Trump family’s DeFi project wants to ‘ensure US dollar dominance’

The Optimism layer-2 network saw less than 300,000 transactions per day around the time of the upgrade, but this number increased to over 500,000 afterward. Transactions on the Optimism network surged 67% following its June 7 “Bedrock” upgrade, according to a June 26 Twitter thread from blockchain analytics firm Nansen. The network had been seeing…

The new push-based oracle delivers price updates every 2.4 milliseconds, according to RedStone. RedStone, a blockchain oracle provider, has introduced a push-based oracle on MegaETH to tackle latency issues that challenge the efficiency of onchain trading. According to a spokesperson for RedStone, the new oracle can push new prices onchain every 2.4 milliseconds. Initially debuting

The platform’s growth over the past year mirrors crypto’s evolution from fringe financial product to mainstream digital asset class. 1056 Total views 24 Total shares Crypto listing platform CoinList has concluded a $100 million Series A fundraiser to fuel its global business expansion, bringing its total valuation to a whopping $1.5 billion.The cash injection will…

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) dropped below $9,000 from $9,660 within seven hours. The 7% plunge comes as $55 million worth of long futures contracts were liquidated on BitMEX.Four factors are likely behind the sudden decline in the price of the top cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Namely: stocks sliding, selling pressure from miners, an extended…

Top crypto exchange Binance’s philanthropic arm, the Binance Charity Foundation (BCF), has opened a new fundraising channel on its blockchain-powered donation platform.The new program is conducted in support of terminally ill patients and disadvantaged children in Malta and Gozo. The news was shared with Cointelegraph in a press release Dec. 19.Dubbed the “2018 L-Istrina Campaign,”…

The police of Pune, a city in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, have sought a court's directive to transfer 85 million Rupees seized from a Bitcoin (BTC) ponzi scheme last year.$1.2 million frozen In an Oct. 3 article by the Times of India, Pune cyber police explained that the value of 244 cryptocurrency units (worth…

The COO of institutional trading platform Bakkt appears unsure about its futures market predicting the impact of the 2020 Bitcoin halving event.White: We want to “lead price discovery”Speaking to CNN in an interview on Sept. 23, Adam White said that Bakkt’s newly-launched futures contracts should help the market value Bitcoin (BTC). “We hope the Bakkt daily…

Canadian social media and messaging app Kik has revealed it’s “here to stay,” in an apparent reversal of earlier plans to shut down amid legal difficulties.In an official tweet posted on Oct. 13, the company announced:“Great news: Kik is here to stay!!!!AND there’s some really exciting plans for making the app even better. More details…