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Sep 15, 2020 at 19:57 UTCUpdated Sep 15, 2020 at 20:04 UTCDiscrete Log Contracts Are Bringing Private, ‘Scriptless’ Smart Contracts to Bitcoin“Republican_win”; “Democratic_win.” These are the parameters (and call functions) for the first smart contract escrowed bet placed on Bitcoin’s mainnet. On Sept. 8, BTCPay Server founder Nicolas Dorier and Suredbits founder Chris Stewart entered…

news The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking to hire yet another “crypto specialist.” According to a job posting on USAJobs, an official government jobs portal, the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets plans to hire the new legal expert in order to help develop a “comprehensive plan” to address crypto and digital…

Crypto exchange Binance will expand its zero-free trading promotion to all trueUSD (TUSD) trading pairs starting June 30, the firm announced on Wednesday.The blog post said that traders will benefit from zero maker fees with all TUSD spot and margin trading pairs, expanding the promotion from the bitcoin (BTC)-TUSD pair. Users will also be able…

Oct 23, 2020 at 09:43 UTCBitMEX’s latest futures listings bring another decentralized finance (DeFi) product to the cryptocurrency derivatives space.According to a company blog post Friday, the Seychelles-based exchange said it was adding DeFi token yearn.finance (YFI) to its quanto futures contracts. Polkadot (DOT) and Binance coin (BNB) contracts are also on the way.All three…

Feb 13, 2020 at 00:15 UTCJerome Powell image via Federal ReserveCould a Digital Dollar Compete on Privacy? Fed Chairman Powell Hints It MightFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has given advocates of financial privacy a glimmer of hope – and hinted at how the U.S. might competitively position a future digitized dollar.In testimony before Congress this…

Jul 17, 2020 at 15:14 UTCUpdated Jul 17, 2020 at 15:40 UTC(PaulaPaulae/Shutterstock)Aave’s LEND Token Is Now Up 1,600% in 2020There seems to be no stopping the LEND freight train: The native token of the decentralized lender Aave has risen by over 100% this month alone and is reporting stellar gains for the year so far.…

The custody function of crypto platform Prometheum Inc. is now open for institutional clients. Prometheum had soft-launched with ETH and later added UNI and ARB to the assets it'll support, and this week the company said it'll also take custody of OP and GRT. Co-CEO Aaron Kaplan said Prometheum is trying to become the PayPal

Nexo's new service provides more than 75 cryptocurrency and fiat currency pairs for trading.Feb 1, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 1, 2021 at 1:14 p.m. UTCCrypto Lender Nexo Adds Exchange Service to Its Mobile AppCryptocurrency lender Nexo has launched an exchange service for a range of digital assets within its mobile app.  According to an…

Nov 23, 2020 at 10:54 a.m. UTCCipherTrace Says Homeland Security Work Gave Rise to Monero-Tracking Patent FilingsBlockchain analytics firm CipherTrace has filed two patent applications it claims will assist authorities in tracking transactions made with the monero (XMR) cryptocurrency.According to an announcement on Friday, the firm most recently filed a document titled “Techniques and Probabilistic…