Mike McGlone. He also doubled down on his $100,000 price prediction for BTC by the end of the year, adding that the cryptocurrency is on its way to replace gold, similarly to how the car outplaced the horse as the most utilized transportation tool. Bitcoin Futures ETF Coming Soon? The topic of whether the US securities...