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Both Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen will take equity stakes in FTX Trading and receive crypto as part of an endorsement deal with the crypto exchange. 232 Total views 2 Total shares Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen are the latest celebrities to reaffirm the growing adoption of the cryptocurrency…

Monday, Oct. 15: Crypto markets are seeing solid growth, with virtually all of the major cryptocurrencies seeing green as of press time. An outlier in the space is “stablecoin” Tether (USDT), which has today lost its U.S. dollar peg and is trading well below its historical trading range as of press time.Market visualization by Coin360Tether…

The upcoming trial of two men accused of running the fraudulent Centra Tech initial coin offering (ICO), which raised $60 million after soliciting celebrity endorsements in 2018, has been postponed until September 2020.On March 26, a U.S. district court published documents indicating that the trial of alleged Centra Tech operators, Sohrab Sharma and Robert Farkas,…

Cashback rewards for purchases have long been a popular tactic used by banks and credit card companies to entice consumers to use their services.Several cryptocurrency companies like BlockFi and Coinbase have revealed future plans to offer cryptocurrency-backed debit and credit cards that offer cashback rewards in Bitcoin and StormX (STMX) has joined the crowd.StormX (STMX)…

While Tether (USDT) is currently the most popular stablecoin by far when it comes to trading volume and market capitalization, the latest Exchange Review from CryptoCompare shows that other stablecoin projects such as USD Coin (USDC), Paxos Standard (PAX) and TrueUSD (TUSD) have gained modest ground in the last few months, reducing USDT’s market share…

Several Venezuelan leaders recently came under fire for alleged criminal acts, although, contrary to initial impressions, the situation did not directly involve cryptocurrency usage.“Maduro and his co-defendants are not alleged to have been involved with crypto, directly,” Ashok Ayyar, counsel at Experience Legal, told Cointelegraph.A number of Venezuelan officials, including former president Maduro, faced a…

Nexo Financial confirms to be one of the two crypto lending firms to receive the cease and desist order from Attorney General James' office. 275 Total views 8 Total shares Cryptocurrency lending firm Nexo Financial denies the allegations of offering unregistered services to New Yorkers put forth by Attorney General Letitia James.Attorney General James directed…

The head of a major Brazilian trade association, the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP), said that Brazilians could start using crypto to evade taxes.Paulo Skaf, the president of the FIESP, expressed concern over the recent tax reform proposal by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Cointelegraph Brazil reports on July 25. He…