Yearn “acquisitions” dominated headlines this week. The biggest events in DeFi this week all involved Yearn.finance, the yield farming optimization protocol. I covered the first, Pickle Finance, in my last installment. Since then, we’ve seen integrations with Cream Finance, a lending protocol similar to Compound; Cover Protocol, an insurance provider that recently paid out users […]
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Potential customers in the U.S. are apparently holding off from using Ripple’s XRP-related services due to regulatory uncertainty. As Ripple reportedly prepares to relocate its headquarters outside of the United States, it turns out that only 5% of the company’s clients are based in the country, according to the firm’s CEO. On Dec. 2, Ripple […]
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Hash ribbons tell investors to buy BTC again for the first time in five months as BTC price consolidates below $20,000. An “elegant” Bitcoin (BTC) metric that predicted its run to $12,000 in August has flashed bullish again for the first time since July. As noted by creator Charles Edwards on Dec. 3, the Hash […]
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Popular crypto data provider Messari has predicted that roll-ups will beat out Layer 1 alternatives as the dominant scaling solution amid Eth2’s multi-year incubation. Crypto data aggregator Messari believes that roll-ups will beat out Layer 1 solutions in the race to scale Ethereum. Although Eth2’s beacon chain genesis successfully took place on Dec. 1, analysts […]
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Slush Pool encoded a Reuters headline in an apparent nod to the Bitcoin genesis block, which contains a banner from The Times. Slush Pool, the world’s oldest mining pool, put a Reuters’ headline about Bitcoin’s 2020 bull run in a block on Dec. 2. “Dollar plummets on U.S. stimulus hopes; Bitcoin hits all-time peak” is now part of Bitcoin […]
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A controversial bill to ban the use of cash for transactions over $10,000 has been voted out by the Australian Senate A bill proposed by Australian lawmakers to ban the use of cash for transactions over $10,000 has been killed by a unanimous Senate vote. One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts brought the motion to remove […]
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Phishers are coming after MetaMask users in increasingly clever ways. Cyber Security firm CipherTrace has issued a warning after noting a surge in reports over the past 24 hours of users funds being stolen by a malicious Chrome browser extension posing as popular crypto wallet MetaMask. The warning was issued under the headline “ALERT: Malicious […]
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Joseph Lubin believes Eth2’s development will move quicker than many are expecting, predicting the new protocol will “absorb” Ethereum in “the not too distant future” Speaking during the Ethereum in the Enterprise — Asia Pacific 2020 conference on Dec. 3, ConsenSys founder and Ethereum contributor, Joseph Lubin, predicted that Eth2 will devour Ethereum in “the […]
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A new bill introduced to Congress seeks to control the entire stablecoin industry by requiring all related activities to obtain federal approval first A new bill, introduced to US Congress on Wednesday night, could enforce blanket regulation on all stablecoins. If passed, any service provided in relation to these types of cryptocurrencies would become illegal […]
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“I do think there are some issues that crypto raises that are not neatly solved by our existing securities laws,” said the SEC commissioner. Hester Peirce, commissioner for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and best known by the affectionate nickname “Crypto Mom,” says the regulator may not be able to get by if […]
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