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[Featured Content]If Dr. Julian Hosp and U-Zyn Chua, co-founders of the DeFiChain Foundation, were to tell others their unlikely story around co-founding a company together, many would shake their heads in disbelief at the unlikeliness of the sequence of events. DeFiChain started as a fated project from the friendship of two people – U-Zyn, an early pioneer in Bitcoin and an exchange founder and Julian, a medical doctor and serial entrepreneur.U-Zyn was exposed to Bitcoin in early 2011 while...

The decentralized, peer-to-peer nature of digital currencies has long made them an attractive proposition for people in economically-challenged countries. This isn’t mere speculation. From Venezuela to Turkey, India, and Iran, citizens have flocked to cryptocurrencies as their national currencies have proven volatile in the face of economic turmoil.Now, the co-founder and CEO of IOV Labs, Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar, has penned the possibility that they could help the Latin American accelerate...

It looks like Bakkt is experiencing a sudden surge in business.Bakkt Is Pulling a Few Unexpected PunchesRecently, it was reported that the institutional crypto trading platform owned and governed by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICO) was doing rather poorly as of late, having traded zero bitcoin options since mid-June. Now, more than 30 days later, that still hasn’t changed.However, the platform has witnessed a surge in bitcoin futures trading. Just last Monday alone, Coin Market Cap...

[Featured Content] The DeFi space continues to boom. In fact, the total value locked in decentralized lending protocols is currently over $3.5 billion, according to data from DeFiPulse. This has created a tremendous demand for various solutions, including cross-chain swap protocols. Introducing Anyswap To fulfill this demand, Anyswap, a fully decentralized cross-chain swap protocol, was launched earlier this month. In the five short days since its inception, Anyswap got over $4.5 million in...

[PRESS RELEASE – Please read disclaimer]BarterTrade will list DeFi Oracle Tellor ($TRB) upon launch.BarterTrade is a revolutionary modern-day digital asset trading platform established back in 2017 during the peak of the ICO boom. The platform is all set for its official launch in the third quarter of 2020 with 7 digital assets including Tellor, a defi protocol set to help smart contracts access real-time data using a Proof-of-Work system.BarterTrade has been in development for over two years...

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ripple changed the world in more ways than imaginable. Though they bring numerous benefits to the economics of finance, they attract a lot of attention from cybercriminals. After all, they are virtual currencies, and they can get lost or stolen as any currency stored digitally.And since they are a lot younger than their traditional counterparts (currencies like the United States Dollar and the Euro), they are more vulnerable to various attacks. Also, the...

AVA Labs, the team behind Avalanche, an open-source platform for launching decentralized applications in a highly-scalable ecosystem, recently raised $42M in a 4.5 hour-long token sale last Wednesday. The sale marks one of the largest ICO’s out of the U.S. since 2017.Avalanche’s Recent Key HiresAVA Labs, founded by Cornell Ph.D.’s and led by Professor Emin Gun Sirer, initially completed a $6M Series A in 2019 backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, Metastable, Polychain, and angel...

[Featured Content]Credits have published patents for its innovative technology. It’s expected that its capacity will be expanded promptly, enabling it to deliver highly operational performance and increased reliability.Credits’ Core InfrastructureDesigned entirely from scratch, the technology behind Credits allows several industries to utilize immutable blockchain-based technologies, to issue tokens, launch decentralized applications (DApps), and to engage in secure electronic...

[Featured Content]Take a glance at Bitcoin price charts in comparison to gold, and the two asset’s price action looks nothing at all alike.How then, did the two assets end up with nearly the same exact performance after two full years of trading? And what does the vastly different price action say about each asset?The Surprising Outcome Of The Safe Haven ShowdownInvestors in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have spent the last two full years on a wild roller coaster ride, full of...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have charged both Abra and Plutus Technologies for swapping securities and selling unregistered shares to retail customers. Both companies have agreed to settle the charges and pay fees of more than $150,000 each to clear their names.Abra Agrees to SettleIn a statement, Daniel Michael – chief of the SEC Enforcement Division’s Complex Financial Instruments Unit – explained:Businesses cannot ignore...