A less scrupulous figurehead would probably have said yes. Amid skyrocketing prices in decentralized finance, also known as DeFi — a current hyped niche of crypto — one project offered half a million dollars as payment for media visibility. An unnamed DeFi project contacted trader and YouTuber Tone Vays, offering $500,000 for advertisement, Vays detailed […]
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A 51% attack on Ethereum would not be fatal according to Vitalik Buterin, amid concerns the yETH vault could amass enough Ether to launch an attack Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has dismissed concerns that a 51% attack on Ethereum 2.0 would be ‘fatal’. The scenario emerged as a result of the burgeoning popularity of Yearn.finance’s […]
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Enacting such legislation effectively could be a major challenge, however. Responding to numerous 51% attacks on the Ethereum Classic blockchain, ETC Labs said that it’s time to bring regulation to hashpower rental marketplaces, citing the fact that at least two of the attacks were perpetrated by renting hash power through NiceHash — a claim that […]
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UMA overtook yearn.finance to become the largest DeFi project on CoinMarketCap with a $1.3 billion market cap. The decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape is rapidly changing day after day. On Sept. 1, UMA overtook yearn.finance as the biggest “DeFi” protocol on Ethereum with a $1.3 billion market cap. Data from CoinMarketCap shows six DeFi projects are […]
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The way law enforcement agencies deal with seized crypto could indicate their de-facto acceptance of the asset class. It is customary for government officials around the world to profess their disdain for crypto on the grounds that it is widely used to facilitate crime and finance terrorism. Although (government-backed) cash still remains criminals’ preferred financial […]
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Ethereum’s co-founder has taken aim at coins designed to incentivise yield farming, comparing their underlying economics to irresponsible monetary policies Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), has again taken to Twitter to warn against naive bullishness in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, comparing the economics of yield farming tokens to the Federal Reserve’s money […]
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DeFi platform Synthetix (SNX) surpassed $1 billion in total value locked but what’s fueling the protocol’s growth? Synthetix has reached the $1 billion in value locked milestone, following other DeFi protocols like Compound and Aave. Synthetix (SNX) has been one of the many DeFi tokens that has made substantial gains in 2020, having hit its […]
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It’s the third attack this month. The Ethereum Classic (ETC) network was hit by another 51% attack on August 29, causing the reorganization of more than 7,000 blocks just weeks after proposing security upgrades. In a tweet, Ethereum Classic confirmed the attack and promised it is working on potential solutions to the problem. “While ETC […]
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In a world where almost every asset has shown vulnerability, digital assets have proven themselves to be reliable. The coronavirus pandemic has truly been a watershed event — not just for the financial industry but for the world at large. Many had plans and goals that they wanted to achieve before the year ran out […]
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Would a 20% block reward reduction matter in the long run? Charles Hoskinson’s IOHK recently published two Ethereum Classic Improvement Proposals, or ECIPs, meant to help the struggling chain recover after a slew of recent 51% attacks. The first introduced a checkpoint system to prevent the possibility of such attacks, and the second proposed a decentralized treasury — a seemingly […]
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