Long-Awaited DeFi Exchange Infinex Reveals Launch Date 

Infinex, set to launch on May 13, merges Web2 and Web3, aiming to simplify DeFi trading and attract a broad user base with a robust security system. The post Long-Awaited DeFi Exchange Infinex Reveals Launch Date  appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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MetaWin Launches New Base and Arbitrum Layer 2-Powered Swap System, Boasting 2-Second Payment Speeds and Half a Cent Gas Fees

London, United Kingdom, March 28th, 2024, Chainwire MetaWin, the trailblazing platform for on-chain prize competitions, is delighted to announce the incorporation of the Base and Arbitrum Layer 2 (L2) blockchain networks into its on-site swap feature.

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XRP NFT sales set new record

According to recent reports, the currency exchange, real-time-gross settlement system, and remittance network, XRP has acquired exponential rise and a record in NFT sales. This is a result of their user base. 

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Bitcoin Is How We Really Build A New Financial System

Iteration upon iteration of DeFi platforms simply exposes the necessity for the decentralized network of bitcoin to act as a base layer.

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How The Petrodollar System Has Destroyed American Education

A public education system that wastes taxpayer dollars and disincentivizes independent thought is one of the worst consequences of our fiat base.

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Elon Musk Comes Out as Big Blocker

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The DeFi Yield Protocol (DYP): Over $180k of ETH Distributed Daily for Liquidity Providers

The trigger that ushered true financial liberation is smart contracting.   Through automation from a base layer that’s secure and decentralized, creators recreated popular instruments in the traditional financial system with self-executing code as middlemen.

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Nervos Commits $30 Million to Ecosystem Development

Nervos is giving out $30 million in grants to projects that are committed to building a decentralized community on an open-source blockchain. A Base for Development Nervos Network, a blockchain project based out of China, is preparing to fund internal blockchain development through a grant system.

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Alibaba turns away from crypto

The Alibaba Group has officially announced that it does not support cryptocurrency payments. It seems that Alibaba is turning away from crypto following the global IT giants. Earlier, Apple and Google announced that they will develop electronic payment systems on the base of fiat finance.

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SBI Holdings to expand use cases of Corda while developing system to boost Ripple’s tech among Southeast Asian banks

SBI Holdings’ President Yoshitaka Kitao bagged himself a seat with Ripple’s other Board of Directors and Kitao has ever since, been working tirelessly to promote crypto. At the recent Financial Summit ‘Finsum’ in Tokyo, Japan, Kitao made necessary mentions of the technologies embraced by SBI and its vision to expand its own customer base.

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Bitcoin close to being at the base of the financial system in ten years, claims Blockstream’s Samson Mow

The San Francisco-based blockchain development company took Bitcoin to another level by launching a satellite to broadcast Bitcoin blockchain, while also initiating a transaction recently. The CSO of Blockstream, Samson Mow, expanded upon the necessity of the satellite in a recent interview with Charlie Shrem.

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OKEx envisions more financial inclusion between traditional financial market and crypto market, claims Andy Cheung

Currently employed methods used by traditional financial system make it difficult for the system to maintain records effectively and efficiently. In light of the same, OKEx aims to simplify the entire process by integrating the platform with blockchain technology.

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Bitcoin has record-breaking Q2, network health at all time high – here’s what happened

Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that started it all. It first entered the wild ten years ago after its pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto released the eponymous white paper and got the world thinking about decentralized digital cash.

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Social Network Taringa! Launches Stablecoin Rewards for 27 Million Users

South American social networking giant Taringa! has partnered with MakerDAO and Airtm to launch a stablecoin-powered points system for its 27 million strong user base

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Bitcoin-rebate service Lolli partners with Hotels.com; allows users to earn BTC with every booking

Any major technology or system needs the validation of a large user base or worldwide implementation to record massive profitability and progress. The idea of virtual assets is more or less the same as it is utmost necessary for these decentralized digital currencies to attain a higher adoption rate in order to achieve mainstream use.

