Tagged: ethereum

January 24, 2022 @ 10:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinshares reports that digital asset investment inflows totaled $14.4 million last week. While breaking a 5-week downward trend, the amount was still pretty small. Coinshares states that total assets under management (AuM) are now $51 billion, the lowest since early August 2021, having fallen 41%… Read More

January 22, 2022 @ 1:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York City’s new Mayor Eric Adams has been criticized for using of his public office in an attempt to promote the cryptocurrency sector. An upstate New York environmental group, called Seneca Lake Guardian, has stated that creating and managing virtual currency tends to consume… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Qi (formerly Stark Payments), a company that enables businesses to accept virtual currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and others as a regular payment, has raised 66% (£231,497) of its £350,000 target from 160 investors (at the time of writing) through its crowdfunding campaign carried out via… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 8:41 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cardano, a rival cryptocurrency to Ethereum, is likely to hit all-time highs of $2 before the end of 2022, predicts deVere Group CEO Nigel Green. The bullish guess comes as Cardano (ADA), the fifth-largest crypto, has jumped by almost 50 per cent in seven days… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 1:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Security Token Market (STM) has released a report titled, State of Security Tokens 2022 — Industry Overview. Peter Gaffney, the Head of Research from Security Token Advisors, notes that the “high-level” lifecycle of a security token includes the following: Asset Selection Offering Structuring… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Valentin Mihov, Co-founder, and Chief Investment Officer at Finexify, a boutique investment company that offers an opportunity to gain exposure to the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. The team at Finexify thinks that limited access to DeFi means “extraordinary” alpha with limited… Read More

January 13, 2022 @ 12:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Metaverse and the GameFi world have grown tremendously, with nearly every blockchain  ecosystem in the crypto space getting more actively involved. Polygon (POLY) ecosystem’s capabilities of building and connecting different blockchains and dApps is being supported by the launch of Polygon Studios, which is… Read More

January 12, 2022 @ 2:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Autonomy Network, an “off-the-shelf” decentralized automation protocol, is pleased to launch AutoSwap, which is a dApp providing limit order, stop loss, impermanent loss protection, and recurring payment features for Binance Smart Chain (BSC)-based DEXes like PancakeSwap. The dApp will also be available on Ethereum, Polygon,… Read More

January 11, 2022 @ 12:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Genesis, a crypto prime brokerage, has published a report covering last month (December 2021). According to Genesis, their perspective shows that Bitcoin acts more like a “risk asset” than an inflation hedge – something many observers frequently ascribe to BTC. The firm said that the… Read More

January 11, 2022 @ 2:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Amber Group, a firm that helps clients buy and sell cryptocurrency products, earn yield, manage risk, and access liquidity, notes that one of the most “pressing” challenges that the Ethereum (ETH) network faces is scalability. In an extensive report, Amber Group explained that this issue… Read More

January 7, 2022 @ 6:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Blockchain.com, a leading block explorer, crypto wallet, and trading platform, says that 2021 witnessed a “fourth” major bull cycle for Bitcoin (BTC) and other crypto-assets. Historically, in the years that followed the previous large bull markets, we’ve seen “a struggle to hold gains… Read More

January 6, 2022 @ 9:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitrefill, a Fintech company that’s supporting digital currency adoption by helping consumers “live on crypto” with gift cards, phone refills, and Lightning Network access, claims that you can now live on crypto in Saudi Arabia. Bitrefill has reportedly added 73 new and popular gift cards… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 11:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kyle Waters and Nate Maddrey from Coin Metrics have noted that after a “transformative” 2021 marked by all-time highs for most of the major digital assets and “key on-chain metrics,” expectations are now quite high for the crypto and blockchain space this year. In their… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes that for the week ending December 31, 2021, the firm saw yearly inflows of “US$9.3bn in… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital money transfer service ZEN.COM, which is reportedly powered by Mastercard (NYSE: MA), has introduced the conversion of fiat money into digital assets, as well as the “transfer of fiat currencies to any digital wallet servicing BTC, ETH or USD-T (ERC-20), with more currencies coming… Read More

January 3, 2022 @ 1:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LTD.INC, a curated platform that teams up with various artists, creators, and brands to launch rare physical and digital NFT collections and experiences via the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain and the latest NFT tech, has announced the “upcoming launch of its Web 3.0 platform and mobile… Read More

December 31, 2021 @ 9:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitfinex Derivatives provides a derivatives platform that’s accessible via Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform. Bitfinex Derivatives has announced the launch of a perpetual contract for Curve DAO Token (CRVF0:USTF0). Curve DAO Token (CRV) is an Ethereum token that is used to power transactions via… Read More

December 29, 2021 @ 7:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Coin Metric State of the Network Report #135 notes that decentralized finance (DeFi) has experienced tremendous growth during the past few years. At present, the most widely-used metric to measure DeFi adoption is called “Total Value Locked”, or TVL. According to Coin Metrics researchers,… Read More

December 28, 2021 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink Keepers is a decentralized transaction automation solution that allows smart contracts to effectively automate important functions and DevOps tasks in a reliable, “trust-minimized”, and cost-efficient way. Blockchain developers, teams, and distributed autonomous organizations or DAOs are able to leverage Chainlink Keepers as a type… Read More

December 28, 2021 @ 5:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

More than half a billion dollars worth of cryptoassets were stolen from exchanges in the first half of December, compliance firm Elliptic said in a recent blog post. On Dec. 11 and 12, close to $83 million was stolen from AscendEX, a cryptoasset exchange that… Read More