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24 Nov 2021

Can Exchange Traded Products Speed Up Crypto Adoption?

Is it possible for exchange traded products (ETPs) to help increase cryptocurrency adoption in the retail market? If you need to get funds to contribute towards crypto investment, the likelihood is

DeFi News

24 Nov 2021

Change is coming to DeFi: Polkadot Parachains

Changes are coming that may divide the masses, where blockchain is concerned. Some consider Ethereum as the infrastructure that will equalize the crypto-financing. Many believe that it could one day

DeFi News

08 Nov 2021

Brave Browser Is Partnering With Solana to Boost DApp Adoption

Open-source web browser Brave Software has announced a new partnership with the Solana blockchain project. At the ongoing Breakpoint Conference in Lisbon, Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave

DeFi News

06 Nov 2021

Solana’s Solend Raises $26M in IDO

Solend, a Solana-based borrowing and lending platform, has raised over $26 million via an IDO (Initial DEX Offering) conducted this week.  Source: Solend IDO page The Solend IDO, which was mod

DeFi News

01 Nov 2021

Tesla Might Start Accepting Shiba As Payment

A peek into Tesla’s website’s back-end payment procession code revealed that the electric car company owned by Elon Musk might add Shiba Inu and Bitcoin as payment options for its pro

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26 Oct 2021

KTCU Denies Launching a Bitcoin ETF Anytime Soon

The Korean Teachers’ Union (KTCU), an institution established to cater for teachers’ welfare, has denied reports that it was considering delving into Bitcoin investing via the launch of an exchange-

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22 Oct 2021

DarkSide Moves 107.8 Bitcoins Amidst Fear of Possible Crackdown

Following the attack on servers of popular cryptocurrency ransomware group “REvil” this week, operators of the DarkSide and BlackMatter ransomware organizations have moved all their illicit Bitcoin

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21 Oct 2021

Bitwise Launches Polygon Fund to Abet MATIC Adoption

San Francisco-based cryptocurrency asset manager Bitwise has announced the launch of a new fund focused on Polygon, an initiative that will promote the widespread adoption of the Ethereum-based scal

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21 Oct 2021

Pimco Dipping Some of Its $2.2 Trillion Into Crypto

Global investment manager Pimco has indicated an interest in increasing its cryptocurrency exposure and possibly trading them. The fixed-income investment firm, which manages approximately $2 tri

DeFi News

19 Oct 2021

India’s Crypto Industry Making Amazing Progress

India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, CoinSwitch Kuber, has disclosed that the country’s crypto ecosystem is currently in talks with regulators to help them understand the asset class. Speakin

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18 Oct 2021

UK Citizens Lost More than $200M to Crypto Fraud This Year

The rate of cryptocurrency fraud in the United Kingdom has been on the rise, with victims losing over £146 million ($200m) over the last nine months, Bloomberg reported Monday.  Crypto Fraud in t

DeFi News

17 Oct 2021

US Leads in Global Grassroots DeFi Investments

A fresh report from blockchain analytics company Chainalysis has ranked the United States as the leader in grassroots adoption of decentralized finance (DeFi). While the world’s DeFi investments

DeFi News

17 Oct 2021

Decentralized blockchain will be beyond finances

To be the long run lifeline of industries, blockchain technical schoolnology must embrace the old school quality of interconnectivity. “Yahoo users won't be ready to act via mail with Google emai

DeFi News

17 Oct 2021

ProShares Is Launching First Bitcoin Futures ETF In The U.S.

