Brian Kerr, Co-founder and CEO of Kava Labs, is in the news after he recently asserted that by the end of 2021, DeFi as a general topic will move beyond its initial hype phase. However, this being said, Kerr added that there will still be some growth in specific areas – in particular, cross-chain products,...Read More
In 2019, cryptocurrency-related crime – thefts, hacks, fraud amounted to $4.5 billion. The latest data from blockchain forensics company CipherTrace shows that this number has fallen to $1.8 billion this year – a 60 percent reduction. Nonetheless, the DeFi space has seen an explosion in criminal activity. Mainstream Cryptocurrency Crime Declining Says CipherTrace In a...Read More
One of the most reputed DeFi traders in the business today, the pseudonymous DegenSpartan recently shared his critique on quite a few popular DeFi protocols that have a strong following with independent crypto-researcher Hasu. DegenSpartan has perhaps been most critical of Maker – the second most dominant DeFi protocol after Uniswap. Source: DeFi Pulse According...Read More
Although BTC has recovered from the two dips beneath $16,000, so far over the weekend, the asset struggles with decisively reclaiming the coveted price level and the area between $16,000 – $16,250. Larger-cap altcoins have also lost some steam, but DeFi tokens have surged in value. Bitcoin Stalls Around $16K Bitcoin’s impressive performance as of...Read More
xBTC is in the news today after it announced its integration with Chainlink to launch a new product type that will use Chainlink oracles to dictate a token’s economics. This integration will create a spot price for a data point that has never before had a spot price – Bitcoin Market Cap Dominance (BMCD). That’s...Read More
After marking a new yearly high of $16,500, BTC now seems to be retracing. The cryptocurrency dropped to as low as $15,750 and recovered to where it’s currently trading at $15,880. Most altcoins are following suit. The Correction Begins? There’s a saying for traders that goes – ‘what goes up, must come down.’ In other...Read More
For many, Bitcoin is more than just a cryptocurrency. For most, Bitcoin is THE cryptocurrency. Why is this so? Well, there are many reasons, but the primary reason usually given by proponents is that it is the world’s biggest and its oldest. Fair enough, but is that all there is to that? Well, not quite,...Read More
In September, Binance had released Launchpool service which enabled users to acquire new tokens in return for staking Binance coin [BNB], Binance USD [BUSD], and other tokens. The exchange has been adding projects to this list and the newest addition has been the Unifi protocol. On 13 November, Binance announced the listing of Unifi’s global...Read More
Akropolis has reportedly come under attack, with hackers draining the DeFi protocol’s savings pool to the tune of $2 million in DAI stablecoin. In a tweet published on 12 November Akropolis stated: We recently identified a hack executed across a body of smart contracts in the “savings pools” that have been audited twice. We are...Read More
DeFi’s growth this year has been staggering. Towards the start of the year, DeFi’s total value locked (TVL) had managed to hit the $1 billion mark. However, over the next 9 months, DeFi’s TVL jumped to $13.5 billion. Interestingly, the past month saw the DeFi hype slightly die down, and during the course of October,...Read More
The team behind the mimblewimble-based privacy coin Beam will launch a DeFi platform enabling developers to create confidential, decentralized, and user-friendly financial applications. Dubbed BeamX, the platform will arrive on November 19th, with the first iteration being an experimental network, while the mainnet should be released in Q1 2021. Beam Announces DeFi Platform Called BeamX...Read More
After breaking the previous yearly high and briefly spiking to $16,000, BTC has retraced slightly and trades beneath that level. Simultaneously, Ethereum surged to a new high since early September, while Chainlink’s impressive weekly performance has taken the asset to the 5th spot in terms of market cap. Bitcoin Sees New YTD High But Retraces...Read More
As the spot market once again began to consolidate, the decentralized finance [DeFi] sector has been witnessing a surge after bottoming out last week. Year.finance [YFI] has been a popular DeFi project that has been witnessing a great surge in the market over the past couple of weeks. Ever since it bottomed at $7,452.49 on...Read More
During the past 24 hours, Bitcoin tanked to $15,100, but it has recovered since then and trades around $15,400. Most high and mid-cap altcoins have outlined substantial gains and have reduced BTC’s dominance to below 64%. Bitcoin Price Slides But Recovers After peaking at nearly $16,000 last week, Bitcoin has struggled with maintaining such a...Read More
The milestone comes as TVL across all DeFi protocols hits a record high of $13 billion according to Defi Pulse. So far this month, over $2 billion has been added to DeFi protocols in terms of dollar value crypto collateral, but some of that may be attributed to the increase in Ethereum prices. In terms...Read More
