The Binance Smart Chain continues to see some of the projects being built on it exploited. The latest was done by someone who had access to the PancakeSwap admin address. The Exploit It’s an age-old problem with smart contracts: randomness. Solidity has no native random function, and all sources of randomness have to be on-chain....Read More
This comes on the back of a large Bitcoin dip following the most recent news that came from Tesla and its decision to halt bitcoin payments for its products. A Slowdown of Enthusiasm The unbridled electric energy in the air surrounding Bitcoin briefly halted after major cryptocurrencies plunged over 20% shortly following Elon Musk’s announcement...Read More
[PR – Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 14, 2021] AllianceBlock has announced it will launch a decentralized capital market on the Edgeware smart contract platform. The protocol brings unprecedented tooling to the Substrate-based Wasm contract palette, including NFT contract standards, Defi and DAO primitives to their peer-to-peer market, further empowering collectives and individuals to lend and...Read More
To say that last week was eventful would be an understatement. The entire market went through extreme volatility. Many altcoins charted new all-time highs and went through serious declines as well. Let’s start with Bitcoin. The cryptocurrency is currently down about 10% on the weekly – last Friday, it was trading at around $57K. Unfortunately,...Read More
What’s Next For Bitcoin Price? Bitcoin prices in recent times have initiated a sideway trend as the other altcoins and new tokens gain strength in the crypto space. The bullish momentum was hampered drastically by Tesla CEO, Elon Musk by withdrawing BTC mode of payment. This led to a huge drain in BTC prices that...Read More
The government officials of Cuba examine crypto adoption as an instrument to overcome financial turbulence in the country. This comes a few weeks after the Cuban authorities started discussing the implementation of digital assets in the economy. Crypto vs. Monetary Turmoil The economic situation on the island of Cuba suffered heavy setbacks due to the...Read More
Traders learn a lot about technical indicators, chart patterns, and trading strategies but don’t pay enough attention to basic points of the trading process. For many traders, mostly beginners, trading is a process of investing money into one trade and withdrawing it in case of success. Not everyone thinks about reinvestments. What is it, how...Read More
[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] May 13th, 2021, Tallinn, Estonia — The new augmented reality matchday programme uses the latest AR technology to let fans bring the players into their living room. The creative concept aims to leverage Sportsbet.io’s matchday rights with the Gunners digitally, recreating the magic of matchday at home. Augmented Reality...Read More
We’re driven to provide markets for products that command liquidity and matter the most for our users, so, we’re launching the BNBUSDT Perpetual Swap contract with up to 50x leverage at 04:00 UTC on 20 May 2021. The BNBUSDT Swap adds to our ever-growing product offering. Just this year, we’ve added 7 Altcoin Perps, including...Read More
The Polkadot network is on the verge of making some major updates. Yesterday, Parachain auctions and crowdloans were added to Kusama and Westend. Polkadot’s Role in the Blockchain Ecosystem While other blockchains like Ethereum and Solana are marching ahead, Polkadot has promised to provide serious improvements to existing solutions’ scalability and connectivity. Notably, Polkadot offers...Read More
Five years ago, BitMEX introduced the perpetual swap to the world, changing crypto trading forever. Today, we’re celebrating this milestone by updating our margin requirements and increasing available leverage on our ETHUSD Swap to 100x. We’ve always been committed to innovating responsibly, and for us that means putting in robust controls for all our contracts...Read More
On 14 May 2021 at 06:00 UTC, we reduced the Base Initial Margin and Base Maintenance Margin requirements for our ETHUSD quanto swap. The current Base Initial Margin and Base Maintenance Margin requirements for our products can be found here. These changes are a part of our ongoing efforts to bring our users an even...Read More
On 13 May 2016, a new product was announced in a short post on the BitMEX Blog. It described what came to be known as the XBTUSD perpetual swap. Though no one knew it at the time, this would come to change crypto – and finance in general – forever. All great innovations solve a...Read More
