The 25 largest crypto markets comprise roughly 94.40% of the capitalization of the combined market cap. With Bitcoin regaining market dominance of over two-thirds of the entire combined cryptocurrency capitalization, discussions regarding market share of prominent altcoins have largely left the dominant cryptocurrency discourse. Here is a different outlook on the market and on how […]
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Crypto experts’ take on the question: Is the leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, really a good store of value and can we call it “digital gold”? It’s hard to tell who was the first to coin — pun intended — Bitcoin (BTC) as “digital gold,” underlining the idea that Bitcoin is a good store of value. The […]
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Chaos at the headquarters of MakerDAO: Why have some key members left the company, while others hired a lawyer? In the crypto industry, there are many examples of how a conflict of interest has led to a company split. Perhaps, the largest ones are the forks of bitcoin (BTC), bitcoin cash (BCH) and the Ethereum […]
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Coinbase has added a new unit for Ethereum-based stablecoin dai on Coinbase Earn, the first stablecoin to be included in its educational program. Major crypto platform Coinbase has added a course on MakerDao’s stablecoin dai in its educational portal Coinbase Earn, according to an official blog post by Coinbase on June 10. According to the […]
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Most decentralized finance applications are being built on the Ethereum blockchain Ethereum devs constitute the vast majority of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) application (DApp) creators, according to a report by Binance Research on June 6. Number of DApps per blockchain, courtesy of Binance Research According to the report, DeFi can be thought of as the following: […]
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Public smart contract-enabled blockchain tezos is about to undergo its first hard fork today. After three months, a governance vote of public smart contract-enabled blockchain tezos (XTZ) started on Feb. 28 has been concluded — as scheduled — three months later, on May 28. Cryptocurrency news outlet Coindesk reported yesterday that the voting process has […]
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The decision to lower the so-called stability fee for MakerDAO’s Ethereum blockchain-based decentralized stablecoin DAI by 2% has been executed. The decision to lower the so-called stability fee for MakerDAO’s Ethereum blockchain-based decentralized stablecoin DAI by 2% has been executed on May 28. The original vote for Maker (MKR) token holders was announced on the organization’s blog on […]
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Major exchange and cryptocurrency platform Coinbase has added support for Ethereum-based stablecoin Dai in most jurisdictions. Major cryptocurrency platform Coinbase now supports stablecoin Dai (DAI), according to an official press release on May 23. Coinbase says that the token can be purchased and sold, sent and received, and converted or stored in most jurisdictions on […]
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The vote to decrease stability fee for MakerDAO’s Ethereum blockchain-based decentralized stablecoin DAI has stalled. The vote to decrease stability fee for MakerDAO’s Ethereum blockchain-based decentralized stablecoin Dai has failed, according to the voting results published on May 20. The vote about whether to decrease the fee by 2% to 17.5% per year started yesterday, […]
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The Decentralized Autonomous Organization behind the DAI stablecoin announced a critical security update to its governance contract. MakerDAO, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) behind the DAI stablecoin, announced a critical security update to its governance contract in a Reddit thread published on May 6. Per the announcement, during the second round of security audits part […]
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