Was August a good month? Depends on which coin you ask. For many in the wider market, it was an excellent month, yet for many in the top 10 coins by market capitalization, the month ended in red. August was a month filled with decentralized finance (DeFi) developments, particularly in the yield farming category, with…
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The government of Bermuda has teamed up with stablecoin platform Stablehouse to launch a test pilot program for a stablecoin, which the territory calls a digital stimulus token, allowing purchases of food and other essential products, as well as services from participating merchants and retailers. Local authorities hope the initiative could help remove some of…
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Charles Hoskinson. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Charles Hoskinson Despite smart contract rival Ethereum (ETH) already dominating the space, Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson hinted strongly that decentralized finance (DeFi) is an area of intense focus for Cardano, saying in a live streamed ask-me-anything (AMA) session on YouTube recently that he has become “very obsessed with…
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While claims that US crypto intelligence firm CipherTrace can track transactions in monero (XMR), the most popular privacy coin, was met with skepticism, other analysts warned about "user apathy towards privacy." Yesterday, CipherTrace announced what it calls as the world’s first XMR tracing capabilities designed to allow law enforcement, government, and virtual Read more »Pay,…
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As Justin Sun’s plan of driving more decentralized finance (DeFi) projects to the Tron blockchain moves one step forward, Tron’s native token TRX stands out as one of today’s top performers in the crypto market. As of 9:00 UTC today, TRX was up by nearly 14.5% over the past 24 hours, trading at USD 0.0298.…
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After a month of extraordinary returns of more than 740%, DeFi darling yearn.finance (YFI) keeps climbing today, while traders remain divided on whether the top has been reached for the price or if it still has room to grow. As of press time on Monday (10:28 UTC), YFI was up by 3.5% over the past…
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Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by crypto exchanges that we found last week and today. Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know here. _________________________________________ Bibox Listings: SatoPay (STOP) Akropolis (AKRO) Kulupu Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin…
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South Korea is a step closer to welcoming a central bank digital currency (CBDC), with design and implementation reviews complete – and private companies now set to get involved. Per reports from Seoul Kyungjae and Chosun, the nation’s central bank, the Bank of Korea (BOK), now says it wants to build a “virtual” pilot payment…
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Over the course of the past week, the combined moving 7-day average crypto market sentiment score (sentscore) for the top 10 coins by market capitalization did not recover to its previous positive zone status, but dropped deeper into the neutral zone instead – from 5.96 seen last week to today’s 5.48, according to crypto market…
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The crypto market sent the price of ethereum classic (ETC) higher in the early hours of Monday (UTC time), despite the news that one of the top 35 crypto networks by market capitalization suffered its third 51% attack in a month. At pixel time (04:46 UTC), ETC trades at USD 6.68 and is up by…
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