Coinbase Launches Own Blockchain as Sleuths Scour PayPal’s Stablecoin Software

Decentralized finance or DeFi ecosystems are still suffering through crypto winter, according to the analysis firm Messari. As a whole, the industry’s total value locked, or TVL – a key metric that represents collateral and deposits put into blockchain protocols – has been declining. On Ethereum, by far the biggest DeFi ecosystem, TVL dropped by […]

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Bitcoin’s Rally Toward $30K, PayPal’s Stablecoin Fakes, and More

Bitcoin’s price saw a 3% uptick, climbing to just shy of $30,000 in response to a plunge in global long-dated government bond yields. This fall in yields was triggered by China’s far weaker than anticipated trade numbers for July. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield tumbled below the 4% mark. These macroeconomic shifts have seemingly buoyed […]

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Former MicroStrategy (MSTR) CEO Michael Saylor’s Wager on Bitcoin (BTC) Looking Better

A rebound in the price of bitcoin has sharply narrowed losses for MicroStrategy’s (MSTR) holdings of the cryptocurrency. When Michael Saylor stepped down almost exactly a year ago as CEO of MicroStrategy to become its executive chairman with a sole focus on investing in bitcoin, his digital-asset strategy was looking pretty bleak. He had already […]

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NFT Trading Is Down But Developer Sentiment is High

What: CryptoPunks, one of the earliest NFT projects on Ethereum and also one of the most popular collections of all time, experienced a number of high-profile trades this week, including one from prolific NFT artist Beeple. His first profile-picture (PFP) NFT purchase, the clownish Punk #4953 set the stage for other high-value buys, including Punks […]

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Bitcoin BTC Price Climbs Back to $29.4K; Crypto’s Decoupling From Stocks May Not Be Over

Curve, a stablecoin exchange at the heart of decentralized finance (DeFi) on Ethereum, has been the victim of an exploit, according to a tweet from the project. Upwards of $100 million worth of cryptocurrency are at risk due to a “re-entrancy” bug in Vyper, a programming language used to power parts of the Curve system. […]

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