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Finance Redefined: DeFi’s $4M lobsters and Solana gaming, Sept. 6–10
10.9.2021
Lobsters support DeFi’s endeavours amid regulatory clampdowns — all that and more, only in Finance Redefined
Countdown to Cardano’s Hard Fork: Goguen Phase Smart Contracts ‘Represent a Big Step Forward’
10.9.2021
The digital currency network Cardano is two days away from the upcoming hard fork on September 12 and the community is expecting to see functional smart contracts. These can be used for decentralized finance (defi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and other types of decentralized applications (dapps)....
Experimental Finance Platform On Songbird Network To Be Released Soon
10.9.2021
Flare Network is planning to launch an experimental development network termed Songbird Network. Following in the footsteps of Flare Network, Flare Finance, which is going to be the first DeFi platform on the Flare Network, has also decided to launch an Experimental Finance (ExFi) platform...
Report Says Western Union Could Lose $400M if El Salvador’s Chivo Bitcoin Wallet Gains Traction, Tim Berners-Lee Weighs In
10.9.2021
The Republic of El Salvador has made many headlines this week as the country adopted bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday and became the first-known nation-state to purchase the leading crypto asset. A recent report details that remittance providers like Moneygram and Western Union could lose up...
Seychelles Examines the Pros and Cons of Licensing Crypto Trading Platforms
10.9.2021
Seychelles’ Financial Services Authority (FSA) together with the country’s finance ministry, is reportedly working on a policy to either prohibit or license crypto trading platforms as registered international businesses. Increase in International Investigations of Crypto Platforms...
Payments Giant Mastercard Acquires Blockchain Intelligence Firm Ciphertrace
9.9.2021
Mastercard, the American multinational financial services corporation, announced the company is dipping further into the digital asset ecosystem by acquiring the blockchain intelligence firm Ciphertrace. The partnership announcement says the firm will help bolster Ciphertrace’s...
India’s Cryptocurrency Legislation Will Be ‘Distinct and Unique,’ Says Lawmaker
9.9.2021
The chairman of India’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance explains that cryptocurrency legislation in India will be “distinct and unique.” He added, “We have to balance stability and growth but we recognize how important this whole area of crypto is.”...
DeFi Land raises $4.1M to launch decentralized finance game on Solana
9.9.2021
Decentralized finance and gaming represent two of the biggest trends within the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries
C.R.E.A.M. Finance Announces Support for Six NFTs/Metaverse
9.9.2021
Announcing its support for the lending/borrowing services of AXS, SAND, YGG, MANA, RARI, and OGN, C.R.E.A.M. Finance stated that it is the first time that YGG and AXS have been supported by any protocol in the category of decentralized finance. According to cryptocurrency experts, this launch is...
Balancer Protocol Reveals Partnership With Wallstreetbets Defi Project Wsbdapp
9.9.2021
On Wednesday, the programmable liquidity platform Balancer Protocol announced the project has partnered with the Wallstreetbets defi project Wsbdapp. The announcement details that the two projects will collaborate in order to launch Wsbdapp’s exchange-traded portfolios (ETPs) on Balancer...
Salvadoran Government’s Chivo Wallet Experiences Hiccups, Some Residents Can’t Claim $30 BTC Reward
8.9.2021
On the day El Salvador implemented the bitcoin tender law, the official government wallet called the Chivo wallet had some initial issues for five hours on Tuesday. Residents could not leverage the application and had issues accessing the app on Apple’s App Store and Google Play....
Meet the First BCH Dex Built on Smartbch — Benswap.cash Presents High-Yield Liquidity Pools, Noncustodial Swaps
8.9.2021
Decentralized finance (defi) has set a trend during the latter half of 2020 and into this year, as statistics show $168 billion is locked in defi across various blockchains. The Bitcoin Cash network now has the Smartbch protocol and in recent times, a decentralized exchange (dex) platform...
Chairman of Nigerian Economic Crimes Commission: Crypto Growth Is a ‘Far Greater Danger to the World Economy’
8.9.2021
The chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has singled out the growth of cryptocurrencies as something that now poses “a far greater danger to the world economy.” Therefore, in order to deal with such dangers or threats, Bawa...
Bitcoin Accepted in Starbucks, McDonald's, and Everywhere in El Salvador
8.9.2021
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NFT Survey With Over 40K Respondents Indicates Americans Trust NFT Investments More Than Britons
8.9.2021
In 2021, two very distinct crypto trends stood out which include non-fungible token (NFT) assets and decentralized finance (defi), as billions of dollars in crypto has flooded into these sectors. On September 7, Piplsay, a global consumer research platform, polled 30,870 Americans and 9,170 Britons...
Japanese Regulator Has NFTs, IEOs in its Sights as it Eyes More Crypto Regulation
8.9.2021
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WUSD: The Next Generation Stablecoin for DeFi
7.9.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Within the DeFi space, Wault Finance has demonstrated its revolutionary nature by developing multiple innovative products. The protocol is one of the fastest growing projects in the DeFi sector, providing users a variety of yield farming and staking opportunities. Now, Wault intends...
Matrixport Launches ‘BTC-U Range Sniper’ — Returns Up to 200% for Accurate Predictions
7.9.2021
The financial asset services platform Matrixport has introduced a variety of new products since the firm raised $100 million in a Series C financing round during the first week of August. Following the launch of the company’s “ETH2.0 Staking Earn” earning service, Matrixport...
SOL price nears $200 after FTX's Solana-enabled NFT marketplace goes live
7.9.2021
The latest bout of buying has pushed SOL/USD's quarter-to-date gains up by more than 450%
LINK price locks in 36% gains following Ethereum layer-2's Chainlink integration
6.9.2021
LINK price surged also in the wake of a market-wide bullish boom, wherein Bitcoin and its top rivaling altcoins jumped in tandem