A recent report from the ABA (American Bankers Association) suggests that banks partner with cryptocurrency firms due to the growing client interest and profit in the sector. This 20-pages report provides a detailed analysis of the crypto, including a glossary. It also maps cryptocurrency activities to the bank services and products. The Banker’s association also…
The developer and co-founder of Ethereum recently urged the community to innovate beyond decentralized finance. He made these statements during a conference that took place in Paris. According to Buterin, non-financial utilities are part of the vision general-purpose blockchains such as Ethereum aims to offer. But he is somewhat disappointed that the ETH blockchain is…
Cardano (ADA) continues to move further in its smart contracts integration on its blockchain. Cardano announced about a week ago that it had successfully completed the long-awaited Alonzo White Hard Fork. And with this, the project was moving on to the next phase of the integration. Smart contracts on the Cardano network will allow developers…
Several states’ securities regulators have been furrowing their brows with regards to BlockFi Interest Accounts (BIA) lately. This includes BlockFi’s home state of New Jersey, who was arguably one of the more strict in their action towards the firm; New Jersey issued a cease and desist that instructed the firm to stop offering their BIA…
New Jersey, Texas, and Alabama have individual state regulators issuing concerns that New Jersey-based DeFi firm, BlockFi, is offering unregistered securities. Regulators seem to particularly point to BlockFi’s Interest Account (BIA), which offers rates that consumers are now becoming accustomed to in DeFi – but that have blown traditional banking rates out of the water.…
Software development studio Uniswap Labs (UL) announced the restriction of certain tokens via the app.uniswap.org domain. The company claims to be taking part in “creating a better” financial system and has taken the decision after reviewing the regulatory landscape and the actions of other “DeFi interfaces”. The token removed from the domain represented a “very…
According to the announcement from IOHK, “Project Alonzo testnet” has moved from Blue to White and is making it possible for Cardano to launch smart contracts. IOHK is the development team of the Cardano blockchain. The team made the announcement recently, revealing that the testnet has been successful in this first phase. Related Reading |…
According to the information available, Harmony Hackathon will last for six weeks. The Hackathon will commence on August 15, 2021, and ends on September 30, 2021. Related Reading | Ether EFT Gets Approval From Brazilian Securities Regulator There will be three categories, and each one will have four challenges for the experts to complete. 🚀 1/…
Algorithmic currency protocol OlympusDAO (OHM) has been outperforming Bitcoin and Ethereum despite the recent downtrend. In the 7-day and 30-day charts, OHM records a 38% and 126% profit, respectively. A report published by Delphi Digital concludes that OHM has been displaying countercyclical behavior. As reported by NewsBTC back in April, this protocol took the market…
DinoSwap is launching this week, on July 17. It is similar to PancakeSwap but on Polygon, the up-and-coming blockchain protocol with significant user demand. On DinoSwap, users will be able to stake the DINO token to earn the tokens of other projects on Polygon. It is similar to PancakeSwap, but users stake DINO instead to…