The first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase. “I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which…
CEO of crypto derivatives exchange FTX donated $5M…
Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX, donated $5.2 million to vice president Joe Biden's presidential campaign. As The Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 28, Biden’s presidential campaign received a total of…
Bitcoin’s brief trip to $13.2K suggests profit-taking price…
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) surpassed $13,000 for the first time since June 2019. The optimism around PayPal supporting crypto purchases led the overall market sentiment to brighten within a short period. Immediately after the…
3 years after the ICO, Filecoin (FIL) rallies…
On Thursday Filecoin (FIL) began trading across major exchanges over three years after its initial coin offering. Upon listing, the token traded at wildly different prices across multiple exchanges and while the premium shows there…
SushiSwap (SUSHI) Vies for Buyers as Liquidity Pool…
There is nothing delicious about SUSHI anymore. The SushiSwap decentralized exchange’s governance token continued on its downtrend as its price fell another 15 percent in the new week. As of 1130 UTC, SUSHI/USD was trading…
First Mover: Tron’s Play for WBTC Shows Competition…
Compared with the traditional financial system, the cryptocurrency industry is evolving fast. Technologists are experimenting with the vast-reaching potential of blockchain. And regulation is typically immature, inconsistent and unevenly applied across international borders, allowing entrepreneurs…
YFI Worst Hit by Ongoing Crypto Market Meltdown;…
YFI has been among the worst-hit tokens in an ongoing meltdown that has wiped $65 billion from the cryptocurrency market. As of 1223 GMT Tuesday, YFI/USD was trading about 47 percent lower from its all-time…
YFI Expects Big Trouble as Price Falls Six…
It is day six and YFI has not stopped falling from its all-time high above $44,000. The Yearn Finance’s governance token remains among the best-performing crypto-assets in 2020, with lifetime gains near 2,000 percent. Nevertheless,…
Blockchain Bites: Uniswap’s Token, Kraken’s Bank, Bitcoin’s Newbies
Uniswap issued a governance token, Kraken is the world’s first crypto bank and there are more “newbie” bitcoin investors than any time in the past two years. Top shelf Crypto’s bankKraken Financial, a newly formed division…
Defi Boom: Bubble Fears Grow as ‘Toxic’ Community…
The decentralized finance (defi) space is headed for an implosion unless the divided community leaders step forward with solutions. This is discernible from September 13 Sunday morning tweets by some influential players in the defi…
Sushiswap’s 2 Million Token Airdrop: Founders Face Accusations…
Sushiswap’s new leader and FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried tweeted on September 12 that the promised 2 million token airdrop would go on as scheduled. The process was expected to last up to two hours or…
Investing in DeFi? Bet on diversification, not short-term…
The decentralized finance space has grown exponentially over the last few months, to the point where more than $9 billion worth of crypto assets were locked in its protocols before crypto prices started dropping. The…
Sushiswap Creator Returns $14 Million After Community Cries…
One week after the Sushiswap creator was accused of an exit scam, he has returned all of the coins he cashed out. The anonymous creator also apologizes to the community, including to Binance which came…
Glassnode report suggests the fair value of SUSHI…
Research by on-chain analytics provider, Glassnode, has taken a deep dive into the economics and value of the SUSHI token, revealing that it may be worth far less than its current price. And that's after…
First Mover: Binance’s New DeFi Futures Let Crypto…
Market Moves The fast-growing realm of decentralized finance – semi-autonomous exchanges and lenders erected from interconnected systems of digital tokens and coding atop the Ethereum blockchain – is one of the hottest corners of the…
Balancer Votes for Centralized Quick Fix to Stop…
Following the meteoric launch of Balancer Labs’ governance token, the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol has quickly implemented changes to limit large players from exploiting the platform to mine BAL tokens, rather than for crypto asset…
FTX Is Building Lots of Sophisticated Markets Few…
Cryptocurrency exchange FTX has launched eight unique index futures and volatility markets in less than 12 months. But enticing sophisticated traders to use these novel products has proved challenging. At the time of publication, Antigua…
First Mover: Compound’s COMP Token More Than Doubles…
The speculative fervor surrounding the autonomous lender Compound’s new digital token took another notch up Thursday as its already relatively lofty price more than doubled in 24 hours. The rapid ascent of the COMP “governance”…
First Mover: US Arms of Binance, FTX Push…
Cryptocurrency exchanges based outside the U.S. are pushing to fill what they see as a competitive gap in the world's biggest economy – offering more leverage to traders who have limited alternatives due to a…
First Mover: U.S. Arms of Binance, FTX Push…
Cryptocurrency exchanges based outside the U.S. are pushing to fill what they see as a competitive gap in the world's biggest economy – offering more leverage to traders who have limited alternatives due to a…
Amun Launches Token Tracking the Inverse of Bitcoin’s…
A new token lets traders make gains whenever bitcoin’s price falls. Swiss fintech firm Amun launched its BTCSHORT (BTCS) daily inverse token Wednesday, which returns a gain based on bitcoin’s (BTC) inverse price movements in…