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Nostr: A Decentralized Censorship-Resistant Twitter Alternative? Thanks, Elon – Crypto Projects to Watch 2023

Censorship or the lack thereof has long been a pain point for social media users and providers. Just recall the controversial cancellations and reversals on Twitter, crypto’s and President Donald Trump’s once-favorite social media site. In January 2021, while Twitter was a public company run by Jack Dorsey, Trump was

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Centralized Stablecoins Are Problematic. Is a Decentralized Alternative on the Way?

An obvious, but so far intractable, solution to this problem would be a decentralized stablecoin. Or ideally stablecoins. Unfortunately, most of the top DeFi-native stablecoins depegged along with USDC, a centralized and censorable asset that makes up a significant portion of supposedly decentralized asset’s backing. LUSD, for instance, tied to

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Ethereum-based Decentralized Exchange Uniswap Launches Mobile Wallet

Uniswap’s mobile wallet will allow users to swap funds on other popular DeFi platforms such as Arbiturm, Polygon, and Optimism.  Ethereum-based popular decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap has recently launched a mobile wallet application in a move to promote wider DeFi adoption, as well as support the on-the-go trading on the platform. As

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Decentralized exchange dYdX announces ‘winding down’ of services for Canadian users

Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange dYdX has announced it will be restricting Canadian user accounts over the next seven days in a move to exit the market.In an April 7 blog post, dYdX said it will be “winding down services” in Canada, starting with halting the onboarding of new users located in

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GMX and dYdX go head-to-head for the top decentralized derivatives position

The top two decentralized derivatives platforms, dYdX and GMX, are head-to-head concerning liquidity and trading volumes.The perpetual swap daily trading volume on dYdX ranged between $340 million and $2.6 billion in March, per CoinGecko data. In comparison, GMX did less than $500 million in daily trading volumes.The open interest (OI)

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Pantera Capital leads $22.5M investment in M^ZERO Labs for decentralized infrastructure

Berlin-based M^ZERO Labs, a company that seeks to build neutral infrastructure linking assets in the global financial system with decentralized applications, has raised $22.5 million in a financing round led by Pantera Capital. The funding round also includes participation from other investors such as Road Capital, AirTree, Standard Crypto, The

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