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Bitcoin is the 11th largest monetary system in the world, ahead of Korean won

Bitcoin’s current market capitalization would make it the 9th largest monetary system in the world, ahead of the Korean won and behind the Russian ruble. Bitcoin continues to grow The monetary base is defined by the US Federal Reserve as: “The sum of currency in circulation and reserve balances—deposits held by banks and other depository […] The post Bitcoin is the 11th largest monetary system in the world, ahead of Korean won appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Bigger Than Russia – Bitcoin Now 8th Largest World Currency

Still think Bitcoin is a passing fad? Here’s a news flash for you. At $8,940, it’s bigger than Russia’s monetary base. That makes Bitcoin the eighth largest currency in the world. And the price keeps on climbing… Which Countries Have the Biggest Monetary Base in the World? The answer might surprise you.

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Binance DEX announces multi-fold system upgrade aimed at increasing crypto-adoption

With cryptocurrencies finally gaining mainstream attention, crypto-businesses have increased their efforts towards providing tailored services for users of the crypto-ecosystem. Binance, the pioneering crypto-exchange, has officially announced a system upgrade, specifically aimed at gaining a wider user base in the expanding market.

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Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.

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Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths: ‘It’s a Ponzi Scheme’

The accusation that bitcoin is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme is perhaps the oldest, longest-standing criticism of the digital bearer asset. The basic idea is that there is nothing of value here and the entire purpose of bitcoin’s existence is to enrich Satoshi Nakamoto and the speculators who bought in for a few pennies or dollars in the early days by tricking others into buying in at a higher price.

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Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths: The ‘Intrinsic Value’ Fallacy

A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.

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Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths, The ‘Intrinsic Value’ Fallacy

A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.

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Op Ed: Lightning Network Consensus Is a Marketplace and That’s Okay!

To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.

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Liquid Network Expands With New Memberships and Integrations

Blockstream's Liquid Network has expanded to include 14 new members. With these additions, Liquid’s client base now boasts 35 institutions. The company also announced that Liquid is now available on Bitfinex and RenrenBit, a crypto finance app.

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indieOn ICO

The music currency: helping artists market, manage and monetize their creative content and rewarding audiences for their participation on the platform. NDI is the utility Token for use in the mobile and browser based indieOn App.

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CHEAP: Protect your family with Ring’s 15-piece home security kit for just $300

Not long ago, getting your hands on a decent automated home security system was an almost impossible task – at least for those who didn’t have a few thousand dollars to burn. Things are different now, and you can pick up a sophisticated home protection system for just a few hundred dollars.

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Op Ed: Why Bitcoin’s “Toxic” Maximalism Makes Sense

Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.

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Paxful Introduces AI-Powered, Biometric Verification to Improve KYC and AML

The peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace Paxful announced today, April 2, 2019, that it’s introducing AI-powered identity verification to help improve know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) procedures on the platform.

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Op Ed: With Bitcoin, Anarchy Is the Point, Not the Problem

Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems.

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Thailand Now Has 4 Approved Cryptocurrencies

The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced a list of four approved cryptocurrencies for use as base trading pairs in the country. The regulator reportedly took into account factors such as sufficient market liquidity and a well-designed decentralized system.

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Grim Stories of Ethical, Privacy Abuses Emerge About Coinbase’s New Partners

When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.

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Bytus ICO

Bytus wants to revolutionize the payment system as it works today and blockchain enables us to do that. Point of Sale transactions are always delayed by fiat payments, crypto transactions will set this right.

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Bitcoin Spikes but EOS Skyrockets 25% in 24 Hours; How Far Can It Go?

EOS, the Enterprise Operating System, which was developed by Block One, saw a huge increase, more than double that of Bitcoin by percentage, in the past couple days. The base token had been pushing the $3 mark while Bitcoin bumpered around inside the $3600 range.

