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Tezos Co-Founder Hints That Her Trading Card Game Will Use Alternative Blockchain

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Time Stamp: April 6, 2020 5:28 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Tezos co-founder Kathleen Breitman has left open the possibility that her trading card game Emergents may not be built on the company’s blockchain, according to statements made on April 5.According to the Reddit post, Kathleen pointed out that Emergents might not be using Tezos blockchain technology, saying she had not yet decided on the platform she will use in the game.In a comment left on the post, she added the following:“The alpha doesn’t have a marketplace, it’s an alpha. The white paper doesn’t describe any feature that could not be

Smart Contracts: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

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Time Stamp: April 6, 2020 1:37 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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SafeMathIn most modern programming languages, safety in arithmetic operations is accounted for, so little thought goes into their implementation. However, in Solidity, overflows and underflows present a security risk.SafeMath is a library that ensures safe arithmetic operations by reverting the transaction if the bounds of an integer data type are exceeded.SafeMath example.The using statement indicates to the compiler that the contract is using functions defined in SafeMath for uint operations. Instead of using arithmetic operators (+, -, *, /, %), use the functions add(), sub(), mul(), div(), and mod(). Source:

Top Crypto Exchange Binance Hints at Launching Bitcoin Options Trading

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Time Stamp: April 3, 2020 6:37 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Top crypto exchange Binance has hinted that it plans to launch Bitcoin (BTC) options trading. Two tweets — via the exchange’s official handle and CEO Changpeng Zhao (“CZ”) — posted on April 3 revealed “testflight leaks” and a screenshot of an apparent prototype for trading BTC/Tether (USDT) options contracts:Source: @cz_binance official Twitter handle, April 3“Notice anything new”?Binance’s performative social media “leak” revealed options trading support as one of the items on a “what to test” list, which included other products that have previously been officially announced, such as the Binance Card

How the Pressures of the Coronavirus May Open the Door for Tokenization

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Time Stamp: April 2, 2020 2:16 PM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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The coronavirus pandemic is the only thing on most people’s minds right now around the world.The pending economic fallout is only surpassed by the anxiety induced by surging cases in both the United States and Europe. People remain firmly in quarantine around the world, and consumer demand has fallen off a cliff as people are holed up with only basic necessities.Paired with the awful Purchasing Managers’ Index numbers published by the National Bureau of Statistics and the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, as well asearly U.S. indicators, we’re about

1.1 Million In USDC Invested Into Uniswap and PoolTogether By Coinbase

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Time Stamp: April 2, 2020 8:55 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Coinbase, one of the world’s heavyweight exchanges, has recently invested 1.1 million in USDC to the decentralized finance protocols of PoolTogether and Uniswap.Pushing In 1.1 Million In USDC To Smart ContractsAccording to the announcement the San Francisco-based crypto exchange had made, the funding itself comes from its USDC Bootstrap Fund. This Fund was created back in September of last year, with an initial funding clocking in at $2 million. The move itself comes as a bid from the exchange to stimulate the growth of the USDC within the Decentralized Finance

AT&T Starts Appeal to Dismiss Crypto Investor’s SIM Swapping Case 

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Time Stamp: April 2, 2020 4:44 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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AT&T has moved to have a long-standing negligence case against it dismissed. Earlier this week, the company filed a motion to dismiss claims that it was complicit in a SIM swapping case that resulted in millions in crypto stolen from its customers. The case itself originated back in 2018, when crypto investor Michael Terpin sued the telecoms giant of negligence and accused it of being complicit in two separate SIM swapping operations. A Timeline of Terpin’s CaseAt the time, Terpin claimed to have lost almost $24 million, but was suing the firm

Coinbase Bootstraps USDC; Invests $1.1M in DeFi Products Uniswap and PoolTogether

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 2:27 PM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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 Leading US-based cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider, Coinbase has announced that it has made a direct investment up to the tune of $1.1 million in two different Decentralized Finance (DeFi) products – Uniswap and PoolTogether.  According to the official announcement today, the funding was made via the exchange’s stablecoin, USD Coin (USDC) and it is part of Coinbase efforts to increase the projects’ chances of competing against other existing financial products.  Uniswap The Uniswap platform is an automated market maker built on the Ethereum blockchain that is currently simplifying exchanges’

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum is DeFi Chain as Much as Bitcoin is Digital Gold

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Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin has recently asserted that aside from the numerous potential applications of Ethereum in various areas, its use as a cryptocurrency, for settlements, cannot be overlooked. This is coming after Ryan Sean Adams, the founder of Mythos Capital, shared how Bitcoin Maximalists are trolling him about how pointless Ethereum is. Got Maximalists trolling me about how pointless Ethereum is meanwhile I just sent a crypto backed stablecoin in a private transaction on the Ethereum mainnet peer-to-peer w/o a bank Keep trolling We’ll keep building the bankless future

How to Trade Bitcoin Using Leverage and Not Worry About Liquidation

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 2:41 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Institutional traders have long known the benefits of derivatives trading, including leverage and hedging. By trading options markets, one can predetermine maximum gains and losses, even with volatile assets like Bitcoin (BTC). Despite being far more complex, such instruments allow traders to generate gains independent of what happens over the next weeks or even months, which is essential for traders’ peace of mind to achieve optimal performance.Retail traders have only recently begun using derivatives, although they have focused almost exclusively on futures contracts offered by BitMEX, OKEx, Binance and so many