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The Digital Imperative It is clear today, and certainly more so than even just six months ago, that organizations need to grasp the generational urgency of digitization. The playing field for commercial success has shifted and entities need to exploit new digital models to create value; commercial entities must adopt digital business strategies to survive […]

If you’ve browsed Crypto Twitter over recent weeks, you likely know of a project called MEME. The platform, which allows users to generate and swap digital cards/art pieces of some popular individuals in the Ethereum space, has rapidly risen to prominence as a place where traders can blow some excess cash. And can you really […]

The massive hype surrounding Ripple’s XRP token throughout 2017 created an enormous community that carried over into 2018 and 2019, but this community of investors appears to have been dissolving as of late. Interest in the token has fallen off a cliff, with the lack of significant banking partnerships and tempered utility slowing the cryptocurrency’s […]

There’s a high chance that most yield farmers and DeFi traders may not have the technical prowess to read and independently audit the underlying smart contracts of such platforms, according to the results of a survey held by CoinGecko. Huge gains, but low knowledge? “Yield farming” — which took off after the launch of Compound […]

Last week, the decentralized exchange Uniswap shocked the crypto world when it released its own token, UNI. The launch was predicated on fully decentralizing the protocol and putting the control of its direction in the hands of users, as all historical traders on the Ethereum-based application were gifted UNI. Every historical trader got a baseline […]

It’s been a bloodbath in the DeFi market over recent days. The best case in point of this trend is Yearn.finance (YFI) — largely regarded as the “index” for Ethereum’s decentralized finance space. The coin is down 35 percent in the past week alone and nearly 50 percent from the highs established just weeks ago. […]

In a fundamentally important development for the cryptocurrency industry, the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said today that national banks and federal savings associations are legally allowed to hold the currency “reserves” that back stablecoins. Stablecoin reserves can now be held by US banks For the uninitiated, stablecoins are specialized cryptocurrencies […]

Aglive, an Australian product traceability platform, has launched a blockchain-based mobile app that will allow consumers to see the source and journey of the products they consume. In a press release shared with CryptoSlate, the company said that the app, called Aglive One, will tap into Aglive’s existing traceability network to authenticate products as they […]

In his latest YouTube video, Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, laid out the long and treacherous road they had to take to create a solid foundation for Cardano’s governance. The two most important aspects of a successful governance system—participation and knowledge—wouldn’t be possible without the Cardano community, Hoskinson said, which is why the company […]

Yearn.finance’s governance token (YFI) has been hit hard by the recent downtrend seen across the aggregated cryptocurrency market, with the token now trading down nearly 50 percent from where it was at its peak. Despite this bearish price action, it is important to note that the Yearn.finance ecosystem is still thriving, and YFI holders may […]