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the entire crypto market seem to have stabilized for now. Bitcoin’s price has found a footing and everything is fine. As for the projects and the companies built in this ecosystem, it is a whole other thing; to be precise, there seems to be a dichotomy. Crypto’s Dichotomy As of this writing,...Read More
The decentralized platform aimed at lowering risks, costs, and access to DeFi dubbed Union has raised nearly $4 million from several well-known industry giants. The project plans to utilize the funds to develop and launch a set of tools that will further reduce the DeFi risk levels. UNION Raises $3.9M In a press release shared...Read More
With Bitcoin’s price rallying, altcoins that are strongly correlated to the world’s largest cryptocurrency are set to benefit immensely from it. However, one unusual category of projects, DeFi, may benefit from Bitcoin’s rally too, despite its top projects being inversely correlated with Bitcoin. Correlation of cryptocurrency projects with BTC || Source: Cryptowatch Based on data...Read More
Bitcoin, at the time of writing, was trading at a 112.5 percent premium to its price at the beginning of the year, a 282.5 percent premium to its lowest price in the year, and 28 percent off its highest price ever. Even with all the fervor around the price rally, one question needs to be...Read More
The decentralized finance [DeFi] space has managed to carve out its position in the crypto sphere. For the better part of the year, when the crypto market had remained restrained under heavy sell pressure and other global economic turnarounds, the DeFi projects acquired great interest and led to a DeFi hype. During this period Ethereum...Read More
A MetaMask user, attempting to swap Ethereum for a DeFi token, paid over $9,000 transaction fees while transferring only $120 worth of ETH. The user has reached out to the mining pool that processed the transaction for assistance but has yet to receive a response. A Costly ETH-DeFi Swap The user, going by the nickname...Read More
Percent Finance, a community-owned fork of Compound Finance, announced today that some of their money markets experienced an issue that could lead to permanent locking of users’ funds. Reportedly, close to $1 million worth of user funds on the platform are stuck in money market smart contracts. Source: Percent Finance on Medium The amount locked...Read More
Decentralized oracle platform Razor Network has raised a total of $3.7 million in a seed and private sales round which was led by investors in the blockchain space, such as NGC Ventures, Alameda Research, and Spark Digital Capital among others. The firm’s private sale round saw investors including Mariano Conti, former head of oracles at...Read More
The leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has helped recover almost all $345,000 funds stolen due to an exit scam conducted by an automated market maker (AMM) dubbed Wine Swap. Binance Security Team Recovers 99.9% of Stolen Funds In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the popular exchange shared that Wine Swap launched on Binance Smart Chain...Read More
What’s Going on With YFI Price !! The past week had been very volatile for the whole crypto space as Bitcoin was on its way to touch $14000. It seems that the other cryptos and DeFi tokens have scrambled but some DeFi tokens like YFI Price are on the verge to touch the rock bottom...Read More
With the spooky month coming to an ending, the spookiest thing you can expect is Ethereum outperforming bitcoin. Well, Ethereum outperforming bitcoin isn’t spooky per se, but there are other aspects to this that suggest otherwise. Outperformance here is comprised of solid price data and then the sentiment around each coin. Bitcoin v. Ethereum Price...Read More
As the world’s premier crypto asset starts its retreat from its highest price for over two years, the blood is spilling from the altcoins, especially those associated with DeFi. Bitcoin has dropped over 5% since its weekend high above $14k, but that is nothing compared to losses registered elsewhere. Crypto markets are a sea of...Read More
With Bitcoin’s price rallying above $13,700, the Bitcoin market has captivated all institutional investors, more than it did in 2017. Institutional money is pouring into Bitcoin and it can be argued that the present stage of the price rally is like an institutional macro stage. Bitcoin’s spot and derivatives markets have differentiated themselves from other...Read More
2020 has been a curious year for the crypto-market. While Bitcoin’s halving and its price performance grabbed most of the attention, DeFi wasn’t too far behind either. For weeks, most DeFi projects did exponentially well. However, this wasn’t to last as over the last two months, the sector quickly fell back to earth. In light...Read More
While a lot of adoption news has come in for the cryptocurrency market this year, 2020 has been notable for the rise of Decentralized Finance [DeFi]. In fact, by the third quarter of the year, many in the community were acutely focused on the growth of this space. However, while DeFi did grab most of...Read More
