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Not everyone is totally excited about DeFi.Volatile crypto is nurturing its fixed-income side. Crypto lending activity is growing on decentralized finance (DeFi) networks. Staking, where investors reap payments for locking up assets in functions essential to network protocols, is moving into crypto's mainstream, with large crypto exchanges offering staking services
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Gartner Inc., the world’s leading research and advisory company, predicts that by 2023, organizations using blockchain smart contracts will increase overall data quality by 50 percent, and trim data availability by 30 percent. The net impact is a positive result for data and analytics (D&A) Return on Investment (ROI). The impact of blockchain
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A recent academic study says Tezos is threatened by "selfish mining," providing a valid threat model for other live and up-and-coming proof-of-stake (PoS) cryptocurrencies.That’s the finding from Selfish Behavior in the Tezos Proof-of-Stake Protocol, published last November by then-Harvard researcher and current Google engineering intern Michael Neuder.The paper from Neuder
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A former MakerDAO contributor and Carnegie Mellon alumnus has committed 10,000 MKR — valued at just under $4.3 million at press time — to his alma mater to develop a research program for decentralized applications.Who is giving what for what?Nikolai Mushegian announced the donation in a Jan. 1 post
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South Korea's central bank, the Bank of Korea (BOK), plans to organize a task force dedicated to central bank digital currency (CBDC) research in the new year.In its “Monetary Policy for 2020” brief, published on Dec. 27, BOK said it would continue to build on its existing research into
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Tencent, the Chinese internet giant and owner of WeChat, is reportedly forming a team to explore possible new use cases for cryptocurrencies. According to reports by Chinese media, Tencent issued an internal notice informing employees it was searching for someone to head a new cryptocurrency research unit, which will form
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Tencent, the operator of Chinese social media app WeChat, is planning to create a digital currency research group for the further advancement of blockchain technology research projects.On Dec. 23, Chinese media outlet iFeng reported that the Chinese internet giant released a statement to its employees saying that the company
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While price fluctuations is very common in the crypto sphere, some analysts have reasons to believe that the recent plunge in the Bitcoin price isn’t just like any other decline. The researchers of Chainalysis believe it could very well be the aftereffect of the PlusToken scam.You will recall that a
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OKEx is currently one of the biggest digital assets exchange and trading platforms that has achieved significant progress since its inception. The platform is known for its constant innovation, characterized by the introduction of new features for users at a regular frequency. In this post, OKEx gives a brief overview
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A new report from Binance Research shows that many bitcoin miners have been mining Bitcoin SV and BCH to some extent with significantly lower profitability. Other than political reasons, the firm said that non-economic factors contributed to it.Had many miners that focused on BTC over Bitcoin SV and BCH in
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