Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report May 2021

Sage D. Young is a tech protocol reporter at CoinDesk. He owns a few NFTs, gold and silver, as well as BTC, ETH, LINK, AAVE, ARB, PEOPLE, DOGE, OS, and HTR. Community members of Canto, the Cosmos-based layer 1 blockchain, are set to vote on three proposals Thursday that would reduce liquidity mining incentives as…

Jul 20, 2020 at 19:20 UTCUpdated Jul 20, 2020 at 19:27 UTCOpenEthereum Supported 50% of Ethereum Classic. Now It’s Leaving the ProjectOnly 30% of Ethereum Classic’s nodes will support future network hard forks after a major client walked away from the project last week. OpenEthereum has voted to stop supporting its Ethereum Classic client to…

Aug 31, 2020 at 13:21 UTCUpdated Aug 31, 2020 at 13:36 UTCBank of Korea (Chintung Lee/Shutterstock)The Bank of Korea is moving to a more technical phase of its accelerated push to develop a central bank digital currency, or CBDC. The Korea Times reported Monday that the Bank of Korea (BoK) is now seeking a consulting…

Dapper Labs has reached a tentative settlement agreement with a group of investors who sued the non-fungible token (NFT) company and its co-founder and CEO Roham Gharegozlou for allegedly violating federal securities laws.If approved by District Court Judge Victor of the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the settlement would bring a nearly three-year-long legal

Spain has brought forward transitional provisions under the EU crypto law, MiCA, by six months.Crypto firms already registered in the country will have to apply the rules by December 2025.Spain said it will bring forward implementation of the European Union's crypto law, MiCA, by six months in a move likely to affect crypto firms already

news U.S.-based cryptocurrency investor and entrepreneur Michael Terpin has won over $75 million in a lawsuit related to a SIM-swapping fraud. Terpin filed the case against 21-year-old Nicholas Truglia earlier this year, saying the Manhattan resident had defrauded him of cryptocurrencies after gaining control of his cellphone number. California Superior Court has now ordered Truglia…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesBitcoin (BTC) has become more dominant in the crypto market because of the impending halving and risk aversion in the broader market. The largest cryptocurrency by

Liquid staking has the potential to be the building blocks that incorporate established financial norms into crypto that mainstream audiences actually trust. This is because staking resembles traditional financial (TradFi) instruments they're already familiar with, like bonds, in terms of yield opportunities and risk profile.Liquid staking will be a catalyst to the broader mainstream adoption

As new blockchains proliferate, users who want to swap assets between chains are dependent on bridges prone to problems and attacks.Chainanalysis estimates that bridge attacks accounted for 69% of all cryptocurrency stolen in 2022, with over $2 billion siphoned from buggy cross-chain bridge platforms.As blockchain developers increasingly recognize the problem of vulnerable bridges, some, like…