Despite price volatility, Solana is experiencing exponential network growth, defying expectations.
While the crypto market is going through a consolidation phase, Portal, Theta network, and Stacks manage to stand out!
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has been a revolutionary leap forward, promising an open financial system without centralized control. It's a haven for innovation and democratization of finance. However, like any emerging technology, it faces growing pains. Among the most pressing challenges is the fragmentation of liquidity across multiple blockchains, which has created a maze of siloed platforms that can be difficult for users to navigate. This article explores how the fragmentation of liquidity is a significant barrier to the industry's growth and how two emerging solutions—Agoric Orchestration and Inter Protocol—are addressing these issues with innovative approaches.
Fueled by the excitement for DeFi, Akash, The Graph, and Render have seen their prices surge by 15% in 24 hours. Quite an achievement for these cryptocurrencies.
The Total Value Locked (TVL) in the context of decentralized finance (DeFi) defines the total value of assets locked in DeFi protocols and smart contracts. In other words, it measures the total amount of locked and utilized cryptocurrencies in various decentralized financial services, including liquidity pools, borrowing and lending protocols, decentralized exchange (DEX) platforms, among others. TVL is often seen as an indicator of the popularity and adoption of different DeFi protocols. It acts as a barometer of this crypto ecosystem. Indeed, according to recent data, the TVL of DeFi is in its best shape thanks to the dynamism of Ethereum. This article explains the ins and outs of this trend.
The crypto industry has been booming since the advent of registrations. These digital data open up new perspectives for the Bitcoin network and other platforms. On one side, there are Bitcoin Ordinal registrations that bring a new dynamic to the pioneering blockchain. On the other side, registrations on EVM-compatible blockchains like Ethereum have seen rapid growth followed by stabilization. Although their future remains uncertain, registrations are a promising track for extension to a wide range of blockchains. In this article, based on a Binance report, we explore the landscape of registrations, analyzing their impact on the Bitcoin network and EVM-compatible blockchains. This is done with a focus on platforms active in this field.
The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has reached an important milestone by surpassing $60 billion in locked crypto assets.
Solana and Chainlink ignite the DEX market, promising a bull run for altcoins. Analysts anticipate a fruitful Q1.
Explore how Bitcoin is getting involved in DeFi, revealing immense potential despite significant risks.
While Solana is showing a downward trend, investors are wondering about the future of the cryptocurrency. The assessment of its performance!
A reduction in the Fed rates in 2024 could encourage crypto investors to turn to DeFi returns and stablecoins.
The Chainlink crypto network becomes a DeFi engine in 2023 by revolutionizing financial collaborations and use cases.
The CFTC has published a detailed report on DeFi, highlighting the lack of accountability and AML/CFT compliance in the crypto space.
Despite Ethereum's dominance, many blockchains like TRON are competing for the top spots in terms of TVL.
Throughout this year, the crypto ecosystem has shown remarkable dynamism in almost every segment. However, according to recent data, artificial intelligence (AI), GameFi, and memecoins have emerged as the most captivating topics for investors.
The funds stolen in hacks and scams related to cryptocurrencies reached 2 billion dollars in 2023, compared to 4 billion in 2022.
Like VanEck, Bitwise, and Bitget before it, the Messari platform recently published a fairly comprehensive summary of the crypto industry in 2024. The company projects what it believes will be the major trends in this constantly developing market. Messari addresses almost all segments of the crypto industry in 10 key points, from investment to peer-to-peer infrastructure, layers-1, CeFi, DeFi, crypto products, and even the key figures to follow in the crypto sector in 2024. As you may have understood, Messari's projections, spanning 192 pages, aim for completeness. However, this article's goal is not to provide a comprehensive review, but rather to focus on some of the most relevant points mentioned.
The Solana DeFi ecosystem is currently experiencing exponential growth. In the space of just one week, transaction volumes on Solana-based decentralized exchanges (DEX) have surged by 54%, reaching a record high of 3 billion dollars.
The brilliant bitcoiner and entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan has just published a scathing critique of the American state in its handling of the FTX case. According to him, the SBF case reveals the immense level of corruption within the establishment.
November 2nd, 2023 / Zug, Switzerland: The NEAR Foundation announced today that Coin98––a multichain wallet and defi platform with more than 7 million users across 170 countries––has launched a decentralized dapp store powered by the NEAR Blockchain Operating System (B.O.S). Coin98’s innovative marketplace offers an intuitive app store interface to streamline access to a range of apps on prominent Ethereum Layer-2 ecosystems, greatly increasing accessibility and discoverability for users.
It's a fact: decentralized finance (or DeFi) and crypto are well and truly present on the European market. In a detailed report, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) takes a close look at this new financial era. Read on for more details!
No cryptocurrency transaction should go unnoticed by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), as they develop a suitable system to track cryptocurrency exchange flows throughout the European territory. Several European central banks have joined them in this initiative. Let's take a closer look!
Recently, the CEO of Binance stepped up to defend his highly popular cryptocurrency exchange. According to the latest news, Changpeng Zhao, aided by Binance.US lawyers, has asked the court to dismiss the US SEC's lawsuits. Let's break it down!
'Web2 is not safe,' comments Curve Finance, which also fell victim to a cryptocurrency hack resulting in a loss of $52 million at the end of July. Balancer, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol deployed on Ethereum, has reported a recent attack on its frontend resulting in the loss of $238,000 in cryptocurrencies. Thus, the list of DeFi hacks continues to grow. Let's break it down!
The Shibarium is not designed to drive up the price of SHIB. But it could propel memecoin to the moon. Except that the idleness of the crypto community is delaying the long-awaited Shiba Inu bull run. To speed things up, Lucie, marketing manager of this crypto project, is urging SHIB fans to get much more active, to collaborate. Read on!
On the crypto market, Shiba Inu (SHIB) is making news today due to its skyrocketing burn rate in just 24 hours. A rise which is having a considerable impact on the price of the crypto as well as the crypto market in general.
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Last Friday, Curve set a deadline for hacker DeFi to return all the stolen money: Sunday August 6 at 8 a.m. UTC. Once this deadline has passed, the team will take drastic measures to hand him over to the appropriate authorities. If the latest news is to be believed, the pirate has returned part of the jackpot. And in the process, he has dared to mock the crypto community by saying that he is "smarter" to evade possible hunts.
What's new at Shiba Inu? For now, the ShibArmy is eagerly awaiting the advent of Shibarium, the SHIB-friendly Ethereum layer 2. And why not the elimination of a few zeros from the current DogeKiller price? If the latest news is to be believed, the team behind this memecoin claims to have taken steps to hoist the Shiba Inu ecosystem to the forefront of the DeFi scene. Here's the lowdown!
Late yesterday evening, Curve Finance suffered a re-entry attack. Provisional reports of the hack indicated a loss of some $26 million. Except that it was a long night for the Curve team, and so was the list of break-ins. According to the latest news, the total amount of money stolen is in the region of $52 million.