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CryptoSlate is excited to announce it will bring you exclusive coverage of crypto edutainment channel Cryptonites each week, thanks to a partnership with the impressive London-based video production team. You have probably seen their videos on CryptoSlate over the past few weeks, but in case you didn’t know them yet: Cryptonites is a community-driven edutainment […]

BeefChain is a Wyoming-based traceability solution on a quest to track the origin of cattle and sheep using Cardano. Aside from its strong Wyoming connections, it was Atala TRACE, a traceability solution built on top of Cardano, that made the blockchain a perfect choice for BeefTrace, which aims to promote more sustainable farming practices by […]

In a few days’ time, on Nov. 17, Uniswap’s first yield farming opportunity will end. When the project’s governance token released in September, a yield farming opportunity was launched that allowed users to earn UNI by depositing liquidity into the decentralized exchange. This rapidly became one of the most popular yield farms, garnering $1 billion, […]

Months ago, a Twitter account called “Zeus Capital” was registered, along with a respective web page. Zeus Capital claimed to be a cryptocurrency hedge fund with knowledge that could send the price of Chainlink (LINK) to $0.07. At the time the fund began slinging accusations of fraud, LINK traded for $4-5. Zeus Capital expected a […]

A US lawmaker famous among crypto circles for his forward-thinking stance on the addition of digital currencies in the broader economy was “blasted” by regulators on Wednesday for focusing “too much” on the niche market, as per a press release. How much is too much? Brian Brooks, Acting Comptroller of the Currency, was served a […]

The fourth upgrade to the Tezos network went live earlier today at block 1,212,417, as per a tweet by its foundation and code maintainer. The Tezos blockchain was first announced in 2017 and was one of the biggest initial coin offerings at the time. Its mainnet has been active since mid-2018 and has not faced […]

The price of Bitcoin hit $16,000 on November 12 and it is exhibiting extreme volatility. After BTC achieved $16,150, it fell to as low as $15,600 within two hours. There appear to be four major factors behind this volatility. The potential catalysts are a miners’ sell-off, whales taking profit, the significance of the $16,000 resistance […]

Overnight, on November 11, the price of Bitcoin rallied by nearly 4% as it neared $16,000. While BTC showed strengthening momentum, decentralized finance (DeFi) majors, like Yearn.finance (YFI), Aave (AAVE), and Synthetix (SNX), underperformed. The trend spotted in DeFi in the last 24 hours, where it corrects while Bitcoin surges, was reminiscent of October. Throughout […]

China Construction Bank (CCB), one of the country’s “big four” financial players, is planning to raise up to $3 billion from a sale of bonds that individuals and institutions can trade in and out of using Bitcoin and the US dollar, financial publication WSJ reported Wednesday. SCMP reports China Construction Bank will sell US$3 billion […]

The Bitcoin hash rate dove strongly in late October. The metric, which tracks how much computational power is being used to mine BTC, fell from approximately 170 exahashes to a low near 90 exahashes per second. Bitcoin transactions subsequently became slow as block times naturally increased. Worrying some investors, the “Hash Ribbons,” a custom indicator […]