DeFi
Exchanges
Binance.US officially launches, introduces fiat on-ramp and opens deposits for Cardano, Basic Attention Token, Ethereum Classic, Stellar and 0x
Binance.US, the U.S. branch of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, officially launched its digital asset marketplace. The U.S.-only exchange will offer a fiat on-ramp…
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Interview
One of India’s last standing cryptocurrency exchanges—WazirX’s Nischal Shetty [INTERVIEW]
Nischal Shetty, founder of WazirX, shares his story building one of the only crypto exchange left standing in a country hostile to cryptocurrency. By engineering…
Price Watch
Ethereum celebrates successful August with more than 75 million unique addresses
The Ethereum network has made significant progress in the past month, with the latest ConsenSys showing that it now has more than 75 million…
Analysis
Half of all Tether trading volume happens on one obscure exchange
One obscure exchange dominates half of all Tether trading volumes. Meanwhile, top-tier exchanges saw their largest decline in volume to date. Half of all…
Technology
Hedera Hashgraph sacrifices decentralization for high throughput, says developer
Hedera Hashgraph could be making fundamental tradeoffs to achieve its touted 10,000+ transactions per second. These tradeoffs make it one of the most centralized…
People
Ethereum ProgPOW author uninvited from ETC Summit due to Craig Wright association
Kristy-Leigh Minehan, the creator of Ethereum's progressive proof-of-work algorithm, was uninvited from ETC Summit. Bob Summerwill, the summit organizer for ETC Cooperative, said he…
Exchanges
Binance.US opens account deposits in preparation for trading, adds BNB
Binance.US announced that its platform will now start accepting account registrations and deposits of six originally announced coins, with the addition of Binance Coin…
People
Former Coinbase CTO talks about VR, crypto, and politics in latest ‘What Bitcoin Did’ podcast
Balaji Srinivasan, the former CTO of Coinbase and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discussed the future of emerging technologies such as crypto and VR.…
Investments
Binance leads investment round in Chinese crypto-data website Mars Finance at $200m valuation
Binance made a strategic investment in crypto-data website Mars Finance. This is the first time the dominant exchange invested in a Chinese company since…
People
BitMEX CEO responds to Binance’s market maker slip up, offers CZ a “copy/paste” course
Arthur Hayes, the CEO of BitMEX, responded to Changpeng Zhao's false accusations of a Binance futures market maker attack—satirically. Hayes offered him a “copy/paste”…
Adoption
NBA star turning his Brooklyn Nets contract into a blockchain tokenized bond
Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie is reportedly set to turn his three-year, $34 million contract into a blockchain tokenized bond. Investors will be able…
Hacks
Binance futures market maker ‘attack’ turns out to be a bug
Binance almost became the victim of a market maker attack in the early hours of Sep. 16. However, CEO Changpeng Zhao soon revealed that…