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Chimpion: Cryptocurrency Ecommerce And Blockchain Store

What Is Chimpion? Chimpion is an all-in-one e-commerce platform, a digital wallet, and a point of sale that operates a crypto-to-fiat settlement system. The platform is currently launching digital business storefronts that will enable merchants to accept crypto payments and choose their favorite altcoin as the base currency denomination. This will allow users to process their […]

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Chimpion ICO

Chimpion is an all in one ecommerce, point of sale, digital wallet with crypto to fiat settlement system. Chimpion’s is launching e-commerce storefronts that allow merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments, choosing their favorite altcoin as the base currency denomination and allowing the merchant to settle their crypto into fiat through a stablecoin.

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CenturyX ICO

CenturyX, also dubbed the 21st Century Exchange, seeks to successfully combine technological reliability and scalability, infrastructural comprehensiveness, transparency and highly secured trading platform for Cryptocurrency users/traders.

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EOS Launches Referendum Tool—Constitutional Changes May Result

EOS went live last June, and since then, has endured several months of controversy. Now, block producers have added a referendum feature that will keep the platform accountable to its base.

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Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange Bisq Has a New UI and DAO

Decentralized exchange Bisq has upgraded its software with an entirely new User Interface (UI) design and the launch of the Bisq Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) on testnet.

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CRUZEO ICO

CRUZEO is a decentralized ridesharing application protocol built on the NEO blockchain and Ontology network. We aim to revolutionize the ridesharing industry by putting value, data, and control back into the hands of the users who earn it.

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Binance Accused of Taking Bribes From Ripple After Renaming ETH to ALTS

“The xrp base shill is strong. Let’s get it out of your system, and put all your shills under this one tweet, and let’s see how much we get.” So... The post Binance Accused of Taking Bribes From Ripple After Renaming ETH to ALTS appeared first on Trustnodes.

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Bitfury Is Implementing Lightning Into Crypto Payment Platform Paytomat

The Bitfury Group has recently announced a partnership with crypto payment processing system Paytomat, working to bring the Lightning Network to Paytomat’s participating merchants.

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Bitfinex Gives Tether Competition, Adds Four of Market’s Top Stablecoins

Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and Ethfinex now support trading for all six of the market’s major stablecoins. Adding to its support for MakerDao’s Dai and Tether’s USDT, the sister platforms recently listed USD Coin (USDC), TrueUSD (TUSD), Paxos Standard Token (PAX) and Gemini USD (GUSD).

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XRP может занять место базового актива на Binance

Монета проекта Ripple XRP может стать базовой валютой торговой площадки Binance. Это следует из твита главы криптобиржи Чанпэна Чжао, который он опубликовал 18 ноября. The xrp base shill is strong.

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RSK Merges With New RIF OS, Opens Potential for Increased Interoperability

Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.

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RSK Merges With New RIF Labs, Opens Potential for Increased Interoperability

Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.

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New Exchange Security Scoring Model Offers Insurance Rates for Coin Holders

International cybersecurity solutions provider Group-IB has come up with a scoring model to grade crypto exchanges based on their level of security. The scoring model was created by Group-IB in conjunction with Swiss-based Cryptolns (which is operated by Swiss insurance broker APIS AS), and the grading is intrinsic to CryptoIns’ new cryptocurrency exchange insurance, which will allow exchange users to cover up to 15 BTC worth of digital assets held in their exchange accounts.

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XRP On Fire As It Goes Live As The Base Currency On CoinField Exchange – 61 Countries Already In the Mix

Over the past few weeks, there have been rumors about a Canadian crypto exchange that’s been deliberating on plans to launch an exchange system with XRP as the base currency. We can now inform that the plan has been realized.

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Minting the Future of Cryptocurrencies - [BTC Media Sponsor]

In 2009, Bitcoin was ushered in as an alternative to fiat currency, promising to revolutionize the future of peer-to-peer spending. Since then, it has spawned scores of other cryptocurrencies with various value propositions and potential.

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Unlocking the Full Potential of IoT Farming - [BTC Media Sponsor]

You don’t need to be an agriculture expert to see the writing on the wall. Current farming methods just aren’t working anymore for most farmers of the world. There are 2 billion smallholder farms managing fewer than five acres (PDF).

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