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They don’t seem very promising, despite the crypto industry’s rapid growth in the past year. “Self hosted” wallets A release by the US Department of Treasury on Monday detailed the government’s proposal to regulate crypto assets, wallets, and whitelisting of receiving addresses for citizens. The Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen) department is inviting comments […]

Crypto security is weak across the board, and one wallet provider has a product that can help change that. Being your own bank is hard A recently concluded survey by the world’s “coldest” crypto wallet, NGRAVE, sifted out interesting data about the way crypto users handle their assets, passwords, wallets, and funds. Founded by Ruben […]

Grayscale purchased half a billion dollars worth of Bitcoin in the last 24 hours, according to Qiao Wang, an investor at DeFi Alliance. The massive increase in Bitcoin inflows into Grayscale merely a week after they reopened their products to new investors is indicative of high institutional demand for BTC. Institutions, not retail, is driving […]

The daily transaction volume of Ethereum is going “parabolic,” according to researchers. This trend buoys the short to medium-term bull case of ETH, which has been outpacing Bitcoin in the past few days. Ryan Watkins, a researcher at Messari, said: “Ethereum’s daily transaction volume is going parabolic. It now settles $12 billion in transactions daily […]

Today sees the Bitcoin bulls mounting a fightback following the weekend slide. Although the leading cryptocurrency is up a relatively modest 3%, it’s still welcome news considering the pain of last week’s sell-off. Despite recent turbulence, Bitcoin’s macro performance has been nothing short of remarkable since the end of Q3 2020. While the lead up […]

Badger DAO has been one of the most-talked-about DeFi protocols over the past few months. The yield-farming protocol kicked off with a bang at the start of December when it distributed free BADGER tokens to thousands of DeFi users. Many sold it, though others held the airdrop. Badger DAO, which was launched as a yield […]

As Bitcoin’s price has grown, so has its energy consumption. To keep the network secure, miners are incentivized to run nodes, and are paid in BTC. While there are many confused by Bitcoin mining as a concept, it is a massive industry, consuming the power of medium-sized countries such as Austria every year. Many in the […]

Massive amounts of capital are locked in staked crypto assets. But a relatively new platform is making those markets both tradeable and liquid. Enter StaFi StaFi, founded in 2020 and built on Polkadot, is among the first-ever decentralized protocols that help unlock the liquidity of staked assets via its own platform. This means users can […]

Alameda Research, the company behind the FTX exchange, has led a funding round that raised $50 million to create a DeFi ecosystem on Maps.me, an offline mapping application. The funding will enable a multi-currency wallet to be launched on the Maps.me platform, unlocking decentralized payments for the app’s 140 million users. Popular offline mapping app […]

Stephen Harper sees Bitcoin alongside gold and the US dollar as a viable global reserve asset. Bitcoin to the moon Bitcoin proponents must be so excited after a blockbuster year. The asset saw widespread adoption by investment funds, traditional finance participants, family offices, and tech funds, and set new all-time highs in December, a figure […]