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Verizon announced the launch of Full Transparency, a blockchain-based, open-source newsroom product last month as per a release shared with CryptoSlate. It is designed to raise the bar for corporate accountability and seeks to transform how the Verizon Corporate Newsroom publishes news releases by providing an authoritative record of changes to public communications. The Full […]

Hong Kong-based Crypto.com unveiled its rewards program for Uniswap and Polkadot, two premier DeFi projects, in an announcement earlier this week. Staking and passive earning are the currently-leading narratives of the burgeoning crypto space, opening up new usecases for the industry and newer tools for users. CeFi products like Crypto.com are not holding back from […]

According to CryptoQuant’s linear calculation of ETH 2.0 deposits, the mainnet release could occur in January 2021. If so, whether the price of Ethereum would stagnate due to expectations of a December mainnet launch remains to be seen. For the ETH 2.0 mainnet to launch, over 400,000 ETH have to be deposited into the ETH2 […]

Customer loyalty is a myth in the decentralized finance (DeFi), at least in current times. As liquidity incentives ended on decentralized exchange protocol Uniswap, the platform saw an exodus of Ethereum and other tokens to rivals like Sushiswap and others, data from multiple sources showed. The cause For the uninitiated, Uniswap is a type of […]

Cardano’s k-parameter is set to increase to 500 on Dec. 6, drastically diminishing rewards for large, oversaturated stake pools. The sharp rise in the parameter will mean that the top 100 stake pools on the network will all become saturated, with IOHK advising users to slowly begin re-delegating their stake to smaller pools to increase […]

Bitcoin has been on a tear over the past month, rallying from the low-$11,000s to highs around 36 hours ago at $18,500. This move has been marked by an uptick in mentions of the cryptocurrency by media, along with prominent investors and celebrities. Chinese media, despite the Chinese government’s aversion to cryptocurrencies (at least decentralized […]

For some reason, Bitcoin forks have been rallying extremely hard over recent days. Bitcoin Gold and Bitcoin Diamond have gained approximately 20 percent in the past two days alone, making them the best-performing digital assets in the top 100 coins by market capitalization. Litecoin, too, has performed well over recent days, actually outperforming Bitcoin over […]

The recent BTC run has borne good news for two important parts of the Bitcoin ecosystem — investors and miners. Data from on-chain tracking firm Glassnode shows miner revenues are back at pre-halving levels, i.e. before May 12 of this year. These are the same as when block rewards were double those of today. #Bitcoin […]

What’s beautiful and kind of scary about DeFi is that everything is on-chain: if you know someone’s address, you can track their investments and their other interactions with the Ethereum ecosystem. Due to the fact that you can time announcements of investments with transactions, it becomes somewhat trivial sometimes to connect addresses and funds and […]

Within 30 minutes, on November 18, the price of Ethereum dropped 7.7% as Bitcoin also recorded an abrupt 6% drop. ETH saw a much sharper drop in the same period, sparking concerns regarding extreme volatility. Three key reasons likely caused Ethereum to see a more volatile drop than Bitcoin. The factors are thinner order book, […]