DappRadar: Dapp Industry Report Q1 2021

U.K. regulators published plans to regulate stablecoins on Monday.The FCA, which will oversee stablecoin issuers alongside the Bank of England, is setting tough standards for firms, an official told CoinDesk.The U.K.’s financial watchdog won’t deviate from its usual tough stance on crypto when regulating stablecoins under proposed rules, an official told CoinDesk."Ultimately, we'll set the

Ready for a hash war? Bitcoin cash's upcoming network update (or hard fork) is coming on November 15, but a fractious divide between competing stakeholders has raised the specter that the fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap – which broke off from bitcoin in the heat of the scaling debate last year – could split…

Simple trading methods like the trend-following approach work best when trading cryptocurrencies or financial markets in general. While several technical indicators help identify changes in the strength, momentum, and duration of a trend, none are simpler and more widely used than the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD). By definition, the MACD "turns two trend-following indicators,…

Oct 2, 2020 at 15:38 UTCUpdated Oct 2, 2020 at 16:32 UTCNew York City(Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)The head of bitcoin escrow company Volantis pleaded guilty in New York on Thursday to one count of commodities fraud for bilking an investor of over $3 million.Jon Barry Thompson, 49, admitted in Manhattan federal district court that his crypto…

FEATURE “Follow the talent.” It’s a maxim investor Chris Burniske tweeted recently to underscore another tweet from AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant when he wrote back in March: “Blockchains are now sucking in top-tier Silicon Valley tech talent faster than any boom since the Internet.” Yet, as the first flurries of crypto winter blow, this narrative has hardly cooled. We…

Former U.S. President Donald Trump's mysterious new crypto business plans to offer access to "high-yield" opportunities, according to a clue embedded in the website for the project called World Liberty Financial. Metadata on worldlibertyfinancial.com says "the only crypto DeFi platform supported by Donald J. Trump" will connect users to "decentralized finance's best tools for secure

Mar 25, 2020 at 19:47 UTCUpdated Mar 25, 2020 at 20:33 UTCU.S. Capitol image via ShutterstockLegislation introduced in the U.S. Congress this week signals the Overton Window – a metric of what’s politically feasible – is opening in favor of national digital currencies. While it’s unlikely we’ll see a digital dollar any time soon, the coronavirus…

Market inefficiency and the uncorrelated behavior of bitcoin (BTC) to traditional assets could serve as few of the factors that attract billions of dollars in capital from broader financial markets, Arthur Hayes, the chief investment officer of family office Maelstrom and the ex-CEO of BitMEX, said in a Tuesday post.Hayes, one of the earliest prominent

FEATURE ConsenSys Labs has led a $2.1 million seed round for AZTEC, a startup that’s working to make ethereum transactions private so financial institutions can comfortably use the second-largest blockchain. Announced Thursday, other investors in the round include Entrepreneur First, Samos Investments, Jeffrey Tarrant (Mov37) and Charlie Songhurst. AZTEC, created by the mathematician Tom Pocock…