Hardware wallet provider Ledger said its marketing database was breached between June and July. Major cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider Ledger has alerted customers to a data breach it faced in June and July. In an email on July 29, the company said it was made aware of the breach on July 14 when a researcher […]
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Aave is climbing the DeFi and market cap rankings as its flash loans see daily volume exceeding $100 million. Decentralized finance (DeFi) loan protocol Aave has seen an explosion in the number of flash loans issued — with the daily value of said loans growing more than 1,000% since the start of July from $11 […]
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U.S. online brokerage TradeStation will soon launch its own cryptocurrency lending service. United States-based TradeStation, a subsidiary of Japanese firm Monex Group, is planning to launch a crypto lending service. The plan was announced in Monex’s earning report published on July 29. Called “Crypto Earn” the new lending service is “C2B2B” that lends institutions borrowed […]
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Popular Australian crypto exchanges Coinjar, Cointree and Swyftx have partnered with Koinly to track their clients’ tax obligations. Crypto taxation software provider Koinly has announced a partnership with three Australian digital asset exchanges to simplify their clients’ tax reporting. Coinjar, Cointree and Swyftx announced support for Koinly on July 29, allowing the exchanges’ customers to […]
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Ethereum has come a long way since its 2015 beginnings, although its move into proof-of-stake has faced a bevy of delays. Five years ago to the month, a massive crypto project launched, forever changing the landscape of the crypto and blockchain space. Since its 2015 opening day in July, Ethereum has undergone a number of […]
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Schiff makes some controversial assertions about gold’s prowess as mainstream interest in both gold and Bitcoin surges. Bitcoin (BTC) loses to gold when it comes to how easy it is to transport and confiscate, says Peter Schiff. In a tweet on July 29, the gold bug and infamous Bitcoin skeptic claimed that it was easier […]
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Bakkt breaks another record with more than 11,700 Bitcoin futures contracts traded on Tuesday. Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary, Bakkt, is reporting record numbers of trades for its monthly Bitcoin futures contracts as BTC prices made a new high for the year. The institutional investing platform reported its highest ever figure for Bitcoin monthly futures on Jul. […]
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The founder of Synthetix believes that the DeFi ecosystem is realizing many of the promises that the fintech sector has failed to deliver. Kain Warwick, founder of DeFi derivatives platform Synthetix, argues that projects built on Ethereum can finally deliver on many of the promises that fintech failed to. Despite ten years of development, Warwick […]
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Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has warned about the risks of smart contract exploits in DeFi. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has warned of the dangers of ‘smart contract risk’ in DeFi protocols in an interview to mark Ethereum’s fifth birthday. Buterin also warned users not to ‘risk their life savings’ in DefI in his appearance on […]
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Decentralized prediction market platform Augur has completed its v2 upgrade, introducing a host of DeFi features onto the platform. Decentralized predictive betting market platform Augur (REP) has announced the successful deployment of its v2 upgrade. The upgrade is intended to address bugs and vulnerabilities identified with the existing platform and its rules surrounding betting markets, […]
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