In the past week Yearn Finance (YFI) rallied 330% to a new high at $12,800 but what’s behind this impressive rally? Yearn Finance (YFI) launched just a month ago and since then the yield aggregating platform’s total value locked has climbed to $611 million. In the last three days, YFI price climbed to $12,800, a […]
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Ethereum’s oldest user-friendly wallet is staking territory in DeFi. MyEtherWallet is expanding its integrations with decentralized finance through its dedicated wallet communication tool, MEWconnect. On Thursday, the project announced an integration with Aave and Ren, which marks the first time that third parties are using the MEWconnect technology. MEWconnect is a wallet linking system developed […]
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As the world becomes more and more digital, the solution to the question of ownership is already here in the form of NFTs. In early July 2020, the total sales of nonfungible tokens, or NFT, hit $100 million. And that is just the start. As the DeFi market reached $4 billion in locked value and […]
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After the somewhat imperfect launch of the Medalla Eth 2.0 testnet, developers discuss what initially went wrong. Following the successful but imperfect launch of the Medalla testnet, the first community testnet for Ethereum 2.0, developers spoke on the issues and needed improvements highlighted by the event. In an Eth 2.0 Dev call held on Aug. […]
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The founder of Synthetix believes that the DeFi ecosystem is realizing many of the promises that the fintech sector has failed to deliver. Kain Warwick, founder of DeFi derivatives platform Synthetix, argues that projects built on Ethereum can finally deliver on many of the promises that fintech failed to. Despite ten years of development, Warwick […]
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Major Ether wallet service and browser extension, Metamask, introduces newly released version featuring enhanced privacy control. Metamask, a popular Ether (ETH) wallet and browser extension, has just released a new major application upgrade. Announcing the news on July 2, Metamask outlined that the new update, Metamask Version 8, offers a number of new features like […]
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Top crypto exchange Binance has lost a domain name dispute with an Australian florist over the website binance.com.au. Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has lost a dispute over the domain name ‘binance.com.au’ to an Australian florist trading under the name Binancé. On June 17, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) denied a complaint filed by the […]
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MyEtherWallet is adding an integration with IPFS to let its users easily launch websites on the decentralized web, but the network is still quite limited. MyEtherWallet, a well-known Ethereum wallet app, is releasing a feature named “Host Your Own Site” that provides an easy interface for its users to upload a website to the InterPlanetary […]
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A new Bitcoin-related scam emerged through a phishing site that impersonates a self-destructing encrypted notes service. Cybercriminals have reportedly created a fake site version of the legitimate encrypted self-destructing notes service privnote.com. The fake version can be shared with other users to steal Bitcoin. According to a June 14 report from KrebsOnSecurity, the creators of […]
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DeFi hits new heights with more than 1,000 new assets added in May and total user numbers reaching 550,000. Decentralized finance (DeFi) continues to grow at an exponential rate with the number of new DeFi assets increasing by almost ten fold over the same time last year. Zerion DeFi project founder Evgeny Yurtaev shared a […]
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