Developing the DeFi space is perhaps the most important task that lies ahead for the crypto community in the coming years. The rapid growth of the decentralized finance space, the rise in demand, the improvement of its protocols, and the breadth of offered services and opportunities will provide retail users with the options they are […]
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Ethereum network use and transaction fees are rising to record highs, will this interfere with DeFi’s current expansion? The number of Ethereum network transactions more than doubled in 2020 and is now virtually identical to the January 2018 all-time high. As shown on the chart below, the number of transactions doubled in the past six […]
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In the EU, getting laws right on Libra could be the best way to speed up a digital euro from the European Central Bank. While Facebook’s Libra project might have shaken the United States government the most, the aftershocks were felt all over the world. The European Union was no exception: The publication of the […]
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Congressman Soto talks about the point where crypto education meets solid policy and what’s standing in the way. “I remember watching the hearings before the Energy and Commerce Committee with Mark Zuckerberg, and it was clear that a lot of my colleagues didn’t really know a lot about technology,” recalls U.S. Representative Darren Soto. When […]
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There are multiple ways to approach digital payments, and Facebook wants to cover them all. Despite regulators across the board giving a cold shoulder to Facebook’s ambitious plan to install a worldwide crypto-based payment system called Libra, the company’s enthusiasm for moving into the digital payments space is only mounting. Earlier this week, reports emerged […]
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The supply of Tether has surpassed $12 billion and this will likely only make traders more bullish on the price of Bitcoin and alternative cryptocurrencies. The market capitalization of Tether (USDT) surpassed $12 billion as of Aug. 14, according to cryptocurrency market analytics firm Coinmetrics. Meanwhile, some believe the rapidly-rising valuation of the dominant stablecoin […]
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Getting all the facts right is hard, especially when you don’t have internet access. Ross Ulbricht, the founder of SilkRoad, has issued a short follow-up to his essay on MakerDAO (MKR) and how it could be redesigned and improved. The follow-up amounts to a small correction to an assumption he made earlier about the Maker […]
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Unaudited contracts resulted in its death after all. A bug in the hastily-developed contracts for Yam Finance resulted in the governance contracts being “permanently broken” and $750,000 worth of Curve tokens being locked from use. Andre Cronje, DeFi developer and founder of the yEarn protocol, told Cointelegraph that this resulted from a bugged rebase function. […]
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A Yam Finance code flaw saw the project ask investors to pledge to save the platform. Not enough have. The future of the Yam Finance yield farming protocol hangs in the balance as it awaits token deposits for a governance vote that could save the project. With less than five hours to go, Yam is […]
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Yam Finance uncovered a bug the day after ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees called the project a scam. Yam finance (YAM), the latest fad in the crypto space, recently warned the public of a technical bug affecting the ecosystem. “We have found a bug in the rebasing contract,” the project said in an Aug. 12 tweet. “All […]
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