Finance Redefined: One hack to bring down a whole market, Feb 10–17
The Alpha Homora hack is still rippling through markets. Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph's DeFi-centric newsletter, delivered to subscribers every Wednesday....
Month: February 2021
Bitcoin whales continue to accumulate despite BTC price holding above $50K
The number of Bitcoin whales is increasing as the price of BTC continues to rise. The number of whale addresses...
Russian crypto mining firm scrambles to meet foreign demand
Russian crypto mining giant BitRiver is rushing to build two new data centers to meet increasing demand from global crypto...
Europe’s most successful soccer club just got a cryptocurrency sponsor
Rangers F.C, the most successful soccer club in Europe, has announced a partnership with a Turkish crypto and Bitcoin trading...
PancakeSwap becomes the first billion-dollar project on Binance Smart Chain
PancakeSwap takes advantage of lower costs on the Binance Smart Chain to become the second-ranked DEX by volume. PancakeSwap (CAKE)...
Nigeria and South East Asia led global crypto adoption in 2020
Statista has found that one-in-three Nigerians held or used crypto assets during 2020. Data published by statistics firm Statista has...
New York AG accuses Coinseed of defrauding investors
The New York Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against crypto investment platform Coinseed for allegedly defrauding investors and selling...
Top 3 DeFi lending protocols exceed $20B in deposits
DeFi’s top three lending protocols have reached record levels of collateral lockup above $20B. There has been no slowdown in...
Arcade classic Street Fighter II launches NFTs on WAX blockchain
It's shaping up to be the year in which NFTs go mainstream, thanks to successful releases by a number of...
Token-Driven Karaoke Platform Gets a Boost in South Korea as Pandemic Hits Over 2,100 Singing Rooms
Coronavirus-driven lockdowns and social distancing limits affect people’s way of entertaining themselves, such as going to karaoke. In South Korea,...
Elon Musk’s Tesla Faces Scrutiny Over Potential Conflict of Interest in $1.5 Billion Bitcoin Purchase
Tesla is facing more scrutiny over its $1.5 billion dollar bitcoin purchase. A Tesla board member who reportedly approved the...
German Cannabis Firm Hedges Bitcoin to Protect from Massive Currency Devaluation
On Tuesday, the cannabis firm Synbiotic SE, a publicly-traded company in Germany that’s listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and...
DeFi aggregator growth ‘set to dwarf 2020’s volume’
DeFi users are increasingly turning to aggregators to get the most cost effective trades. Decentralized finance aggregators are growing in...
Motley Fool adding $5M in Bitcoin to its ‘10X portfolio’ — has a $500K price target
“We plan to hold this Bitcoin investment for many years and we'll wait for all of our members in our...
Robinhood announces plans to offer crypto deposits and withdrawals
Robinhood’s reputation has taken a battering lately but it hopes to regain credibility among the crypto community by introducing cryptocurrency...
