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The Stellar Development Foundation is shutting down its $120 million airdrop program amid fraudulent account sign-ups. Stellar’s largest airdrop to date is canceled In September, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF)—“a non-profit organization founded in 2014 to support the development and growth of the open-source Stellar network”—partnered up with Keybase, a free group messaging community and […]

By Vincent Chok & Glenn Woo Trust, in the traditional finance context, used to lie in the hands of people. For instance, customers would have a personal relationship with a bank manager, who would be entrusted with their assets, and in turn, would be trusted to take out a loan. However, in the fast-paced global […]

The threat of Bitcoin miner capitulation in the near-term has subsided, as the hash rate of the network recovered. Up until late November, the hash rate of the Bitcoin network was hovering at around 80 exahash. Since then, it has rebounded to around 100 exahash, reducing concerns regarding a potential sell-off by miners. What happens […]

Jack Dorsey, the founder and CEO of Twitter, revealed that the company will be spearheading an effort to create an open standard for decentralized social media. The company has created Blue Sky, a small independent team, to build the standard that will ultimately host Twitter, Dorsey said. Charles Hoskinson—Cardano’s founder and ex-Ethereum co-founder showed support […]

The amount of Ethereum locked in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has hit an all-time-high after one of the most explosive months for deposits on record and is now up 22,400 percent since December 2017. More than a million Ether ($146 million) has been deposited into DeFi products in the last four weeks, pushing the total locked […]

Just ten years ago, Bitcoin was entirely irrelevant on a global scale, used by less than a few dozen individuals, who were transacting coins worth zilch on the open market in a peer-to-peer fashion. Sure, the idea of decentralized and digital cash was worth something, but there was little to zero adoption months after pseudonymous […]

Algorand (ALGO) is the worst-performing major crypto of the year, having dropped more than 90 percent since January 2019. The company’s token sales and ambitious decentralization goals drastically reduced the community’s confidence in the project, as many criticized its overvalued market capitalization. Ambitious Algorand soars too high Algorand, a Boston-based blockchain company created to improve […]

DappRadar, a data provider of decentralized applications (dApps) running across multiple protocols, announced that it will be adding WAX into its platform. Tracking trends in the WAX protocol WAX stands for World Asset eXchange. This is a decentralized platform that enables anyone to operate a fully functioning virtual marketplace with zero investment in security, infrastructure, […]

The Maker Foundation is introducing a new security proposal after a well-known software engineer revealed that a malicious actor with enough Maker (MKR) could steal all of the collateral in MakerDAO, taking with him over $340 million. The art of the heist In a recent Medium post, freelance developer Micah Zoltu revealed that anyone with […]

CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Rosh Singh, the CEO and Co-Founder of Quadency, a New York-based technology startup building digital asset trading and portfolio management tools for retail and institutional investors. Singh is a seasoned technology entrepreneur experienced in creating innovation fintech products for FX and crypto markets. In the interview, we […]