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[Featured Content]The crypto derivatives market is having a hard time of late. October began with the news of CFTC civil enforcement action against the centralized crypto derivatives platform BitMEX.BitMEX and its founders, including CEO Arthur Hayes, were charged with operating an unregistered trading platform and violating multiple CFTC regulations, including failing to implement the required anti-money laundering procedures.Less than a week later, the UK FCA announced a ban on the sale of...

[Featured content]Decentralized finance (DeFi) is certainly the hot topic of 2020 and a field where most of the attention in the industry is focused on.That’s not surprising. In a few short months, the total value locked in DeFi protocols has surged from about $500 million to over $11 billion, at the time of this writing, representing a staggering increase of more than 2000%.And while a lot of the upcoming projects have turned out to be blatant scams and rug-pulls, there’s no doubt that DeFi...

[Featured content]Cryptocurrency trading is quickly catching up to speed. This year has been nothing but tumultuous for the markets, both legacy and crypto.2020 started great as all major indices were climbing in an upwards direction – slowly, but steadily. The same can be said about the crypto market. In fact, Bitcoin had an impressive run up until the end of February, shortly before things took a turn for the worst.The global coronavirus pandemic took the world by a storm. What started off...

[Featured content]Cryptocurrency trading is becoming increasingly popular, and there are plenty of reports backing this up.As CryptoPotato most recently reported, the volume for cryptocurrency derivatives trading reached a new monthly all-time high in May, clocking at upwards of $600 billion.With this in mind, it’s no wonder that users are looking for new ways to optimize their trading strategies and make them more profitable. There are various platforms available that offer a myriad of...

[Featured Content]RSK is a popular smart contract platform. It expands the existing functionalities of Bitcoin’s network by delivering greater scalability and the possibility to create, deploy, and import smart contracts on top of Bitcoin’s network. RSKSwap, created by the developer ecosystem, is another contribution to the DEX market, which has seen exponential growth all along 2020.Enter RskSwapRSK Swap is a class of decentralized exchange that allows users to swap various ERC-20 tokens...

With DeFi’s recent brush with death, investors require an impartial and decentralized rating system to support the most desirable investment decisions and avoid future losses. Here’s why.Decentralized finance (DeFi), an ecosystem for lending and borrowing, continues to defy the odds. Despite a significant crash thanks, in part, to unaudited and scam-like clone projects, the sector is bouncing back and seemingly stronger than ever. But while the niche crypto division could be on track to...

[Featured Content]SLOBLOCO 2020 is the first Slovak Blockchain Congress with international participation that will run from November 16th-18th based in Samorin, Slovak Republic. The team behind the Congress has the ambition to fill the conference with 430 participants with approximately 85% exclusively from Slovakia and the Czech Republic with a large portion of attendees coming from the Kelta community as well. Despite having a physical component, the main focus of the conference will be the...

In the last few years, the blockchain industry has shifted from being a rather niche market mostly comprised of experimental technologies and fledging protocols, to a multi-billion dollar industry full of fintech unicorns and novel platforms that promise to disrupt traditional finance and practically every other industry.Although many countries have been racing to position themselves as a global hub for blockchain, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Asia is forming the epicenter of...

[Featured content]Cryptocurrency trading is growing in popularity by the day. The exciting markets that oftentimes reveal tremendous volatility present serious risks, but also earning opportunities, attracting more and more people.Data from the popular cryptocurrency market monitoring resource CoinMarketCap reveals that the 24-hour trading volume is above $110 billion.As CryptoPotato recently reported, information from Google Trends revealed that the number of searches for the key phrase ‘buy...

[Featured Content]Exchange platforms are essential components of the crypto world. These platforms provide a place for crypto investors to trade or swap their cryptos and can either be centralized or decentralized.Centralized exchanges require intermediaries and often require KYC procedures, which means that traders cannot remain anonymous when transacting. Besides, in the case of an exchange breach, traders have their funds and information exposed to hackers.Decentralized exchanges aim to...