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DeFi Has a Front-Running Problem. Sparkpool’s Potential Fix Is Launching This Month
DeFi Has a Front-Running Problem. Sparkpool’s Potential Fix Is Launching This Month
Ethereum mining pool Sparkpool will launch its new mining network, Taichi Network, complete with a “private transaction” feature in October,…
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SushiSwap’s liquidity grab actually made Uniswap stronger — Data shows
New data shows that one month after SushiSwap’s vampire mining attack Uniswap is the real beneficiary. SushiSwap is widely thought to have syphoned liquidity from Uniswap but new data from Flipside Crypto, a cryptocurrency on-chain…
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Researcher suggests miners are manipulating Ethereum blocks to exploit DeFi
Miner Extractable Value is no longer just a theoretical concept. Some Ether (ETH) miners appear to be re-engineering blocks to take advantage of DeFi opportunities in an instance of what is termed “miner extractable value,” or MEV.
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First Mover: Nine (Bullish) Bitcoin Predictions for Final Months of (Awful) 2020
Oct 1, 2020 at 13:18 UTCUpdated Oct 1, 2020 at 13:44 UTC
Even after bitcoin’s outperformance over the first nine months, analysts remain bullish on bitcoin. (Metropolitan Art Museum, modified by CoinDesk)
First Mover: Nine…
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Record $166M Ethereum Fees Last Month Were 6 Times Bigger Than Bitcoin’s
Oct 1, 2020 at 10:57 UTCUpdated Oct 1, 2020 at 12:55 UTC
Ethereum art (CoinDesk archives)
Ethereum miners earned over six times more in fees compared to those working on Bitcoin in September.
Glassnode data shows…
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Why Top Global Brands Like the NBA and UFC Choose Dapper Labs’ Flow Blockchain
Developed by the team behind some of the most successful crypto applications in the world, Flow is a blockchain re-designed from the ground up to be user- and developer-friendly as well as modular and future-proof. The network is already!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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To Stake or Not to Stake, ETH 2.0 Testers Weigh In
Testnets serve a very good purpose, and that is to determine whether the technology is capable of running on a much broader scale. For Ethereum, the Medalla testnet has been in operation and growing in terms of staked ETH and validators…
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A Deep Dive Into Polkadot and How DOT Became a Top Ten Crypto Contender
Just recently a new project called Polkadot joined the top ten crypto coin list almost immediately after the project officially launched. Today, the Polkadot network is the sixth-largest blockchain in terms of market capitalization. The!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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First Mover: Bitcoins Hit Exchanges as Bloomberg Touts Crypto and DeFi Hedge Fund Seeks $50M
The upcoming U.S. presidential election has become one of the most contentious in history, fraught with searing divisions over everything from the economy to race to the continued health of democracy itself.
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VIDYA’s Public Sale Marks the Dawn of a New Blockchain Gaming Era
In 2017, the gaming world was revolutionized by the massive success of a simple blockchain game called CryptoKitties. It enabled players to breed and trade unique digital cats via a series of smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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