Yearn.finance mergers and sideways Bitcoin price propel DeFi tokens higher
3.12.2020
Select DeFi tokens have outperformed Bitcoin and altcoins as investors cheer the news of mutually beneficial partnerships
Aave's Second Version, New Bitcoin Mining Pool in North America + More News
3.12.2020
Bitcoin mining rigs. Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
DeFi news
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Aave has announced today that Aave V2 is live on mainnet. The new version...
Protocol Hosting Google reCAPTCHA Competitor Expands to Polkadot
3.12.2020
Human Protocol, home of the anti-bot hCaptcha system, announced it is expanding beyond Ethereum to a future Polkadot parachain, Moonbeam
OCC works to win back House Democrats, still miffed at leader's focus on crypto
3.12.2020
Acting Comptroller Brian Brooks continues his work to reach across the aisle with pledges from major players to support minority-owned banks
DeFi project Aave unlocks collateral with version 2 release
3.12.2020
Users can now trade assets while they are locked up as decentralized finance collateral
Nexo Launches Buyback Program, Commits Initial $12M
3.12.2020
PRESS RELEASE. Nexo, the leading regulated digital financial institution with over $2 billion in assets under management, today announced the details of its buyback program. The company’s Board of Directors approved an initial repurchase of $12 million of its NEXO Token on an open-market...
Institutional Bitcoin Investors Hodl As S&P DJI Opens New Crypto Bridge
3.12.2020
Institutional investors are about to get another instrument to access cryptoassets as they have already poured billions of US dollars in bitcoin (BTC) only. And these investors are not looking to sell BTC anytime soon, according to analysts.
Today, US-based major index provider S&P Dow Jones...
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Edge as a Hedge and Crypto’s Reaction to the STABLE Act
3.12.2020
Crypto Twitter, like the U.S. Congress, is usually divided. A proposed law to strengthen stablecoin oversight has brought crypto together
SWIFT enables instant cross-border payments
3.12.2020
This seeming fight or flight response to blockchain’s rising ubiquity may be “too little, too late.”
Valuing Open Source: Principles for Acquiring DeFi Projects
3.12.2020
As DeFi sees its first M&A, we’re left with a big question: How do you value an open-source project in a very new industry?
Swiss Wholesale CBDC Trial Shows ‘Feasibility’ for Central Bank Money on Distributed Ledger, BIS Says
3.12.2020
A Swiss experiment on how central bank money can be linked to markets built on distributed ledger technology (DLT) yielded positive results
Audio streaming giant Spotify is looking into crypto payments
3.12.2020
Is Spotify hinting at soon-to-come crypto features?