News and Articles by Anahit

One of the earliest German banks, Bankhaus von der Heydt has introduced a Euro-backed stablecoin powered by the decentralized protocol Stellar. The company informed that for building the new digital currency it collaborated with the P2P lending platform Bitbond. BVDH member of management board...

American billionaire, hedge fund manager Ray Dalio finds that Bitcoin can offer protection against the "depreciating value of money". Dalio seems to have changed his mind towards Bitcoin. During his recent AMM session on Reddit, the investor recognized the leading crypto asset as an...

Famous arcade games company Atari Games joins the crypto sphere. Gaming cryptocurrencies have already gained huge popularity their funds reaching billions of dollars. Atari has been the initiator of many gaming innovations. It has also a great deal in the modification of the digital gamble token...

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), Madrid-based multinational financial services organization plans to launch cryptocurrency trading and custody services in the upcoming months. BBVA will reportedly deliver services in Switzerland and is awaiting regulatory approval. The team informed that...

American electronics engineer, Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak launches a crypto company called Efforce. It is a blockchain-powered marketplace to exchange tokenized energy. It's been 45 years since the launch of Apple and the second time Wozniak participated in co-founding of any company. Efforce...

The managing director at Grayscale Investments LLC, Michael Sonnenshein informed that a growing number of people are paying attention to Ethereum. This year, a new group of institutional investors who are Ethereum-first and sometimes Ethereum-only joined in. This shows that people started to trust...

Community-managed Automated Market Maker (AMM) startup LinkSwap initiated liquidity pools for operating its native token YFL with $6 M locked in six hours. The long-awaited DeFi exchange for the Chainlink ecosystem was officially launched on Nov. 25. The network is designed to compete with Uniswap,...

Blockchain engineering organization IOHK introduces 2 smart contract developer environments (devnets) for Cardano, termed KEVM and IELE. KEVM will let developers deploy Ethereum-powered apps on Cordano, while IELE allows building apps for Cardano in any computer language. Cardano is a crypto asset...

Nasdaq-listed business analytics and mobility platform MicroStrategy got 2574 bitcoins for $50 million. This makes 40,824 BTC, for a total of about half a billion dollars in crypto assets in MicroStrategy's portfolio. The CEO of MicroStrategy Michael Saylor confirmed the news on his social...

After 4 days the beacon chain has launched, Eth2.0 keeps attracting deposits. The contract has received over 1 million ETH worth above $605 M. The stakers will get rewards in the future when staked amounts will be available for withdrawals. The closing day of the contract isn't defined yet. Rewards...

On December 3 Polkadot informed about a new DeFi Alliance alongside a new aid plan for validators. The partnership means to beat Polkadot's decentralized nature, offering a stage for its users to discourse practicing the platform and its basic Substrate infrastructure for DeFi. Tokenized oracle...

This year, in February Steemit and Tron Foundation, built cooperation. Due to this partnership, TRON (TRX) will be added to the Steem environment. This means users will have the opportunity to earn TRX rewards alongside Steem Power while publishing content on the Steem blockchain. TRON is one of...

California-based financial entity Visa will bring out a new credit card that will provide BTC rewards to holders at the beginning of 2021. This became possible due to cooperation with lending protocol BlockFi for "Bitcoin Rewards Visa Credit Card," which yearly fee is $200. Shoppers will...

Before the suggested launch of its dollar-pegged stablecoin, the Libra Association has changed its name to the Diem Association. According to Reuters, the remodeling can be beneficial while getting regulatory verifications for the expected Diem stablecoin as it highlights the self-sufficiency of...

NYDIG (the New York Digital Investments Group) has scored $150 M for two of its digital asset funds. Just two anonymous capitalists invested $50 M in Digital Assets Fund 1. $100 M surged for NYDIG Digital Assets Fund 2.Just two anonymous capitalists invested $50 M in Digital Assets Fund 1. $100 M...

Ethereum 2.0 has released today, on December 1st. A huge amount of Ethereum has already been staked for its deposit contract as a component of the innovative proof-of-stake network. The latest data reveals that over $529 M of Ether has already been deposited. The opening move of Ethereum 2.0—the...

DeFi platform Yearn.Finance has informed about another merger, this one with SushiSwap, a fork of decentralized exchange Uniswap. The deal suggests joining the two protocols' resources as well as their TVL. According to DeFi Pulse, the present TVL of Yearn is around $455 M and SushiSwap's TVL is...

The leading online gambling company Dafabet builds a partnership with COTI in order to optimize digital currency implementation. This is important news for COTI as the platform seeks to develop its network for crypto transfers and in these terms, its interests coincide with the gaming industry,...