Cardano’s Plomin hard fork sets stage for full decentralized governance

The entire banking concept is based on the assumption that depositors will not want to withdraw their money at the same time. But what happens when this assumption fails? The answer lies in the asset-liability mismatch of banks, which can lead to disastrous consequences for the broader financial system. Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), one of the…

Nothing keeps a Bitcoin bull down for long, and now, BTC price action is back above $30,000 after 24-hour gains of 30%. 524 Total views 2 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) came back with a vengeance on May 13 as bulls stepped in to take the market to near $31,000.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBitcoin…

Still in its infancy, the cryptocurrency market currently only offers a fraction of the trading and investment products available in traditional financial markets. Over the past few years, however, the crypto space has continued to develop with products around Bitcoin (BTC) and other crypto assets, such as BitMEX futures and Deribit options. Mainstream financial entities have…

The next cryptocurrency bull run will decide which public blockchains become the defining names of the industry, United Kingdom-based investor and entrepreneur Alistair Milne predicted in a Twitter thread Jan. 19.Milne, who is well known on Twitter in particular as a source of bullish statements about Bitcoin (BTC), said that any new price highs for…

The MakerDAO governance has approved the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin as the third collateral type accepted in the Maker Protocol, according to a community post on March 17.The decision was put to an extraordinary executive vote outside of the usual weekly schedule, with the aim of urgently increasing Dai (DAI) liquidity following last week’s market…

All 191 UNI token holders voted in favor of the proposal to launch the DEX on Polygon's zkEVM. 561 Total views 12 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTDecentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap is seemingly set to launch on the new zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) roll-up solution from scaling…

The head of business development for blockchain financial services outfit, Unchained Capital, flees to Bitcoin when the government starts talking about stimulus spending. 457 Total views 12 Total shares Parker Lewis, Unchained Capital's head of business development, said he sees recent government stimulus talk as a sign that it’s time to pick up more Bitcoin…

CCI board member Fred Ehrsam cited the WEF executive’s “in-depth knowledge of crypto” in addition to her experience working with governments across the globe. 352 Total views 5 Total shares Sheila Warren, the head of blockchain and distributed ledger technology at the World Economic Forum, will be assuming the position of CEO of the Crypto…

RegTech is the management of regulation, compliance, reporting and monitoring through technologies like big data, data mining, artificial intelligence and blockchain to provide robust, reliable and effective solutions. The technologies offer data on money laundering activities and help to reduce the risk of financial fraud. However, regtech is facing some challenges like operational barriers, lack…