Zcash (ZEC)

As the DeFi and yield farming craze continues to entertain the cryptocurrency industry, the price of yEarn. Finance’s native token YFI has gone parabolic, surpassing Bitcoin’s by almost $1,000. This makes YFI the most expensive crypto asset in the market.1 YFI = 1.15 BTCAccording to data on Binance, the DeFi token is trading at $12,770 at the time of writing, while Bitcoin’s dollar value is currently around $11,790. Earlier today, YFI traded at an All-Time High (ATH) of $13,444 before...

DeFi tokens are leading crypto markets to their highest levels in terms of total market capitalization for over a year.One of the top-performing digital assets at the moment is YFI, as it surges over 70% on the day to reach an all-time high at $12,821. It has become the only cryptocurrency since 2016 to have ever flipped Bitcoin’s dollar value.YFI/USDT. Source: BinanceThe token is the basis of the Ethereum based DeFi yield aggregator Yearn.Finance, which allows users to earn interest and...

Grayscale Investment, operators of the largest crypto hedge fund, is close to reaching a $5B valuation after adding $500M to its assets under management (AUM) is less than a week. Meanwhile, other cryptocurrency funds like Tetras Capital are shuttering after low returns despite market-wide recovery since Black Thursday. Grayscale Crypto Fund AUM at $4.8B Tweeting on Monday, Grayscale revealed that its crypto fund AUM was currently at $4.8B. Comparing with the figures from five days ago, it...

Bolt Labs announced today that it plans to integrate its off-chain Bitcoin private payments protocol called zkChannels to the Tezos blockchain. The company is working with teams at Nomadic Labs and Metastate to complete the integration via an amendment proposal to be done by 2021.zkChannels To Build On TezosOriginally called BOLT, zkChannels v1 protocol saw the light of day earlier this year when Bolt Labs announced that it “enables private payments via zero-knowledge proof of knowledge...

Ren, the open-source protocol enabling permissionless and private transfers of value between any blockchain, launched its mainnet and a dApp utilizing it within a few weeks.Interestingly, the protocol’s native cryptocurrency REN has gained more than 40% of value in the same period.Ren Launches RenVM MainnetThe blockchain-based company announced the release of its RenVM Mainnet in late May, asserting that it’s the “beginning of a cross-chain era for DeFi,” as it “brings interoperability” to...

Electric Coin Company (ECC), which oversees the development of Zcash (ZEC), has released the source code for shielded-only iOS and Android wallets.ECC announced the publication of the open-source code on Twitter on June 10. While the release does not come in the form of ready-built wallet applications for iOS or Android, it gives developers the free tools to build their apps.ECC Releases Open-Source Shielded Wallet CodeThe ECC team posted its open-source code to Github on June 10. The team...

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Zcash (ZEC) was recently the subject of a research paper which aimed to explore the extent to which the privacy coin is used for illicit or criminal purposes.Funded by Electric Coin Co.(ECC), the company behind Zcash, the analysis carried out by the RAND Corporation and concluded that Zcash was not regularly used for illegal means.However, the critical findings offered up by RAND Corp are non-committal, vague, and incredibly illogical in light of Zcash’s status as an apparently untraceable...

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Zcash is technically looking bullish on a short-term across its trading pairs. It remains one of the biggest gainers following a 35% increase in the last seven days of trading. The increase in buying volume suggests more bullish momentum is underway. ZEC marked new monthly high after breaking out from a four-week ascending channel yesterday ZEC/USD: Zcash Pulling Back After Touching $49 Key Resistance Levels: $50, $55 Key Support Levels: $42.08, $36.16 ZEC/USD. Source: TradingViewThe latest...