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2 Years in Prison for $380K XRP Theft

11 Aug 2020 1 minute read 9 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Local media outlets reported on August 11 that a 25 year Australian woman had been arrested and sentenced for stealing 100,000 XRP tokens.  Kathryn Nguyen stole 100k XRP tokens from a 56 year old man’s account in January 2018 At the time, the sum to...

Poloniex and Bittrex File for Summary Judgement in Case that Involves Tether and Bitfinex

11 Aug 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

According to court filings made on August 7, lawyers representing Poloniex and Bittrex have pushed for summary judgement in a case involving the two, as well Tether and Bitfinex. The parties have told Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the Southern Distr...

Blockstack Token Gives Hands Million STX Tokens to Stacks Foundation as Decentralization Plans Come Into Place

11 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Blockstack PBC filed a notice with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August 10 that explains how it plans to decentralize the network. The notice was accompanied by a blog post explaining the effort. Blockstack was the fi...

A New Yield Farming Platform is Arriving in the Form of APY.Finance

11 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

The DeFi space saw the entry of a new yield farming platform on August 8, with APY Finance announcing its imminent launch. APY Finance offers automated yield farming for users to receive the best possible returns. APY Finance is currently undergoing...

Curve Discloses Liquidity Mining Pre-launch Rewards

11 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

On August 10, decentralized exchange Curve Finance (CRV) ended its pre-launch period and disclosed the rewards for being a pre-launch liquidity provider. Liquidity providers (LPs) will receive rewards commensurate with the amount of liquidity and th...

VeChain Enters Second Phase of Partnership with Shanghai Natural Gas

11 Aug 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

VeChain (VET) and Shanghai Natural Gas are entering the second phase of their partnership, according to local media reports published on August 9. This phase of the partnership will focus on efficiency and transformation of Shanghai Natural Gas’ work...

IOTA to Launch First Phase of Chrysalis Upgrade Next Week

11 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

On August 10, the IOTA (MIOTA) project announced that it would launch the first phase of its protocol upgrade Chrysalis next week. The upgrade brings a host of improvements to the network as IOTA progresses towards IOTA 1.5. Chrysalis is an intermed...

Ampleforth Removes Pausability from Its Code Making it Fully Decentralized

10 Aug 2020 1 minute read 6 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

On August 7, Ampleforth (AMPL) co-founder Brandon Iles revealed on the AMPL Talk forum that the team had removed two emergency functions that by default made the system centralized. Meant to protect the network “against unexpected, adverse situations...

Crypto Mom Re-Elected for Another 5 Years at SEC

10 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

On August 6, Forbes reported that Commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Hester Peirce was approved by the United States Senate for a second term. Peirce is known as “crypto mom” within the cryptocommunity for her pro-innovat...

Compound Launches Permissionless Price Oracle

10 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Money market protocol on Compound launched Open Price Feed, a permissionless price oracle, on August 8. The open price oracle allows the protocol to rely on price feeds from entities outside the Compound infrastructure. “Reporters” can submit prices...