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September 18, 2020

Fantasy authors turn the VulcanVerse NFT game into a trilogy of books

Two of Britain’s most successful gamebook authors will turn VeChain’s VulcanVerse NFT game into a fantasy trilogy series. Award-winning British fantasy authors Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson will write a new fantasy trilogy “The Vulcan Verses”. The title is based on VeChain’s forthcoming Vulcan Forged non-fungible token (NFT)-powered collectible card game and decentralized virtual world VulcanVerse.With […]

Ledger wallet upgrade can prevent ‘dusting attacks’

Cold wallet maker Ledger adds more privacy protection to its software suite Hardware wallet maker Ledger has recently upgraded its software suite to include more privacy and control over crypto transfers to help prevent ‘dusting attacks’.A dusting attack is where a malicious actor sends small amounts of Bitcoin to a wallet to break the privacy […]

Two major crypto exchanges are teaming up to push the industry forward

Crypto exchanges Poloniex and KuCoin are set to research the crypto industry together, hope to benefit the whole sector. Crypto exchange KuCoin has unveiled dealings with another exchange, Poloniex, in an effort to move the crypto industry forward.   “KuCoin and Poloniex will join hands in trading technology research and development, liquidity sharing, product iterations, PoS […]

UNI defies price dump predictions, emerges as top 20 DeFi token

Despite predictions Uniswap’s airdropped token would be dumped in the gutter, UNI has garnered a $217 million market cap. The token, which was airdropped to past Uniswap users in batches of 400 per wallet without warning yesterday, has defied predictions that the market would crash from its initial pricing of $3 as the 75,235 users […]

Coinbase Pro passes gas fees to users as ETH miner revenue hits 5 year high

Following Uniswap’s UNI token launch, Ethereum transaction fees spiked to almost $1 million an hour. Ethereum miners’ hourly revenue has hit a five-year record, with fees currently bringing in 2,275 ETH ($880K) per hour.The spike was triggered by yesterday’s announcement that Uniswap would airdrop it’s governance token UNI to past users of the decentralized exchange. […]

Despite yETH returns of 2%, Yearn pushes forward with WBTC Vault

Yearn Finance has submitted a Maker Improvement Proposal for its forthcoming WBTC Vault, suggesting it will launch in the not-to-distant future. The popular yield farming decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Yearn Finance is progressing with its forthcoming Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) Vault.The team has submitted a MakerDAO Improvement Proposal requesting whitelisting for the WBTC Vault to access […]

VeChain offers services to 130 firms in China as food safety alliance member

The platform plans to assist in “building a from-farm-to-table traceability system” across China. The VeChain Foundation has joined the China Animal Health And Food Safety Alliance as a council member. According to a Sept. 17 announcement, VeChain is “the sole public blockchain technology provider in the alliance” and will offer technical and infrastructure support. There are […]

Record $1B in tokenized Bitcoin shows BTC holders want a slice of DeFi

Lured by the sirens’ call, traders are wrapping their Bitcoin at record levels in order to yield farm and trade DeFi tokens. After failing to hold the $11K mark and exposing what some analysts have described as a general apathy to trade BTC at these levels, Bitcoin (BTC) price is once again flirting with $11,000. As […]

Tether market cap increases almost 4X in 2020 to $15 billion

Tether supply surges to $15 billion but it could still be a house of cards The surging DeFi sector has resulted in a mass minting of Tether in 2020 — including $3B last month alone — which has pushed its market capitalization over $15 billion.At the beginning of the year there was just over $4 […]

Binance USD is coming to Dapper Labs’ Flow blockchain

Dapper Labs has partnered with its second major stablecoin this week, announcing the integration of BUSD for developers building on its Flow blockchain. The U.S. dollar stablecoin of top crypto exchange Binance, BUSD, has become the latest stable token to announce it will launch on Dapper Labs’ Flow blockchain.The news comes just days after the […]