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The rise in capital-efficient models and protocols made a heavy contribution to the parabolic growth in Defi. Decentralized exchanges and lending protocols made it easier for traders to access all popular assets in the crypto space with deep liquidity.
2021-12-24 08:43 | |
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The company is delegating well over half of its voting power in protocols like Compound, Uniswap, and Celo to primarily university organizations, crypto startups, and NPOs, along with crypto community leaders.
2021-8-27 19:04 | |
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Although crypto is undoubtedly innovative in nature, the majority of crypto exchanges are dragging behind, unable to fully realize the great possibilities of modern trading protocols. Many crypto exchanges are run digitally, yet are not all using the right protocols, causing systems and platforms to lag, offering slower fill times, higher latency, and more bottlenecks. […]
2020-8-3 11:28 | |
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One of the biggest crypto narratives over the past few months has been decentralized finance — better known as “DeFi. ” Coins pertaining to this segment of the blockchain space have gone parabolic and users of DeFi protocols have shot up.
2020-8-1 06:00 | |
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One of DeFi’s fastest-growing protocols, Aave, has raised $3 million in capital from notable crypto funds Framework Ventures and Three Arrows Capital. The two will combine forces with helping Aave...
2020-7-15 18:51 | |
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The crypto dominance race is being commanded by the decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape, as its relative protocols and tokens have outperformed Bitcoin and its brethren so far this year. Ethereum is the foundation of this new financial landscape, and it has been pulling more and more BTC into the mix.
2020-7-3 10:05 | |
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Interested in yield farming but not sure where to start? Here’s an overview of the top DeFi protocols and how you can get started. What is Yield Farming? The hottest...
2020-6-29 21:25 | |
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Ethereum has been generating significant buzz across the crypto sphere over the past few days, primarily due to the explosive surge in the popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi). Much of this popularity has been driven by an emerging trend called “yield farming,” in which users can leverage different protocols in order to receive massive payouts, […]
2020-6-23 02:00 | |
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Interchain Foundation and Chorus One, a company providing staking services, have released an extensive research report on designs and implications of protocols that tokenize stake. The research conducted as part of the Liquid Staking Working Group, a collective of organizations within the staking industry with an interest in tokenized staking protocols, was commissioned and supported […] CryptoNinjas: Chorus One releases report on capital efficiency in the crypto staking industry
2020-6-17 16:53 | |
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The Aave protocol has introduced Uniswap tokens as a collateral form, which opens the door to the somewhat risky practice of leveraged liquidity pools on the exchange.
2020-5-29 15:41 | |
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Anchorage president Diogo Monica discusses the challenges faced by crypto custodians as DeFi protocols demand increasingly complex on-chain activities
2020-4-29 15:18 | |
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According to Zerion CEO Evgeny Yurtaev there are two major issues in the current crypto space. Primarily, although protocols are decentralized many access points to the system, like exchanges, are still centralized.
2020-4-24 18:00 | |
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Synthetix, one of the largest DeFi protocols, has announced an initiative that provides an additional reward to good actors for providing liquidity to the ecosystem and assuming risk. Two million...The post Synthetix to Reward Risk-Bearing Stakers in New Upgrade appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-2-26 09:59 | |
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The team of Frontier, an app to manage decentralized protocols, today announced the launch of TxLink — a middleware between dApps and mobile blockchain wallets for transaction signing. Two driving reasons the Frontier team built this tool include: Removing platform dependency for users.
2020-2-14 18:25 | |
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The proliferation of DeFi protocols was the crypto story of last year. But how do the major token valuations compare? Valuing DeFi Protocol Tokens DeFi protocols earn money by charging...The post A Comparison of DeFi Protocol Token Valuations appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-2-13 16:40 | |
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Web3 Foundation and Coinbase Custody, a custodian for crypto assets, are partnering to offer a custody solution for the Polkadot network. Polkadot is a scalable sharded chain that provides a secure environment for cross-chain composability of multiple applications and protocols.
2020-2-10 19:24 | |
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It has been a while coming as crypto custodians look for better ways to serve clients on their platforms. With security protocols no longer a competitive advantage in the field, ease of access and management costs are taking shape as the differentiating factors across most crypto custodial services, Bitgo becomes the latest to offer trading […]
2020-2-6 19:44 | |
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Gitcoin, BCash and Zcash all try different paths to fund public protocol development, plus the latest in CBDCs from Japan and Cambodia and Andrew Yang on crypto.
2020-1-31 23:00 | |
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This spring, three of the largest crypto networks, BTC, BCH, and BSV, will undergo their halvings around the same time for the first time in history. During the last halving in 2016, only one network existed, but now three protocols share the same consensus algorithm.
