Crypto exchange Binance has selected 100 NFT artists who will be able to sell their artwork’s during the launch of its new marketplace.
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China has increased the reach of the digital yuan with its latest giveaway test in Shanghai, the country’s financial hub.
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As bitcoin’s price remains stuck below the $40,000 mark, a range of its on-chain metrics are taking a hit too.
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Solana, the blockchain network best known for powering FTX’s decentralized exchange, is raising as much as $450 million.
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Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s controversial president, announced Saturday that he planned to submit a legislative approval that, if and when passed, would grant bitcoin the status of legal tender in his home country.
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Weibo has suddenly suspended more than a dozen crypto influencer accounts in what appeared to be a targeted censorship effort.
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The Group of 7 (G7) has reiterated past comments about stablecoins and its opposition to those that don’t align with “relevant legal, regulatory, and oversight requirements.”
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Quick Take
- The most popular DeFi protocols to date have offered the “simplest” financial primitives. E.g. a stable medium-of-exchange, lending, trading.
- Many ideas on Ethereum have been ported over to other chains — arguably improved by higher scalability — but often there’s been little innovation in protocol mechanics.
- New protocols building on existing infrastructure components is where the more interesting innovation in DeFi is happening.
NortonLifeLock, formerly Symantec, has released a new crypto product that allows users to mine ether (ETH) from their personal computers.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reiterated his commitment to make bitcoin “the native currency for the internet” on Friday.
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