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Swiss Bank Sygnum Begins Storing Crypto With Taurus Group, Launches Staking Service
6.11.2020
The Switzerland-based bank Sygnum has announced this week that the fintech firm is now storing digital assets with the company Taurus Group. On Friday, the bank also revealed that the FINMA-approved firm’s clientele can purchase and stake XTZ by leveraging the Tezos network. Earlier this...
Bitcoin Cash-Fueled Onchain Social Media Platform Memo Launches iOS App
6.11.2020
Two years ago, an onchain social network called memo.cash was launched and the application has developed quite a bit since then. On Tuesday, the Memo team revealed that the platform is now available for iOS phones via the App Store. Apple users can now connect to the social network that etches...
Lightning Operators Are Bracing for a Bitcoin Bull Run
5.11.2020
Lightning routing node operators are preparing for the horde of new users that will come in bitcoin's next bull run
Finoa Partners with SKALE Network to Provide Custody Support
5.11.2020
Digital asset management firm Finoa has announced a partnership with Ethereum based BaaS platform SKALE Network. In a tweet on Wednesday, Finoa stated that it would provide institutional class custody solutions to the SKALE token, SKALE Network’s native cryptocurrency. We are pleased to announce...
Hash Watch: Bitcoin Cash Services Reveal Contingency Plans for Upcoming Fork
5.11.2020
The Bitcoin Cash blockchain is set to upgrade on Sunday, November 15 and it’s still expected that the network will bifurcate. So far, a number of crypto services have revealed contingency plans for the fork, and today’s data shows that 754 out of 1,000 bitcoin cash blocks were mined...
Razor Network Raises $3.7M to Prove There’s Room for More Oracles in DeFi
4.11.2020
Razor Network raised $3.7 million in seed funding from NGC Ventures, Alameda Research and Mariano Conti, the former oracles chief at MakerDAO
Bitcoin Network’s Mining Difficulty Sees Largest Epoch Drop Since 2011
4.11.2020
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty saw the second-largest drop in history on Tuesday, as the difficulty dropped to 16.78 trillion, losing a touch over 16% since last week’s all-time difficulty high. The last time bitcoin’s mining difficulty dropped so low was in October 2011, when...
Russian Alfa-Bank joins HSBC-backed blockchain trade finance network
3.11.2020
A major global blockchain trade network welcomes one of Russia's largest banks
CertiK dissects the Axion Network incident and subsequent price crash
3.11.2020
Auditors see foul play in the deployment of the smart contract, resulting in a classic scam
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Getting a Marketplace for Payment Channel Liquidity
2.11.2020
Lightning Labs new service, Pool, provides a marketplace for Lightning Network businesses and users to lease payment channel liquidity
Uncollaterized Power: A Makerdao Governance Vote Was Swayed by a Defi Flash Loan
2.11.2020
The Makerdao and the stablecoin DAI has been a popular project in the decentralized finance (defi) space and it’s also had its share of problems. This week the project called Bprotocol leveraged a defi flash loan in order to sway a Makerdao governance vote. The development team behind...
Lightning Network Exploits Continue to Hinder the Bitcoin Scaling Solution
1.11.2020
While bitcoin has run-up to all new price highs in 2020, a great number of crypto supporters have been complaining about the mempool backlog and the high fees needed to send a transaction. Meanwhile, the Lightning Network is far from seeing widespread adoption, and a number of attack vectors have...
KPMG Expands Crypto Management Suite to Boost Institutional Adoption
29.10.2020
KPMG’s cryptocurrency management suite has expanded with the company’s integration of Coin Metrics’ products. KPMG’s new tools are “designed to enable the increasing institutional adoption of cryptoassets.” KPMG Enhances Its Crypto Management Suite KPMG...
Yearn Finance Founder Andre Cronje’s New Defi Token KP3R Soars 3,600% 24 Hours After Launch
29.10.2020
Yearn Finance founder Andre Cronje’s new defi token called KP3R has soared more than 3,600% in just over 24 hours after official launch, as yield farmers pour in millions of dollars into the project. The token opened at just $10 on Uniswap on Oct. 28, but is currently trading at $373.58,...
Kraken CEO: ‘Defi Scams’ Must Take Their Losses as Way to ‘Enlightenment’
29.10.2020
Jesse Powell, chief executive officer of the world’s fourth-largest crypto exchange Kraken, has criticized decentralized finance (defi) projects, accusing them of being “scams” that enter the market too quickly, unprepared. In a charged Oct. 26 tweet, Powell said...
EcoChain’s Capital Logic Will Transform the DeFi Ecosystem
29.10.2020
Decentralized finance(DeFi) has taken the blockchain network by a storm and is now arguably the most discussed topic. Although it has been a roller coaster ride, the DeFi network has grown enormously in size and number. Today, the total value locked in DeFi contracts is more than $11b. Forex Market...
AurumCoin – A Crypto Having its Own Blockchain Network
29.10.2020
AurumCoin Overview Metallic gold has the symbol AU taken from the Latin name ‘Aurum.’ SHA256 cryptocurrency has also been given the acronym “AurumCoin (AU)” to symbolize it with pure gold; it is the first-ever gold-backed stablecoin that was founded in 2014. AurumCoin is the new form...
Mempool Clog: Bitcoin Hashrate Drops 40%, Backlog Shows Over 100K Unconfirmed Transactions
29.10.2020
The Bitcoin network hashrate has dropped significantly over the last four days sliding from a high of 161 exahash per second (EH/s) to 90 EH/s on October 27. Today, the Bitcoin hashrate has improved a hair as the network’s security is currently hovering around 100 EH/s. However, the mempool...
Ripple to Invest in Japan’s SBI Subsidiary MoneyTap
29.10.2020
Ripple plans to invest in MoneyTap, the blockchain payments app birthed through a joint venture between the San Francisco-based firm and SBI Holdings
Putting Pressure on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Vulnerabilities Will Strengthen It
28.10.2020
These vulnerabilities are reminders that improvements come with trade-offs – and that security and usability are two sides of the same coin