2020-1-28 22:05 | |
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DeFi protocols are proving their value after providing profit-making opportunities during diverse market conditions. Building Financial Utility In the first half of 2019, as the cryptocurrency market started to rise from multi-year lows, DeFi got its first taste of a bull market as loans on Maker hit an all-time high of $505 million.
2020-1-16 11:14 | |
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DeFi made its claim to fame with lending protocols that offer attractive yields. As these rates normalize, new age financial products could propel the space to greater heights. Stablecoins and Yield in a Volatile Year In the first six months of 2019, Bitcoin spiked from a biennial low of $3,200 to a range high of […] The post From Lending to Synthetic Assets: How DeFi Can Change in 2020 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-1-8 08:55 | |
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The primary pull of decentralized crypto assets is financial freedom from the flawed banking system. Bitcoin is one step but without greater adoption it is still just a speculative vehicle. DeFi and decentralized protocols based on banking are another and they’re gaining traction fast.
2019-12-14 08:00 | |
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Lending and borrowing crypto, a subset of DeFi applications, has quickly boomed into an almost billion-dollar industry. But does it pose a threat to Proof of Stake networks? The DeFi landscape includes lending protocols, security tokens, derivatives, and exchanges, and threatens to usurp traditional financial models into trustless protocols that leverage decentralized networks.
2019-12-9 22:25 | |
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Today, the team of Zerion, an interface solution for accessing decentralized finance protocols to invest, earn interest and borrow crypto assets, announced it has raised $2 million in a seed round.
2019-12-3 20:25 | |
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Ripple’s Investment arm, Xpring, has acquired Strata Labs to facilitate the Interledger Network development within its ecosystem. The crypto payments-oriented firm is looking to increase its blockchain accessibility as more clientele join the industry for money transfer solutions.
2019-11-2 18:01 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange operator Binance have announced a new collaboration with Chainlink. The partnership will see Binance connecting its crypto data to other blockchain platforms. The move is part of a broader effort to support the expansion of Decentralized Finance (DeFi).
2019-10-25 16:30 | |
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The U. S. SEC, Fincen and CFTC issued a rare joint statement Friday addressing regulation of “activities involving digital assets. ” Citing crypto’s perceived role in money laundering and terrorism, the regulatory power trio prescribed stricter adherence to anti-money laundering (AML) policies and know your customer (KYC) protocols.
2019-10-17 01:13 | |
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An experimental application could help decentralized exchanges comply with regulations without compromising user privacy. Announced jointly today by DeversiFI and the identity management platform, Iden3, the TrustCommunity experiment application allows anyone to create sovereign identities that could be used across multiple applications and protocols.
2019-10-2 17:09 | |
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The hot potato in the world of crypto at the moment is decentralized finance. Satoshi’s original notion of cutting out the bankers is now possible in this new world of digital assets and DeFi protocols.
2019-9-11 09:00 | |
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Coinbase has introduced a new initiative dubbed USDC Bootstrap Fund and just as the name suggests, the firm intends to boost developers with a fund in terms of USDC tokens. In a blog post, the crypto exchange said that the new fund will be used to enhance developments of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. The new […]
2019-9-11 23:21 | |
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Last week marked the end of anonymous trading on IDEX, as the Ethereum-based exchange finalized the integration of KYC and AML protocols. As of last Friday, all users must have completed KYC and set-up an account in order to trade on the platform.
2019-8-27 21:25 | |
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Ethereum is still the second-biggest crypto by market cap and is the top chain for smart contracts which shows why there are expectations there is for Istanbul. There has been developed as developers decided that there will be two important EIPs – ProgPow and EC Arithmetic. As part of the discussion for the Istanbul hard […]
2019-8-25 18:16 | |
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Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures and co-founder of Coin Metrics, created a matrix chart for some of the crypto-sphere’s most talked about innovations. The chart ranked Bitcoin, blockchain protocols, Libra, and other innovations by maturity relative to hype, showing there is still unrecognized potential in many parts of the industry.
2019-8-14 23:40 | |
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Interoperability is a multisyllabic word for a multi-faceted problem. How do you get blockchains to communicate with one another? Until recently, there’s been no easy way to achieve this, leaving assets isolated and smart contract-powered dapps siloed on their respective protocols.
2019-8-13 21:30 | |
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While most of the state's guidelines are adaptations of existing requirements, Rhode Island’s money transmitter license for crypto firms will ask that agencies follow strict compliance metrics, anti-money laundering and anti-fraud protocols, and security requirements.
2019-8-9 23:27 | |
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CoinOne — one of S. Korea’s largest cryptocurrency trading platforms — has just entered into an agreement with cybersecurity audit company CertiK and disclosures company Xangle so as to provide its customers with more privacy as well as better overall transparency.
