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Near Foundation has partnered with Colombian web3 social network Blumer to provide it with token infrastructure.Blumer started using Near Protocol to host the rewards tokens that its users receive for viewing advertising on the platform, Blumer CEO Ernesto Ruiz told CoinDesk, adding that users will be able to convert tokens to other crypto or send…

Jun 30, 2020 at 12:35 UTCUpdated Jun 30, 2020 at 13:34 UTCRed Bull Arena (Paul Lowry/Wikimedia Commons)US Soccer Players Can Be Collected, Traded in Tokenized Fantasy GameMajor League Soccer (MLS) fans will now be able to collect and trade digital cards representing league players and use them to play fantasy soccer games run by the…

Aug 18, 2020 at 16:25 UTCUpdated Aug 18, 2020 at 16:40 UTCYFI price performance over the past seven days (CoinGecko)The governance token for yEarn.finance has shot up over 32,000% since mid-July as investors have poured hundreds of millions into its protocol, which identifies and exploits some of the best opportunities in the white-hot decentralized finance…

MarginFi's longtime leader, Edgar Pavlovsky, resigned Wednesday following an internal dispute at the protocol's builder, mrgn.The abrupt exit won't impact MarginFi's borrow-and-lend functions, but it did spur $100 million in capital flight.Edgar Pavlovsky, the CEO of the company building crypto borrow-and-lend platform MarginFi resigned Wednesday as internal fissures at the major Solana DeFi project erupted

Featured SpeakerYat SiuCo-Founder and Executive ChairmanAnimoca BrandsWhere is Web3 headed? Take a look to the future with this pioneering investor in the metaverse and NFTs.Rosie Perper is the Deputy Managing Editor for the Web3 news section, focusing on the metaverse, NFTs, DAOs and emerging technology like VR/AR. She has previously worked across breaking news, global…

Feb 6, 2020 at 16:00 UTCUpdated Feb 6, 2020 at 16:31 UTCBlockstack CEO Muneeb Ali. (Credit: Gary Sexton / Blockstack Summit 2019)Blockstack is giving its long-term holders a new way to earn bitcoin.Announced Thursday, the decentralized-web startup is rolling out a consensus mechanism that essentially presents a fresh use case for the world's most popular…

Bitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 3, 2020With the price of bitcoin pulling back sharply and U.S. legislators again advocating for blockchain, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup! For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases , subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io. Today's Stories:Wednesday saw a…

Oct 14, 2020 at 09:00 UTCVisualization of gas prices on Ethereum, 2019 (Wikipedia Commons)Tokenized Staked ETH Will Replace ETH (And That’s a Good Thing)Tokenized staked ETH is going to replace ETH itself. Ethereum is finally set to shift from a proof-of-work infrastructure to proof-of-stake. The end result of this upgrade will effectively take ETH out of…

Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Prices: Bitcoin continues to show healthy signs of decentralization, even as it has liquidity issues.Insights: A lack of dollar liquidity means some weird things are happening on Binance.US.Bitcoin's Decentralization is Alive and Well as it Maintains $30K MarkBitcoin is opening the Tuesday trading day in Asia at $30,366, maintaining a strong…