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Just ahead of the long-awaited Ethereum 2.0 upgrade, Andre Cronje of Yearn Finance prepares for the next phase of DeFi growth with a flurry of mergers. What does it say about the state of DeFi? Since its launch on July 17th, 2020, Yearn Finance had been envisioned as an aggregator platform encompassing various lending protocols, […]

Whales on Bitfinex have been accumulating after the recent Bitcoin dip. The market trend shows extremely low price targets, like $14,000, are less likely in the near term. Accumulation ongoing as Bitcoin begins to recover Bitcoin briefly dropped to around $17,600 in a sharp intraday drop. It pulled all of the major altcoins lower, causing […]

Everything Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak touches turns to gold, apparently. The tech pioneer’s latest project, an Ethereum-based crypto-asset called Efforce (WOZX), is up 102 percent in the past 24 hours as per CoinGecko. The coin currently is the best-performing crypto-asset with a market capitalization of over $10 million, pushing from $1.55 yesterday to $3.25 now. […]

Bitcoin has strongly outperformed gold over the past few months. Since the leading precious metal peaked this past summer at new all-time highs above $2,050, it has faced a 10 percent correction, dropping, then consolidating in the $1,800 region. BTC, on the other hand, has doubled since the summer, pushing to new all-time highs at […]

Theta Labs today released the white paper for its mainnet 3.0 upgrade which is going live in April 2021 and introducing new features, TFUEL staking and burning The news comes shortly after Theta unveiled its fully decentralized Edgecast network, revealing a platform that brings end-to-end decentralization for users, content creators and video platforms. Edgecast rewards […]

The latest data from crypto data aggregator Santiment has shown that Cardano is still the number one blockchain by average daily development on GitHub. With an average of 403 daily commits, Cardano has surpassed Ethereum with 369, Polkadot with 322, and Gnosis with 270. And with heavy work currently being done on Goguen and Voltaire, […]

Grayscale Investments, arguably the world’s largest and most influential crypto fund, published results of a survey conducted last month that measured public sentiment, knowledge, and adoption of Bitcoin among new accredited and institutional investors. The firm found that 62% of all respondents were now “very familiar” with Bitcoin and were either already invested or looking […]

Popular social trading app and website eToro became the latest FinTech firm to get a “unicorn” classification earlier this week, local publication Calcalist reported. The firm is now valued at over $2.5 billion. From crypto and stocks to a unicorn player eToro is an Israeli social trading and multi-asset brokerage company that focuses on providing […]

CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with the Managing Director of Nexo, Antoni Trenchev. Nexo is a leading digital asset company best known for providing the world’s first instant crypto credit lines. Prior to catching the blockchain bug in early 2013, Trenchev studied finance law at King’s College London and Humboldt University of Berlin. […]

Ministers from the seven influential countries called for greater regulatory oversight and laws for cryptocurrencies as the market sees increased adoption from both institutional and retail crowds. Ministers support calls for crypto regulations As per a note published by the US Department of Treasury on Tuesday, Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin met with the financial heads […]