DeFi
Regulation
China wants to eventually track all transactions over $14,000 with the digital yuan
China’s digital currency aspirations are both unprecedented and unparalleled. The former because not many critics pinned their hopes on the Far Eastern giant to…
DeFi
Betting against Compound? This DeFi app just made it possible with COMP options
Compound’s (COMP) meteoric rise is equal parts FOMO and illiquid price pushing, with industry observers drawing parallels with the infamous ICO boom of 2017.…
Legal
Crypto.com temporarily suspends European debit card program after Wirecard bankruptcy
Crypto.com is temporarily suspending its Europe and U.K. issuances of MCO debit cards after its former card operator — Germany’s Wirecard AG — slipped…
Adoption
Ripple co-founder: America is “ceding control” to China by regulating only Bitcoin and Ethereum
Blockchain technology and digital currencies are increasingly revered as the next phase for technological advancements, alongside the usual suspects of A.I., machine learning, and…
DeFi
FTX blasted after “creating tokens” to capture $1 million in value; but that’s what DeFi is supposed to be
An incident earlier this week showed what peak Decentralized Finance (DeFi) could look like — one where the smartest survive and rent-seekers are eradicated…
Mining
Bitcoin miner outflows are showing signs of a weakening BTC market
It was a long time coming. After Bitcoin’s May 12 halving event, many in the cryptocurrency community suggested weaker miners would move out of…
Derivatives
This Swiss bank is now paying out Bitcoin yield to account holders, but there’s a catch
Innovative Bitcoin products are not falling short of delivering this year, with institutional firms notching up one crypto product or other. While none are…
DeFi
Here’s why Ethereum (ETH) prices are not surging even as DeFi heats up
Much of the ICO boom in 2017 was driven by massive surges in ETH prices — with scammers, aspiring technologists choosing the Ethereum protocol…
DeFi
Big Short 2.0: Yield farming on DeFi apps? Here’s the risk no one talks about
After ICOs in 2018, DeFi applications are seemingly positioning themselves to be the next 100x coin baggers in 2020; complete with shiny websites, world-changing…
Merge
Ethereum developer reveals public, multi-client testnet for ETH 2.0 is a “week away”
ETH 2.0, the long-awaited update for Ethereum to shift from a Proof-of-Work consensus protocol to a Proof-of-Stake system, is cobbling along for a release.…
Enterprise
Bithumb, one of Korea’s biggest crypto exchanges is appointing Samsung to underwrite its IPO
Cryptocurrency firms, presumably burnt by the crashing ship that were ICOs, are turning to traditional methods to raise funds and keep themselves in business.…
Trading
S&P500 pump and dump proves the Bitcoin market is not as manipulated as we may think
Ask anyone about Bitcoins or the broader cryptocurrency market, and they are likely to call it thin air, manipulative, or even rat poison. But…