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People leaving Ethereum is ‘just never going to happen,’ says Solana co-founder

2021 saw a significant proportion of developers shifting from Ethereum to rival blockchains. Primarily, because the Ethereum network continued to fight high gas fees and congestion. Well, one network that hugely benefitted from this situation was Solana. Its meteoric rise over 2021 positioned it as one of the main Ethereum-killers. Solana’s native token Sol reached a new all-time high in early November. Furthermore, at the time of writing, the token registered a 10% ROI over the past week. Also, it had a 24-hour trading volume of over $3.6 billion, at

🔴 Infrastructure Bill Impacting Crypto | This Week in Crypto – Nov 22, 2021

 The controversial U.S. infrastructure bill becomes law, Square reveals its DEX, and a crypto exchange stamps its name on a major US sports venue. These stories and more this week in crypto. Hundreds of billions of dollars of value were wiped off in a market-wide dip just a week after the crypto market had peaked. The dip brought the price of Bitcoin back down below $57,000 and other major cryptocurrencies also suffered double digit drops in value before stabilising. President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Bill containing controversial crypto

Quentin Tarantino Sued for an Upcoming Auction of Pulp Fiction NFTs

Quentin Tarantino, the acclaimed film director, is being sued by Miramax, a Hollywood film producer and distributing company, due to the auction of a series of NFTs related to “Pulp Fiction,” one of the director’s most popular films. The conflict lies in the interpretation that Miramax makes from the initial contract between the parts, arguing that the sale of NFTs does not constitute a publication of any part of the script. Miramax Sues Quentin Tarantino Miramax, the Hollywood movie company, sued Quentin Tarantino, the acclaimed film director, for the upcoming

CeloLaunch AMA Session With BeInCrypto

Hi Everyone. Welcome to another BeInCrypto AMA Session.Sponsored Sponsored Today we have Stephen (@Stephen_CLA) who is a community manager of CeloLaunch, the first DeFi launchpad on the Celo network.  BeInCrypto (BIC): Community, here is how things will work. I’ll have 10 questions for him. After that, he will pick up 5 out of all the questions you asked before the session. Good luck to you all!Sponsored Sponsored (This AMA has been edited for clarity.) BIC: I would like to ask you something general to kick things off, so please provide

Dexsport: Offering a transparent decentralized betting platform

The Internet, as we know it, provides us with a range of tools: we can interact with other users, create and share our own content, and even earn money in different fields. At the first glance, everything here is promising but, in fact, a knowing eye can quickly notice existing security issues as well as censorship and centralization. When all data is stored on a server that is controlled by a third party, it can be hacked and user information can be used in many undesirable ways. These are the

White Whale: Enabling the UST peg in a decentralized manner

When looking at the Cryptosphere, there are a number of challenges that are immediately present. The maintenance or consistency of the UST (TerraUSD) peg, is one of these challenges. If a stablecoin cannot hold its peg, the entire ecosystem that is built around it can fail. This is not a hypothetical situation, but one that has happened to other algorithmic stable coins, it resulted in the peg being lost and projects dumping to zero. Another issue smaller investors are facing is the “whales”. Whales have been known to manipulate markets,

Pangolin V2 Prepares for Launch with Improved Smart Contracts and Tokenomics

The first iteration of Pangolin launched on the Avalanche blockchain in February 2021 and quickly rose to become one of the most utilized decentralized exchanges (DEX) on the market – as well as one of the most successful dApps to launch on the Avalanche Network to date. Pangolin V1 used the same automated market maker (AMM) model as popular DEFI platforms such as UniSwap, and its Avalanche-based tokens were cross-compatible with those built on Ethereum. The protocol managed to process more than $8.7 billion dollars in trade volume in less

Pawnfi.com to Launch Liquidity Protocol for Non-Standard Assets

Pawnfi.com has announced the closure of a $3M strategic funding round. The investment round was led by Digital Currency Group (DCG) and also included Animoca Brands, Dapper Labs, Polygon, DeFi Alliance, Hashkey Capital, Everest Venture Group, SNZ, and 6Block. Sponsored Sponsored The first DeFi product of its kind, Pawnfi.com is brand-new in the lending and leasing market. It appraises, liquidates, and provides use cases for non-standard assets (NSAs). Supported NSAs include non-fungible tokens (NFTs), liquidity provider tokens (LP tokens), tokenized rights, minor cryptocurrencies, and bundled assets. With the development of the

Cosmos liquid staking protocol pSTAKE raises $10 million in seed funding

pSTAKE, a liquid staking protocol from blockchain startup Persistence, has raised $10 million in a seed funding round.Three Arrows Capital, Galaxy Digital, Sequoia Capital India, and DeFiance Capital co-led the round, with Coinbase Ventures, Tendermint Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Alameda Research, and Sino Global Capital also participating. Several angel investors, including Aave's Ajit Tripathi, Terra founder Do Kwon and Alpha Finance co-founder Tascha Punyaneramitdee, also backed the round. Crypto staking infrastructure providers, including Stake.fish, Figment Fund, Everstake, and Chorus One, also joined the round. This was pSTAKE's first fundraise and was

Do Bitcoin and other cryptos have any added advantages over equities

Bitcoin has shot up in price at the start of the week following a major upgrade to its network. Even the rejection of a spot bitcoin ETF by the SEC appears to have done little to damage bitcoin’s price prospects. At press time, the token, post some correction was trading at the $65.8k mark. Nonetheless, what’s the projected price mark for the largest cryptocurrency. Gareth Soloway, the chief market strategist at stock technical guidance platform InTheMoneyStocks.com believes that the token still had some room to left to record a fresh

Best Crypto Staking Yields: Which Coins Earn the Most in 2021?

With Ethereum switching over to a Proof of Stake (PoS) protocol, crypto staking is exploding in popularity. Once the switch is complete, ETH will join the growing list of PoS cryptocurrencies attracting the attention of investors looking to earn income on their coin holdings. Plenty of crypto exchanges and platforms already offer users the ability to dip their toes into crypto staking at minimum cost. But the million-dollar question is – which crypto is the best for staking? The following table and individual crypto reviews may help you in finding