Professional service giants like the Big Four are innovating in the blockchain and crypto space. Is it enough to make an impact? Blockchain technology, along with the adoption of cryptocurrencies, is gaining momentum. The enterprise blockchain market is expected to reach $21 billion over the next five years. Just eleven years on, and both sectors […]
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The price of Maker has surged 30% in less than one hour following news of forthcoming listings on Coinbase Pro. Support for Maker (MKR), the token underpinning the leading decentralized finance, or DeFi, protocol MakerDAO, is set to launch on Coinbase Pro on June 8. The U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange announced the forthcoming listing on May […]
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The world’s existing economies are suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has revealed the main benefits of decentralized tech and crypto. The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the economies of countries all around the world and is showing no signs of stopping. The overwhelming response from global governments has been to place their countries under […]
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A hardware wallet’s IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign reached 450% of its target funding amount within two days of launch. The NGRAVE ZERO, claimed to be the world’s most secure hardware wallet, launched its crowdfunding campaign for €25,000 ($27,850) on May 26. In the first two days it smashed this total four times over, and is now […]
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission ordered crypto firm BitClave to return $25.5 million to investors. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered cryptocurrency firm BitClave to return $25.5 million to investors. In a March 28 announcement, the SEC announced charges against the California-based cryptocurrency startup. The regulator found BitClave to […]
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The Aave protocol has introduced Uniswap tokens as a collateral form, which opens the door to the somewhat risky practice of leveraged liquidity pools on the exchange. The Aave lending protocol introduced a new market based on Uniswap liquidity tokens, which lets depositors borrow assets against these synthetic tokens. The Uniswap market was launched and […]
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“Open Source Money,” a documentary series on a crypto firm fully financed with cryptocurrency will air on cable television in the United States. “Open Source Money,” a documentary series on a crypto firm fully financed with cryptocurrency will air on cable television in the United States. According to an announcement on May 29, Discovery Science […]
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A U.S. think tank working towards a digitized dollar has released a white paper detailing inaugural aims and use cases for a central bank digital currency. On May 28, the Digital Dollar Project released its white paper, a 30-page document detailing the potential applications of a CBDC. The white paper continues the nascent think tank’s […]
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The price of Bitcoin rejected $9,600 as data shows the futures market led the BTC rally from $8,700 to $9,600. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) rose to as high as $9,620 on May 28 ahead of the CME futures market’s monthly close. Market data shows the rally of BTC — the biggest cryptocurrency by market […]
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Ethereum transactions are even easier to de-anonymize than Bitcoin due to its specifics, but a lot of it comes down to careful usage of mixing tools. A paper published on May 29 by Ferenc Béres and a team of primarily Hungary-based researchers analyzed the Ethereum blockchain to find out how easily its transactions can be […]
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