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Why Klaytn and Link Will Catalyze Blockchain Adoption in Asia

In the last two years, popular messaging giants in Asia and Europe have announced plans to launch a blockchain-powered cryptocurrency. In Asia, Kakao’s Klaytn and Line’s Link platform have launched and are quickly gaining momentum, but Facebook and Telegram’s cryptocurrencies have not fared so well. Messaging Giants Pushing Blockchain Adoption As it stands, Kakao is by far the most dominant mobile platform in Korea with a market share of 97% in the country. Kakao subsidiary Ground X began development of Klaytn back in 2019, after raising $90 million in both

2021-ben hat új bankkal bővül a Google Pay tábora

Noha a legtöbb bankszámla tulajdonos valószínűleg már nagyon kevés papíralapú csekket ír, azonban a bankszámlák kezelésének továbbra is ez a kulcsa. Ugyanis ezekhez a bankszámlákhoz általában hitelkártyák vannak rendelve. Ma már számos bankkártyát össze lehet kapcsolni egy okostelefonnal vagy okosórával a digitális fizetéshez, a Google azonban felismert egy újabb lehetőséget a terület kiaknázására. Kihagyja a közvetítőt és a felhasználó közvetlenül a Google Pay alkalmazás szolgáltatásán keresztül nyithat bankszámlát és kezelheti megtakarításait. Tavaly novemberben tette lehetővé a Google az FDIC által támogatott bankokkal együtt, hogy az ügyfelek közvetlenül a platformon keresztül

mStable DeFi Guide: Ultimate Stablecoin Solution

mStable is a newly launched DeFi protocol aimed at streamlining the application of stablecoins in a unified ecosystem it aims to create. There are many projects that seek to increase the adoption of cryptos by linking them to traditional financial systems. Stablecoins, for one, have been created to do just that. Using blockchain and smart contracts, the crypto community has devised a way to make digital asset representation of fiat currencies. But even behind the recent developments surrounding stablecoins, a concern still remains: the assets that back the number of

Cryptocurrency News Roundup for Aug 3, 2020

Bitcoin started the week on a positive note after an unusually volatile weekend by recent standards. The BTC/USD price temporarily reached a local high of over $12,000. The eventful weekend was preceded by a credit-rating downgrade from Fitch who placed a “negative outlook” on the United State’s triple-A rating on Friday. Fitch added that a “resurgence of inflation” could be on the cards, which would in turn force the Fed to increase interest rates. It would be interesting to see the effects that would have on Bitcoin and its brethren.

DEX Trading Volume Tops $4 Billion in July 2020

The meteoric growth in the trading activity for decentralized exchanges (DEX) is not slowing down as the total volume for July exceeds $4 billion. Monthly DEX volumes have been on a tear since the start of 2020 with increasing returns seen in the last three consecutive months. DEX platforms continue to attract massive trading volume and their native tokens are reportedly providing greater returns than centralized exchange (CEX) counterparts. DEX July 2020 Volume Sees 12x Year-on-Year Growth According to data from on-chain analytics platform Dune Analytics, the total DEX volume

The Scam and Fall of YFI Clones

After the success of yEARN finance (YFI), a yield farming token which saw a rise in price from $35 to over $4000, a number of cryptocurrencies are trying to copy its success. These include the likes of YFFI, YFII, and Asuka, however, they’ve all witnessed 100% drops and a conspicuous exit scam. Encouraging Words Fueled by DeFi platforms where any token with an address can be traded for anything else, these are the days of Wild West token swaps. To clone the YFI token, developers only had to copy code

Ex-Chinese Banking Exec Says CBDCs Will Substitute Cash in Circulation

A former Bank of China executive has shown his support for digital currencies, positioning it as a substitute for cash, widely known in economic circles as M0. Ex-vice president of China’s central bank, Wang Yongli, said that digital currencies should substitute all currencies “as much as possible”. The push for digital currency: “shouldn’t be confined to such substitution; otherwise, its market competitiveness could be problematic,” ,he said. Yongli is the present director of the Haixia blockchain research institute and previously served at the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) for over

What is Serum? A DeFi Derivatives DEX Guide

DeFi-based exchanges have seen wild success in 2020 thanks to yield farming, which has incentivized hundreds of thousands of users to provide liquidity to these platforms. With that being said, DEXs are still a far-cry from centralized exchanges in both UI and UX. Serum is here to change all that. Serum is a protocol that claims to be “pure DeFi” as they have managed to address a lot of issues the space is facing. Most of the users in DeFi today are not traders but yield farmers. Yield farmers are

Ledger Client Details Leaked | Bitcoin News Summary Aug 3, 2020

 Some alarming news for Ledger hardware wallet users was announced. The company’s internal records were breached, revealing customer details which include up to a million email addresses. A further 9,500 customers had their full names, numbers, and addresses leaked. While funds secured by Ledger devices are still safe, any users who got an email from the company saying they were affected should be on guard against phishing or even real-world attacks. The perpetrators of last week’s high profile Twitter hack, in which accounts of various celebrities and leaders were

Ampleforth: A Guide to the AMPL DeFi Protocol

Imagine the possibilities of reinventing money. One that is powered by blockchain and crypto-based solutions. That is what Ampleforth hopes to achieve within and beyond the crypto community. Since the inception of decentralized finance (DeFi), various notable projects have spawned, giving life to a new sector in the cryptosphere. At the moment, investors and crypto traders alike are quite stoked with DeFi and liquidity mining. We have witnessed several protocols like Maker, Aave, and Compound attracting hundreds of thousands of users, enabling the DeFi ecosystem to proliferate far and wide.

ChainLink Announces Launch of Community Grant Program

Rate this post ChainLink has recently announced the launch of a community grant program. This has been launched in order to accelerate the development of the platform. It has been specified by a team at ChainLink that their network is growing rapidly. This is the high time when this ecosystem needs support to grow. ChainLink plays a huge role in the DeFi industry As ChainLink has been using the smart contracts because of which it plays quite an important role in the DeFi industry. The firm is also encouraging and