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Is Buterin trying to put a lid on the potato-related excesses of yield farming? Vitalik Buterin said he did not personally engage in any yield farming for tokens on decentralized finance.In a tweet published on Friday, the Ethereum co-founder explained that his only major interaction with yield-bearing DeFi protocols was putting “a few coins into…

Benyamin Ahmed created and tokenized digital pictures of whale emojis and sold them in the form of NFTs during school vacation. A 12-year-old boy from London reportedly earned nearly $400,000 (290,000 pounds) by selling a series of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) during the school holidays.In an interview with Geo.tv, Benyamin Ahmed shared his excitement about being…

Bitcoin (BTC) price is up 1.23% for today’s session at $9,175 having reclaimed the $9,000 handle, after briefly losing it and finding lows of $8,800. Overall, the biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is down 1.8% from where it was at the same time on Thursday.Ether (ETH), the second-biggest crypto, is holding the $200 handle, and…

On Feb. 19, Coinbase announced that it has become a principal member of Visa. In an apparent first for the cryptocurrency industry, the firm is now able to issue debit cards without having to involve third parties. Prior to that, Coinbase had been releasing its physical cards in collaboration with authorized intermediaries, similarly to dozens…

Uganda’s government has reportedly allocated land for Akon’s crypto-city development project in the country. 3013 Total views 26 Total shares Senegalese-American rapper and businessperson Akon is set to begin building another crypto city — this time in the East African nation of Uganda.According to a report by Uganda’s flagship television network NBS, the country’s government…

DeFi tokens moved higher while Bitcoin price struggles to hold $35,000 as support. 501 Total views 10 Total shares Bitcoin price is finding soft support at $35,000 after dropping 7.4% in the later hours of Jan. 19. According to Cointelegraph contributor Joseph Young, the correction was primarily the result of an overheated derivatives market and…

The United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services has scheduled a hearing with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton and four other SEC commissioners to discuss, among other topics, crypto.In a memorandum from Sept. 19, the Committee on Financial Services stated that it will hold a hearing on Sept. 24 entitled “Oversight…

Imagine sitting down at your favorite restaurant and ordering a fresh filet of salmon, only to later discover that the “salmon” dish wasn’t actually salmon. As horrifying as it may sound, this scenario is actually quite common. A recent study from the conservation group Oceana found that 20% of fish samples sold to consumers in the…