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The decentralized finance (DeFi) space has seen extreme growth this year, as evidenced by the $15 billion worth of capital now sitting in this space’s contracts. Further, tokens pertaining to the DeFi space have seen extremely strong performances this past year. Early venture investors in decentralized API protocol The Graph (GRT) are now up by […]

Yesterday, the U.S. Treasury’s FinCEN branch confirmed that it is working on cracking down on crimes enabled by Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. A to-be-published document from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network indicated that the rule will force virtual asset service providers to verify the name and address of non-custodial wallet users for any transaction exceeding […]

In the past seven days, the Litecoin price has increased by over 60%. It is the best-performing cryptocurrency in the past week, outperforming both Bitcoin and decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens. There are three major reasons why Litecoin has been rallying in tandem with Bitcoin. The reasons are a breakout against BTC, the historical relevance of […]

Blockchain protocol Zilliqa onboarded CryptoSlate to its partner list today, as part of an ongoing campaign. The partnership is part of the former’s Zeeves program. “Credible news is everything – which is why we’re thrilled to welcome partner with  CryptoSlate, the third partner of our holiday campaign,” the project announced. Credible news is everything – […]

Following the announcement about the partnership with Wolfram Alpha, Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, took to YouTube to explain how the company will implement oracles to Cardano. The key to IOHK’s innovative approach, he revealed, is giving developers the freedom to choose and customize their own oracles. Solving the problem of smart contract blindness […]

Yesterday, The Graph Network finally went live. The Graph is a platform that allows users to access data from blockchains, especially Ethereum. Developers can integrate The Graph data into their decentralized applications through subgraphs, a public and open API technology. While many may not know it, for months and years, The Graph’s technology has been […]

Over the past few weeks, the crypto industry has been ablaze with rumors of impending regulation on self-hosted Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoin addresses. The rumors began late last month when Brian Armstrong of Coinbase posted a thread on Twitter warning that the U.S. Treasury is working on a regulation that could make it hard for those […]

The decentralized credit lending and borrowing platform launched the Compound Chain yesterday. But it received bouquets and brickbats both. For the uninitiated, the project is a decentralized, blockchain-based protocol that allows users to lend and borrow crypto. COMP is its native utility token that allows them to govern the protocol. Users can lock up a […]

The XRP price has started to recover along with other “OG” altcoins. Throughout Bitcoin’s rally from $18,000 to over $23,000, most major altcoins have struggled. Now, they are starting to show signs of recovery. Why is the XRP price now recovering? In the past week, the XRP price stagnated even more so than other large-cap […]

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who operated the dark web site from 2011 to 2013 before his arrest, could soon get pardoned by US President Donald Trump if things work out.  Silk Road was among the first public businesses to use Bitcoin, a move that helped bolster the asset’s use case. Bitcoin adoption to a […]