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Golem announced its token migration earlier this week. The blockchain was one of the first ICOs on Ethereum, raising $8.6 million in 29 minutes and setting the precedent for thousands of other ICOs in the years since. Its token will now change from the current Golem Network Token (GNT) to GLM, an ERC20 compliant Ethereum […]

Bitcoin is up big-time in the past six weeks: per CryptoSlate market data, the leading cryptocurrency has appreciated by 70 percent. This makes it the world’s best performing macro asset class. Some see this rapid appreciation as a clear sign that Bitcoin will soon see a correction. But, according to a volatility analysis by a […]

All eyes may be on Bitcoin right now but in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, investors have been caught off guard by a rally in a coin called Saffron Finance (SFI), also known as Spice. From a glance, it may be unclear why the coin is rallying: Saffron Finance is run by an anonymous team, […]

BlackRock’s CIO of fixed income Rick Rieder says Bitcoin is here to stay. On CNBC’s Market Alert, Rieder emphasized the receptivity of millennials to cryptocurrencies. Coincidentally, on Nov. 20, the price of BTC surpassed $18,800 for the first time since 2017. Wow. BlackRock CIO of Fixed Income Rick Rieder talking about Bitcoin replacing gold on […]

While the second iteration of Ethereum is becoming more tangible each day, some of the technical aspects of Eth 2.0 remain largely unknown. To bring the community up to date with what’s been accomplished and what’s yet to come, Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, and some of the network’s lead developers took to Reddit […]

Masayoshi Son’s not having the greatest of years in recent times. His storied $50 billion venture fund saw massive losses in 2019, with budding startups WeWork and Uber seeing devaluations of billions of dollars on their mark up prices. But Son’s personal investments didn’t do so well either. As per a new report by Business […]

Texan regulators filed charges against 15 illicit investment platforms advertising false crypto, forex, and binary options investments, as per a Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) release shared with CryptoSlate. A total of three cease and desist orders against separate entities were issued. Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles announced a series of enforcement actions as part […]

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 […]