Tag: DeFi

While it may cause downside pressure in the short run, the Shanghai upgrade will be extremely bullish for Ether’s price in the mid-to-long term, according to Vivek Raman. While it may have some short-term negative impact on the price of Ether, the upcoming Shanghai upgrade will be extremely bullish for Ethereum’s native token, as it…

Despite advancements across the industry, many of today’s cryptocurrencies still have the same security protocols in place as first-generation releases. Blockchain tokenization experiments began in 2012 with “colored coins.” However, despite this initial release, many agree that it wasn’t until 2014 that tokenization’s full potential was achieved with the release of the scripting language that…

The top 100 DeFi tokens had a mixed week in terms of price action, with the total value locked in DeFi protocols maintaining above $50 billion. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. A total of 27 Ethereum…

The Arbitrum Foundation has made a couple of new governance proposals following the fracas that occurred over its first attempt. The Arbitrum Foundation has released a raft of new improvement proposals following the fracas that ensued after its first failed attempt at governance. On April 5, Ethereum layer-2 solutions provider Arbitrum posted new Arbitrum Improvement…

The new funds will be used to increase headcount and expand the cross-chain messaging protocol’s presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Cross-chain messaging protocol developer LayerZero Labs has raised another $120 million, according to an April 4 announcement. The company plans to use the capital to increase its headcount and expand its reach into the Asia-Pacific…

Binance’s market dominance fell largely due to its decision to end zero-fee trading for some trading pairs and not the CFTCs lawsuit, says Kaiko. The dominance of cryptocurrency exchange Binance in trading volume market share has slipped over the past two weeks following a lawsuit from the United States commodities regulator and its decision to…