2019-8-8 16:08 | |
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The China Electronic Information Industry Development (CCID) that operates directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, released its latest crypto rankings, excluding bitcoin from the top 10.
2019-7-31 15:44 | |
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Opera has launched the ability to use BTC and TRX on the beta version of its browser, allowing for the further adoption of Web 3. 0 protocols in the mainstream. Until now, the inbuilt crypto wallet had only supported ERC-20 tokens, which has now been expanded to include BTC and TRX, July 10, 2019.
2019-7-12 11:00 | |
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The Monero Konferenco took place in Denver, Colorado last month, drawing some of the brightest minds of the privacy-oriented community. While most of the speakers presented on protocols, secure hardware and decentralization, they also shed light on a Monero (XMR) ecosytem that’s beginning to unfold.
2019-7-7 15:46 | |
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At present, there are many obstacles that prevent the purchase of goods with cryptocurrency if the holder does not convert to fiat currency. Adopting many crypto payment networks such as AIGO-Payment can result in cryptocurrency holders being able to transact directly with traders without having to go through additional banking layers.
2019-7-6 10:33 | |
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Ripple (XRP) under pressure $500 million has been spent in over 20 companies by Ripple’s Xpring. Xpring has spent over $500 million in over 20 companies. Their focus is to “build the best crypto infrastructure through contributions to open source crypto protocols such as the XRP Ledger and InterLedger projects.
2019-7-5 22:00 | |
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Shiftly, an app for finding the best quotes for swapping cryptocurrencies through protocols including Kyber Network, Airswap, and Uniswap has recently launched on mainnet. The Shiftly team is now focused on integrating more protocols in order to broaden the token offering.
2019-7-2 20:26 | |
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Coinshare Chief Believes Bitcoin Cannot Be Replicated Despite Simple Elegance The Chief strategy officer of Coinshares, Meltem Demirors briefed CNBC crypto-traders about the crypto-space changing dimensions and some protocols.
2019-5-25 20:51 | |
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Meltem Demirors, the chief strategy officer at CoinShares, spoke with CNBC’s Crypto Trader and discussed the numerous protocols/altcoins that have come up in the cryptocurrency space. She mentioned how Bitcoin faced problems with consensus in the early days and has been finessing since then.
2019-5-25 08:30 | |
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Blockstream CEO Adam Back has always been in the news for discussing relevant topics in the cryptosphere through various social media channels. On the sidelines of Consensus 2019, Back addressed popular questions related to the future of crypto mining, during his interview on Crypto Finder.
2019-5-16 16:00 | |
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GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab speak on recent attacks on user repositories. Hacker has yet to fill crypto wallet with demanded random payments. GitHub is a platform for open-source codes that many developers use to test out protocols and adapt to their own uses.
2019-5-4 16:28 | |
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The blockchain movement in Africa is supported by multiple international crypto projects, as well as domestic initiatives. Two African blockchain teams, Kamari and Kinect, are now bringing decentralized technology to the medical industry.
2019-4-30 01:45 | |
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Coinspeaker VC Firms are Pouring Huge Money in Crypto Starups, Coinbase Unveils 2018 EarningThe latest Reuters report suggests that big organizations are investing heavily in startups developing protocols and services for the crypto and blockchain sector.
2019-4-19 12:52 | |
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New Information Comes to Light In Relation To Recent Crypto Scam As some of our regular readers may remember, it recently came to light that Sistemkoin’s native operational protocols contained within them a few intrinsic flaws that allowed miscreants to essentially spy on other people’s support tickets. Sistemkoin is Turkish crypto exchange with a total […]
2019-4-13 18:19 | |
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U.S policymakers seem to be doing their best to suffocate dollar on-ramps into crypto, leaving the door open for other mature markets to gain a competitive edge.
Russian troops in Ukraine receive millions in crypto donations, despite international sanctions. CoinDesk investigates how these funds are flowing and talks to fundraisers.
Sportswashing and crypto company hubris are no longer in play in Super Bowl commercials this year. And that's a good thing.
Whereas corporations accumulate capital, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) accumulate engagement and focus on returning benefits to all participants.
Moves to outlaw staking and stop banks from servicing crypto companies will harm the industry and send it overseas, says CoinDesk's chief content officer Michael Casey.
In a CoinDesk exclusive, the co-founder of Yuga Labs, Wylie Aronow, shares a frank letter touching on his recent diagnosis of heart failure and responding to accusations of racist and nazi imagery embedded within the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT project.
FTX’s collapse is an inevitable outcome for an industry yet to find its use case. For crypto to survive, it needs to learn from the very financial sector it set out to replace, says Brent Xu, the CEO of Umee.