Yearn users will be able to use their strategy pool tokens as collateral for lending. Two days after Yearn Finance (YFI) and Pickle Finance joined forces in DeFi’s first effective merger, Yearn founder Andre Cronje published details of another upcoming integration with Cream, a lending protocol similar to Compound and Aave. The blog post, published […]
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Pickle Finance got hacked so badly on Saturday that its developers asked to be merged into Yearn. Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph’s weekly DeFi-centric newsletter, delivered to subscribers every Wednesday. On Saturday, we saw one of the most complex smart contract hacks yet affecting Pickle Finance, a yield optimization protocol very similar to Yearn — an […]
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Market analysts are attributing Bitcoin’s sudden surge above $19,000 to aggressive demand from financial institutions and leading companies in the United States. Analysts are pointing to demand from financial institutions and publicly listed companies as the primary forces behind BTC’s sudden re-test of its all-time highs. “The primary reason for the steady grind up in […]
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A U.S. bankruptcy judge has rejected a motion to freeze the assets of beleaguered crypto lending service that was filed by its users. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey has denied an emergency motion filed by 15 customers of the embattled crypto lending firm Cred Inc. to freeze crypto assets held by the firm on exchanges […]
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Research has found overexposure to a few ‘blue chip’ DeFi tokens is an issue for indexes. New research suggests that indexes based on decentralized finance tokens lack diversification which is less than ideal for advanced investors seeking to mitigate risk. Indexes are a very popular way to get broad exposure to a market without the […]
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BitcoinTuesday is aligning crypto awareness with public good in this one-day charity event. BitcoinTuesday, scheduled for Dec. 1, aims to become one of the largest cryptocurrency fundraisers in history. The Giving Block, a crypto donations company, has secured partnerships with over 120 nonprofits and 30 blockchain companies to spearhead BitcoinTuesday — a one-day event that […]
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After failing to get approval from the SEC in 2019, the investment management firm finally gets a Bitcoin ETP to market. After spending much of 2019 unsuccessfully lobbying to get its exchange-traded fund, or ETF, approved by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, investment management fund VanEck has finally launched a Bitcoin-backed exchange-traded product. […]
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CNBC “Fast Money” host Brian Kelly names three factors that could potentially cause a Bitcoin pullback to occur. CNBC Fast Money trader Brian Kelly sees three potential signs of a price top as Bitcoin (BTC) hits $19,000. Both fundamental and technical factors suggest a pullback could be imminent as the rally becomes overextended. BTC/USDT 1-hour […]
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Anchorage and Tokensoft have launched wFIL, a wrapping protocol allowing Filecoin to be used on Ethereum. Cryptocurrency infrastructure providers Anchorage and Tokensoft are teaming up to wrap FIL, the native token of decentralized file storage network FIlecoin, for use on Ethereum. The firms announced wFIL on Nov. 23, promoting its use in decentralized finance applications […]
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Bitcoin price hit $19,469 for the first time since December 2017, but there are crucial factors that might prevent BTC from hitting a new all-time high. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) hit $19,469 on Coinbase, reaching its highest point since its December 2017 peak. Although the dominant cryptocurrency is close to surpassing its record high, […]
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