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If you’ve followed DeFi on Twitter, you’ve likely heard of the name “DegenSpartan.” The pseudonymous investor, believed to be based in Asia, has become one of the most popular voices within the Ethereum and DeFi community, having entered this crypto industry extremely early on. The thing is, no one knows where he came from, who […]

Yesterday, holders of the UNI coin and other members of the DeFi ecosystem were invited to join an unofficial-though-important Uniswap governance call. The idea was to give stakeholders a chance to talk about Uniswap’s governance structure, along with discussing important matters like the UNI liquidity mining program set to end next week. Here are some […]

Despite Ethereum being the backbone for the rapidly growing decentralized finance ecosystem, the cryptocurrency has been severely underperforming Bitcoin throughout the past few weeks. This underperformance comes as its price remains below its 2020 highs, while BTC is trading at the highest levels seen in the time following its parabolic uptrend in 2017. Although its […]

PayPal, the payments conglomerate, integrated crypto purchases in October 2020, earning praise from the cryptocurrency community. But industry executives and crypto investors are bewildered by the company’s descriptions of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. How did PayPal describe Bitcoin and other major crypto assets? Albeit PayPal’s descriptions of major crypto assets are not factually incorrect, industry […]

The price of Bitcoin is showing stability above $16,000 after a continuous rally since November 10. Every major dip was aggressively bought up, allowing BTC to sustain strong momentum. Yet, there is little mainstream hype behind the rally. According to Google Trends, compared to the 2017 rally when Bitcoin hit $20,000, there is noticeably lower […]

With billions of dollars on the line, it is no surprise that the decentralized finance (DeFi) space has been rife with hacks and exploits on innocent contracts. To name one of the many recent exploits of DeFi contracts, Harvest Finance was hacked for $25-33 million in stablecoins due to a so-called “flash loan attack.” There […]

In its first step towards the futuristic Akon City, Akoin, the cryptocurrency business that is chaired by global artist Akon, can now be used to pay for goods and services in a west Kenyan city. As per a release shared with CryptoSlate, the move is part of the business’s trial run of the cryptocurrency and […]

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, […]