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Christine Lagarde — the former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and the current President of the European Central Bank (ECB) — invited public reactions and commentary on the topic of a potential Euro-backed digital currency via a Twitter post this weekend. Public opinions on the digital Euro  Lagarde’s comments on the possible CBDC, […]

With all institutional attention on Bitcoin as of late, Ethereum has received little love from the corporations and governments of the world. But this is changing. The central bank of Australia recently mentioned the word “Ethereum” in an announcement of a new partnership. Australia’s central bank mentions Ethereum in PR announcing ConsenSys partnership First spotted […]

As the short-term future of decentralized finance (DeFi) coins has become uncertain over recent days, analysts and investors in the space have weighed in on what they think comes next. Many assert that the fundamentals of this space are better than ever. Case in point: the total value locked in DeFi contracts recently hit an […]

Harvest Finance, what used to be a $1 billion yield farming protocol on Ethereum, underwent a brutal attack last week that wiped approximately $30 million from user accounts. The pseudonymous attacker leveraged a flash loan, along with a series of manipulative transactions between Curve, Uniswap, and Harvest, that allowed them to drain millions of dollars […]

While the average DeFi coin is down massively since the summer highs, there have been projects launching that have caught the attention of many crypto investors, resulting in millions of dollars worth of capital raised. Two such coins are Keep3r Network’s KPR and KORE. The former is a coin launched by the founder of Yearn.finance […]

When SushiSwap was unveiled two months ago, it caused quite the stir in the Ethereum and decentralized finance (DeFi) space. It was branded as a “community-owned” iteration of Uniswap, which then did not have its own coin, UNI. The key feature was that 0.05 percent of each trade’s value would be distributed to holders of […]

Today’s release of Marlowe Playground marks an important milestone for Cardano—the beginning of its Goguen era. Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, looked back at why introducing semantic clarity between various users of a blockchain’s infrastructure took so long and the impact it will have on the future—both Cardano’s and the global one. Cardano’s complexity […]

It’s been a brutal past two months for the DeFi market. While the fundamentals of this space are arguably stronger than ever as the total value locked in DeFi contracts and other metrics tick higher, coins pertaining to the space, along with Ethereum, have plunged from their summer highs. While Bitcoin is pushing new year-to-date […]

The price of YFI, the native token behind the decentralized finance (DeFi) giant Yearn.finance dropped to double-digits. It has started to recover as the market sentiment around Yearn.finance started to show signs of improvement. On October 30, the price of YFI dropped to as low as $9,631 on Binance. The DeFi space saw a marketwide […]

The DeFi sector has been caught in the throes of a relentless selloff over the past two months, with bulls unable to gain any traction as many of the tokens sink against USD and Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s intense strength has made this selloff quite surprising, as many investors previously speculated that strength amongst the major digital […]