“I think that the days when folks believed that there’s only going to be Bitcoin, I think, are over,” said Asheesh Birla. In a podcast for Lend Academy recorded Nov. 5, Asheesh Birla called Bitcoin (BTC) a “pretty innovative alternative to gold,” but added that 2020 had shown there was room for a lot of […]
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SBI plans to add support for Ether and XRP lending in the near future. Japanese financial giant SBI Group is introducing a cryptocurrency lending service through its crypto-related subsidiary, SBI VC Trade. According to an official announcement on Nov. 24, the new crypto lending platform will allow users to lend their crypto to SBI and […]
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dHEDGE has announced that $1.1 million will be injected into its fund managers’ pools by six of the platform’s investors and the dHEDGE DAO. Some of the biggest names in DeFi, including Framework Ventures and Alameda Research, are backing the expansion of decentralized asset management protocol dHEDGE. The investors and the protocol’s decentralized autonomous organization […]
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BoE policymaker Andy Haldane believes a widely-used digital currency could have a positive impact on financial stability. The Bank of England, or BoE, is broadening its assessment of digital currencies, including evaluating how these assets could form the basis of a “new monetary order.” Andy Haldane, the Bank’s chief economist and sitting member of the […]
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Polkadot’s DeFi ecosystem is expanding, but will its interoperability prove to be the Ethereum-killer? The Polkadot blockchain platform only launched its mainnet in May, but it is already pushing to become a major competitive force in the sector. In late August, following a DOT token redenomination, Polkadot smashed into the top 10 cryptocurrencies, overtaking established […]
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As NFTs gain traction, here are some of the top marketplaces for finding NFTs, as well as the future outlook of this industry. Currently worth $100 million, the nonfungible tokens industry is changing how the ownership and authenticity of digital assets are perceived. Leading entities in the gaming and blockchain world are already experimenting with […]
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Aave’s core developers have transferred governance rights over to AAVE token holders, giving its community control over the future of the protocol. Aave has become the latest decentralized finance (DeFi) project to transfer governance rights to its token holders. On Oct. 29, Aave announced that the protocol’s admin keys had been transferred from its core […]
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This mythologized take on the cryptocurrency industry is part holy scripture, part gonzo journalism and 100% recommended. The first hint that Blockland – 21 Stories of Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency is perhaps not quite the same as the average book on the subject of crypto is splashed bold, right across its cover. Eschewing the usual […]
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Could the DeFi market be a bubble as both market capitalization and indices crash? The decentralized finance market seems to be deflating after the DeFi summer craze when tokenized versions of Bitcoin and protocols, such as Uniswap and SushiSwap, outperformed the rest of the market. Earlier in October, the two main DeFi indices, Binance’s DeFi […]
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Bitcoin price rallied to $11,491 after bulls managed to flip the $11K level from resistance to support. On Friday Bitcoin (BTC) price finally managed to break above the symmetrical triangle where the price had been compressing for the last 30 days. After holding the $11,000 level into the daily close, the price rallied to $11,448 […]
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