Following a Friday report by Coinposters that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering approving a bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF), the regulator has fina

DeFi News

16 Oct 2021

Indexed Finance $16 Million Stolen By Hackers

DeFi protocol, Indexed Finance, has recently been attacked, leading to the loss of $16 million worth of tokens. The protocol offers passive portfolio management for its users and had its DEF15 and C

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15 Oct 2021

Binance Partners With Italian Soccer Side Lazio

Leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance announced this week a multi-year partnership deal with Italian professional soccer club Lazio. According to the press release, Binance will become the main j

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14 Oct 2021

Bitcoin Goes Above $58,000

Following the first failed attempt at $58,000, the most valued coin found support at $53,800. Bitcoin enjoyed a gradual surge to $58k as the 1 hour chart shows a progress in price with eve

DeFi News

14 Oct 2021

Telos Launches EVM-Compatible Layer 1 Blockchain

Telos, a high-capacity blockchain network and one of the most active blockchain platforms in the world, announced today that it has launched the Telos Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) Mainnet, the fir

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14 Oct 2021

U.S. Becomes The World’s Top Bitcoin Mining Hub

As China continues to intensify its crackdown on cryptocurrency transactions and other related activities, including mining, crypto miners have relocated to other locations. A new report publishe

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13 Oct 2021

Binance Is Delisting Yuan From Its P2P Trading Platform

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has disclosed that it will cease trading the Chinese Yuan on its peer-to-peer platform. Per the announcement published on W

DeFi News

14 Oct 2021

Musicans Can Now Earn Crypto

American music distributor UnitedMasters on Tuesday announced its partnership with the leading cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, to allow artists to accept crypto payments for the content they crea

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08 Oct 2021

Google Partners With Bakkt To Increase The Use Of Crypto

Intercontinental Exchange-backed crypto startup, Bakkt has announced a partnership with the popular American tech company, Google, to increase the use of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ether, and do

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08 Oct 2021

Earning 10 Free BTC On Bitwells Exchange

As the crypto-economy continues to boom and more and more companies join the industry, individuals are offered many new and interesting ways to get exposure to cryptocurrencies.  Besides the

DeFi News

08 Oct 2021

Public.com Launches Cryptocurrency Trading On Its Platform

Commission-free stock and ETF trading app Public.com is the latest traditional investment company to offer cryptocurrency trading to its users. WSJ reported today that the company said

DeFi News

07 Oct 2021

21Shares’s SOL Product Generates $2 Billion in Assets

Popular cryptocurrency exchange-traded product (ETP) provider 21Shares has reached a groundbreaking milestone of $2 billion in assets under management (AUM), following the addition of its Solana (SO

DeFi News

07 Oct 2021

Natwest Bank Found Guilty Of $554M Money Laundering

The case of NatWest Bank, and many others, is standing proof that traditional fiat institutions and even banks have been found to promote more money laundering transactions than bitcoin, as opposed

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07 Oct 2021

CoinSwitch Raises $260M And Hits $1.9B Valuation

CoinSwitch Kuber has become the second cryptocurrency startup to attain unicorn status after raising $260 million in a Series C funding round.  The recently concluded funding round was co-le

DeFi News

06 Oct 2021

3 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Meme Investments

Meme investments may have started as a joke, but many investors are starting to take them seriously. Case in point: Dogecoin — a meme investment created to poke fun at the popularity of cryptocurren

DeFi News

06 Oct 2021

Axie Infinity Bags $152M In Series B Funding

Sky Mavis, creator of the blockchain-enabled play-to-earn video game, Axie Infinity today announced that it has raised $152 Million from a new funding round led by popular American venture

DeFi News

06 Oct 2021

BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, XRP, SOL, DOGE Price Analysis

The global cryptocurrency market cap increased 3% in the last 24 hours. The industry is currently worth $2.18 million as it keeps picking up momentum. The table displaying the top 100 coins by marke

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06 Oct 2021

U.S. Bank Will Start Offering Crypto Custody Services

As institutional interest in cryptocurrencies continues to surge, the popular American bank, U.S. Bank, has launched a custodial service for selected digital currencies.  CNBC reported&

DeFi News

06 Oct 2021

SEC Investigating USDC Issuer Circle

Only four months since its first announcement to go public at $4.5 billion valuations via a special purpose acquisition(SPAC) merger, stablecoin USDC issuer, Circle has revealed that the company has

