As real estate tokens falter, AspenCoin has announced cash rebates for token holders who stay at its resort. Despite the broader security token market booming in recent months, real estate tokens appear to be struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. AspenCoin (ASPD), the digital security representing fractional ownership in 19% of a five-star 179-room hotel in […]
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Uniswap is taking on SUSHI head on with the launch of a new governance protocol token UNI, leading to a flurry of activity from more than 13,000 DeFi users. Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Uniswap’s governance protocol token UNI went live on Ethereum earlier today. The community showed immediate support for the new token with Uniswap’s […]
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Binance has already announced it will list the UNI token. Unfazed by the controversy over its Sushiswap listing, Binance announced support for Uniswap’s new UNI token around 90 minutes after the DeFi platform’s governance token went live on Ethereum. Over the next four years, one billion UNI tokens will be distributed, with 15% being immediately […]
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Blockchain could soon be integrated into South Korean apartments. The Blockchain frenzy in South Korea has now reached the housing sector, with the national government pledging $1.27 million in funding for a blockchain-based platform that targets apartment residents across the country. According to ZDNet Korea, the South Korean Ministry of Science, or ICT, chose a […]
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Covid-19 stimulus payments “could have been done in a few seconds, at no (distribution) cost. It would have been a no-brainer.” Programmable money (PM) is in the air. It may be the next stage in the evolution of money. And it could be as disruptive as any financial technology in development today. Yes, China is […]
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Investors are salivating for pickles after DeFi protocol Pickle.Finance locked $347 million in it’s liquidity pools. Food-related DeFi projects have slowly taken over crypto in the last quarter, with many of these projects suffering from contentious issues, like the Uniswap fork, SushiSwap’s vampire attack, and the market dump of $13 million worth of Ether (ETH) […]
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The U.S. government is charging ahead in its pursuit of privacy tokens, according to the latest sanctions. Per Sept. 16 additions to the list of sanctioned individuals, the U.S. Treasury is targeting Monero addresses. Russian nationals Dmitriy Karasavidi and Danil Potekhin have become the newest names on the specially designated nationals (SDN) list. According to […]
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Why we need regulatory frameworks in the crypto space, with a focus on regulating the financial aspects of cryptocurrency-based operations. When Malta set out to provide a regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency sector, policymakers and advisers recognized how blockchain, distributed ledger technology and smart contracts, as well as related technologies, imposed new challenges to providing […]
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A new blockchain protocol is set to solve major DeFi issues. Avalanche, a new blockchain protocol and cryptocurrency backed by Cornell’s Emin Gün Sirer, will finally go live in a few days. According to an announcement, Avalanche will roll out the full mainnet on Monday, Sept. 21. With the mainnet launch, the Avalanche (AVAX) token, […]
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The plot thickens as Bithumb director’s shares are seized after he had applied for the seizure of the chairman’s shares. South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has been raided by the Seoul Metropolitan Police for the third time this month, according to a report in a local media outlet. During the Sep. 16 raid, police […]
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