Users of the Compound lending platform will begin earning COMP governance tokens in mid-June.
Fed Up With Its Fork of Stellar, Kin Is Looking to Move Onto Solana
The Kin Foundation is seeking to move the kin cryptocurrency onto the Solana blockchain, according to a proposal shared with CoinDesk.
RenBTC Quietly Goes Live in Latest Bid to Bring Bitcoin Into Ethereum
RenBTC, the latest implementation of bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain, quietly went live this week, though the general public can’t yet mint thier own tokens.
UMA Project Creates Its First Synthetic Coin, Matching ETH Against BTC
Want to bet that the price of ether (ETH) is rising relative to that of bitcoin (BTC)? There’s now a token for precisely that.
Base Layer Blockchain Harmony Adds Staking to Open Up Validator Set
Harmony announced Tuesday that its mainnet has now incorporated staking, allowing users to earn ONE tokens for locking in their current holdings.
Uniswap V2 Launches With More Token-Swap Pairs, Oracle Service, Flash Loans
The headline feature of the new Uniswap will be the ability for anyone to create any pool pair they want, so long as it exists on Ethereum.
Bug Forces Shutdown of Bitcoin-Backed Ethereum Token tBTC
Thesis shut down tBTC after two days on due to a bug, and plans to release details once all users have withdrawn their funds.
Trading Contest on Synthetix Aims to Showcase Speed of New DEX Tech
Synthetix is putting over $40,000 in crypto on the line to entice users to try out the faster beta of its decentralized exchange (DEX).
The Brooklyn Nets’ Spencer Dinwiddie Makes the Bull Case for Tokenizing Entertainers
“I envision a world where a Kevin Hart token can trade for a Lebron James token can trade for a Serena Williams token,” Spencer Dinwiddie said.
The CoinDesk 50: Brave Browser Delivered and BAT’s a DeFi Darling
Taking on powerful forces in the surveillance economy was never going to be easy. But Brendan Eich and Brave are making a good fist of it.
Filecoin Is Mailing Out Hard Drives of Climate Data to Kickstart Its File-Storage Network
Get a giant hard drive from the Filecoin team stuffed with data on climate, the world’s literature or the human genome and get ready to earn some crypto.
Bitcoin Revenues in Square’s Cash App Top Fiat Revenues for First Time in Q1
Bitcoin profit through Square’s Cash App was $7 million in the first quarter of 2020. It earned $8 million in bitcoin profit through the whole of 2019.
Bitcoin Revenues in Square’s Cash App Top Fiat Revenues for First Time in Q1
Bitcoin profit through Square’s Cash App was $7 million in the first quarter of 2020. It earned $8 million in bitcoin profit through the whole of 2019.
Dragonfly Capital Managing Partner Alexander Pack Steps Down
Alexander Pack, managing partner of Dragonfly Capital, has stepped down from the crypto investment firm, according to a letter obtained by CoinDesk.
CryptoWars Leaves Loom Sidechain in Pivot to ‘Play-to-Earn,’ Aka Betting
CryptoWars founder Matias Nisenson is changing things up: “No decent game can run nowadays fully on-chain, even though that was our gaming utopia.”
Blockstack Opens Testnet for New Bitcoin-Linked Consensus Mechanism
Announced today, the Blockstack testnet is open. Developers can now simulate the Stacks blockchain’s new, hybrid consensus mechanism, which Blockstack calls Proof-of-Transfer (PoX).
How a Crypto Guru Shaped Harvard’s Roadmap for Reopening the US Economy
Glen Weyl, an intellectual firebrand of the Ethereum community, played a key role in crafting a pandemic-fighting blueprint just published by Harvard.
How a Crypto Guru Shaped Harvard’s Roadmap for Reopening the US Economy
Glen Weyl, an intellectual firebrand of the Ethereum community, played a key role in crafting a pandemic-fighting blueprint just published by Harvard.
Bittrex Exec Joins Mortgage Giant Fannie Mae After Crypto Exchange’s Brush With NYDFS
Reversing the pattern of government veterans jumping to crypto startups, Bittrex US’s former chief compliance and ethics officer has moved to Fannie Mae.
Libra Scales Back Global Currency Ambitions in Concession to Regulators
The Facebook-spawned Libra Association has scaled back its original vision of a global digital currency backed by a basket of fiat currencies.