News and Articles by Anahit

On Nov 27, 2020, Pizza Hut announced that customers can pay for their services with digital currency. Never before had the popular pizza place accepted any kind of cryptocurrency. This became possible due to a collaboration with the Latin American crypto trading platform, Crypto Buyer. The company...

DeFi project Curve Finance voted to issue about $3 M in collected fees to the protocol's governance token owners. The decision was made on Friday after a week-lasted voting course considering the issue of managing fees. In three days the network will direct some $2,631,601.92 amount of pays to user...

The most recent crypto-asset scheme using Chainlink’s oracle solution became Mimblewimble-based privacy coin Beam. Beam is a confidential and scalable stablecoin which ERC-20 bridge uses Chainlink’s oracle supply structure. Beam supported confidential tokens back in June during the EE 5.0...

IOTA builds a partnership with Pantos to develop blockchain and distributed ledger technology within the framework of a new research institution aimed to innovate the two structures. On November 26, authorities informed that the multi-blockchain asset protocol Pantos and IOTA, along with...

Facebook-proposed Libra stablecoin is expected to release in January. As the Financial Times reported, after over a year's examination from international financial supervisors, Libra will launch in the form of a U.S. dollar-backed cryptocurrency. The publication cites three people who took part in...

Following the price growth up to $19,500 during the day’s trading, Bitcoin saw a period of bearish uncertainty that resulted in a sharp sell-off. Bitcoin then rated $17,075 with daily losses of around 5%. The sudden price drop came in tandem with large-volume investors depositing BTC to exchanges...

The creator of the protocol TRON Justin Sun highlighted the fact that the TRON network is still the lowest-cost public chain. He also said that with the efforts of all communities the network will achieve much progress. TRON is a decentralized system that was created to help guide the...

DeFi protocol Yearn Finance cooperates with Pickle to support yield farming and repay sufferers of the lately occurred Pickle attack as a result of which $20 M worth of Dai was lost. The creator of Yearn Andre Cronje explained that the partnership aims to lessen duplicate work, improve trades, and...

U.S.-based crypto trading platform Coinbase Pro informed today that clients can't do margin trading on the protocol anymore. Margin trading is the case when an investor borrows capital from an intermediary to make deals for more than they actually own. Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal announced...

Justifying the expectations of the community, BTC today scored $19000 for the first time since mid-December 2017. Since November 18, it has been trading for about $18.700, sometimes felling lower than $18.000 then going up again. At the time of writing the price is about...

Singapore-based InsurAce surged $1 million in a seed round led by Arthur Cheong of DeFiance Capital. The number of DeFi hacks is growing noticeably, especially now that DeFi’s Total Valued Locked hits new records this year. According to Ciphertrace, hackers have targeted $100 million since...

As the big launch of Linkswap automated market maker gets closer, the rate of the YFL governance asset grew twice. At first sight, it seems that the token is aiming to repeat the success of Yearn Finance’s YFI token as generally DeFi governance tokens don't lose their popularity. The YF Link...

BlockApps present an Ethereum-powered network with Bayer. The main goal of the project is to observe the process of farm products cycling including a major pharmaceutical firm among its clients. On Nov 18, blockchain as a Service company BlockApps introduced a blockchain-powered country yield...

Outstanding crypto loans in DeFi protocols have now surpassed $3 billion. On Aave, Compound, and MakerDAO, there is over $3 B of outstanding loans, $98.8 M of which was borrowed last week. These lending protocols are not like usual crypto loans firms. They’re networks, decentralized such that no...

US-based asset management establishment DAiM lately informed about launching the country’s first employer-provided retirement programs that maintain BTC fundings. As reported by the officials, DAiM will act as the advisor and depositary in supporting firms to build a 401(k) program that suggests...

Reef Finance, one of the most popular DeFi projects running on Polkadot, has informed about a collaboration with Kava. They are aiming to bring cross-chain DeFi to Polkadot. The union of the two platforms seems to be promising as Reef is a permission-less smart liquidity aggregator and yield...

Ethereum (ETH) price surged noticeably, hitting $500. This is a new high for more than 2 years. Last week the Ethereum search interest on Google was increased. It is apparently connected with Ethereum 2.0’s launch as potential buyers are looking to enter ETH markets and registers on the back of...

Digital asset custody protocol Fireblocks scored $30 M in Series B funding managed by investment organization Paradigm. Among other participants were Fireblocks' present supporters. Paradigm co-creator Fred Ehrsam has entered Fireblocks' executive board. Fireblocks aims to use the fund in order to...