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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...
First Mover Americas: Binance Increases Recovery Fund, wBTC Loses Its Peg
25.11.2022
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Nov. 25, 2022. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets
Celsius moved $529M worth of wBTC to FTX exchange: Should we be worried?
8.7.2022
The crypto community is concerned that the transfer could lead to the dumping of more than $500 million Bitcoin into the market
Report: Goldman Sachs Looks to Buy Distressed Assets From Celsius, Crypto Lender Seeks Restructuring Advice
25.6.2022
After the crypto lending platform Celsius halted operations on June 12, at 10:10 p.m. (ET), two days later the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) quoted “people familiar with the matter” who said Celsius was hiring restructuring lawyers. At the time, the WSJ said Celsius was looking to hire...
Celsius Insolvency Rumors Swirl After Company Pauses Withdrawals, Nexo Offers to Buy Firm’s Assets
13.6.2022
On Monday, June 13, 2022, the crypto economy dropped below the $1 trillion region, as a great majority of crypto assets have lost between 10% to 25% during the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, the crypto community has been discussing the cryptocurrency lending application Celsius as rumors of insolvency...
Celsius exodus: $320M in crypto sent to FTX, user withdrawals paused
13.6.2022
Celsius has been moving more than a quarter of a billion dollars worth of funds from Aave into the FTX exchange for reasons not specified in addition to suspending withdrawals for users
How to store Bitcoin on MetaMask?
26.4.2022
Only Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) can be stored on MetaMask as this wallet supports Ethereum-enabled distributed applications specifically
NFTs most popular assets on Ethereum, but Wrapped Bitcoin growth stalls
24.2.2022
NFTs have increased their lead over stablecoins and ERC-20 tokens in transfers on the Ethereum network since last July, while WBTC minted on chain has leveled off this month
World’s Largest Collector Car Auction House RM Sotheby’s to Accept Cryptocurrencies
18.11.2021
On Wednesday, the world’s largest collector car auction house by total sales, RM Sotheby’s, announced the company will be accepting cryptocurrency payments via Bitpay. The firm’s upcoming Guikas Collection sale on November 19 will be RM Sotheby’s first auction to accept...
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...
Tokenized Bitcoin on Ethereum Crosses $11 Billion Notional, WBTC Commands 76% of Circulating Supply
8.8.2021
According to data on August 7, there’s 253,510 bitcoin-pegged or wrapped tokens worth more than $11 billion in value on the Ethereum blockchain. Out of the seven different bitcoin-pegged projects, the Wrapped Bitcoin protocol has 194,023 bitcoin-pegged ERC20 tokens in circulation. Over 250K...
One percent of Bitcoin’s supply has been locked in the WBTC protocol
8.6.2021
More than $6 billion worth of Bitcoin is now tokenized on Ethereum as WBTC
DeFi Yield Protocol (DYP) Launches DYP Earn Vault
4.5.2021
Leading yield farming platform DeFi Yield Protocol has launched its highly anticipated DYP Earn Vault. The Vault is an automated yield farming contract fully integrated with Compound Protocol and supports five markets, including ETH, WBTC, USDC, USDT, and DAI. Earn Rewards on DYP Earn Vaults Users...
Bitcoin-Pegged Token Crafted by Binance Swells, BTCB Now Commands $2.3 Billion Market Cap
7.4.2021
Over the last twelve months wrapped or synthetic bitcoin projects have swelled a great deal. The digital token called wrapped bitcoin, for example, has 141,503 WBTC in circulation today, but the token called the Bitcoin BEP 2 (BTCB) has gathered some steam. Currently, there are 39,719 BTCB out...
WBTC: Where Bitcoin Meets DeFi
18.3.2021
Alexi Lane of Ethereum tokens explorer Ethplorer.
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As bitcoin (BTC) keeps reaching its new all-time highs, all eyes are on the world’s leading cryptocurrency as it dominated news cycles and attracted newcomers to the digital asset industry. The price action of the heavily followed asset...
Proof-of-Work and Yield Farming: Binance and Poolin Launch Tokens Backed by Bitcoin Hashrate
14.1.2021
There’s a new type of token gaining popularity in the crypto space with the launch of coins that are backed by a specific amount of proof-of-work (PoW) hashrate. On January 6, 2021, Binance launched a new project called the bitcoin standard hashrate token (BTCST), a coin that represents...
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...
Finance Redefined: The $20,000 Bitcoin special, Dec. 9–16
16.12.2020
Bitcoin DeFi, Bitcoin on Ethereum: We explore the ways DeFi and Bitcoin intersect
$1B in Wrapped Bitcoin now being audited using Chainlink’s ‘Proof of Reserve’
2.10.2020
Wrapped Bitcoin is now even safer with Chainlink oracles checking custody wallets every ten minutes
A Model for the Next Generation DEX, TitanSwap Will Be a Dex With Better User Experience
2.10.2020
TitanSwap is using the renBTC protocol to implement cross-chain operations. Compared with the currently more common custodial cross-chain solutions wBTC and tBTC, the renBTC smart contract is a non-custodial access mechanism. Its core is the RenVM virtual machine, a decentralized network mainly...