Rapper and entrepreneur Akon discusses his new cryptocurrency with Cointelegraph. Rapper and entrepreneur, Akon, shares his vision for his forthcoming Akoin cryptocurrency in this exclusive video interview with Cointelegraph. The crypto platform will enable the tokenized trading of mobile phone credits, a popular alternative to many volatile fiat currencies on the continent of Africa. In […]
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BitMEX Research suggests that the issuance of the CBDC will lead to inflation as cash will be banned. A March 18th post by BitMEX Research discusses the two approaches governments can take with regards to the issuance of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and the ramifications for the economy. Money supply In the modern […]
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Unconventional analysis of two major decentralized finance projects, based on Ethereum and EOS, which recently went through the same storm. On March 11 at 4:56 p.m. UTC, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director of the World Health Organization, stated that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. Industry experts consider the global uncertainty around this respiratory […]
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The upcoming MakerDAO auction is set to cover the protocol’s losses during the March 12 Ethereum price crash, with its success being critical for the stability of DeFi. The MakerDAO (MKR) community has locked in an auction to cover a multi-million dollar hole in DAI collateral after the sudden Ethereum (ETH) price crash on March […]
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As equities markets continue to fall, major cryptocurrencies are likely to remain range-bound for the next few days. The unprecedented volatility in the equity markets continues as the traders are trying to assess the economic damage and the remedial measures that have been taken to support the economy. A growing number of developed nations have […]
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Cryptocurrency-collateralized synthetic currency models can have enormous implications in the traditional finance industry. Why are crypto synthetic assets a big deal? Cryptocurrency-collateralized synthetic currency models powered by smart contracts can have enormous implications in the traditional finance industry. In their essence, these models offer cryptocurrency holders the leverage to trade traditional assets as well as […]
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The recent market crash could be Bitcoin’s biggest opportunity since its creation in 2009, BitMEX says. BitMEX, the world’s second largest crypto exchange by daily trading volume as of press time, believes that amid the ongoing global coronavirus crash, Bitcoin faces its biggest challenge and the opportunity to prove its potential during the global financial […]
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China Everbright Bank, one of the world’s largest public firms, debuted a blockchain-based supply chain finance solution by Ant Financial. China Everbright Bank (CEB), a major commercial bank in China and one of the world’s largest public companies, is debuting a blockchain-based supply chain finance solution by Ant Financial. Ant Financial, the financial arm of […]
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DApps are facing numerous barriers to adoption, but its key benefit lies in decentralized networks with trustless protocols, so attractive for the users. We’re certainly in the early days of the decentralized Web 3.0, but many parallels exist to what we went through in the 1990s during Web 1.0 and during the mobile boom of […]
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The CBDC race has long been on, and some countries might finish sooner rather than later. The race for central-bank digital currencies has been on for some time now, and since the development of the digital yuan may have been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, other countries could beat China to the punch. Almost […]
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