Timing is crucial. DeFi failed to catch on eight years ago, according to comments from Yoni Assia, founder and CEO of financial platform eToro. “I think that DeFi is super interesting,” Assia said on Oct. 6 during a panel on crypto exchanges and venture investments, as part of the LA Blockchain Summit. “We actually built a decentralized […]
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DeFi-tokens corrected heavily over the past 30-days but on-chain data suggest Ether is in the early stages of a bullish reversal. While Ether (ETH) price has been stuck between the $340-$350 range for the last month, multiple on-chain metrics suggest that a recovery may be building. Santiment, a cryptocurrency data analytics firm, recently noted that […]
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Polkadot reveals details of a new crowdfunding mechanism: the initial parachain offering. Much of the current blockchain ecosystem has been built around traditional concepts. Therefore, it’s not surprising to see crowdfunding mechanisms tailored specifically for blockchain projects that resemble initial public offerings. For example, in 2017, the blockchain space witnessed the rise of initial coin […]
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Interoperable DeFi platforms can help with Ethereum’s high transaction fees. The team behind the smart contract-enabled sidechain extension for Bitcoin, RSK, announced Tuesday that Maker’s Dai (DAI) stablecoin is now available on the platform. The integration makes it possible to transfer Dai from Ethereum to the RSK sidechain, which makes it available for use in […]
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Litecoin’s privacy feature testnet returns as news emerges that Europol sees privacy and coin mixing technologies as major digital threats Litecoin (LTC) has relaunched its MimbleWimble testnet — a protocol designed to enhance privacy and obfuscate the traceability of distributed ledger transactions. MimbleWimble is a modified implementation of the proof-of-work algorithm underpinning Bitcoin (BTC) in […]
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Binance Futures’ DeFi Composite Index has lost half of its value since launching, while TokenSets’ DeFi Pulse Index is down by one-third. On August 28, Binance Futures launched its DeFi Composite Index, a basket of DeFi tokens that initially comprised 27% Chainlink (LINK) and 11% Aave (LEND) alongside nine other prominent DeFi tokens that made […]
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The booming DeFi sector is driving up MetaMask’s user base, with the popular Ethereum wallet report now reporting more than one million active monthly users MetaMask, the Ethereum (ETH) browser wallet developed by ConsenSys, has surpassed one million monthly active users for the first time. The milestone comes roughly seven months after the wallet first […]
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Some UniCats users saw their entire token balances drained due to a malicious contract. Yield farmers looking for a quick profit were recently taken in by a dubious DeFi protocol called UniCats — a yield farming scheme reminiscent of other, more famous protocols like SushiSwap or Yam Finance. According to ZenGo researcher Alex Manuskin, at […]
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Scaling solutions sometimes come at the cost of decentralization. Most of DeFi’s potential scaling options come at the cost of decentralization, according to Kosala Hemachandra, founder and CEO of crypto wallet solution MyEtherWallet. “From a perspective of fully decentralized blockchains, there’s no blockchain that has a good enough scaling solution to support this many transactions,” Hemachandra told […]
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Xfers believes it’s time other national currencies received a piece of the action too. Singapore-based payments company Xfers announced on Monday the official release of its XSGD stablecoin, pegged to the Singapore dollar. The stablecoin would be one of the first SGD-denominated tokens, giving Singapore businesses and individuals a way to transact with crypto backed […]
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