Another crypto player has taken steps to go mainstream, but a lot of work still remains ahead. Bitcoin (BTC) payments giant BitPay aims to form a national trust bank, based on its recent filing with the United States Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. “We confirm BitPay has filed an application with the United […]
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It’s up to the community to educate regulators and help them build a framework that achieves and maintains both sides’ goals. The crypto space is an incredible, albeit risky, learning environment. Its volatility serves as a dire warning to those who like to test how deep the pool is by jumping in headfirst. Old guards […]
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Polkadot is making moves to expand its ecosystem, announcing a new DeFi Alliance alongside a new support program for validators. Polkadot has become the latest Ethereum competitor to launch a decentralized finance alliance. Announced on Dec. 3, the alliance aims to overcome the decentralized nature of the Polkadot ecosystem, providing a platform for its community […]
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Yearn “acquisitions” dominated headlines this week. The biggest events in DeFi this week all involved Yearn.finance, the yield farming optimization protocol. I covered the first, Pickle Finance, in my last installment. Since then, we’ve seen integrations with Cream Finance, a lending protocol similar to Compound; Cover Protocol, an insurance provider that recently paid out users […]
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Eth2 staking has its downsides — people may not have the means to contribute 32 ETH, or the technical knowhow to run a node. Can these issues be solved? How does this ecosystem work? There are three key roles within the Stkr ecosystem. Providers deliver the computing resources that drive the Eth2 nodes — and […]
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Bitcoin is becoming an increasingly “institutional asset,” according to NYDIG’s CEO. New York Digital Investment Group has raised $150 million through two separate cryptocurrency investment funds, according to documents filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on Nov. 24 and Dec. 1. The NYDIG Digital Assets Fund I raised $50 million, with the […]
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YFI token holders will vote on some aspects of the integration. The flurry of Yearn.finance (YFI) “mergers” continues with the tightest integration yet with SushiSwap (SUSHI), the decentralized exchange that began its life as a Uniswap fork. Announced by Yearn founder Andre Cronje on Tuesday, the collaboration involves a variety of synergies between the two […]
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Akropolis says calling it a merger “is a bit of a misnomer.” Yearn Finance announced on Monday yet another merger with Akropolis, a multi-product DeFi protocol featuring yield optimization and under-collateralized loans. Like the Cream Finance merger announced last week the two ecosystems will remain largely independent in terms of their tokens and overall product lines, […]
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The sector has a long way to go in terms of accessibility if DeFi really wants to challenge traditional financial institutions. As the COVID-19 outbreak wreaks havoc on the United States’ economy and abroad, investors grapple with a second economic downturn in just over a decade. While the 2008 financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic […]
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As big players continue to enter the crypto space, institutions are becoming mega HODLers. Without a doubt, Bitcoin (BTC) has become an increasingly popular asset to own among institutional investors. By the end of the second quarter of 2020, Fidelity reported in a survey of almost 800 institutional investors that 36% owned crypto assets. A […]
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