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DeFi, short for decentralized finance, has started to get the attention of some of the biggest companies in crypto. At the Coinbase Winter 2019 hackathon, the company’s product manager Jacob Horne described DeFi as an opportunity that could change how individuals interact with markets. In a tweet, Coinbase said that the hackathon itself focused on […]

The founder and CEO of Tron, Justin Sun, saw his account on social media platform Weibo shut down. While the Chinese version of Twitter offered no explanation as to why his account and the account of Binance co-founder Yi He were removed, Sun assured the crypto community that he had a “direct channel” to Weibo […]

BitMEX, one of the largest crypto derivatives exchanges in the world, announced that it has added support for Bitcoin Bech32 addresses. According to the company’s announcement, users will now be able to withdraw to their SegWit addresses with lower fees and contribute to the reduction of block weight usage on the platform. BitMEX enables withdrawals […]

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 […]