Bitcoin reached $19,000 quickly after it plunged to $18,000 following an XRP flash crash on Coinbase. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) surpassed $19,000 on Nov. 24 for the first time in nearly three years. It followed an XRP flash crash on Coinbase, which trembled the crypto market. The two incidents could be entirely coincidental. Although […]
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Mooniswap and the Pathfinder algorithm will be available to NEAR users. The Mooniswap decentralized exchange protocol, developed by DEX aggregator 1inch Exchange, will be the first Ethereum (ETH) DeFi protocol to develop on NEAR, a sharded smart contract platform. As part of a collaboration announced on Tuesday, the 1inch team pledged to port its automated […]
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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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Experts in blockchain technology and crypto take on the question: What impact has the COVID-19 outbreak had on the industry? Who could have imagined a year ago how different our lives would be in just 12 months? Without any doubt, last November will remain a significant point in humanity’s history — the time when it […]
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A record-breaking year for DeFi, but can it break away from the negative perceptions around yield farming and pump-and-dump schemes? While 2020 will go down as one of the toughest the world has faced collectively in many years, the success of the decentralized finance sector stands out as a major milestone for the cryptocurrency community. […]
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The perils of decentralized finance in the spotlight yet again after the latest major DeFi exploit In yet another attack on a major decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, farming project Pickle Finance has been exploited today to the tune of $20 million. The attack transpired roughly two hours ago, and ETH-savvy Twitter users were quick to […]
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The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — one week on Cointelegraph in one link! Coming every Sunday, Hodlers Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much […]
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WBTC, BTCB, and other wrapped Bitcoin implementations may contribute to a BTC supply shortage looming on the horizon In a blog post of Friday, Binance re-introduced BTCB to the world — a wrapped Bitcoin asset intended to bring liquidity from the world’s largest cryptocurrency, BTC, to Binance Smart Chain’s DeFi (decentralized finance) ecosystem. However, hodlers […]
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Tokenization has a long way to go before it will uplift populations in emerging-market states, but it will bring the needed stability. One of the biggest challenges emerging markets face is volatility. Fueled by political and economic instability, dependency on a limited number of industries, and constraints on market accessibility, these matters are exacerbated by […]
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Several key metrics hint at a Bitcoin price pullback, but this may be offset by other conflicting factors. A pullback in the price of Bitcoin (BTC) is likely, based on several on-chain data points, namely the Spent Output Profit Ratio (SOPR) indicator, stablecoin inflows, stacked sell orders at $19,000, and the Crypto and Fear Index. […]
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