Major crypto exchanges are consolidating smaller, niche services to expand their overall market reach. The past few months have seen a number of major crypto companies facilitate some serious big-money acquisitions. For example, on Aug. 25, blockchain software firm ConsenSys bought out JP Morgan’s enterprise-variant of the Ethereum blockchain Quorum. Similarly, earlier this year, global […]
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Demand for Wrapped Bitcoin is increasing along with the DeFi rally. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of market capitalization, is listing another token to support the growth of decentralized finance, or DeFi. Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), a new ERC-20 token pegged to the price of Bitcoin (BTC), is now tradeable on Binance, according […]
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Developers on RSK no longer need to create their own oracle to build their DApps. Bitcoin (BTC) sidechain RSK will soon be equipped with Chainlink (LINK) oracles, enabling developers on the smart contract-enabled blockchain to tap into market price feeds and other off-chain data to build their applications. The integration is being developed by IOVLabs, […]
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The volume of Uniswap has surpassed the daily volume of Coinbase Pro after the demand for DeFi has exploded. Uniswap, the most widely-used decentralized exchange (DEX) on Ethereum, surpassed Coinbase in daily volume on Aug 30. The explosive growth of the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) market has pushed many avid investors to DEXes over centralized exchanges. […]
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Ethereum’s put-call ratio dropped to its lowest level in 3 months, suggesting that traders expect Ether price to rise higher. Ether (ETH) options open interest grew by 230% to reach $393 million in the past three months. Although this is an impressive figure, it doesn’t fully reflect how the derivative instruments being used. Ether options […]
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Bots abound. Ethereum may be vulnerable to frontrunners according to Dan Robinson, a research partner with the crypto-asset investment firm Paradigm. Robinson said in a blog post, the design of Ethereum’s mempool, or a set of unconfirmed transactions, is where the vulnerability lies. He said arbitrage bots monitor pending transactions in the Ethereum mempool and […]
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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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Bitcoin believers can be curious about altcoins. Jameson Lopp, co-founder and CTO of Casa, considers himself a Bitcoin Monetary Maximalist and a curious being towards altcoins, so in a post on August 30, he warned the public not to take online interactions on cryptos too literally. Although Lopp sees no other options on the market […]
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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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Developers are building the future of finance. Aave has emerged as a top DeFi protocol with $1.5B locked in its smart contracts. It has also become the first DeFi project to reach a $1B market cap and receive an Electronic Money Institution license from the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority. Aave recently launched its Aavenomics […]
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