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Dear Ripple, Don’t Settle: Embrace the Opportunity to Shape Crypto’s Future

As Ripple and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) persist in their legal dispute over XRP’s classification as a security, the consequences for both parties and the wider cryptocurrency market cannot be understated. This case offers a unique opportunity to attain much-needed regulatory clarity, which could ultimately promote growth and stability throughout the sector. […]

Phemex Starts The New Year With Crypto Savings Offerings

The crypto industry is currently a hotbed of innovation that enables the development of a whole new futuristic world of finance based on cutting-edge technology. Much of the allure of cryptocurrencies is due to their function as robust and profitable stores of value.  To capitalize on this blossoming trend while offering users unrivaled returns on their crypto investments, Phemex will be launching its two new Earn Crypto saving accounts this month. These options will offer […]

This Project May be Fiat’s Layer 2 Solution

With an upcoming public sale on Polkastarter and a recently launched DEX, e-Money is an innovative addition to the Cosmos ecosystem. With international money transfers remaining expensive, opaque, and drawn out processes, the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a faster, more transparent method of cross-border payments promised to improve the way the world sends and receives money. This being said, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are still considered by many as too volatile to be considered a

Stacks 2.0 To Bring Dapps And DeFi To Bitcoin

The entire world is now paying attention to Bitcoin after the cryptocurrency grew in value over five times in 2020 alone. But, as positive as 2020 was for Bitcoin, 2021 may usher in a new era of possibility and value for Bitcoin. The new Stacks blockchain, which you may recognize as Blockstack, will bring smart contracts, decentralized apps, and DeFi to the top cryptocurrency for the first time; Here’s what that means for Bitcoin and […]

Masternodes are still alive and kicking: This project is proof

Amongst the DeFi mania, there’s still love for masternodes in 2020 2020 is shaping up to be the “year of DeFi”. Staking, liquidity providing, and bonding curves have all taken center stage as ways to earn money, but the Masternode, one of the earliest incentive mechanisms offered within the cryptocurrency space, has remained a popular source of income and recent events go to prove it. Masternodes propose a solution to increasing costs and technical complications […]

3 Ethereum Alternatives That Banks Should Be Monitoring

The wave of decentralized finance applications that launched in 2020 owed a great debt to the smart contract platform Ethereum, where traders busily pushed DeFi volumes into the billions. Ethereum-based decentralized applications (dApps) were the biggest success story of the year, at least if you discount Bitcoin’s stratospheric push towards $30k. Open finance protocols such as those related to lending, staking, and saving reiterated the raison d’être for cryptocurrencies, providing users with a

This project looks to bridge multi-chain gaps as the Layer 2 of DeFi

As interoperability continues to prove a pain point for AMMs, Tenet connects popular DeFi protocols via the native $TEN token. 2020 saw decentralized finance protocols unlock a suite of new and exciting passive income opportunities. Decentralized AMM (automatic market maker) exchanges such as Uniswap, Balancer, and Curve have become hugely popular platforms, with liquidity mining and yield farming growing in popularity. Entering 2021, the total value locked in DeFi protocols is already over $17

Kick-Off 2021 The Right Way With Rewards From Crypto.Com

With 2020 now in the past, 2021 is already moving full steam ahead with the crypto market setting new highs and industry leader Crypto.com kick-starting the new year with exclusive CRO rewards. Here’s how you can sign up to become a Crossfire validator and earn your share of $300,000 worth of CRO rewards.  Participate In The Crossfire Mainnet Dry Run, Get CRO Rewards!  Crypto.com has a novel new year gift for existing and potential new […]

Northern Data: Existing Bitcoin mining customer expands contract volume by more than 200 MW

These days are eventful ones for Bitcoin-lovers. And not just the ones who held on to their Bitcoins during the dark times get rewarded. Also, the Bitcoin mining industry is booming.  Hidden giant is Germany’s Northern Data (listed on the German stock exchange; XETRA: NB2; ISIN: DE000A0SMU87), a leading provider of high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. Northern Data offers a full-service solution for Bitcoin Miners, from hardware purchase to data center operations.  Today, the company anno

Dash Launches Public Alpha for Social Payments Wallet

Dash has launched a public alpha for DashPay, a social cryptocurrency wallet, to deliver a seamless user experience with human-readable usernames, contact lists, and profile pictures. This experience addresses the most significant barriers to the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies, which several consumer surveys shows are mainly ease-of-use issues. The public alpha allows users to see what a truly friction-free and social cryptocurrency transaction experience can be like, ahead of the full public

