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Ealier this year THORChain underwent a series of protocol exploits which led to $8 million being drained from its reserves and these successive attack took a heavy tool on RUNE price. This week, the protocol announced that it would re-open its Ethereum pool, along with other altcoin and BTC-based pools
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Automated market maker MonoX has today announced a debut capital raise of $5 million from venture firms including the likes of Axia8 Ventures, Animoca Brands, Divergence Ventures, among others.MonoX will use the funds to support its ambitions in reducing the capital and liquidity prerequisites for decentralized finance (DeFi) projects offering
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Decentralized finance (defi) has set a trend during the latter half of 2020 and into this year, as statistics show $168 billion is locked in defi across various blockchains. The Bitcoin Cash network now has the Smartbch protocol and in recent times, a decentralized exchange (dex) platform has joined the
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The Ethereum 2.0 contract now has more than 7.4 million ether worth over $29.3 billion using today’s ether exchange rates. According to statistics, the smart contract address is the largest holder of ethereum out of all the wallets in existence. Ethereum 2.0 Contract Nears $30 Billion In the early days, the
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DeFi protocol Balancer (BAL) unveils MetaStable Pools, joins forces with Lido to deepen ether (ETH) and staked ether (stETH) liquidity. Balancer Launches MetaStable Pools Balancer, a leading decentralized finance (DeFi) platform recently announced its partnership with Ethereum staking solution Lido (LIDO) to launch MetaStable Pools with joint pool incentives. MetaStable Pools differ from
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The Vanilla Network is a deflationary token that aims to introduce innovative staking and betting decentralized applications (dApps) in the market for betting enthusiasts globally as well as users that are looking for rewards in return for long-term participation. All this, whilst offering a 0% rake to consumers to play
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The Solana Foundation has announced Stake Pools to increase the network’s security, promote censorship resistance, and rewards SOL holders in the process. The announcement was made via their official Twitter handle. The Stake Pool program was enabled via an on-chain governance process, as the Solana Foundation said. Any SOL holder can
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The upcoming Taproot Bitcoin upgrade was proposed to enhance the network scripting capabilities and also the privacy aspect. Major Bitcoin mining pools have signaled for the Taproot system upgrade scheduled to take place during the second half of the year. Should the upgrade take place, it would be the largest system
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Nine out of the top-10 Bitcoin (BTC) mining pools by hash rate distribution are now signaling for Taproot activation with BTC.TOP being the only exception as of the time of writing.Indeed, 90% of Bitcoin’s hash rate briefly signaled for the protocol upgrade with the figure now standing at about 73%.Tweeting
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