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Optimism ‘Soft Launches’ Ethereum Throughput Solution With DeFi’s Synthetix
Optimism has “soft launched” its solution to Ethereum’s transaction problem, the Optimistic Virtual Machine (OVM). The startup announced Friday that OVM is now live, at a time when gas fees ... -
GBTC has a new a competitor in the OTC Bitcoin trust market
A firm called Osprey Funds is offering an over-the-counter, or OTC, Bitcoin (BTC) trust under the ticker symbol OBTC. The trust is similar to Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust, known as GBTC. ... -
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Dips to $34.4K as Big-Name DeFi Tokens Trounce ETH
Bitcoin was slipping Friday on lower-than-average volumes for 2021 so far. In other news, while BTC and ETH are up this year, some DeFi tokens are doing even better. Bitcoin ... -
Law Decoded: The guard changes, and with it, the tweets, Jan. 8–15
Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s note Armed National Guardsmen are building up concentric perimeters of ... -
Goldman Sachs to Enter Crypto Market ‘Soon’ With Custody Play: Source
U.S. banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs has issued a request for information (RFI) to explore digital asset custody, according to a source inside the bank. When asked about timing, the Goldman ... -
Bitcoin’s Bear Case Suggests Move to $28,000 is a Possibility in the Near-Term
Bitcoin’s price action as of late has been quite ambiguous, with buyers and sellers largely reaching an impasse as BTC struggles to gain any decisive momentum The crypto did make ... -
Could Mt Gox Be The End Of Yet Another Epic Bitcoin Rally?
For nearly as long as Bitcoin has been trading, its existence has been a thorn in the sides of crypto investors everywhere. And starting today, new investors in crypto may ... -
Will Mayor Suarez’s Miami Be the First Major City to Buy Bitcoin?
The entrepreneurial mayor brings his recruitment of tech talent to the crypto space with the potential of a 1% investment of the city’s reserves into BTC. This episode is sponsored ... -
Price analysis 1/15: BTC, ETH, XRP, DOT, ADA, LTC, BCH, LINK, XLM, BNB
Grayscale products witnessed $3.3 billion in inflows in the fourth quarter of 2020, a large jump over the $1.05 billion seen in the preceding quarter. According to Grayscale, institutional investors ... -
Africa to bring 100 million users to DeFi in three years from now, says founder ...
Charles Hoskinson predicts that the Decentralized Finance sector will acquire 100 million users within the next three years by tapping into the developing world's market potential. “Who's actually going to ...