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The performance of the cryptocurrency market in 2020 has been very erratic, with the global crypto market cap moving by 4% since the beginning of the year from $191. 87 billion to $199. 74 billion.
2020-4-21 15:30 | |
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The Libra Consortium has made new updates to the white paper detailing amendments to the original premise, which include the introduction of a number of stablecoins pegged to different fiat currencies as against its initial model, among other changes, in response to concerns expressed by regulatory bodies.
2020-4-18 12:00 | |
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It will be a mistake to take your eyes off Ethereum and the stablecoin network at the moment. The growth of the latter over the past few days has been widely discussed in the community, a discussioThe post Stablecoins could be Ethereum's ace against Bitcoin's weak hand appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-4-16 18:30 | |
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Users can borrow U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoins against bitcoin in their wallets.
2020-3-10 15:00 | |
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Coinbase and Circle are facing off against Binance in what could be a battle of stablecoins, and ultimately a war for the highly regulated and lucrative U. S. market. Battle of the Titans With Binance creating a U.
2020-1-9 09:24 | |
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Tether, the controversial stable coin has somehow learned the art of survival, especially at times when most of the community is betting against it. The stable coin has been at the center of numerous controversies right from the time of its inception.
2019-7-7 19:39 | |
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Nobel-prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, who has previously advocated for a full ban on cryptocurrency, doesn’t like Facebook’s Libra plans either. Stablecoins might be a friendlier option to someone like Stiglitz, who believes crypto lacks all the properties of sound money.
2019-7-3 18:28 | |
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Binance could soon release new stablecoins to the market The goal is to offer users the possibility to trade virtual currencies against other fiat currencies The recognized and popular cryptocurrency exchange Binance is going to be issuing its own stablecoins in the coming months.
2019-6-6 17:38 | |
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The significance of stablecoins has been a hotly debated topic in the crypto community, splitting the opinions of major crypto-proponents across the board. The recent Tether/Bitfinex episode raised many questions about Tether’s status as a dependable stablecoin, since the virtual asset lost its 1:1 pegged valuation against the US Dollar, for a while.
2019-5-2 11:55 | |
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Stablecoins may be the least exciting tokens in the world of cryptocurrency, but even these projects have their share of drama. Last week, the New York Attorney General’s Office accused Bitfinex of masking $850 million in losses with the reserves of their stablecoin, Tether.
2019-5-2 00:57 | |
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Tether, the leading stablecoin, recently unpegged from the US Dollar after news that the New York State Attorney General is investigating iFinex Inc. , which operates Bitfinex and owns Tether Ltd.
2019-4-29 22:06 | |
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Amid NY Lawsuit Against Bitfinex And Tether, Paxos Launches $10 Million In Stablecoins Yesterday, The Block reported on a lawsuit initiated by the NY Attorney General against Bitfinex and Tether. Over the course of a 23-page document, the filing explains that the office believes that Bitfinex has been allowing traders in New York to trade, […]
2019-4-27 22:45 | |
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The Bitcoin bull and bear market cycles are a pattern that produces significant developments — when the market is cold, people tend to focus on building the next wave of groundbreaking technology.
2019-3-29 16:26 | |
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One of the most popular methods for hedging against volatility in the crypto market is stablecoins. Even though tether has been the most popular go-to stablecoin, it recently made a change to its website that has gotten some negative attention.
2019-3-18 20:38 | |
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A new report published this week shines a light on the stablecoin ecosystem. Authored by George Samman and Andrew Masanto in conjunction with Amazix, the report traces the rise of digital currencies against a backdrop of high inflation in 16 countries.
2019-2-22 20:58 | |
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Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has completed a $30 million Series B round led by American VC firm Accel and Benchmark, who led the startup's Series A funding in April 2018.
2019-2-15 19:41 | |
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Not without an ample dose of skepticism, 2018 can indeed be referred to as the year of the stablecoin. Amid total backlash against Tether, and yet high demand for stable cryptocurrency as a means of settlement, a growing cohort of stable coin solutions were rolled out to the market.
2019-1-14 21:46 | |
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While fiat-backed stablecoins are the antithesis of crypto's original tenet to be immune to the inflationary and political forces that debase fiat, commodity-backed crypto could be a genuine innovation as a hedge against inflation and, indeed, fiat.
2018-12-15 23:00 | |
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While fiat-backed stablecoins are the antithesis of crypto's original tenet to be immune to the inflationary and political forces that debase fiat, commodity-backed crypto could be a genuine innovation as a hedge against inflation and, indeed, fiat.
