Was the Uniswap fork that created SushiSwap a good thing for the DeFi sector? Crypto startup investor and IDEO Managing Director Ian Lee has revealed how DeFi protocols can avoid being cloned and drained of liquidity by improving upon their design and governance from the start. When SushiSwap forked from Uniswap on Friday, August 28, […]
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‘Uptake of privacy features and assets has been slow,’ the report stated. The overwhelming majority of crypto transactions do not include privacy tokens, with most traders choosing to move funds transparently rather than privately. According to crypto analytics firm Coin Metrics’ Sept. 1 State of the Network report, the combined daily transactions of three privacy […]
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Can anything slow DeFi’s growth at this point? Trading volume on decentralized exchanges, or DEXs, surpassed $11 billion in August, as DeFi madness continues making headlines. Numbers from analysis firm, Dune Analytics, revealed that August trading volume represented an uptick of 152% month-over-month. The main driver behind the skyrocketing DEX volume is Uniswap, which has […]
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Ethereum miners earned a record $500K in fees for a single hour, raising concerns about network stability. Transaction fees on the Ethereum network have recently reached a new hourly record. According to Glassnode, an on-chain analytics firm, miners on the network earned over $500,000 in just one hour today as Ether (ETH) rallied. Currently sitting […]
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Following the latest ruling on the OneCoin class-action lawsuit, we look into the biggest Ponzi scheme in crypto. The latest ruling in the class-action lawsuit against OneCoin has dismissed Konstantin Ignatov, co-founder of OneCoin, as a defendant after he agreed to testify against his sister. Ignatov is the brother of Ruja Ignatova, the infamous leader […]
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But XRP isn’t competing with Tether. Tether (UDST), the world’s largest stablecoin by market capitalization, is again outperforming major altcoin XRP. On Sept. 1, Tether surpassed XRP as the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, becoming the second-largest altcoin after Ether (ETH). As of press time, USDT market cap accounts for more than $13.4 billion, according […]
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Major crypto exchanges are consolidating smaller, niche services to expand their overall market reach. The past few months have seen a number of major crypto companies facilitate some serious big-money acquisitions. For example, on Aug. 25, blockchain software firm ConsenSys bought out JP Morgan’s enterprise-variant of the Ethereum blockchain Quorum. Similarly, earlier this year, global […]
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Will altcoins rally as Bitcoin price stagnates, and is DeFi producing a bubble? Here’s what’s driving the altcoin season. With Bitcoin dropping below the $12,000 level and pulling back to $11,400 in the last few days, altcoins also seem to have lost their momentum, even after their impressive gains since the start of 2020. However, […]
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The website is still accessible through VPNs and mirrors. BestChange.ru, a major cryptocurrency website in Russia, has got blocked shortly after local lawmakers finally passed the country’s crypto legislation. An aggregator of about 400 local crypto exchange websites, BestChange.ru website was blocked by Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor on Aug. 26. The website is still available […]
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The U.K.’s financial watchdog wants crypto firms to submit annual financial crime reports to help it cement a data-led approach to regulation. Cryptocurrency firms in the United Kingdom could soon be faced with more extensive Anti-Money Laundering (AML) reporting requirements. In a consultation paper published this month, the Financial Conduct Authority proposed broadening annual financial […]
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