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Bitpay Partnership With Poynt Enables Crypto Payments at 100,000 Point-of-Sale Devices

12.2.2020
On February 11, the Atlanta-based payment processor Bitpay announced the firm’s recent partnership with the company Poynt. Now retailers will be able to support cryptocurrency payments using point-of-sale devices and crypto users will be able to pay with digital currencies at more than...

SEC ‘Safe Harbor’ Proposal Lauded by Token Fans, DeFi Builders at 0x Conference

11.2.2020
San Francisco's 0xpo conference offered the perfect venue for pondering the token "Safe Harbor" proposed by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce

Ethereum Classic Jumps Into DeFi With Fantom Partnership, But Only as Collateral

10.2.2020
Ethereum Classic is jumping into DeFi, but only as a collateral asset

Litecoin Foundation Partners With Cred to Let Holders Earn Interest

10.2.2020
Litecoin holders can now lend their holdings to receive interest and support the foundation

BCH Merchant Directories Now List 4,300 Bitcoin Cash-Accepting Businesses

10.2.2020
Businesses around the world continue to adopt bitcoin cash (BCH) and in 2020 merchant acceptance continues to grow. Tallying up all the companies that accept BCH listed on sites like Green Pages, Map.Bitcoin.com, Acceptbitcoin.cash, and Anypay shows there’s more than 4,300 BCH supporting...

Ethereum vs Tron: Comparing Data, Defi and Stablecoins from Both Chains After Viral Tweet

9.2.2020
On February 7, Cold Card and Opendime creator, Rodolfo Novak (also known as NVK), tweeted a picture of himself with Tron founder Justin Sun and Blockstream’s CEO Adam Back. Novak said “Ethereum was over” and the three had a plan to move Tron to Liquid, a network that leverages...

Defi Market Surpasses $1 Billion – But There’s a Catch

7.2.2020
The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance applications has surpassed $1 billion, prompting celebrations from the Ethereum community. Not everyone has been swift to toast the milestone, however, with suggestions that the true value locked into defi protocols is materially lower....

Why DeFi’s Billion-Dollar Milestone Matters

7.2.2020
The DeFi market hitting $1 billion in locked crypto is something even the most fervent ethereum skeptics would have a tough time dismissing as meaningless

Ethereum Price Sets 2020 High — Are Investors Buying the ETH 2.0 Hype?

7.2.2020
Ether price notched a new 2020 high above $220 as the DeFi sector saw its value break the $1 billion mark

Bitcoin DeFi Looms Closer as RSK Launches Ethereum Bridge

7.2.2020
Bitcoin DeFi is closer than you may think, but it won’t use the Bitcoin blockchain

Value Locked in Crypto DeFi Markets Hits $1 Billion Milestone

7.2.2020
$1 billion in value is now locked in the DeFi markets, as Ether continues to see bullish price momentum

Major DeFi Milestone: Total Value Locked Hit USD 1 Billion

7.2.2020
We have been reporting for a while now about the massive growth the DeFi (decentralized finance) ecosystem is experiencing, and today, the Cryptoverse saw another major milestone reached - total value locked in DeFi surpassed USD 1 billion, before dropping below this threshold again. The total...

PoolTogether DeFi App Announces $1M Investment After No-Loss Lottery Payout Tops $1K

3.2.2020
PoolTogether is announcing a $1.05 million investment round as it adds a USDC pool to its DeFi-powered "no-loss lottery."

How Fund Managers View Lending and Staking: 3 Takeaways From a CoinDesk Research Webinar

31.1.2020
In December, we invited two fund managers, both long bitcoin and other crypto assets, for a CoinDesk Research webinar on lending and staking. Jordan Clifford of Scalar Capital and Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital joined us to discuss how they evaluate risk and returns in crypto lending and staking...

The Founders of Synthetix and Chainlink on DeFi, Derivatives and 25 New Decentralized Price Feeds

31.1.2020
Yesterday Chainlink released price reference data for 25 of its decentralized oracle networks which, together, power more than $100m in DeFi

DeFi Challenge: Organic User Adoption

30.1.2020
DeFi (decentralized finance) protocols to face the same challenge as all cryptos on their path in 2020, and it’s organic user adoption. The growing trend of DeFi, which marked 2019, has in fact been highlighted by a large increase in the number of assets being locked up in different DeFi protocols....

Decentralized Finance Is Blossoming, But Just How Decentralized Is Defi?

30.1.2020
The defi market has hit an all-time high as the total value locked up in decentralized finance has surged past $850 million. A flurry of new applications, privacy proposals, wallets, DEXs, and protocols is extending the limits of what defi is capable of. This jubilation should be countered with...