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Bitcoin Defi: Smart Contract Platform RSK Integrates ETH-Based Stablecoin DAI
On October 6, 2020, the RIF (RSK Infrastructure Framework) development team announced that the Makerdao project’s DAI stablecoin is now available via the smart contract protocol RSK. According to the software engineers, RIF developers…
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Ethereum Is the Frontier of Financial Innovation
Oct 8, 2020 at 16:04 UTCUpdated Oct 8, 2020 at 16:05 UTC
Innovation across various global industries seems to be moving at an accelerating pace. This makes sense because innovation in one sector ultimately makes innovation in…
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Syscoin and CorionX Partner to Push Global Stablecoin and DeFi Adoption
CorionX, a platform designed to incentivize and promote the global adoption of stablecoins and decentralized finance platforms, has announced it will be partnering with Syscoin to help tackle two of the biggest barriers to entry to DeFi —…
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New Ethereum Fee Model Has Some Miners Crying Foul: Survey
Eight of the nine mining projects answering a survey on EIP 1559 had a negative impression of the proposal, with seven saying they would not implement the change.
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JPMorgan’s Blockchain Lead Is Now in Charge of Ethereum-Based Interbank Information Network
JPMorgan Blockchain Lead Christine Moy has been promoted to lead the bank’s Ethereum-based Interbank Information Network (INN).
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First Mover: Bitcoin ‘Comatose’ Under $16K for Rest of 2020, While Ether Traffic Eases
Oct 8, 2020 at 12:54 UTCUpdated Oct 8, 2020 at 13:12 UTC
Reduced traffic means less congestion on the Ethereum network and reduced fees. (Flickr Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)
First Mover: Bitcoin ‘Comatose’ Under…
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Solana set to launch decentralized Ethereum bridge to power DeFi
Ethereum liquidity will no longer have to go through FTX to reach Solana.
Solana, the smart contract platform that recently entered the spotlight thanks to FTX’s Serum, announced the upcoming release of what it says is a decentralized…
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DeFi Not Decentralized Debate Goes Viral as Industry Experts Weigh-in
Many of the DeFi and crypto industry’s top influencers and personalities have waded in with their take on the highly charged subject.
The ethos behind DeFi is largely to remove the controlling element of a CEO, or board of directors, that…
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Yearn Finance Token Value Slides 67%, While Locked Value Loses Over $300M
Yearn Finance’s native token YFI has been seeing significant capitulation as the price has dropped from an all-time high (ATH) of $43k in mid-September to today’s $13,875 USD value. Despite the -67.7% loss since the…
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Finance Redefined: DeFi party’s over, back to building now, Sept. 30—Oct. 7
DeFi tokens suffered massive losses this week, and they could continue.
This week in DeFi was notable for its lack of notable events. Nobody set new records for the fastest hack of a new contract, nobody famous exit scammed or pulled a…
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