Bitcoin News Roundup for April 8, 2020

Jan 28, 2020 at 11:16 UTCBitcoin is maintaining its upward trajectory as coronavirus-led risk aversion hits the traditional markets. The top cryptocurrency by market value crossed the 200-day moving average at $9,000 during Tuesday's Asian trading hours and rose to a high of $9,150, pushing the cumulative month-to-date gains to over 25 percent. At press…

Layer-2 network Starknet will open staking on its ecosystem by the end of 2024, the developer firm StarkWare shared on Wednesday. The news was announced at the Ethereum Community Conference in Brussels, Belgium, by the company’s CEO Eli Ben-Sasson. Ben-Sasson submitted a Starknet Improvement Proposal to the community which suggests that users can choose whether

Featured SpeakerDeep Dive: EthereumProtocol VillageAustin Convention CenterJoin an hour long exploration of the advancements defining the Ethereum community in 2023.Krisztian Sandor is a reporter on the U.S. markets team focusing on stablecoins and institutional investment. He holds BTC and ETH.Featured SpeakerDeep Dive: EthereumProtocol VillageAustin Convention CenterJoin an hour long exploration of the advancements defining the…

Aug 19, 2020 at 12:00 UTCNFTs Are Boring; Here’s How to Make Them FunAndrew Thurman is a freelance writer, a business development and content consultant for Chainlink Labs and an adviser to IdeaMarkets. In the nearly 40 years since Atari launched Pong, the first commercially available video game, enthusiasts and designers have elevated the theoretical…

Dec 10, 2019 at 10:00 UTCUpdated Dec 10, 2019 at 13:53 UTCSaga Monetary Technologies has finally launched its SGA stablecoin, and it's already planning to break away from its pegged basket of currencies.SGA, the basket-backed stablecoin envisioned last year by the Saga Foundation, is a long-term play tailoring to two very different goals of the…

Oct 12, 2020 at 17:53 UTCAmid Confusion About Rules, Indian Crypto Community Pushes for Regulatory SandboxIn the seven months since India’s top court allowed banks to legally service crypto platforms, users and trade volumes at local exchanges have increased. But regulators have said little about the rules for crypto trading. Confusion can be detrimental to market…

Dec 14, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. UTC(happyphoton/iStock via Getty Images Plus)JPMorgan Discusses $600B in Potential New Bitcoin DemandMassMutual’s $100M BTC investment has the potential to open a massive new investment category, according to analysts.For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox,…

May 13, 2020 at 16:04 UTCUpdated May 13, 2020 at 16:43 UTCPopular BTC Derivatives Product Goes Live on DeFi’s dYdXThe top bitcoin derivatives product is now available on decentralized finance (DeFi).Andreessen Horowitz-backed dYdX released its Bitcoin Perpetual Contract from private alpha on Wednesday, bringing the most liquid digital asset derivative to Ethereum’s burgeoning DeFi market…

A potential fix for Ethereum's costly congestion problems.Members of the Synthetix team(Synthetix)Jan 15, 2021 at 10:27 p.m. UTCOptimism ‘Soft Launches’ Ethereum Throughput Solution With DeFi’s SynthetixOptimism has “soft launched” its solution to Ethereum’s transaction problem, the Optimistic Virtual Machine (OVM).The startup announced Friday that OVM is now live, at a time when gas fees have…