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Alt Season Reigns as Big Money Exits the U.S. Dollar

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Time Stamp: August 17, 2020 4:07 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Open up the keg of powder, it’s time to lock and load. It’s alt season. In July, I predicted a bump of BTC followed by an open alt season. I was right. A perfect storm is bringing back memories of December 2017, and this time big money is looking to exit the U.S. dollar. Duck Season? Rabbit Season? No, Alt Season. It’s official. Alt season is here, and non-bitcoin cryptos are doing what they do best: pump. Total crypto markets have seen a surge from $165 billion in March to

Defi Is Coming to Qtum as Ethereum Rival Launches $1M Defi Dev Fund

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Time Stamp: August 17, 2020 3:11 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Blockchain smart contract network Qtum has become the latest ecosystem to woo Ethereum developers. Unlike many of its rivals, however, Qtum can boast compatibility with Ethereum’s EVM, meaning developers can port projects directly over. On August 17, the Qtum Foundation announced a $1 million DeFi development fund that will be allocated to solo devs and teams seeking to create scalable DeFi dApps. Qtum is not the first blockchain platform to lay down the red carpet to DeFi devs; Matic Network recently issued a similar call, with a generous grant program

ING, Rolls Royce and Multi.io Join Blockchain Education Alliance

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Time Stamp: August 17, 2020 7:59 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The Blockchain Education Alliance launched by blockchain accelerator MouseBelt has gained several noteworthy new members. Ashlie Meredith, the head of education for MouseBelt Blockchain Accelerator, told Cointelegraph on Aug. 17 that the new members include brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev, Dutch bank ING, cryptocurrency exchange Multi.io, and luxury car company Rolls Royce. The addition of these firms makes 26 current members in the organization.According to MouseBelt, these companies have been utilizing blockchain technology for up to five years.  Blockchain Education Alliance was involved in a three-day conference which streamed nonstop in May when

Record Ethereum Network Use and Gas Fees Pose Risk to DeFi Expansion

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Time Stamp: August 15, 2020 5:31 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The number of Ethereum network transactions more than doubled in 2020 and is now virtually identical to the January 2018 all-time high. As shown on the chart below, the number of transactions doubled in the past six months to stand at 1.23 million per day. Ethereum 7-day average daily transactions. Source: CoinMetricsThis situation might seem very bullish at first, but one must remember both EOS and Tron (TRX) started as ERC-20 tokens before launching their own mainnet and running fully independent blockchains.A similar chain migration is happening on Tether’s USDT, a stablecoin

Thailand’s Central Bank Eyes DeFi Use Cases for Its Digital Baht

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Time Stamp: August 14, 2020 7:55 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Thailand’s central bank is looking at smart contracts and decentralized finance (DeFi) implementations for its national digital currency, the digital baht.Vijak Sethaput, senior developer for the Bank of Thailand’s (BoT) central bank digital currency project Inthanon, discussed the country’s CBDC progress in an interview hosted by a global think tank for central banking, the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, on Aug. 13.Sethaput was joined by Sky Guo, CEO of New York-based enterprise blockchain firm Cypherium, which is focused on global CBDC implementations and interoperability.In the interview, Guo said that

$99 Gas Fees on Ethereum Are Crippling DeFi’s Growth

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Time Stamp: August 14, 2020 12:02 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The surging popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols on Ethereum (ETH) has contributed to skyrocketing fees, with the network processing an all-time high of $6.87 million in total fees yesterday. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Synthetix (SNX) founder and CEO, Kain Warwick warned that high fees were impacting the growth of DeFi, stating:“In the last three months, we’ve gone from an environment where DeFi was expensive to use and a little bit slow, to now, [where] for a lot of people it’s prohibitively expensive.”Ethereum fees have spiked nearly 100% over the past 24

TRON and Waves Tap Gravity to Connect Their Blockchains

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Time Stamp: August 13, 2020 12:29 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Blockchain projects TRON and Waves have inked a strategic partnership with the aim of achieving mass adoption of inter-chain DeFi. The landmark inter-chain initiative owes a debt to Gravity, the decentralized blockchain-agnostic oracle network that facilitated the integration. When Chains Collide TRON and Waves use completely different smart contract languages, the former having been written in Solidity and the latter using Ride. To bring the pair onto the same page, Gravity’s interoperable oracle queries data on each chain, thereby enabling the ecosystems to increase access to services for both user

LocalCryptos Integrates Inbuilt Crypto-To-Crypto Exchanges, Powered by ChangeNOW

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Time Stamp: August 12, 2020 2:45 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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ChangeNOW is happy to announce the integration with LocalCryptos – the world’s most popular non-custodial peer-to-peer crypto marketplace! From now on, LocalCryptos users can swap cryptocurrencies right inside its built-in non-custodial crypto wallet. To perform the desired trade in a different cryptocurrency, you don’t have to waste your time looking where to swap your crypto anymore. LocalCryptos has a built-in non-custodial web wallet supporting multiple cryptocurrencies. Within this wallet, users will now see a new “Swap” feature. Simply select the pair and set the amount, and your crypto will be

DeFi Token Serum Surges 1500% in 12 Hours After Listing

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Time Stamp: August 11, 2020 9:42 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The latest DeFi token to moon is for the decentralized derivatives exchange Serum ,which surged by four figures following its launch and exchange listings.The Serum Project is a new, non-custodial DEX that launched on August 11 and its native SRM token has since surged 1500%. The Serum Project is a collaboration between centralized derivatives trading platform FTX, and Solana, a low-fee, high-speed, interoperable smart contract blockchain. Launched less than 12 hours ago at the time of writing, the token has skyrocketed from the launch price of $0.11 to more than $1.80

Building on Taproot: Payment Pools Could Be Bitcoin’s Next Layer Two Protocol

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Time Stamp: August 11, 2020 12:10 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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This article is about a technological concept based on the proposed Taproot protocol upgrade. If you’re not yet familiar with the basics of how Taproot works, it’s recommended that you first read this explainer.Taproot, a potential upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol first proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor Gregory Maxwell, is in its late stages of development. The technology consists of a clever combination of crypto-tricks that would let users hide complex smart contracts inside regular-looking transactions — the complexity is only ever revealed if parties to a contract are uncooperative.Leveraging