Who would have thought an alleged exit scam could have a happy ending? In a surprising turn of events, SushiSwap’s former head, anonymously known as Chef Nomi on Twitter, has apologized for their mistakes and returned $14M to the project’s development fund. Nomi said in a Sept. 11 Tweet thread: To everyone. I f***** up. […]
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Yearn.finance is back above $30,000 but YFI price technicals must first confirm some new levels of support before moving higher to new highs. One of the hottest cryptocurrencies in recent weeks has been Yearn.finance (YFI). The project fundamentals are food for thought, but its price is also a relatively new approach in the cryptocurrency markets, […]
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Opinion: Binance ignored its own guidelines by listing SushiSwap’s anonymous and unaudited token. Chef Nomi has cooked up what appears to be the biggest exit scam of 2020, but should others be held accountable as well? Binance, like many other major exchanges, listed SUSHI raw and unaudited on Sept. 1. The token price doubled upon […]
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Opinion: Binance approving and listing SUSHI tokens says more about industry-wide standards rather than Binance’s policy. Binance’s Changpeng Zhao has received more than his fair share of criticism since Binance’s 2017 launch. As a high-profile crypto figure and the CEO of one of the sector’s largest companies, that is to be expected. But the denunciation […]
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Crypto businesses are unsure how to react to new regulations in the Russian Federation. Russia’s new cryptocurrency-related law, “On Digital Financial Assets,” or DFA, seems to have had little impact on the local cryptocurrency industry so far. In its current form, the DFA law essentially provides legal status to digital assets like Bitcoin (BTC), but […]
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Banque de France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau wanted about the threat of “Big Tech” stablecoins. The governor of the Bank of France has warned that Europe cannot afford to lose momentum in tackling the challenges posed by private sector global digital assets. His warning came as five EU governments — Germany, France, Italy, Spain […]
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The Office of the Comptroller’s move to license payments firms at the federal level is receiving push-back from state regulators. Brian Brooks, Coinbase’s former chief legal officer and the current U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, is pushing to consolidate licensing regulations for payment companies at the federal level in the United States. Federal licensing for […]
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Yearn Finance is launching a MakerDAO like stablecoin lending protocol with no governance token. Popular decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Yearn Finance has announced a new lending protocol dubbed StableCredit. StableCredit combines tokenized debt stablecoins, lending, and single-sided automated market makers to offer what it describes as “a completely decentralized lending protocol” reminiscent of MakerDAO (MKR). […]
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Square is launching a consortium to pool patents and democratize access to innovative blockchain technologies Square, the U.S.-based financial services company headed by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, is establishing a consortium to fight patent trolling and ensure open access to technology in the crypto sector. The ‘Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance’ (COPA) seeks to democratize access to […]
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DeFi could be a huge investment opportunity, a bubble ready to burst, or both. Former Messari Head of Product and well known crypto trader Qiao Wang believes the nascent DeFi sector has enormous growth potential. DeFi has been on a tear this year, with the total value locked growing from under $1 billion to just […]
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