Terra co-founder Do Kwon has requested TerraUSD (UST) 40m from the community, a decentralized stablecoin running on Ethereum (ETH), in order to fund a Terra Brand partnership with an undisclosed sports franchise describes as “one of the four major American professional sports leagues” – seeing Terra’s native coin LUNA jump today…. Read More: Luna Jumps…
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It’s not just scalability: could a new smart contract development paradigm be the key to unlocking mainstream DeFi? The beating heart of any ecosystem of decentralized applications, DApps, is its underlying technology stack. For Ethereum (ETH), this is its “Nakamoto” consensus, Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) execution environment, and Solidity programming language. Together, these technologies have…
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RBN price targets a new all-time high after its V2 launch and recent support for AVAX. Decentralized finance (DeFi) was one of the breakout sectors of the cryptocurrency market in 2021 and stands poised to continue to facilitate the mass adoption of cryptocurrency in 2022. This comes as institutional and retail investors embrace the emergence…
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The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has risen 4% during the first four days of the new year from $245 billion on January 1, to $255.84 billion three days later. While the defi protocol Curve Finance dominates with a TVL of $24.44 billion, Convex Finance is closing in on the dominance with…
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The Estonian Ministry of Finance has denied the crypto/blockchain industry insiders concerns related to the new legislation draft – stating that regulations will not be applied to retail investors but to businesses, and that there will be no ban on people owning crypto…. Read More: New AML Legislation Won’t Forbid Individuals to Hold Crypto,…
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“All derivatives markets must operate within the bounds of the law regardless of the technology used,” said Acting Director of Enforcement Vincent McGonagle. New York-based crypto predictions platform Polymarket has reached a settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to pay a fine of $1.4 million. Polymarket is a decentralized platform that enables users…
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Major digital asset manager Grayscale has rebalanced the DeFi Fund for the second time since its inception in July 2021. Crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments has rebalanced its Grayscale DeFi Fund and adjusted weightings of its Digital Large Cap Fund. A Jan. 3 announcement detailed the changes Grayscale made to its two funds. The DeFi…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered a “decentralized” prediction market platform to shut down non-compliant markets and pay a fine of $1.4 million. “Polymarket had been operating an illegal unregistered or non-designated facility for event-based binary options online trading contracts, known as ‘event markets,’” said the derivatives regulator. CFTC Takes First Crypto…
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Here’s what blockchain industry insiders foresee in the development of the blockchain and crypto space in the new year of 2022. Yat Siu of Animoca Brands Yat is the executive chairman and co-founder of Animoca Brands, which delivers digital property rights to the world’s gamers and internet users, thereby creating a new asset class, play-to-earn…
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