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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
Boringdao Raises $1.4M: Project’s Tokenized BTC Bridge Backed by 200% Collateral
10.10.2020
There’s a new tokenized bitcoin project coming to the decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem that’s recently received $1.4 million from blockchain investors. The project called Boringdao, a decentralized bridge between Ethereum and alternative blockchains, plans to launch...
Wrapped Bitcoin tops $1B after 900% increase in two months
8.10.2020
The recent DeFi frenzy has seen $900 million worth of Bitcoin tokenized using Wrapped Bitcoin over the past two months
Record $616M of Wrapped Bitcoin Minted in September
5.10.2020
Monthly value of minted WBTC grew 160% from August
$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
Bitgo Plans to Launch Wrapped Bitcoin on the Tron Blockchain
26.9.2020
Soon there will be another network that allows people to tokenize BTC in order to leverage the underlying blockchain’s speed and fees. On September 24, Bitgo, the custodian of the Wrapped Bitcoin project (WBTC), the most popular tokenized BTC platform to-date, announced a partnership with...