The approaching new year will be the year of decentralized finance (DeFi) on The Open Network (TON) blockchain, developer TON Foundation has declared. Decentralized exchange Curve Finance joined in to start the process, and TON and Curve held a competition for DeFi teams to develop stable asset swaps using Curve Finance’s proprietary technology. Getting the…

Following claims from the CEO of Moonrock Capital — a crypto-native advisory and investment firm — that Binance demanded 15% of an unnamed prospective project’s total token supply to secure a listing on the centralized exchange, Binance co-founder Yi He responded by denying the claims and clarifying Binance’s listing policies. According to Binance’s co-founder, the company…

Wall Street investors are still largely unaware of Ethereum’s potential, similar to Amazon in the early 1990s before it became a $2 trillion tech giant, according to a research analyst at crypto asset manager 21Shares. Spot Ether exchange-traded funds launched in July but have seen relatively small inflows compared with spot Bitcoin ETFs. Leena ElDeeb,…

Locked digital assets worth $2.68 billion will hit the market in November as vesting periods for blockchain-based projects expire. According to vesting data tracker Tokenomist (formerly Token Unlocks), $2.68 billion in crypto assets will be unlocked in November. Over $900 million in tokens will be unlocked on a cliff basis, while about $1.7 billion will…

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) broke their seven-month downward trend in October as digital collectibles recorded an 18% increase in volume. Since recording a monthly volume of $1.6 billion in March, its highest in 2024, NFT volumes have been on a downward trajectory. It continued through September when NFTs reached their lowest monthly volume since 2021. NFTs record a…

Bitcoin recently hit an all-time high of over 100,000 Canadian dollars. Dean Skurka, President and CEO of WonderFi — a digital financial services company — believes interest rate cuts in Canada and the United States, as well as the upcoming 2024 US Presidential election, will continue to drive the price of Bitcoin higher between the…