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First Bitcoin-backed synthetic dollar to launch with 25% yield
6.5.2024
USDh is the first Bitcoin-native synthetic dollar with yield-generating capabilities. Is the 25% yield sustainable?
The Family Guy AI Stream Became Unwatchable Due To All The Screaming
26.3.2024
An automated YouTube stream that broadcasts AI-generated Family Guy “episodes” based on user-submitted pitches was recently broken and made unwatchable after someone realized they could make the characters scream gibberish endlessly using a few specific commands. Read more
YouTube Now Requires Creators To Label AI Content
14.11.2023
As AI-generated content continues to encroach on everything from advertising to the voice acting profession, YouTube is adding a requirement for users to flag their videos when they include anything made by an AI program. However, looking at the guidelines, it doesn’t seem like the video hosting...
Terra lawsuit a ‘roadmap’ to attack other stablecoins: Delphi Labs
17.2.2023
Delphi Lab's general counsel said the SEC was being "more thorough than usual" in its lawsuit against Terraform Labs and its co-founder Do Kwon
Report Suggests FTX’s Tokenized Stocks Might Not Have Been Backed 1:1, Synthetics May Have Been Used to ‘Manipulate’ Real Stock Prices
6.12.2022
On Dec. 4, 2022, a report details that FTX-based synthetic stocks may have been used to manipulate the value of AMC shares. In May 2021, FTX offered 36 tokenized stocks but speculators believe it’s questionable whether or not the firm actually held the real stocks in the first place....
Supply of Tokenized Bitcoin Dropped Significantly Since the Start of the Year
26.11.2022
This year, the number of tokenized bitcoins hosted on alternative blockchains like Ethereum, has dropped a great deal. Last January the number of wrapped bitcoin (WBTC) issued on the Ethereum blockchain was around 266,880 WBTC and since then, the number has dropped by more than 15% down to 225,962...
Fintech Firm Galoy Raises $4 Million, Startup Introduces Bitcoin-Backed Synthetic Dollar Product
3.8.2022
On Wednesday, Galoy, the firm behind El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach Wallet, announced that the company raised $4 million in funding in an investment round led by Hivemind Ventures. On the same day, the startup launched a new product called Stablesats, a stablecoin concept that leverages...
Stats Show Over 53,000 Wrapped Bitcoins Were Removed From Circulation in the Last 3 Months
24.7.2022
Three months ago, there were 441,546 wrapped or synthetic bitcoins on the Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain worth $17.45 billion using exchange rates on April 24, 2022. Since then, that number has dropped by 53,582 synthetic bitcoins and today the number of wrapped or bonded bitcoins...
Maker founder proposes MetaDAOs and synthetic ETH in 'Endgame Plan'
3.6.2022
Rune Christensen has envisioned the final form of Maker governance, and it includes MetaDAOs, new governance tokens, and a new version of Synthetic Ether
THORChain quietly outperforms crypto market in Q1 — Can RUNE price break $10 next?
15.3.2022
THORChain reveals plans to launch Terra's UST-like native stablecoin and "Thorfi."
THORChain spikes by 34% after activating synthetic assets
10.3.2022
“Trading with synthetics on THORChain has half the swap fees, making swaps cheaper, cheap gas fees, and faster for traders. You can do near-instant trades at a high volume,” said developer Chad Barraford
Moving $25 Billion in BTC via Alternate Chains — There’s Now Over 400,000 Tokenized Bitcoins in Existence
5.11.2021
As the end of the year approaches, the price of bitcoin has hovered above the $60K region and with 18.8 million bitcoin in circulation, bitcoin’s market valuation is over $1.16 trillion today. Meanwhile, the number of tokenized bitcoins in existence today has swelled significantly during...
Uniswap delists 100 tokens from interface including options and indexes
26.7.2021
Synthetic tokens and tokenized stocks have made it onto Uniswap Labs’ black list as regulatory concerns mount
Synthetic FAANG stocks are trading in DeFi — but do gas fees make them uncompetitive?
23.4.2021
Sky high gas prices may make synths more costly than the real thing
Worn Out: The Fashion Industry's Big Oil Problem
9.3.2021
I really like buying clothes. I spend countless hours in the middle of the night scrolling my favorite brands’ Instagram feeds, and though I try to stick to buying secondhand, I also definitely set myself alarms to remember sample sales. Embarrassing, I know.Read more
Synthetix announces $12 million raise led by Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, and IOSG
14.2.2021
As the community debates VCs participating in DAOs, Synthetix welcomes three new community members
‘Wen $DIGG?’ Badger DAO preps for hotly anticipated synthetic BTC launch
10.1.2021
Badger DAO founder Chris Spadafora on bringing a long-awaited product to market and building for the future
Side-Chaining $3 Billion in Value: There’s More Than 141,000 Tokenized Bitcoins Issued on Ethereum
21.12.2020
According to onchain statistics, there is a colossal amount of bitcoin, approximately 141,231 bitcoins or $3.3 billion at the time of publication locked into Ethereum-based tokens. There are roughly seven different wrapped or synthetic bitcoin tokens but the Wrapped Bitcoin project has...
Synthetic assets get real: competition for scalability, new markets heats up
6.12.2020
Two new synthetic asset and derivatives platforms look to take a slice of Synthetix’s pie
$700 Million Worth of Synthetic Bitcoin Is Circulating on the Ethereum Blockchain
8.9.2020
According to onchain data, there’s now 69,836 synthetic bitcoin tokens (over $700 million) circulating on the Ethereum blockchain. Out of the six synthetic bitcoin token projects, wrapped bitcoin (WBTC) commands the largest number of coins with over 63% and 44,622 WBTC. Synthetic bitcoin...