Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report January 2021

Millions worth of tether (USDT) stablecoins appeared to be selling off on popular Uniswap and Curve pools Thursday morning, sparking early signs of concern among traders.USDT balances on Curve’s popular 3pool, a stablecoin swapping pool made up of USDT, USDC, and DAI, rose to over 72% early on Thursday – suggesting traders had exchanged tens…

Jul 15, 2020 at 15:27 UTCUpdated Jul 15, 2020 at 16:13 UTC(foto_monteiro/Shutterstock)Darknet marketplaces are embracing cryptocurrency obfuscation techniques such as bitcoin mixers at a blistering pace, according to new research by analytics firm Crystal Blockchain. BitFury’s intelligence outfit said in its “Darknet Activity Report,” released in May and recirculated Tuesday, that “darknet entities” sent $67…

news French retail giant Carrefour has attributed a recent increase in sales to its use of blockchain tracking. Carrefour’s blockchain project manager Emmanuel Delerm told Reuters on Monday that the use of blockchain ledger technology to track meat, milk and fruit from farm to supermarket has increased sales of these products. According to Delerm, blockchain tracking…

Ethereum is swarming with bots that are programmed to front-run transactions. The bots exploit the brief window of time between when transactions are submitted, and when they're officially finalized, to copy trades from other users, quickly execute them, and in doing so eat into any would-be profits.It's a practice called maximal extractable value (MEV), and

news “Big Sky Country” has gone crypto friendly, with new legislation addressing the use of utility tokens. The governor of the U.S. state of Montana, Steve Bullock, signed House Bill 584 into law earlier this month, recognizing utility tokens and exempting them from being considered as securities under local rules, with caveats. Scintillatingly titled “Generally revise…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged SafeMoon and its executive team with perpetrating a fraudulent scheme through an unregistered securities sale.The SafeMoon executive team withdrew more than $200 million from the project and misappropriated investors funds for personal use, according to the SEC’s complaint filed on Wednesday."Unregistered offerings lack the disclosures and

news Token Foundry set out last year to be the best platform for running initial coin offerings. The website of the ConsenSys-incubated startup said as much until as recently as January 21. Then, over the next few days, it would articulate two more missions before finally settling on a new goal: “This year we are adding…

Deus X Capital today launched decentralized finance business Solstice Labs. The company's first project will be a protocol that offers all investors enhanced yield opportunities. The protocol will be built on the Solana ecosystem and is expected to go live in early 2025. 04:41 Is DeFi Summer Making a Comeback? 00:57 Crypto Hacks Totaled $19B

Smart contract coders could be held liable if they knowingly use blockchain technology to create functions that are deemed as predictive "event contracts," according to a U.S. regulator. Speaking at an event in Dubai on Tuesday, Brian Quintenz, a commissioner at the U.S. Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), explained his views on how old…