It seems zero interest rates were not enough to keep DAI stable. A MakerDAO (MKR) governance proposal enacted on Tuesday set interest rates on most assets, with the notable exclusion of Ether (ETH), back above 0%. According to Daistats, interest rates for the USDC-A, WBTC and other minor vaults are now back to being at […]
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Bitcoin is seeing continued “intense buy pressure,” says CryptoQuant, as $10,000 proves attractive for market entrants. A new Bitcoin (BTC) metric says that investors are still much more interested in buying than selling at $10,000. In a tweet on Sep. 7, Ki Young Ju, founder of on-chain analytics resource CryptoQuant, unveiled his latest tool for […]
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The strong performance from DeFi tokens has far eclipsed that of many top-10 altcoins but how long can this trend last? The rapid popularity and investment growth observed in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) sector has reflected heavily on the price charts with DeFi and yield-related tokens like Yearn.finance (YFI), Aave (LEND), and others rallying to […]
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As trading volumes across many top DEXs continue to soar, 2020 is shaping to be the year of DeFi tech. One of the most groundbreaking advancements to come out from within the realm of blockchain technology is the concept of a decentralized exchange. In its most basic form, a DEX can be thought of as […]
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‘DeFi yields and interest rates are clearly a vacuum sucking in a lot of stablecoins,’ says Coin Metrics’ Nic Carter. The rise of DeFi protocols and the demand for tokens in liquidity pools may be contributing to a huge surge in the supply of stablecoins. According to an Sept. 3 tweet from Coin Metrics co-founder […]
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The Celo platform utility token can now be traded on Coinbase and Coinbase Pro. Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, will now offer support for Celo — an announcement that led to a 32% price surge in less than two hours. According to a Sept. 3 blog post from Coinbase, the exchange […]
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Yearn.finance’s yETH vault took in $140 million in ETH over 48 hours, signalling that automated investing may be the next DeFi frontier. Yearn.finance, an automated DeFi yield-farming protocol, has recently launched the latest yvault strategy, yETH. yVault strategies are a set of predefined actions that allow users to deposit funds and have them automatically sent […]
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Bitcoin, gold, and the S&P 500 all sharply dropped today, causing traders to fear BTC is on the verge of a trend reversal. The price of Bitcoin (BTC), the S&P 500 index, and gold all fell simultaneously on Sept. 3. The sentiment around the markets remains cautiously negative after the drop. Two factors likely triggered […]
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Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin don’t quite convince Bailey, but he sees a lot of potential for stablecoins. During a virtual conference hosted by the Brookings Institute, Andrew Bailey, Bank of England’s (BoE) governor, stressed that crypto assets are just “unsuited to the world of payments.” In prepared remarks on the future of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, Bailey […]
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A massive yield farming strategy finally provides a mechanism to push the DAI price down. A new vault launched on yearn.finance is being credited for finally restoring the peg of Dai (DAI), the algorithmic stablecoin of the MakerDAO (MKR) project. As Cointelegraph previously reported, Maker had struggled with maintaining a strict $1 peg for DAI […]
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