Tagged: uniswap

October 4, 2020 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis, a leading blockchain analysis and security firm, has provided an update regarding the recent KuCoin exchange hack, which led to around $280 million in digital assets being stolen (according to estimates confirmed by many industry participants). Chainalysis noted that on September 25, 2020, hackers… Read More

September 28, 2020 @ 9:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto exchange OKCoin confirms that they recently listed Uniswap’s UNI governance token and are now planning to list cUSDC and cUSDT tokens from Compound, which is another major algorithmic money market developed on Ethereum (ETH). As explained by the OKCoin team, UNI is the governance… Read More

September 27, 2020 @ 6:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The recently issued UNI governance token, which is associated with Uniswap, a leading Ethereum token exchange, aims to help Uniswap transition into a “decentralized,” community-managed and owned protocol. However, the exchange protocol’s team hasn’t been completely transparent about how they aim to achieve “decentralization.” Liesl… Read More

September 20, 2020 @ 10:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital assets exchange OKEx announced on Friday it is offering a full suite of trading products for Uniswap’s UNI. The platform reported that the products will include margin, swap trading, coin-margined perpetual swap, and savings. It will also offer zero transaction fees in UNIUSD perpetual… Read More

September 19, 2020 @ 12:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uniswap, a non-custodial Ethereum token exchange, recently introduced a “governance” token, called UNI. There will be 1 billion UNI tokens that will be released to the general public over the course of the next 4 years. UNI tokens will be allocated to Uniswap’s community members…. Read More

September 7, 2020 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Will Harborne, CEO at Deversifi, a self-custody digital asset exchange for “serious” traders, has said that he disagrees “very strongly” with the idea that anyone who does not “condemn” SushiSwap has joined “the Dark Side.” SushiSwap is a recently launched decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that’s… Read More

September 5, 2020 @ 5:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Ontology (ONT), a “high-performance” blockchain network, have noted that they’ve successfully completed the development of an open-source decentralized identity (DID) smart contract, which was launched on the Ethereum (ETH) network. The Ontology team confirmed on September 4, 2020, that both its native… Read More

August 7, 2020 @ 5:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum based Uniswap, a leading non-custodial crypto token exchange, has reportedly secured $11 million through a Series A investment round. Uniswap’s latest funding round was led by giant VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. Union Square Ventures, Version One, Parafi Capital, Variant, SV Angel and A. Capital… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Graph announced on July 27, 2020, the launch of Mission Control, which is described as The Graph’s incentivized test network (testnet). The Graph serves as an indexing protocol for “organizing and efficiently accessing” data from blockchains and storage networks. The Graph supports indexing data… Read More

July 18, 2020 @ 10:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The first half of 2020 has been negatively impacted by the global COVID-19 outbreak, including the nascent Bitcoin (BTC) and the alternative asset sector. Several blockchain and crypto firms such as TAGZ, an Australian digital currency exchange, and investment company Adaptive Capital have been forced… Read More

July 13, 2020 @ 9:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Although the decentralized crypto-asset exchange (DEX) sector is still in its early stages of development, it can be argued that there are some platforms that are beginning to take the lead when it comes to the number of digital assets they’re supporting. Ethereum (ETH)-based Uniswap,… Read More

July 7, 2020 @ 11:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Security Token Group (STG) has published the Security Token Market Report for June 2020. The team at STG claims that during the past 6 months, there’s been substantial growth in the blockchain-based security token sector. In May 2020, tZERO, the leading ATS in the… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ampleforth, a crypto-asset protocol for “oraclized” money, revealed on June 23, 2020, that it will introduce a new Liquidity Incentive Program, Geyser, which will target Uniswap 2.0, a widely-used non-custodial Ethereum token exchange. As mentioned in a press release shared with Crowdfund Insider: “After providing… Read More

May 30, 2020 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Hayden Adams, the inventor of Uniswap, a widely-used non-custodial digital asset exchange, claims that decentralized trading platforms are “already beating centralized ones for a ton of ETH/ERC-20 pairs.” Adams acknowledges that trades involving fiat and cross-chain cryptocurrency pairs are still mostly being done on… Read More

May 30, 2020 @ 4:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fortmatic, a company that aims to improve the user experience, or UX, (which can be poor with digital asset wallets) by allowing users to access their Ethereum (ETH) funds from their app, has secured $4 million in seed funding. The firm’s app aims to allow users… Read More

May 18, 2020 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uniswap, a widely-used non-custodial digital asset exchange, has revealed that the second version of the decentralized protocol has now been launched. The developers of Uniswap had noted in March 2020 that they would be releasing the second iteration of the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol. Uniswap’s… Read More

April 29, 2020 @ 2:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

tBTC, an Ethereum (ETH)-based token that’s pegged to Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, is preparing for its public launch. During the course of the next two weeks, the tBTC project is planning to introduce its technical infrastructure with the help of more than 40 digital… Read More

March 25, 2020 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer Labs, a non-custodial asset manager, has secured $3 million in funding through a seed round led by Accomplice and Placeholder. Established in 2018, Balancer began operating as an initiative under BlockScience, a data analytics company. The project has been inspired by the development of… Read More

March 24, 2020 @ 11:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uniswap, a widely-used non-custodial digital asset exchange, has revealed that the decentralized protocol’s second iteration will launch during Q2 2020. It will add new features such as support for additional ERC-20 compliant pairs, more peer to peer price oracles, flash swaps and a new protocol… Read More