DeFi Degens Are Crypto’s Suicide Squad
A look at the subculture and ethos driving the white-hot DeFi space, which has grown from $2 billion to $9 billion in total value locked in just two months.
A look at the subculture and ethos driving the white-hot DeFi space, which has grown from $2 billion to $9 billion in total value locked in just two months.
Grant ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 will be paid out in dollars. Once Stacks 2.0 goes live, the funding switches over to STX.
The flaw’s discovery is an example of cooperation in the open-source community, where devs are constantly tinkering to improve their peers’ software.
Cryptocurrency analysts attributed the drop to a combination of risk-off sentiment in traditional markets, DeFi exhaustion and miner selling.
Russia's Ministry of Finance wants to ban any cryptocurrency payments, which could be bad news for the country's mining farms.
The passport would help businesses cut through redundant red tape and flourish across borders, Saudis said.
Pornhub will accept BTC and LTC payments, a nonprofit wants Coinbase to be more transparent and credit default swaps are coming to the Ethereum blockchain.
Announced Thursday, Cozy Finance has raised a $2 million seed round, led by Electric Capital and including Variant Fund, Dragonfly Capital, Robot Ventures, Slow Ventures, Volt Capital, Spencer Noon, Moncada and others.
The U.S. has much to gain from being the steward of a politically neutral payments technology, even if it means giving up power over the financial system.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey wants coordinated global regulation around stablecoins as the payment method picks up steam.
Median fees have spiked nearly 900% since Aug. 2.
The growing number of long-term bitcoin investors might be the cryptocurrency's most simple bullish indicator – more so than "600,000 asteroids."
Secretive market maker Jump Trading has made an undisclosed investment into decentralized exchange Serum, which only launched last week.
The price plunge came after reports traders were selling an elevated level of bitcoin to exchanges for potential liquidation.
Credit default swaps (of “The Big Short” infamy) have come to the Ethereum blockchain. Opium Exchange says they can help crypto investors manage risk.
Wednesday saw a flurry of deposits onto exchanges, indicating some investors are trying to offload their bitcoin. That could further propel prices downwards.
Citizens and companies in Zug will be able to pay up to $109,000 of their tax bill in either bitcoin or ether starting next February.
Robinhood is reportedly under investigation by the SEC for not fully disclosing that it was passing customer orders on to market makers.
The U.K.-based fintech firm has opened its cryptocurrency services to Australian residents.
The EFF wants Coinbase to be more transparent in how it handles authorities' requests for users' private financial data.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the latest victim of a Twitter hack undertaken to trick social media users into sending crypto to the attackers.
Lawmakers are urging President Trump to consider blockchain solutions in the fight against COVID-19.
Bitgate has tapped BitGo to help it provide cold storage services to Japanese customers.
The bitcoin market went bearish as the price dipped while DeFi fees as a percentage of revenue for Ethereum miners is at an all-time high.
A hypothetical man-in-the-middle attack would have allowed an attacker to hold users’ crypto for ransom on Trezor and KeepKey hardware wallets.
Despite the buzz, DeFi is not on a good trajectory. It's too technical, too volatile and too "geeky" to be adopted by "the mainstream," William Mougayar writes.
In 15 charts, the CoinDesk Monthly Review for August details BTC's performance, its relationship to fiat currencies and Ethereum’s growing congestion problem.
The federal regulator has approved LedgerX’s amended registration to offer fully collateralized futures and options products.
Three trading platforms focused on the retail market have participated in the $4.75 million Series C for a crypto settlement service.
Ninety-two percent of Mindset 24 investors allegedly lost some of their funds. They'd paid in over a million dollars, mostly in bitcoin.
