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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...
Cosmos (ATOM) rallies after launching a cross-chain bridge and wrapped Bitcoin
29.8.2021
ATOM price booked triple-digit gains after the network built out its DeFi ecosystem and works on cross-chain bridges for ETH and BTC
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
Ethereum’s Q1 Stats Report Highlights Blockchain’s ‘Ultra Sound’ Financial Growth in 2021
17.5.2021
During the first three months of 2021, the cryptocurrency ethereum has shined as 90-day statistics highlight the digital asset has climbed close to 80% in value. On Monday, former Ark Invest analyst James Wang published a detailed summary highlighting the Ethereum project’s first-quarter...
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...
Synthetic dreams: Wrapped crypto assets gain traction amid surging market
17.1.2021
Synthetic crypto assets offer vast potential to shake up the crypto and traditional financial markets, but what’s behind the current growth?
Bitcoin briefly loses its spot as top cryptocurrency. Wait, what?
14.1.2021
Bitcoin's twin took over the number one spot on CoinMarketCap
Wrapped Bitcoin ‘Burns’ Outpaced Minting for the First Time in December
9.1.2021
BitGo “unwrapped” over 11,600 WBTC last month
BitGo Launches Wrapped Bitcoin, Ether on Tron Blockchain
6.1.2021
Nearly 100 DeFi-friendly WBTC have already been minted as TRC-20 tokens on Tron
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...
Wrapped Bitcoin ‘Burns’ Increase as Traders Rotate Capital Out of Cooling DeFi
3.12.2020
WBTC burns picked up in November, continuing into December
Stretched thin? Wrapped Bitcoin assets may encourage supply crisis
21.11.2020
WBTC, BTCB, and other wrapped Bitcoin implementations may contribute to a BTC supply shortage looming on the horizon
Ethereum Classic Gets DeFi Treatment With Wrapped ETC
18.11.2020
Ethereum Classic wants to play in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space of the blockchain it contentiously forked from in 2016
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Fails to Reach $16.5K; Wrapped BTC Hits $2 Billion
13.11.2020
Bitcoin’s price is climbing for the third straight day as more of the cryptocurrency is locked into the Ethereum network
Nearly $360M in Bitcoin Moved to Ethereum in October Despite DeFi Cool Off
10.11.2020
October’s growth is less than half of September’s 68,000 newly tokenized bitcoins
Wrapped Bitcoin is now Ethereum's 6th Largest Token
30.10.2020
With a market cap now over $1.5 billion, Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) makes up 80% of the total BTC held on Ethereum
PayPal In M&A Talks With Wrapped Bitcoin Custodian BitGo - Report
23.10.2020
Mike Belshe, Co-founder and CEO of BitGo. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Bloomberg
It seems that online payments giant PayPal has bigger plans in the Cryptoverse. Within weeks, the company could reach a deal to buy US-based major crypto custodian BitGo, Bloomberg reported, citing undisclosed...
Privacy Coin Zcash Makes Its Ethereum ‘Wrapped’ Debut With Tokensoft and Anchorage
21.10.2020
WZEC is the first asset to be launched by “Wrapped,” a partnership between Ethereum tokenizers Tokensoft and qualified custodian Anchorage
Wrapped Bitcoin Sees Record $57.1M in Tokens Minted by CoinList for Customers
14.10.2020
CoinList set the record for most tokens minted in a day by a single merchant