SEC v. Kik doesn’t have to be game-over for Kik or SAFTs. In fact, the decision is perhaps more favorable than the SEC v. Telegram order. On the last day of September 2020, Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein dashed the hopes of Kik Interactive, crypto entrepreneurs and Simple Agreement for Future Tokens, or SAFT, proponents in […]
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A class-action lawsuit accusing MakerDAO of misrepresenting the risks associated with its DAI stablecoin has been stayed pending arbitration proceedings. A court has agreed with the Maker Ecosystem Growth Foundation that a class-action lawsuit over its ‘Black Thursday’ meltdown should enter into arbitration proceedings. The Maker Foundation filed this motion to compel arbitration in response […]
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The vast majority of DeFi projects still have the ability to enter ‘God Mode’ and unilaterally make changes to pretty much everything. Twelve out of 15 of the most popular decentralized finance protocols still have access to a ‘God Mode’ admin key, according to data on review platform DeFi Watch. These full-access controls allow developers […]
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As the world continues to warm and face the effects of climate change, what does this mean for Bitcoin, blockchain and the world of crypto? In October 2018, the journal Nature Climate Change made headlines both within the crypto world and beyond after it published a study claiming that within three decades, the carbon emissions […]
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Leading DeFi token Uniswap has seen massive losses recently following in the footsteps of CRV and SUSHI. In the previous weeks, the majority of the cryptocurrencies have seen a massive crash. Losses of 50-80% have been witnessed in the markets, particularly affecting the DeFi space. The major losers in the previous weeks were Curve DAO […]
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Uniswap traders should proceed with caution as DeFi tokens such as CRV have been showing weakness since the SUSHI fiasco. In recent months, the focus of the cryptocurrency markets has been on the Decentralized Finance or DeFi space and decentralized exchanges. One of the biggest decentralized exchanges is Uniswap, and its token UNI was recently […]
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This VC says he doesn’t want to play a game of DeFi musical chairs. PrimeDAO, a decentralized prime broker, hopes to bring stability to the wild world of DeFi. To learn more about this new initiative, we interviewed one of PrimeDAO’s members, Alon Goren — a co-founder of the Draper Goren Holm venture fund. He […]
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When is an NFT not an NFT? The Polyient Games Founders Key, or PGFK, token sale begins Sep. 15, with a strictly limited 12,000 of the tokens up for grabs. This follows an August pre-sale during which the company sold an initial 500 tokens. Each PGFK will be a non-fungible token, or NFT, with a […]
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The next step of DeFi’s evolution in decentralization is enabling true scalability, interoperability and access to networks beyond Ethereum. As in most technical domains, evolution in the crypto industry moves in waves. The first wave was the building of layer-one blockchain solutions and infrastructures like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH). The second wave was the […]
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Like the ICO boom of 2017, DeFi plays to our desire to get rich fast without any responsibilities. Decentralized finance, in a nutshell, promises transparency and offers beneficial terms for borrowers. DeFi platforms are supposed to build an alternative financial system for offering/receiving loans, exchanging currencies, making payments, etc. There are no banks, brokers or […]
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