Northern Data – The Perfect Indirect Exposure to Bitcoin

This Christmas was surely a merry one for owners of Bitcoin.  While purists would always argue for owning Bitcoin directly, this simply still is not possible for most professional investors and fund managers. For these investors, a good alternative to bridge the time till Bitcoin will have become fully mainstream is to invest in stock-market-listed companies that profit from the increase in the Bitcoin price. One of the most promising of such companies is Northern […]

Cryptocurrency-fiat simbiosis: How MinePlex created a bank of the future

As recently as a few months ago, in summer 2020, the world has seen the DeFi boom. The tokens of the projects in the field of decentralized finances demonstrated six-figure returns. One example is YFI, the price of which has grown 130000% in one month. But this hype is already a part of history. The market sees a continuous correction, and the YFI has dropped in price by more than one-third from its peak. Most […]

Institutional Support Rallies Behind Exeedme’s Blockchain-based Gaming Innovation

With over $13 billion currently locked across DeFi protocols, the decentralized financial landscape has been growing at a breakneck speed. The high quest for a non-custodial financial product and marketplace has been instrumental to the astronomical growth in the DeFi (Decentralized Finance) sector. No doubt, the interest that has rallied behind the DeFi protocols has been phenomenal, NFT market has also been on traction in leading mainstream adoption of blockchain technology. Exeedme, a blockch

Huobi Ends 2020 With Fireworks, Happy New Year Gift Giveaways, and a $1 Million Prize

Trusted global cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform, Huobi, has announced that it is celebrating the end of 2020 and the coming New Year with special Huobi Happy New Year Activities that include daily awards, over 400 gifts, and a lucky draw game with a $1 million jackpot to award. Here are all the details about how to join in on Huobi’s New Year celebration and potentially end this challenging year on a much more positive […]

DeFi Yield Protocol Debuts New Staking And Governance DApp

There is an enormous shift in finance toward digital solutions over the last several years, and that trend has only kicked into overdrive since 2020. The need for frictionless, decentralized solutions to the aging traditional finance system has led to the emergence of cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance. Early DeFi projects laid the groundwork and provided “proof of concept” that the industry has potential and would replace traditional finance. Still, too many early tokens came in […]

Why Cartesi’s Zero Assumptions Staking Is a Game-Changer for PoS

Cartesi is a layer-2 platform for the development and deployment of scalable decentralized applications. It provides a bridge between Linux and blockchains like Ethereum, allowing developers to build their dApps off-chain in a familiar Linux environment, without compromising on-chain decentralization and security. Whether you’re interested in Cartesi’s tech stack as a developer or a user, there are a few things to know about the PoS system it’s pioneered. Cartesi is doing things a little differe

Tis the Season to Trade: Bingbon Gears Up For Xmas Trading Contest

Cryptocurrency trading platform Bingbon is doing its bit to spread a little Christmas cheer, with its annual Xmas Team Trading Contest set to get underway on December 24 (00:00, GMT+8). The competition, which will end on New Year’s Eve (23:59, GMT+8), will see participating teams compete for a generous prize pool of 400,000 USDT. Bingbon isn’t a stranger to competitions; the platform recently dangled a $300 carrot for anyone who could guess the price of […]

Royale Finance Believes That Gaming and DeFi Were Made for One Another

What do gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi) have in common? On the surface, not a lot: the latter is a crypto movement focused around open access to financial primitives, while the former, incorporating both video gaming and iGaming, is concerned with entertainment. As it transpires, many of the characteristics that make blockchain suited to hosting DeFi applications – transparency; redundancy; trust minimization; verifiable proof – apply equally to gaming, for the purpose of proving that […

Why 2021 Will Be the Year of Cross-Chain?

2020 was the year in which DeFi took the blockchain world by storm. While the rest of the planet will most likely remember 2020 as the year of COVID-19 and lockdown, crypto enthusiasts will also remember it as the year of crypto lending, borrowing, liquidity mining, and the much-reported upon Total Volume Locked (TVL) graph. That was not without good reason, however, as in 2020 the TVL in DeFi protocols grew from $675M to $16.2B.  […]

It’s Time For Plan B: Leela Quantum Tech Reveals Bitcoin Edition Protective T-Shirt

At the start of 2020, did anyone genuinely anticipate a global pandemic? Sure, the likes of Bill Gates and others warned of such a reality, but nobody knew if or when it would ever occur, nor did their warnings ever come with a plan that could prevent such a scenario. The truth is, things happen. Instead, we should never say never, and learn to expect the unexpected. By taking on such an approach, we can […]