Audited or not, DeFi DApps present risks Andre Cronje, the creator of Yearn.Finance, has recently made security audits of his project publicly available. He explained to Cointelegraph that he had been previously withholding these audits, which were completed months ago, so as to not give users a false sense of security: I always refused to publish the […]
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With crypto trading products appearing ahead of the legacy financial curve, it’s only a matter of time before they enter the mainstream. In 2017, many traders and investors flocked to cryptocurrencies because they were attracted by the kind of returns not available in the less-volatile traditional markets. However, volatility inevitably comes with risks as well […]
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“How advanced would the United States be if you couldn’t send money from New York to Florida? From New York to California? From Oregon to Washington? It wouldn’t be the United States! It would be a mess of all these squabbling little city-states that can barely get it together.” Im coining this term right here, […]
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The price of yearn.finance’s YFI token surpassed the price of Bitcoin at $13,444. But it is more arbitrary and psychological. Yearn.finance’s native governance token YFI became the first-ever altcoin to surpass the price of Bitcoin (BTC) on Aug. 20. It spiked to as high as $13,444 on Binance, fueled by the growing demand for Decentralized […]
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The Middle Eastern restaurant, with three locations across Ontario, announced it would be switching its cash reserves to crypto. A Canada-based Middle Eastern restaurant chain just converted their entire fiat cash reserves into Bitcoin. According to an Aug. 19 tweet from Tahini’s — ‘the best Middle Eastern restaurant in the world’ — the decision to […]
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The price of Bitcoin may be entering an uncertain phase, as on-chain data says BTC traders have established $10,000 as a strong support level. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has increased by 28% in the last 30 days and 36% at the weekly peak. Following the top cryptocurrency’s first breakout above $12,000 since September 2019, […]
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The global economic transformation now faces the main question: What to choose — centralization or decentralization? A global pandemic, massive and worldwide protests, job automation, environmental issues and geopolitical tensions are just a few of the challenges facing humanity today. Amid the chaos, keystone global institutions and bureaucrats have openly discussed the present day as […]
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Will features like private key “rekeying” make Algorand a DeFi leader? The latest upgrade to the Algorand network shows that the project is eyeing the burgeoning DeFi space. In a Cointelegraph interview, Algorand’s head of product Paul Riegle emphasized the three key features of this upgrade: the addition of stateful smart contract functionality to the […]
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Proceeds were spent on luxury cars, jewelry and real estate, rather than cryptocurrency mining and trading, surprise-surprise. The operators of a global cryptocurrency-based Ponzi scheme have been charged with fraud and money laundering following a United States Homeland Security Investigations probe. According to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice, four of the five alleged […]
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The growing popularity of Uniswap is continuing to attract scammers, with fraudulent coins impersonating token sales for top crypto projects. Fake coins continue to plague decentralized exchange Uniswap, with prominent crypto projects associated with upcoming token sales reporting impersonators trading on the platform. On August 19, upcoming decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Teller Finance tweeted […]
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