Thailand’s central bank assesses the chances of bringing centralized and decentralized together. Thailand’s central bank is looking at smart contracts and decentralized finance (DeFi) implementations for its national digital currency, the digital baht. Vijak Sethaput, senior developer for the Bank of Thailand’s (BoT) central bank digital currency project Inthanon, discussed the country’s CBDC progress in […]
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Bitcoin price is consolidating into a tighter range as traders prepare for a third attempt on the $12K level. After recovering 6.3% from a drop to $11,200 on Aug. 11, Bitcoin (BTC) price appears to be gearing up for a third run on the $12K mark. This comes after a week of bullish news which […]
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Equilibrium is not quite ditching EOS, but Polkadot will be its new home. An EOS-based decentralized finance project, Equilibrium, has announced its plans to develop a new interoperable protocol on the Polkadot (DOT) blockchain. The project is set to develop an independent parachain connected with Polkadot, featuring an independent utility token called EQ. It acts […]
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Strong growth in the DeFi sector led Band Protocol (BAND) and Chainlink (LINK) to gain more than 100% over the past few weeks. This week Bitcoin (BTC) price is making waves as the digital asset finally pushed above the $12K mark, but prior to this move, altcoins have been strongly outpeforming BTC for weeks. Two […]
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Open Price Feed could be a big step forward for Compound. The Compound protocol is set to introduce Open Price Feed — a decentralized oracle whose crypto market prices will allow the project’s lending system to function. The Open Price Feed is currently being tested on a variety of networks. It has operated for almost […]
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Strategies from the world of traditional finance could offer promise for miners who want to lower the risk associated with holding inventory. To a newcomer, crypto mining may sound deceptively easy — essentially, a way to switch on a machine, walk away and watch the lucrative crypto rewards roll in. But the reality is a […]
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Following the early 2019 initiation of North Dakota’s deep dive into blockchain use cases, a state representative who was a leader in the study, mentioned a future digital asset concept for the region. Rep. Nathan Toman believes that an official “North Dakota coin” could potentially help the state’s struggling economy in the wake of COVID-19, […]
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Attackers exploited a Uniswap trading loophole to get away with more than $370K. Attackers have exploited a vulnerability in the Opyn ETH Put contract to walk away with more than $370,000. One of the first members of Crypto Twitter to report on the theft, DegenSpartan, stated on Aug. 4 that the traders used flash loans […]
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Shortly after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed the country’s recent cryptocurrency law, the country’s largest bank voiced its considerations. Sberbank, a state-owned company and the largest bank in Russia, is considering the possibility of issuing its own token, according to its key executives. Sergey Popov, Director of the transaction business at Sberbank, says that Russia’s […]
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While both PoW and PoS have a lot to offer, this year, in particular, is promising to be a special one for proof-of-stake. Proof-of-work and proof-of-stake have a lot of benefits to offer the community, and the discussion around these algorithms has dominated conversations in the cryptocurrency community. The use of staking will become more […]
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