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Square’s Major Bitcoin Buy: Puts 1% of Total Assets Worth $50 Million in BTC
8.10.2020
Square Inc. has put 1% of its total assets in bitcoin worth about $50 million. The company believes that “cryptocurrency is an instrument of economic empowerment and provides a way for the world to participate in a global monetary system.” Square’s Major Bitcoin Buy Square Inc....
Square Puts 1% of Total Assets in Bitcoin in Surprise $50M Investment
8.10.2020
Jack Dorsey's payments company announced Thursday it has purchased 4,709 bitcoins in a strategic investment
Yearn Finance Token Value Slides 67%, While Locked Value Loses Over $300M
8.10.2020
Yearn Finance’s native token YFI has been seeing significant capitulation as the price has dropped from an all-time high (ATH) of $43k in mid-September to today’s $13,875 USD value. Despite the -67.7% loss since the token’s ATH, the Yearn Finance project still has around $624...
ETH Volumes Top $119.5 Billion in Q3: High-Risk Dapps Dominate Tron Network
4.10.2020
A recent report says total Dapps transaction volumes reached $125 Billion in Q3 2020, a figure which is $113 billion higher than in Q2 2020. From these volumes, the Ethereum blockchain accounts for 96% or $119.5 billion of the total created value with the majority of this being attributed to...
Total Stablecoin Supply Nearly Doubled in Q3, Adding Record $8B
1.10.2020
“2020 seems to be the year of stablecoins,” said Tether CTO
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Retests $10.8K; Total Value Locked in DeFi Hits $11B
30.9.2020
Bitcoin price is flirting with $10,800 territory while DeFi soldiers on
Cumulative Ethereum Transaction Fees in 2020 Supersede Bitcoin’s by a Long Shot
30.9.2020
This week the research and analysis team Coin Metrics published a report on how decentralized finance (defi) is “fueling Ethereum’s growth.” Meanwhile, the researchers also highlighted that Ethereum’s cumulative transaction fees in 2020 are now over $350 million and more...
Uniswap Captures $2 Billion Locked, Dex Volume Outpaces Second-Largest Centralized Exchange
30.9.2020
The decentralized exchange (dex) built on Ethereum, Uniswap has accumulated a whopping $2 billion in total value locked (TVL) this week. Tuesday’s data shows out of all the decentralized finance (defi) application’s Uniswap dominates the $11 billion landscape by over 18%. Just recently...
Messari Says Initial Dex Offerings Are ICO 2.0, Urges Investors to Resist Initial Hype
29.9.2020
Crypto research firm, Messari says new Defi token offerings or initial dex offerings (IDO) are a reincarnation of initial coin offerings (ICO) and warns average investors to steer clear these. The firm notes that several early participants of IDOs are the ones that typically make off with outsized...
Tether’s Stablecoin Dominance Drops Below 80% as Audit Controversy Lingers On
27.9.2020
The total volume of stablecoins in circulation is closing in on the $20 billion mark, while the market-leading coin, USDT’s share of the total circulating supply continues to shrink, data from Coinmetrics shows. According to the data, USDT now accounts for an estimated at 80% of total supply...
A Mega DeFi Project Buy-Sell (BSE) ILO Presale Will Start Today
26.9.2020
The cryptocurrency space in recent times has seen and experienced a drastic and exponential growth, this is a result of decentralized finance (DeFi) which has taken an entirely new dimension and has attracted lots of positive attention around it. As at the time of writing, the total DeFi market...
Makerdao Vote to Not Compensate Black Thursday Victims Receives Harsh Criticism
25.9.2020
Large Makerdao holders decided not to compensate the victims that were liquidated during the unexpected flash crash that took place on March 12, otherwise known as ‘Black Thursday.’ An aggregate total of 38 votes was cast and more than 65% of the governance portal participants voted...
How a Spoof Turned Into a Media Hype About Bitcoin Cash
19.9.2020
An anonymous Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporter says he deliberately started a spoof which successfully baited local media to report on the coin. The trick, which involved the use of 100 Bitcoin Cash tip stickers, only cost a total of $1,100 yet it managed to get BCH featured by media outlets...
Defi Economy Rebounds: Total-Value Locked Jumps 28% Capturing Close to $9B
18.9.2020
The total-value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) economy has recaptured much of the value lost during the Sushiswap fiasco last week. At the time, the defi TVL tumbled down to $6.8 billion from the $9.6 billion high on September 8, suffering a loss of close to -29%. Since then, however...
Over 15% of ETH Supply Locked in Smart Contracts, BTC Dominance Declining
17.9.2020
The rapid growth of decentralized finance (defi) protocols is contributing to the increasing proportion of ETH supply that is now locked in smart contracts. More than 15% of the total ETH supply is now locked, compared to 11.5% from a year ago. This growth led to the inevitable decline of...
While DeFi Tokens Are Selling Off, Total Value Locked Jumps
16.9.2020
After seeing a near-meteoric price rise this summer, the tokens of many well-known DeFi protocols were hit by a wave of selling pressure today, causing most tokens in the space to drop between 5% and 20% over the past 24 hours. However, the total value locked in DeFi jumped sharply today.
As...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Hits $10.9K; Total BTC Locked in DeFi Passes 100K
15.9.2020
Bitcoin's price is trending upward Tuesday as the amount of BTC in DeFi hits a new high
Nasdaq-Listed Microstrategy Raises Bitcoin Holdings to $425 Million After Second Purchase
15.9.2020
Billion-dollar public company Microstrategy Inc. has bought 16,796 more bitcoins. The company has purchased a total of 38,250 bitcoins at an aggregate purchase price of $425 million. Microstrategy’s Bitcoin Investments Microstrategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR) has bought more bitcoin, CEO Michael...
DeFi’s ‘Total Value Locked In’ Metric Is A Crooked Mirror
12.9.2020
DeFi (decentralized finance) could boast of only USD 1bn in total value locked in as recently as the beginning of June. This rose by a whopping 860% in the three months to September 2, hitting USD 9.6bn.
These figures haven’t escaped their fair share of scrutiny, however. Collected by DeFi Pulse...
Fiat Devaluation Drives Retail Bitcoin Transfers in Africa 56% in a Year: Report
10.9.2020
Monthly cryptocurrency transfers to and from Africa under $10,000 soared more than 56% from a year ago to reach $316 million in June, according to new research by U.S. crypto analytics firm Chainalysis. Altogether, $8 billion worth of crypto was received into the continent and $8.1 billion sent...