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20 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Abhimanyu Krishnan
Tahinis, a restaurant in the Canadian city of Ontario, has converted its entire cash reserve into Bitcoin (BTC), the team revealed in a tweet posted on August 18. The Mediterranean restaurant chain stated that the conversion took place because of a...
20 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
The first phase of IOTA’s Chrysalis upgrade has gone live on the mainnet, as revealed in a blog post published on August 19. Chrysalis was unveiled last week on August 11 and is an incremental upgrade scheme on the way to IOTA 1.5. Phase 1 brings i...
20 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Abhimanyu Krishnan
The Algorand (ALGO) team on August 19 launched smart contracts that enable the creation of DeFi apps and solutions on its network, according to a blog post. The launch adds stateful smart contract functionality, which the team claims will allow for...
20 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Abhimanyu Krishnan
On August 20, business and computer programmer John McAfee tweeted that he had abandoned his privacy project GHOST, which was only announced 4 months ago in April 2020. McAfee cited management issues as being the reason behind the departure, saying...
20 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
On August 19, Tether (USDT) announced that it had gone live on the OMG Network (OMG), a few months after it had first been discussed in June 2020. OMG will process USDT transactions to lower costs and reduce times, offloading some of the burden on t...
19 Aug 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin revealed on August 17 via Twitter that he had sold and donated some ETH at $700, about half of the token’s all-time high of $1,432. Buterin would have sold his ETH for during the mania of late 2017/early 201...
19 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Abhimanyu Krishnan
On August 19, over $200 million was staked in a new yield farming protocol Spaghetti Money ($PASTA) in just 12 hours. Some of the staking code is based off of controversy-struck YAM finance's code, and it has not been audited. The governance token...
19 Aug 2020 1 minute read 7 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Following his recent purchase of Bitcoin (BTC), Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy appears to be deepening his interest in cryptocurrencies, this time calling for a bold pump and dump of the Orchid Protocol token during a live stream on August 17. Por...
19 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Yearn Finance’s YFI token hit an all-time high of $12,821 on August 19, jumping over 30,000% in a span of 30 days. YFI hit the all-time high value early on August 19; market cap is currently $329.4 million Yearn Finance is a multi-faceted DeFi platf...
19 Aug 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Brave revealed more details of its decentralized ad platform Themis protocol on August 18, via a detailed blog post that covered the mechanism of the protocol and its tokenomics. Themis protocol uses sidechains and smart contracts to eliminated cent...