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05 Oct 2021

YGG Gets $1 Million Worth of Star Atlas NFT Game Assets

Yield Guild Games (YGG), a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focused on investing in NFT-based games, recently announced that it will acquire $1 million worth of non-fungible token (NFT) g

DeFi News

05 Oct 2021

Countries Leading Mainstream Crypto Adoption in CSAO Regions

Vietnam, Pakistan, and India are the top countries responsible for the growing adoption of cryptocurrencies in the Central, Southern Asia, and Oceania (CSAO) regions, popular blockcha

DeFi News

05 Oct 2021

Crypto Worth $750m Seized By South Korea’s Custom Service

The South Korean Custom Services has recently reported a sharp spike in the number of illegal crypto-related transactions detected in the country within the past eight months.  In the report, the

DeFi News

02 Oct 2021

Verifone Is Now Accepting Crypto Payments

Popular digital currency payment service provider BitPay has partnered with Verifone to enable U.S. residents to make payments for goods using cryptocurrencies across Verifone supported payment term

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02 Oct 2021

Bitcoin Mining Ban Finally Lifted In Iran

The Iranian government has officially lifted the ban on bitcoin mining after the country’s former president, Hassan Rouhani, suspended all mining activities three months ago, local media Iran Intern

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02 Oct 2021

TikTok Joins NFT Frenzy

Video-sharing app TikTok announced today that it has joined the NFT market through the launch of its own tokenized collection inspired by the creativity of creators on the platform. TikTok’s firs

DeFi News

01 Oct 2021

More on SEC vs. Ripple

A number of fake reports claiming that the court battle between the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and San Francisco-based Ripple Labs is giving false hope to XRP holders.

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01 Oct 2021

El Salvador Is Mining Bitcoin With Volcanic Energy

A few weeks after officially becoming the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as a legal tender, El Salvador has started mining the cryptocurrency with volcanic energy.  On Tuesday, El Sa

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01 Oct 2021

Chainalysis Report: Europe Is The World’s Largest Crypto Economy

Recent data from popular crypto analytic company, Chainalysis, has revealed that  Central, Northern, & Western Europe (CNWE) is the world’s biggest cryptocurrency economy.  The regi

DeFi News

24 Sep 2021

Digital Currency Regulations Around the World

As digital currency's change from speculative venture to a balanced portfolio stablemate continues to gather speed, governments all around the world stay isolated on the best way to manage the arisi

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23 Sep 2021

What is the Reason Behind Today Crypto Market Crash?

On September 22, cryptocurrency values remained in the red. The global cryptocurrency market capitalization is Rs 136.32 lakh crores, down 2.42 percent from the previous day, while the entire crypto

DeFi News

08 Feb 2022

What is Uniswap And Why invest in Uniswap?

What is Uniswap? Uniswap is the biggest decentralized trade in the crypto space. Uniswap influences many crypto resources, including its local UNI cryptocurrency, to offer a support like a tradit

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22 Sep 2021

Crypto Exchange Platforms That Don’t Require KYC

It is not unusual for bitcoin investors to search for anonymous crypto exchanges. The reason is not farfetched. It is not a pleasant experience for one to provide his identity information, even if t

DeFi News

21 Sep 2021

$12 Million Stolen From DeFi Platform

277 btc which is worth more than $12m was stolen from pNetwork, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol. The theft was announced on September 19 via Twitter, attributing the hack to a codebase vu

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08 Sep 2021

What Is Web 3.0 And How It Is Associated With The Cryptocurrency?

Cryptocurrency - Cryptocurrencies have caused some soul-searching. While fascinating use cases have emerged, such as decentralized finance (Defi) and Bitcoin's usage as an institutional and programm

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06 Sep 2021

What is Cere Network And What Is The Use Of It?

Cere Network is the first Decentralized Data Cloud platform optimized for service data integration and data collaboration. While most blockchains are simply distributed ledgers, Cere network allows

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