An uptick in the USD currency index produces an instant plunge for BTC/USD, with the largest cryptocurrency sinking 5% on the day. Bitcoin (BTC) fell 5% to retest $11,000 on Sept. 2 as fresh strength in the U.S. dollar currency index appeared to spell trouble. Cryptocurrency market daily snapshot, Sept. 2. Source: Coin360 BTC/USD sees […]
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Research into Sushi’s wallets reveal the admin holds the keys to $27 million worth of tokens. Analysis of hot DeFi protocol SushiSwap’s smart contracts has revealed that as much as $27 million worth of the native token is in an admin wallet that could be dumped without warning. Data analyst and partner at Cinneamhain Ventures, […]
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With more than half a billion dollars worth BTC already tokenized, Messari believes that projects bringing Bitcoin to DeFi will emerge as leaders of the crypto sector. Crypto analytics firm Messari estimates that $500 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) has been tokenized on the Ethereum network for use in decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. The firm’s […]
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Was the Uniswap fork that created SushiSwap a good thing for the DeFi sector? Crypto startup investor and IDEO Managing Director Ian Lee has revealed how DeFi protocols can avoid being cloned and drained of liquidity by improving upon their design and governance from the start. When SushiSwap forked from Uniswap on Friday, August 28, […]
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With Bitcoin Cash poised to fork again in November, the BCH community is gearing up to do battle over the Bitcoin Cash brand. Bitcoin Cash figurehead Roger Ver has dramatically announced that Bitcoin ABC and its lead developer Amaury Sechet are “forking away from #BitcoinCash on Nov 15th”. Bitcoin ABC and @deadalnix have announced that […]
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Graham Ivan Clark may not be the only juvenile responsible for the massive Twitter breach on July 15. The FBI executed a search warrant against a 16-year-old Massachusetts resident in connection with the massive Twitter breach. According to a New York Times report, on Sept. 1 authorities raided the home of a 16-year-old boy who […]
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The nation’s money printer continues to go “Brrr”. Amid a year that has been anything but normal, the United States’ Federal Reserve, or the Fed, has collected an impressive number of financial assets. “The Fed now owns a total of 22,913 different securities according to Bloomberg,” said the twitter account for the Zero Hedge financial […]
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The crypto space knows how big bubbles can grow. The decentralized finance, or DeFi, movement in crypto has grown explosively over the past several months, according to data compiled by Twitter analyst, Ceteris Paribus. Data from May, June, July and August showed DeFi crypto assets have surged in price, on average, 42.9%, 56%, 60.5% and […]
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Ethereum’s co-founder has taken aim at coins designed to incentivise yield farming, comparing their underlying economics to irresponsible monetary policies Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), has again taken to Twitter to warn against naive bullishness in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, comparing the economics of yield farming tokens to the Federal Reserve’s money […]
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Excitement for Yearn Finance’s yETH vault has reached a fever pitch after rumors of the product’s release circulated on Twitter. Analysts predict that the imminent launch of yETH by Yearn Finance could trigger a renewed surge in buying pressure on the ETH markets. The product, which is being voted on by YFI token holders, will […]
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