The global network of open APIs claims it can reduce development time of decentralized applications from months to days. The Graph Network launched its mainnet on Dec. 17, allowing developers to easily search, index, use and publish data from public blockchains. This is made possible through a global and open network of Application Programming Interfaces, […]
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Early BTC miners with the foresight to hodl have now become millionaires. Bitcoin’s (BTC) parabolic run has turned early miners into millionaires at a pace rarely seen before. Data from Glassnode shows that the number of Bitcoin addresses holding at least $1 million has skyrocketed to 66,540 this week — an increase of 150%. The […]
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More people use Bitcoin now, but transaction fees are much lower than during the 2017 bull run. As Bitcoin (BTC) keeps hitting new all-time highs past $20,000, its network fundamentals paint a different picture compared to the previous 2017 bull run. Three years ago, on this very day, Bitcoin reached its first major all-time high […]
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The new Ethereum 2.0 roadmap review: What updates have been added, and how soon can they be implemented? On Dec. 2, shortly after the long-awaited release of Ethereum 2.0, platform founder Vitalik Buterin announced an updated roadmap. At first glance, it does not differ much from the previous version from March. However, it brought some […]
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A snapshot for the Spark airdrop may have caused a record spike in Ethereum address creation. Ethereum address creation hit a 35-month high on December 14 when 177,000 new addresses were added to the network according to analysts from Santiment. The analytics provider reported that its network growth metric showed Ethereum adding 177,500 addresses in […]
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“Secret Tokens combine the programmability of ERC-20s with the privacy of coins like Zcash or Monero.” An open-source blockchain protocol called the Secret Network is now offering privacy features for the Ethereum blockchain and 14 ERC-20 tokens. According to a Secret Network blog post, the protocol launched its Secret Ethereum Bridge on the mainnet today, […]
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A handful of DeFi tokens are producing double-digit gains as Bitcoin price fights to turn $19,500 to a strong support level. The world’s negative-yielding debt has soared to over $18 trillion according to Bloomberg. In such times, it is no surprise that the decentralized finance space, a place where mouth-watering yields can be found, has […]
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This is the first milestone of a longer-term strategic partnership between Binance and Chiliz. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced a strategic partnership with sports and entertainment fan-token issuer Chiliz. In a Dec. 14 post, the exchange announced that, as the first milestone of this partnership, Chiliz fan-tokens for Paris Saint Germain (PSG) and Juventus (JUV) […]
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The two Polkadot parachains will communicate to create a unified DeFi environment. Cross-chain DeFi lending protocol Equilibrium (EQ) is set to bring its USD-pegged stablecoin to Moonbeam, a Polkadot (DOT) project building an Ethereum-like blockchain. DeFi projects building on Moonbeam will be able to use Equilibrium’s stablecoin as if it were native to the blockchain. […]
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Decentralized exchange LINKSWAP reaches $10 million total value locked in its first week as the Ethereum DEX market competition heats up. LINKSWAP, a decentralized exchange (DEX) on Ethereum (ETH) has become the eighth-largest DEX by total value locked (TVL) on Dec. 14, a week after its launch. YFL, the governance token of the DEX, has […]
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