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Eth2 staking contract ranks as single-largest Ether hodler with $21.5B
17.8.2021
The Eth2 staking contract is now the single-largest address by Ether holdings
Balancer’s new MetaStable Pools seek to facilitate wrapped asset swaps
16.8.2021
The company said that they intend for these pools to increase liquidity on hard-pegged assets
Poly Network Hacker Says ‘In the Defi World Code Is Law’ While Returning Millions in Defi Tokens
12.8.2021
Two days after the notorious Poly Network hack, the hacker continues to send funds back to the project. On August 12, the Poly Network hacker so far has returned millions worth of ether, thousands of uni tokens, 1,032 wrapped bitcoins, and 96 million in stablecoins. The day prior, after returning...
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...
Solana based cross-chain exchange Saber raises $7.7M to expand team and tokens
29.7.2021
Saber has raised $7.7 million in a seeding fund round, and is rated as the second platform on Solana in terms of total locked value (TVL) with $185.77 million
These Are the Crypto Economy’s 5 Most Expensive Assets per Unit
18.7.2021
On July 18, the most valuable cryptocurrency in terms of dollars per unit, is bitcoin which is currently trading for $31,693. Besides all the wrapped bitcoins and synthetic bitcoin pegs, the second-highest valued crypto-asset per unit is yearn finance and maker follows behind. Removing the market...
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
There’s Close to 300,000 Bitcoin-Pegged Tokens Hosted on ETH and BSC, Value Exceeds $12 Billion
19.5.2021
For quite some time now cryptocurrency traders have been leveraging bitcoin-based assets tethered to alternative blockchains. Mid-May statistics show there’s more than 299,000 bitcoin, worth over $12.8 billion today, tied to wrapped or synthetic bitcoin projects hosted on Ethereum or...
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...
pNetwork Launches Wrapped EOS on Ethereum to Connect the Two Biggest DeFi Ecosystems
2.2.2021
During the last year, Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem has grown exponentially to form a multi Billion Dollar market. As Decentralized Finance expands, it becomes more and more relevant to have cross-chain connections that enable crypto assets to flow instantly and seamlessly across blockchain...
'Wrapped' GameStop Token Appears as Cryptoverse Draws GME-Bitcoin Parallels
27.1.2021
In the midst of the GameStop (GME) stock explosion, the video game retailer just got "tokenized" and "wrapped". Meanwhile, the Cryptoverse is hard at work drawing parallels between GME and Bitcoin (BTC).
The Cryptoverse woke up this morning to a new token - a decentralized...
Arbitrage traders make 10x returns on new DeFi platform for wrapped assets
20.1.2021
A lucky trader turned 0.34 BTC into 4.6 BTC in just one swap
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
Blockstream expands Liquid Federation, but LBTC adoption remains slow
12.1.2021
Six prominent crypto firms have joined the federation governing Blockstream's Liquid sidechain
Wrapped Bitcoin ‘Burns’ Outpaced Minting for the First Time in December
9.1.2021
BitGo “unwrapped” over 11,600 WBTC last month
Wrapped Monero launches as exchanges crack down on privacy coins
7.1.2021
A wrapped version of the XMR privacy coin has launched on the Ethereum network
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...