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The decentralized crypto exchange protocol C.R.E.A.M. Finance announced its decision to conduct a significant token burn today, September 20th, after a strong internal discussion.The official account of the protocol explained that following consideration of several possible reductions in supply, the alternative of burning 67% of all the $CREAM tokens was chosen as the best. This implies that more than 6 million $CREAM tokens will disappear forever once the burn is complete.Goodbye, Governance...

This week was nothing short of exciting. Bitcoin started trading at around $10,300 but was on a positive note throughout the entire time. It increased gradually, without any sharp and somewhat surprising movements, and managed to add about 6.5% to its value.The cryptocurrency tapped the important psychological and technical resistance at $11,000 but failed to conclusively close above it. Still, Bitcoin regained a serious portion of the total market capitalization as its dominance increased by...

There’s never a dull day in the cryptocurrency market. From food-based meme coins that attract billions of locked value and generate extremely high yield, to a likely mistake that caused the price for a token to surge half a million percent in a few hours – there’s something for everyone.Buying the Wrong UNIUNI (the latest one) is the governance token of the largest decentralized exchange protocol and automated market maker, Uniswap.As CryptoPotato reported yesterday, the token generated...

They say crypto’s biggest appeal lies in how fast one can acquire ‘Lambos,’ fly ‘to the moon’ and get their ‘numbers to go up.’ The Lambo aspect is still relevant as folks are making insane money day in and day out. The other two, not so much.Although traders still bet on prices of Bitcoin, Ethereum (ETH), and other crypto assets, cryptocurrency trading or investing is not the set method for generating humongous wealth presently. DeFi’s yield farming has taken the centre stage in the quest to...

Popular DeFi protocol Cream Finance’s staking mechanism has stopped working because of an input error in its smart contract, which has increased the distribution speed ten-fold.At the same time, the Cream Finance (CREAM) token continues plummeting in value and is down by 50% in the past 24 hours alone.Cream Finance’s Tech ProblemThe DeFi protocol took it to Twitter to explain the technical difficulties it’s experiencing. The crCREAM Staking was stopped “for maintenance due to an input...

In yet another jolt to the decentralized finance (DeFi) community, margin, and leverage-based lending and trading platform, bZx became the target of another hack. In the hack, which was much bigger than the previous attacks, hackers made away with $8 million worth of cryptocurrencies.bZx Hackers Deal 8 Times More Damage To The DeFi Protocol This TimeDeFi lending protocol bZx was attacked again. This time hackers drained a little more over $8 million worth of cryptocurrencies leveraging a...

The majority of voters in a recent poll have indicated that they had entered the cryptocurrency space more than three years ago. In contrast, 9.4% said that they had come around in the past three months during the DeFi boom.43% Crypto VeteransAlthough the cryptocurrency community emerged relatively recently with Bitcoin’s creation in 2009, it’s a continuously growing field that attracts new participants with its unique features. A recent poll aimed to shed some light on when the voters had...

 As the DeFi space continues to boom, developers have come up with yet another iteration of a Uniswap-like automated market maker. Zeroing down on the meme-based food token craze, the platform is called BurgerSwap. BUIDL it, and they come. I do not know who built this one, but it’s already live on #BSC.BurgerSwap https://t.co/hsFQCZ8bcq— CZ Binance (@cz_binance) September 12, 2020BurgerSwap, unlike SushiSwap or other alternatives, is based on the Binance Smart Chain. It’s an implementation of...

Although SushiSwap’s protocol is already active and attracted over a billion worth of liquidity, a Glassnode analyst said that its governance token SUSHI is still highly overvalued. By exploring the economics behind SUSHI’s value, he outlined a fair price of $0.31 per coin.SUSHI (Still) OvervaluedLaunched as a Uniswap fork less than a month ago, SushiSwap took the DeFi world by storm. What gasped massive attention was the introduction of a governance token called SUSHI. This lured investors...

CoinGecko is, without a shred of doubt, one of the largest cryptocurrency data aggregators. The index has shown impressive growth over the past year following a renewed interest in cryptocurrencies as the total market cap grows in 2020.Data from SimilarWeb shows that CoinGecko has hit a considerable number of almost 25 million users in August alone.It’s safe to say that it’s one of the veteran crypto venues and a household name for the industry. CryptoPotato had the chance to reach Bobby Ong,...