Ether price declined sharply alongside Bitcoin even as the long-awaited Eth2 mainnet launched successfully. The price of Ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum, plunged harder than Bitcoin (BTC) in the recent pullback. After reaching an all-time high on Coinbase, the price of Bitcoin fell steeply by over 9% within several hours. In the same […]
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Akropolis says calling it a merger “is a bit of a misnomer.” Yearn Finance announced on Monday yet another merger with Akropolis, a multi-product DeFi protocol featuring yield optimization and under-collateralized loans. Like the Cream Finance merger announced last week the two ecosystems will remain largely independent in terms of their tokens and overall product lines, […]
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After proposing automated ways to monitor global stablecoins like Libra, a new report from BIS argues that a better solution may ultimately be central bank digital currencies. Facebook’s proposal for its digital currency, Libra, was a wake-up call for international regulatory agencies, finance ministries and central bankers. All these actors recognized that the company’s reach […]
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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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Crypto is often seen as trustless and failproof. But as more regulation, venues and developers come aboard, just how trustless is it really? Blockchain technology is great because it cuts out the middleman, removes the need to trust third parties, and gives users full agency over their finances, or true ownership of their wealth. From […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the adoption of blockchain and DLT-based business solutions in the global trade ecosystem. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to push more people out of their offices, many companies across the globe are adopting decentralized ledger technology to mitigate its effects and remain operational. Emmanuelle Ganne, senior analyst at the World […]
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If you are in Bitcoin for the long haul, there is a reasonable path to $500,000 within the next decade. Back in June, I wrote that Wall Street remaining on the sidelines is not necessarily bad for our industry. While most traditional investors are still observing, Bitcoin’s (BTC) mainstream momentum has been building over the […]
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A project with Satoshi Nakomoto’s namesake has been selected as the winner of the CFTC’s Project Streetlamp. A blockchain data platform has been selected the winner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s first science competition, offering yet another compelling sign that distributed ledger technology has burst onto the mainstream. Nakamoto Terminal, a digital-asset analytics platform […]
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The project aims to provide a blockchain-based parametric insurance platform that helps protect smallhold farmers from the effects of climate change. Today the Chainlink Community Grant program announced funding for a low-cost insurance collaboration between Etherisc, a decentralized insurance protocol, and ACRE Africa, a microinsurance issuer focused on the second-most populous continent on the planet. […]
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Connecting DeFi with traditional financial instruments will give a massive boost to the whole market. With over $13 billion in total value locked, decentralized finance has truly shaken the crypto world in the last year. It has provided a new way to profit from the crypto market. Meanwhile, DeFi right now is only a niche […]
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