“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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The crypto world does not have a major euro-pegged stablecoin yet. A number of popular U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins exist on the crypto market. Stablecoins based on the euro also exist, but are notably less liquid, according to Zahreddine Touag, co-founder and head of trading at Paris-based market making firm Woorton. “There’s not any euro stablecoin […]
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Money Legos can be dangerous, especially when you focus on semantics. We were graced with one more typical “degen yield farm” popping in and out of relevance this week. Harvest Finance collected as much as $1 billion in total value locked before an “economic exploit” sent it tumbling down. Its value locked measure now hovering […]
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Retail investors are buying into Bitcoin, says CryptoQuant CEO. In the days preceding Bitcoin’s latest rise in price, stablecoins went wild, exhibiting some largely unprecedented behavior. Stablecoins: all stablecoins inflow transaction and address count of all exchanges. Source: CryptoQuant. On October 18, stablecoins moving to exchanges reached record highs of 60,000 and 56,000 respectively, according […]
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Stablecoins are taking over the crypto space with increased utility and circulation. What is prompting this growth, and is it a threat to the market? Despite this year’s uncertainty that has plagued the global economy, 2020 will go down as the year of the stablecoins due to the digital sector’s tremendous growth, with new developments […]
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Tether’s USDT stablecoin dominates crypto market volumes but data shows its $15.7B market cap does not negatively impact Bitcoin’s volume. Tether’s (USDT) stablecoin has been the leading base pair for cryptocurrencies for over eighteen months. This is a rather impressive feat given the ongoing court case with the New York Attorney General and the other […]
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High annual percentage yields are enticing to DeFi investors but are whales the only people making money? Decentralized Finance has taken crypto by storm providing holders with a wide range of options to earn high-yield returns on their crypto and stablecoin holdings. DeFi has not only led to huge rallies in the prices of governance […]
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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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Fundamental growth is not so impressive when you factor out the bull run. A new metric published by DappRadar wants to paint a more reliable picture of how the decentralized finance ecosystem is growing. Called “Adjusted TVL,” the metric attempts to clean total value locked readings from any external influence — primarily price increases. Total […]
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The race for first place in DeFi’s total value locked heats up. The statistics for total value locked, or TVL, in decentralized finance are being rocked by Aave (LEND), a lending protocol that has now taken MakerDAO’s mantle as the most popular destination for Ethereum-based assets. According to data from DeFi Pulse, Aave holds $1.44 […]
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