As the world becomes more and more digital, the solution to the question of ownership is already here in the form of NFTs. In early July 2020, the total sales of nonfungible tokens, or NFT, hit $100 million. And that is just the start. As the DeFi market reached $4 billion in locked value and […]
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Yam Finance claims to bring fairness to farming with new elastic supply token. The latest craze in the DeFi sector is a new yield farming protocol called Yam which promises ‘equal opportunity’ staking with no premine, no founder shares, and a zero value token at launch. The experimental Yam Protocol is the talk of Crypto […]
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Recycling companies can leverage blockchain for supply chain transparency. Although recycling may seem like a relatively simple concept, the plastics recycling supply chain proves otherwise. From understanding which plastics get recycled to determining the quality of those plastics, these issues and more are resulting in lower recycling participation rates. Statistics show that by 2024, the […]
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What are some trends in the crypto and blockchain space that may take hold and remain ongoing throughout the rest of 2020? The cryptocurrency field is a place where everything changes in the blink of an eye. New technologies, key market players and trends shift much faster than in any other industry. From the current […]
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There are about 800 crypto funds today, making it a daunting task for investors to decide how to invest. With about 800 crypto funds relying on a new asset class, which has its own properties, it is essential to assess them through an appropriate framework. We provide a basic framework of useful metrics to assess […]
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In the emerging global crypto economy, crypto mining is probably going to remain and even become more profitable in the upcoming years. Miner profitability metrics are based on a handful of factors regulating difficulty and emission, which are hard-coded into the blockchain’s attributes, making it predictable to work with. While predictability does not always immediately […]
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DeFi has been the name of the game since the start of the summer, but how much is the sector really growing? The hype surrounding decentralized finance is sometimes credited with triggering a wider market rally in July, as new protocols began releasing tokens that were immediately posting gains of many times their initial value. […]
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DeFi-focused oracle platform DIA is using crowd-sourcing to improve the accuracy of price oracles. Oracle platforms, which provide links between blockchain smart contracts and trusted sources of real-world data, are a crucial component of many decentralized finance — or DeFi — applications. With the meteoric rise of Chainlink (LINK) this year, one might be forgiven […]
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After months of work, Bancor V2 finally launches promising to improve the user experience for both traders and liquidity providers. The Bancor project has launched a heavily upgraded version of its decentralized exchange, promising to solve what it calls “DeFi’s dirty little secret.” According to a blog post released on Friday, the contracts have been […]
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As Ethereum turns five years old, Ether is up 50% over the past month with two main catalysts driving the uptrend, namely DeFi and ETH 2.0. The price of Ethereum’s Ether token has seen strong momentum in July. Since the start of the month, ETH has climbed by 50% from $225.5 to $340 on Coinbase. […]
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