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Reef Finance has announced that its Substrate-based mainnet will see the light of day in May 2021. Called Reef Chain, it promises to “make DeFi easy” by enabling developers to use a highly scalable and fully EVM-compatible network that’s integrated into the Polkadot ecosystem. Reef Chain Coming in May Reef Finance is a cross-chain DeFi operating system allowing traders to access liquidity from centralized and decentralized exchanges through its smart liquidity aggregator and...

A UK-based bank, NatWest, will reportedly halt serving customers who accept payments in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The institution referred to recent warnings highlighted by the country’s financial regulator and said dealing with digital assets contains high risk. UK Bank Stops Working With Crypto Users According to The Guardian coverage, National Westminster Bank, known as NatWest, plans to bar serving all customers accepting crypto payments. Morten Friis, the...

The recent rise of ETH and the popularity of DeFi projects have caused a massive increase in transaction fees on the Ethereum blockchain. However, operating in Ethereum has become a real pain, and several alternative projects are trying to establish themselves as a better option for the markets. But can any of them become the Ethereum Killer? experts are not so sure. Weiss Crypto Ratings is Skpetical About “Wannabe ETH Killers” Weiss Ratings is a market analysis and risk...

French game publisher Ubisoft has partnered with Tezos, becoming an official corporate validator node on its blockchain. Nomadic Labs, a research and development team within the Tezos ecosystem, announced the partnership via Twitter.  ?@Ubisoft is exploring #Tezos technology by becoming a corporate baker. ? Welcome to the ecosystem!Read the announcement: https://t.co/ZM1IzBTVCM#blockchain #DigitalTransformation #crypto #Ubisoft pic.twitter.com/6wKCQIFAOJ — Nomadic Labs...

Bitcoin’s Sunday retracement could be just the start of a massive correction that could drive the asset all the way down to $20,000, said Guggenheim Partners’ CIO, Scott Minerd. However, the executive remains bullish on the long-term future of the cryptocurrency, suggesting a possible price tag of up to $600,000 in the next few years. BTC’s Retracement to Take it to $20K? Ever since bitcoin reached its latest all-time high at $65,000 last week, the asset started to retraced...

Germany’s leading stock exchange, Deutsche Boerse AG, plans to delist COIN – the shares of the largest American cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase. The organization justified its decision with wrongfully inserted reference data, which has to be resolved before COIN is relisted.  Reuters reported earlier today Deutsche Boerse’s intentions to remove the shares of Coinbase from its trading platform.  The large exchange breached “missing reference data for these shares” as the...

It seemed somewhat inevitable that the hip hop legend Snoop Dogg will get involved with DogeDay on 4/20 (April 20th). The famous rapper posted a video that included Shiba Inu – the dog bread that inspired the meme coin – and thanked Elon Musk for providing him with a spacesuit for a trip to the moon. Snoop Dogg’s DogeDay Video on 4/20 Taking advantage of the massive popularity boost of Dogecoin, the community started a trend a few weeks back, indicating that 4/20 (April 20th)...

Bitcoin’s price could suffer more if the asset fails to reclaim $60,000 soon, said analysts from the US multinational banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. They compared Sunday’s market crash with similar developments in the past few months but argued BTC lacks sufficient momentum now. BTC’s Bull Run Coming to an End? Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem plummeted in value on Sunday as more than $360 billion were evaporated from the market cap. The largest digital...

Deutsche Telekom has invested in Celo, an open-sourced proof of stake (PoS) blockchain designed to allow mobile phone access to decentralized finance projects. The German telecommunication giant is the first such company to join the Celo network. Deutsche Telekom Invests in The Future of DeFi Founded in 1995, Deutsche Telekom is the largest telecommunications provider in Europe. The Bonn, Germany-headquartered giant announced on Tuesday the purchase of an undisclosed amount...

IBM does not want to give up when it comes to the application of Distributed Ledger Technologies for corporate purposes, and although its blockchain division did not live up to the expectations, this time, they are hoping to achieve success through the application of business use cases for NFTs. According to a Press Release shared on April 20, IBM is teaming up with patent marketplace provider IPWe to tokenize patents in the form of NFTs and put them on a marketplace that...