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As the DeFi space continues to grow, ConsenSys has now announced a new offering from the leading wallet provider MetaMask. It will enable cryptocurrency funds, professional traders, and custodians with institutional-grade controls and applications for decentralized finance.The blockchain technology solutions provider ConsenSys has announced today a new offering oriented toward the growing space of decentralized finance (DeFi).In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the company reiterated...

This summer’s decentralized finance boom is far from over. Granted, a large number of the newly minted DeFi tokens have pumped and dumped, but November has seen a major resurgence for many of them as they outperform Bitcoin itself.During the month of November, Bitcoin made just under 40% in a climb from $13,800 to top $19,000 by month-end. It’s long-awaited surge towards its previous high of $20K three years ago has renewed the market momentum and general ‘hopium’ that has been missing for...

Decentralized marketplace and e-commerce protocol Syscoin has partnered with the stablecoin platform TrustToken.The goal of the collaboration is to speed up payments and to provide further solutions to Ethereum’s blockchain. It also means that the five stablecoins of TrustToken, namely TUSD, TGBP, THKD, TCAD, and TAUD, will run on Syscoin’s blockchain and be available for users.A Collaboration Between Syscoin and TrustTokenAccording to a release shared with CryptoPotato, the popular...

Chinese authorities seized around $4 billion worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from the notorious crypto Ponzi group PlusToken. This comes after the Chinese police arrested the core team running the scheme in July.Around $4 Billion Worth Of Bitcoin And Crypto Assets SeizedAccording to CryptoPotato’s previous report on the PlusToken saga, the crypto shysters (27 key operators) were arrested by the Chinese police in July earlier this year. Along with them, the police also arrested 82...

Bitcoin has recovered a bit since yesterday’s massive price drop to $16,250. Most alternative coins have also bounced off their most significant dips, and the total market capitalization has recovered over $30 billion in a day.Bitcoin’s Black Friday SaleFollowing weeks of gradual increases that led to BTC coming less than 3% away from its 2017 all-time high, the primary cryptocurrency plummeted yesterday.Bitcoin went from a high of $19,500 down to $16,250 in a matter of hours. In other words,...

Ethereum is currently retracting sharply from its previous and 30-month peak of $620. Even with a decline of around $100 to today’s prices of $525, ETH is still up over 300% since the beginning of the year.The confirmed genesis of the long-awaited Beacon Chain, which is Phase 0 of the even longer awaited Serenity ETH 2.0 upgrade, has no doubt driven momentum but it is not the only strong point for Ethereum.Over 5 Reasons to be Bullish on EthereumDTC Capital’s Spencer Noon has pulled out a few...

One of the earliest builders on the Ethereum network, Gnosis, announced the launch of the cryptocurrency industry’s first decentralized prediction market-driven collective — GnosisDAO.Prediction Market for DeFi GovernanceTraditionally, a prediction market is a form of exchange-traded markets where a group of people predict the outcomes of a variety of events and bet on those predictions.The decentralized prediction market by Gnonsis aims at decentralized governance and technical layers of the...

Andre Cronje, the brain behind the popular DeFi protocol Yearn Finance and the most expensive cryptocurrency YFI, has unveiled yet another DeFi protocol called Deriswap.Obsessed With Capital EfficiencyThe project focuses on capital efficiency, an aspect of DeFi that Cronje said he is obsessed with. The YFI creator is set to change the current segmented liquidity, which only allows users to choose one of Swaps (Uniswap, Sushiswap, Bancor, etc.), Options (Deribit, Hegic, Opyn, etc.), and Loans...

After almost touching $19,000 for the second time, Bitcoin has calmed and retraced below $18,500 (as of writing these lines). At the same time, most alternative coins have doubled-down on their recent gains. Ripple’s 60% weekly spike has helped the asset overcome Tether as the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap.Bitcoin Slows Down After Doule-Top At $19KBTC’s latest impressive price developments led to a notable leg up yesterday and yet another fresh yearly high. This time, the asset...

Another day, another DeFi hack. Pickle Finance just announced that funds deposited in one of its smart contracts were stolen by a hacker hours ago.The team is still investigating how exactly the hacker stole approximately $20 million in funds. Their wallet is still “dormant” and has not started the “money laundering” phase that tends to follow every hack.And if a hack was not enough, Pickle Finance’s token (PICKLE) crashed after the news spread, losing almost 58% in a matter of hours.Pickle...