Enso Finance Plans “Vampire Attack” Targeting DeFi Index Protocols
Key Takeaways Enso Finance, a new DeFi index and social trading platform, has announced its mainnet launch due on Dec....
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Meta Pilots Instant Crypto Payments on WhatsApp
Key Takeaways Meta is piloting instant crypto payments on WhatsApp using its Novi digital assets wallet. Starting today, a limited...
Lightning Network’s Bitcoin Capacity Tripled in 2021
Key Takeaways The Lightning Network's total Bitcoin capacity has nearly tripled over the course of this year. Payment channels on...
Crypto can help youth create a “wave of companies,” Infosys chair says
Crypto investors in India are anxious to see what direction the government’s regulatory approach to digital assets takes, given a...
EIP-1559 Has Burned 1 Million Ethereum
Key Takeaways EIP-1559 has now burned over 1 million ETH. The current value of the ETH burned is roughly $4.3...
Metaverse is a big opportunity for cryptocurrencies, BofA strategist
BofA strategist Haim Israel says the metaverse space will see widespread use of cryptocurrencies in transactions within the virtual worlds...
NFTs and the metaverse sectors have seen “China-like growth,” Animoca Brands’ Yat Siu says
An explosion in demand for NFTs and growth in the metaverse sector has seen digital assets such as Axie Infinity...
PARSIQ Adds Support for Polygon
Share this article PARSIQ is also integrated across Layer 1 blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. PARSIQ Integrates Polygon Days after unveiling...
StarkWare Launches New Product Offering 100x Ethereum Gas Cuts
Key Takeaways StarkWare's StarkNet Alpha has launched on mainnet. The product aims to cut Ethereum gas fees by a factor...
NFT Wins Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year Award
Share this article Collins Dictionary has acknowledged the recent NFT boom in its 2021 Word of the Year list. NFT Wins...
DBS Bank strategits sees Big Tech as big beneficiaries of the Metaverse
Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) appears to have injected interest in the concept He notes that almost every facet of life...
Acala Welcomes SubQuery to Polkadot Parachain
Key Takeaways Decentralized data indexing and querying solution SubQuery has announced that it will launch on the Acala parachain. Acala...
Africa provides unique opportunities for crypto adoption
Changpeng Zhao says challenges such as currency devaluation, difficulty in making cross-border payments and remittances, and the need for financial...
Injective Protocol Launches Mainnet, $120M Incentive Program
Key Takeaways Decentralized derivatives exchange Injective Protocol has announced launch of its mainnet. To accompany the mainnet launch, Injective is...
El Salvador Is Building a City Dedicated to Bitcoin
Share this article President Nayib Bukele announced that El Salvador would build ”Bitcoin City” at Bitcoin Week 2021 last night. ...
Half of Uniswap V3 Liquidity Providers Underperform Holding: Bancor Study
Key Takeaways According to a new study, approximately half of Uniswap liquidity providers underperformed a basic buy-and-hold strategy. In one...
Peru adds to the growing list of countries developing a CBDC
The South American country is working on a CBDC, and though it will not be a first, the country won't...
Twitter Bitcoin Tips Offer Glimpse of A Real-World Payments Future
Cryptocurrencies offer a wide range of solutions to current financial problems. However, these fixes are still often more theoretical than...
DeFi Deep Dive — CowSwap, Building New Market Mechanisms for DeFi
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) focuses on righting the wrongs found in traditional finance. CowSwap, aka Gnosis Protocol v2 is one of...
Polkadot Holders Are Backing Acala and Moonbeam for Parachains
Share this article Moonbeam and Acala Network have raised a combined total of $882 million to bid in Polkadot’s upcoming...
What Are Polkadot’s Parachain Auctions?
Key Takeaways The Polkadot ecosystem will host projects on individual networks called parachains. The first Polkadot parachain auction is set...
NEM Announces Its Seventh Hardfork, Harlock
Key Takeaways NEM’s Harlock hard fork was announced today. NEM nodes will vote on whether or not to merge into...
