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Coinbase Pro, the professional trading platform of leading American cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Coinbase, is adding support for Maker DAO’s token (MKR) again after a failed listing attempt in April 2019.MKR Trading Starts Tuesday, June 9According to a Friday announcement, Coinbase Pro will start accepting MKR deposits from users on Monday, June 8. Full trading is scheduled to begin at 9 AM Pacific Time (PT) on Tuesday, June 9, once sufficient liquidity is established on the...

Bitcoin price has managed to go above 6,700 again, with the market data showing that the first cryptocurrency is ready to take off. Halving will happen roughly on 13 May 2020. Traders accumulate BTC.The Glassnode data shows that BTC holders are sending their coins away from the exchanges and even the custodial services. Per the stats, Bitcoin price may be in the accumulation stage. After it ends, the bull run is imminent. Since March 18, the major exchanges were losing tons of...

DeFi not only attracts major talent and interest but also large sums of money in the form of digital assets. The number of companies in this sphere is constantly growing but let’s look at the most prominent of them.There’s no time like the present to talk about DeFi.Short for “decentralized finance,” this buzzword simply refers to making conventional financial services (like loans or credit) available via cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. It’s a niche within the cryptocurrency niche,...

MakerDAO is standing out at the Consumer Electronics Show – CES 2020. This is because MakerDAO is the only digital asset with a stand at the event’s “digital money” section. The move shows that the company is doing everything it can to push adoption for the crypto. The digital money section, however, has other projects represented. They include digital wallets, one Bitcoin ATM firm and also a security firm. This made it a lot easy to stand out.MakerDAO Beams at CES 2020The project’s position...

South Korean National Tax Service sent Bithumb a letter claiming they will need to pay additional taxes for the 2019 fiscal year. The agency claims that the tax is legal because the exchange forgot to pay the taxes from withdrawals that the exchange is constantly processing for customers from abroad.Doo Wan Nam, MakerDAO Business Development Associate says that Bithumb had a net loss of $180 million in 2018, considering the data given by Korea Times. This means that regulators are taking the...

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, divided the problems into three major categories. The first one is the cryptography related stuff that hasn’t been solved. Despite the industry’s rush to achieve new levels of privacy and scalability, the most important goals are still in progress. The second one is consensus theory, which makes it easy to change and upgrade mining (Proof of Work) and staking (Proof of Stake) algorithms. And finally, Vitalik explains how incentives are essential in...

Decentralized finance’s (DeFi) meteoric rise has been accompanied by a slew of advances in financial technology, sparking a wave of P2P lending protocols and liquidity pools. The increasing competition of borrowing/lending, stablecoins, derivatives, and even cross-chain CDPs mark a new era in fintech innovation and have bred some intriguing externalities. Many DeFi lending protocols offer interest rates that are significantly more appealing than rates offered by banks and low-risk fixed...

U.S. Stock Exchange Nasdaq has announced the listing of a new index that offers “real-time” tracking of blockchain projects within the decentralized finance (DeFi) segment. Dubbed as Defix, the index will track blockchain projects like MakerDao, Augur, Gnosis, Numerai, 0x and Amoveo.As per the official press release, the London-based Exante brokerage helped to launch Defix. Nasdaq has listed this Index under the ticker DEFX, which can also be tracked on Google and TradingView along with a...