Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report February 2021

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A pseudonymous crypto founder with very public criticisms of DeFi's points trend opened up his own points program on Suilend, one of the fastest growing borrow-and-lending protocols on the Sui blockchain.Launched Tuesday, Suilend's incentives program addresses some of the most jarring issues that founder Rooter said protocols run into when wooing users with points. Countless

news CoinDesk traveled down to West Palm Beach on Aug. 5 to cover Craig Wright’s second sanctions and contempt hearing. Wright, the self-declared man behind bitcoin, failed to comply with a court directive to produce a full list of his bitcoin addresses acquired prior to 2014, as part of a $10 billion lawsuit brought by…

opinion Sheila Warren is head of blockchain and distributed ledger technology at the World Economic Forum. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  After about a year of market upheaval, a few things seem clear: blockchain technology is still best-suited to core use cases involving needs like censorship resistance, and a…

Last week, CoinDesk received documents in response to a New York state Freedom of Information Law request about the details of Tether’s reserves. These documents were released two years after our original filing in 2021 and only after a full-blown legal fight with Tether, which CoinDesk won in February.You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk…

news Parsec, an advertising firm, has unveiled a pilot program for offering options and futures trades and settling digital advertising contracts on R3’s Corda blockchain. MediaCom, a buyer of digital advertising contracts, and Future US – the company behind ten trade publications such as PC Accelerator, Guitar World, and TechRadar – are the first participants…

Marathon Digital produced 417.7 bitcoins in October, a 23% increase over the previous month that boosted the value of the company’s total bitcoin holdings to about $457.4 million, the bitcoin miner said on Tuesday.Marathon Digital now has about 7,453 bitcoins. Its mining fleet consists of 27,280 active miners producing approximately 2.96 exahashes (EH/s). “With shipments…

Boutique investment firm Arceau has developed a platform to automate the process of verifying cryptocurrency bankruptcy claims in firms like FTX or Celsius, allowing it to buy out smaller creditors who found it hard to access traditional bankruptcy markets.Last year saw a number of large crypto firms collapse, making unwitting creditors out of thousands of…

news The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) wants financial institutions to prepare for the global expansion of digital identification systems. FATF published its draft guidance on digital identity Thursday, for governments, regulated entities and other stakeholders to enforce anti-money laundering (AML) and counter financing terrorism (CFT) regulations. The intergovernmental organization aims to address emerging security…