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One of the moderators running the giant darknet marketplace AlphaBay has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Bryan Connor Herrell received payments in Bitcoin for his moderator position, which he used to settle disputes between buyers and sellers.AlphaBay’s Moderator Sentenced To 11 Years In PrisonThe statement from the US Department of Justice said that Herrell operated under two nicknames on AlphaBay – “Penissmith” and “Botah.” One of his primary responsibilities as the marketplace’s...
Read More »Akon City Begins Construction In Early 2021: Real-Life Wakanda
Akon City, also referred to as the “real-life Wakanda,” will begin construction in early 2021, said the popular singer, producer, and mastermind behind the project – Akon. He even hinted plans of franchising the concept in other nations in Africa.Akon City Construction Starts In Several MonthsInitially announced in mid-2018, Akon City gained mass attention because of its revolutionary idea to be a smart city running entirely on renewable energy and powered by Akon’s own cryptocurrency –...
Read More »4 Things That Could Cause the DeFi Bubble to Pop
The market for decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions has skyrocketed in the past four months as investors are happy to stake their cryptocurrency in various lending protocols to earn astronomically high returns.Back in March this year, the total value locked in protocols of the kind was just about $550 million. Now, the TVL has surged to just shy of $9.5 billion, marking an increase upwards of 1600%.The trend, commonly referred to as yield farming is only growing stronger as more and more...
Read More »Kazakhstan To Raise Over $700 Million For Cryptocurrency Mining
Kazakhstan’s new Digital Development Minister, Bagdat Mussin, has reportedly asserted that the country is already in talks to attract a significant investment worth over $700 million to expand the cryptocurrency mining sector in the Central Asian nation.Kazakhstan Aims For $700M Investment For Crypto MiningThe plans for attracting 300 billion tenges ($715 million) of investments in the cryptocurrency mining field were initially revealed in a Senate hearing in mid-June.The former Minister of...
Read More »120,000% APY On The New Trending DeFi KIMCHI But There’s a Catch
Named after the fermented Korean dish, Kimchi is a fork of the wildly popular SushiSwap protocol that was forked from Uniswap late last week. Launched on Tuesday, September 1, Kimchi has already accrued almost $250,000 in liquidity in less than 24 hours, according to its dashboard.In the first few hours after its launch, the protocol offered APYs upward of 120,000% on the KIMCHI/TEND pool, and more than 70,000% on the other KIMCHI pools. Even though these numbers have since decreased, they...
Read More »Singapore Exchange and HSBC Come Together on a $300M Blockchain Bond Issuance
A joint venture between the British multinational investment bank HSBC, Singapore Exchange (SGX), and state-owned investment company Temasek has completed its first digital bond issuance of $300 million worth of corporate bonds on SGX’s digital asset platform by employing blockchain technology.$300M Of Corporate Bonds Replicated Digitally With DLTThe collaboration between the three entities, which began in 2019, has provided the first successful usage of SGX’s digital asset issuance,...
Read More »Three Years Later: US Judge Approves $25M Settlement And Closes Tezos Lawsuit
The three-year-long class-action lawsuit against Tezos for supposedly violating securities laws in the US with its 2017 ICO has come to an end after Judge Richard G. Seeborg approved the $25 million settlement offer brought by Tezos earlier this year.Lawsuit Targeting Tezos: The BackstoryThe company had little time to celebrate its successful initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017 when Tezos raised over $230 million as a Boston-based law firm called Block & Leviton filed a class-action...
Read More »This Guy Earns $170 in SUSHI Every Minute: Here Is The Catch
The ongoing DeFi craze shows no signs of slowing down as the total value locked (TVL) in different protocols continues to increase by the day.As CryptoPotato reported earlier today, SushiSwap, the protocol that is attempting to fork the world’s leading decentralized exchange Uniswap by introducing a liquidity reward token called SUSHI, topped $1.2 billion in TVL.Many are taking advantage of the high APY and are staking their tokens to earn SUSHI, as the token’s price continues to appreciate....
Read More »Cryptocurrency Will Reportedly Power Finance in Independent California Post ‘Calexit’
Inspired by Brexit, a group called Yes California is leading the charge for separation of California from the United States. And it seems, cryptocurrency will form the backbone of the financial system in the independent country of California.California To Ditch The US For Freedom, & The US Dollar For CryptoAccording to the latest update on California’s supposed exit from the American mainland, a blockchain-based crypto asset will lay the financial foundation of ‘Calexit’.Calexit campaign...
Read More »ETH Fees at a New ATH, Binance To The Rescue?
The crypto industry is scrambling to find a solution for the unfeasibly high gas fees that make smaller transactions on the Ethereum network financially unviable. The 2020 DeFi boom and explosion in yield farming platforms have strained the Ethereum network so much that whales and minnows alike are now fighting for block space to get their transactions through.Binance Chain to The Rescue?In a tweet on Tuesday, September 1, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao hinted at a solution without giving...
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