Whistleblowers helped Tavanir, Iran’s power company, shut down 1100 crypto mining farms that were allegedly operating without the proper licenses. Although Tavanir says that some of the miners were using “high levels” of subsidized electricity, their report clarified that no significant changes were spotted in terms of electricity consumption. Local authorities said that this is
admin
Curve Finance is currently the third largest DeFi protocol, with a total value locked, or TVL, of $1.1 billion. Recently the community realized that the project’s founder, Michael Egorov, had leveraged over 71% of the voting power, ultimately leading to backlash from the community. Andre Cronje, the founder of popular DeFi protocol yEarn.Finance, tweeted: Source: Twitter.
Messari believes that Yearn.Finance’s YFI token is one of the least expensive in the DeFi space, according to its price-to-sales multiple. The metric is calculated by dividing a token’s market capitalization by its annualized yield. In YFI’s case, its capitalization at the time of calculation was $390 million. According to Messari, its annualized sales stood
The United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority, has given the go-ahead to Visa’s acquisition of fintech startup Plaid following a Phase 1 review. According to an Aug. 24 announcement, the CMA investigated several ways in which the deal could potentially harm competition, but ultimately found no evidence that this outcome was likely. Plaid offers a
Dex Platforms Trade Over $2.4 Billion in 7 Days, Defi Swaps up 68% Since Last Week Years ago the cryptocurrency community did not have access to a plethora of decentralized exchanges (dex). In 2020 with the rise of Ethereum, dex platforms have grown exponentially with trading applications like Uniswap, 0x, Kyber, and more. Dex trading
CoinDesk columnist Nic Carter is partner at Castle Island Ventures, a public blockchain-focused venture fund based in Cambridge, Mass. He is also the cofounder of Coin Metrics, a blockchain analytics startup. What was once an idle supposition is now concrete. Public blockchains are destined to privilege the largest, most fee-tolerant transactions, at the expense of
Some attention has been devoted in recent years to the matter of blockchain adoption — more specifically, when will blockchain technology go mainstream — and when it does, how will we even know? The question is somewhat problematic because blockchain is an infrastructure, operating in the background — out of sight — that runs across
Bitcoin (BTC) is “at the beginning” of an extended bull run and there are increasingly clear reasons to accept it. That was the opinion of Dan Held, head of growth at United States cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, who listed the latest evidence for bullish Bitcoin on Aug. 24. Many commentators have argued that Bitcoin is just
Swipe (SXP), the 68th digital asset by market capitalization, has been one of the most volatile cryptocurrencies of the previous weeks. Fueled by a new cryptocurrency card and partnership with Binance, SXP price soared from $1.50 to $5 in a matter of days in mid-August. However, the price of Swipe dropped more than 50% to
A new report from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) shows that 2020 is the year that momentum behind central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) has truly taken off. Published on Aug. 24, BIS’ new working paper analyzes the global state of CBDC research and development work, technical approaches and policy stances. The comprehensive research draws
Bitcoin price is currently recovering and trading above $11,500 against the US Dollar. BTC is likely to accelerate higher once it clears the $11,700 resistance and the 100 hourly SMA. Bitcoin is showing a few positive signs and trading above the $11,500 level. The price is testing a major resistance near $11,700 and the 100
Unsecured borrowing has come to decentralized finance (DeFi). Aave, a DeFi money market that allows users to earn interest on cryptocurrency and borrow against it, introduced credit delegation in early July. This service allows someone with a lot of collateral deposited on Aave and no desire to borrow against it to delegate their credit line
Another ad for cryptocurrency has appeared in print media, this time without promoting a specific business or service. A full-page ad for Bitcoin (BTC) appeared on the front page of the Hong Kong-based tabloid-style newspaper Apple Daily today. Though the text appears to be educating readers about BTC, there is no apparent mention of where
The decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem has matured quite a bit in 2020 and one project that’s seen some growth is the Ren Protocol. The application that allows people to access inter-blockchain liquidity for a number of defi applications. The following post is a step-by-step guide on how to leverage the Ren Protocol with Bitcoin Cash
On Sunday Aug. 2 the price of Bitcoin (BTC) dropped by 12% in just 5 minutes. In the same period of time Ether (ETH) dropped by 21% and similar losses were observed with many other altcoins. In retrospect, the general consensus on the cause was an unknown entity unloading roughly $1 billion on the open
This week the S&P 500 made news by notching a new intraday all-time high and recovering 100% of the losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic in mid-March. Despite this, there are signs U.S. stock markets could be overvalued. The Buffett indicator, an analysis tool which divides the Wilshire 5000 Index by the U.S. GDP, currently