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First Mover: Ethereum Gets Unplanned Stress Test as DeFi Fever Grows

This column has written in recent weeks about the surprising possibility that cryptocurrency markets might have become the new home for capitalism , in an environment where central banks and governments are intervening deeply in markets while picking corporate winners via emergency aid.  If anything, the ridiculousness of the recent weeks’ saga involving the deliciously named

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DeFi’s “Yield-Farming” Fever Is Coming to Bitcoin, Here’s How

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) projects Ren Protocol, Synthetix, and Curve, are launching Bitcoin liquidity incentives to rival Ethereum-centric DeFi frameworks, reported Decrypt on June 25. Yield Farming Frenzy Yield farming has been the flavor of cryptocurrency since May 2020, ever since Compound and other projects gained prominence. Now, three DeFi projects

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Bitcoin Fever: Big Whale Hedge Fund Manager Paul Tudor Buys BTC

Paul Tudor Jones, a highly reputed hedge-fund manager and founder of Tudor Investment Corporation, has made it clear that Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin, the world’s flagship cryptocurrency is a safe-haven asset to hedge against “great monetary inflation,” and as such, he’s going all-in on Bitcoin (BTC), according to a Forbes report

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