Cold wallet maker Ledger adds more privacy protection to its software suite Hardware wallet maker Ledger has recently upgraded its software suite to include more privacy and control over crypto transfers to help prevent ‘dusting attacks’. A dusting attack is where a malicious actor sends small amounts of Bitcoin to a wallet to break the […]
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Two exchanges, one goal. Crypto exchange KuCoin has unveiled dealings with another exchange, Poloniex, in an effort to move the crypto industry forward. “KuCoin and Poloniex will join hands in trading technology research and development, liquidity sharing, product iterations, PoS [proof-of-stake] and PoW [proof-of-work] mining pools, and other industrial exploration,” said a statement provided […]
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Yearn Finance has submitted a Maker Improvement Proposal for its forthcoming WBTC Vault, suggesting it will launch in the not-to-distant future. The popular yield farming decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Yearn Finance is progressing with its forthcoming Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) Vault. The team has submitted a MakerDAO Improvement Proposal requesting whitelisting for the WBTC Vault to […]
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Two of Britain’s most successful gamebook authors will turn VeChain’s VulcanVerse NFT game into a fantasy trilogy series. Award-winning British fantasy authors Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson will write a new fantasy trilogy “The Vulcan Verses”. The title is based on VeChain’s forthcoming Vulcan Forged non-fungible token (NFT)-powered collectible card game and decentralized virtual world […]
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Despite predictions Uniswap’s airdropped token would be dumped in the gutter, UNI has garnered a $217 million market cap. The token, which was airdropped to past Uniswap users in batches of 400 per wallet without warning yesterday, has defied predictions that the market would crash from its initial pricing of $3 as the 75,235 users […]
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Following Uniswap’s UNI token launch, Ethereum transaction fees spiked to almost $1 million an hour. Ethereum miners’ hourly revenue has hit a five-year record, with fees currently bringing in 2,275 ETH ($880K) per hour. The spike was triggered by yesterday’s announcement that Uniswap would airdrop it’s governance token UNI to past users of the decentralized […]
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Polkadot has launched the Polkadot Treasury to fund proposals from developers within the community and multiple proposals have already been submitted. Blockchain platform Polkadot (DOT) is the latest to invest back into its developer community with the launch of the Polkadot treasury. Run by community-elected council members, the pool will fund as many new community […]
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Lured by the sirens’ call, traders are wrapping their Bitcoin at record levels in order to yield farm and trade DeFi tokens. After failing to hold the $11K mark and exposing what some analysts have described as a general apathy to trade BTC at these levels, Bitcoin (BTC) price is once again flirting with $11,000. […]
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Tether supply surges to $15 billion but it could still be a house of cards The surging DeFi sector has resulted in a mass minting of Tether in 2020 — including $3B last month alone — which has pushed its market capitalization over $15 billion. At the beginning of the year there was just over […]
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Dapper Labs has partnered with its second major stablecoin this week, announcing the integration of BUSD for developers building on its Flow blockchain. The U.S. dollar stablecoin of top crypto exchange Binance, BUSD, has become the latest stable token to announce it will launch on Dapper Labs’ Flow blockchain. The news comes just days after […]
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