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The MyEtherWallet (MEW) wallet is expanding its integration with Decentralized Finance (DeFi). On Thursday, August 13, the wallet developers announced the integration with the Aave and Ren projects - they will use the MEWconnect system. MEWconnect is a wallet linking system that was designed...

The policy of the US authorities creates conditions for the large-scale distribution of bitcoin, according to the CEO of Abra, Bill Barhydt. He expressed his point of view during a conversation with Morgan Creek co-founder Anthony Pompliano. The attempt by the US government to give a boost to the...

Ethereum transaction fees recently hit a new high. However, the collapse of the Yam Finance crypto project, deployed in the DeFi ecosystem, caused the cost of operations to fall. According to the ETH Gas Station service, Ethereum commissions are now about 60% lower than they were in the middle of...

According to BitGo CEO Mike Belshe, each investor needs to invest up to 3% of their capital in bitcoin. This expert expressed his position on Twitter and stressed that in addition to BTC, you could buy gold. My dry cleaner called today to tell me they are out of business and I had to pickup. This...

The DeFi market for decentralized financial services continues to expand quickly. Recently, the capitalization of tokens of the ecosystem deployed on Ether exceeded $4 billion. The growth of the decentralized finance market is driving the demand for transaction processing on the Ethereum network....

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase plans to enter the crypto lending market. Coinbase customers in some US states will be able to obtain fiat using BTC as collateral. At launch, Coinbase plans to support 17 states. A Coinbase spokesperson told the lending service is going to launch in the fall....

Cryptocurrency company Coinbase withdrew from the American Blockchain Association after the Binance US exchange joined it. “It is with great disappointment that I announce my immediate withdrawal from the Blockchain Association,” wrote Coinbase's Hermine Wong. "This means Coinbase is...

Immediately after the re-election of the incumbent President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, a wave of rallies swept across the country. Residents of the country protested against the election results and accused the authorities of falsifying the ballots. However, many crypto experts believe that...

Computing activity on the bitcoin network has begun to recover after falling last week. On Tuesday, August 11th, BTC hashrate exceeded 124.6 exahsh per second (EH/s), the highest since the end of July. The hash rate dropped to 119.8 EH/s last week. Despite small fluctuations, in general, throughout...

Facebook has unveiled a new financial unit called Facebook Financial, which is going to be directed by the co-founder of the Libra blockchain project David Marcus. “Today, we are creating a new group that will monitor everything related to payments / financial services on Facebook,” said...

The Ethereum Classic (ETC) network had two 51% attacks in a week. In this regard, the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange has increased the confirmation time for ETC deposits to two weeks. Currently, 80,640 confirmations are required to deposit ETC on Coinbase. Most of the coins supported by Coinbase...

Representatives of cryptocurrency exchanges Bittrex and Poloniex on Friday, August 7, filed a motion with the federal district court for the Southern District of New York. Lawyers are asking the court to move on to a class-action summary judgment alleging that exchanges, along with Tether and...

CoinDCX became the first major Indian cryptocurrency exchange will add support for cryptocurrency staking. CoinDCX currently supports the staking of three coins: Harmony (ONE), QTum (QTUM), and Tron (TRX). Sumit Gupta, co-founder and CEO of CoinDCX, said that ONE, QTUM, and TRX had annualized...

Pantera Capital founder Dan Morehead is part of the so-called bitcoin bull camp. He periodically makes predictions that the largest digital currency will be able to achieve great results this year. In 2021, the likelihood of a new leap is high. BTC can reach $ 100,000 or even exceed this...

Several Chinese state-owned banks have begun testing a digital yuan storage and transmission service (CBDC). According to Reuters, the crypto wallet is being tested in major cities of the Middle Kingdom, including Shenzhen. Earlier it became known that the People's Bank of China has completed the...

After Pavel Durov's team refused to implement the Telegram Open Network cryptocurrency project, reports appeared in the media that the sale of this popular messenger was allegedly being prepared. Recall that the project to launch the Gram token and the TON blockchain network was stopped due to...

The Ethereum Classic (ETC) network has undergone a 51% attack again. On August 6, Bitfly tweeted that its Ethermine mining pool has disabled ETC payments after reorganizing over 4,000 blocks. Today another large 51% attack occurred on the #ETC which caused a reorganization of over 4000 blocks....

Last week, Blockstream released c-lightning 0.9.0, the latest version of one of the popular Lightning Network protocol implementations. The release was titled "Rat poison squared on steroids" (a reference to Warren Buffett's comment on bitcoin, which he called "rat poison...