2018-12-16 23:00 | |
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Bitfinex and Ethfinex users will now be able to trade in all six major stablecoins available in the market. The platforms were already providing Tether and DAI for trading. The four newly added stablecoins are USDC, Paxos Standard Token, Gemini Dollar and True USD.
2018-12-5 15:59 | |
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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).
2018-12-4 21:02 | |
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Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) has released an independent, third-party attestation of its bank account, and according to a top 5 public accounting firm, the stablecoin has its funds in order.
2018-11-22 22:05 | |
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There has been a massive influx of stablecoins in the cryptocurrency industry. The purpose of these currencies is very simple: maintain their peg to the US Dollars at all times. Surprisingly, that is a very difficult task for nearly all stablecoins, especially during these volatile times.
2018-11-17 22:15 | |
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In recent cryptocurrency exchange news, Bitfinex has introduced new withdrawal fees, the CEO of Bitmex has refuted accusations that the exchange’s in-house trading desk trades against its customers, and Malta-based Bistraq Exchange has commenced operations.
2018-11-15 11:30 | |
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“Go for the Jugular” is the advice George Soros gave to his team during his famous attack on the British pound for a profit of $1 billion on so-called Black Wednesday in 1992.
2018-11-15 18:50 | |
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Galaxy Capital–backed BlockFiis taking its loan services to the global stage. According to a statement shared with Bitcoin Magazine, the platform is expanding its services to an international audience.
2018-10-31 17:17 | |
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Companies and exchanges are jumping on the stablecoin bandwagon — but just how promising is this concept and doesn’t it go completely against everything Bitcoin stands for? Dollar-Pegged Money is Nothing New Disneyland’s first president, Jack Lindquist, introduced the in-house currency called Disney Dollars in 1987.
2018-10-27 03:00 | |
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Utility billing and payment services provider Novatti is launching a new Australian dollar (AUD)-backed stablecoin known as the Novatti AUD Utility Token on the Stellar Network.
2018-10-25 20:58 | |
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As a company looking to give users full control over their digital rights, Blockstack is piloting a new app mining program that encourages designers to create new applications directly on Blockstack’s platform and earn rewards in bitcoin.
2018-10-24 00:30 | |
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With the exception of the SEC’s FinHub announcement, it has been a quiet week for regulatory news — something we’ve been getting a lot of recently as U. S. officials clamp down on unscrupulous coin offerings and crypto companies.
2018-10-20 17:49 | |
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Fresh on the market, the industry’s newest batch of stablecoins is having trouble striking a price balance. Amidst news of listings on Huobi and OKEx, two of the industry’s largest exchanges, TrueUSD (TUSD), Gemini USD (GUSD), the Paxos Standard (PAX) and Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) have all risen well above their pegs.
2018-10-17 01:17 | |
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Huobi Global has announced its decision to list four USD-pegged stablecoins by the end of the week. In a support notice published on its platform, the company noted that users will be able to make deposits for Paxos Standard Token (PAX), True USD (TUSD), Circle’s (USDC), and Gemini exchange’s (GUSD) on its exchange starting from Friday, October 19, 2018 (GMT +8).
2018-10-17 21:15 | |
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Digital assets platform OKEx has added four stablecoins to its listed assets. According to a support notice published by OKEx, the Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange says that TrustToken's TrueUSD (TUSD), Circle's USDCoin (USDC), the Gemini Dollar (GUSD) and Paxos Standard Token (PAX) are now live on the platform.
2018-10-16 22:42 | |
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Tether’s peg is slipping, and an exchange-wide firesale has led to major price discrepancies between bitcoin’s BTC/USDT and BTC/USD trading pairs across the market.
2018-10-16 22:06 | |
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A mass exodus from the most popular dollar-pegged stablecoin Tether (USDT) has led to its devaluation against peer stablecoins. USDT on Monday broke away from its historically tight link with the US Dollar to touch 85 cents across multiple crypto-exchanges.
2018-10-15 17:18 | |
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Stablecoins have been expanding during the last years in the cryptocurrency market. They entered the market with the intention to provide a hedge against the inherent volatility of cryptocurrencies.
2018-10-10 07:51 | |
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The exchange made good on its promise to create bridges between exchanges through stablecoins.
2018-10-6 18:54 | |
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Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
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How Can Andreessen Horowitz Profit From its $15 million USD Investment in a Stablecoin? Andreessen Horowitz, an important venture capital firm, has recently made an investment of about $15 million USD in Maker, a blockchain stablecoin network.
2018-10-2 05:10 | |
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Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
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Криптовалютная биржа HitBTC добавила в листинг стейблкоин от торговой платформы братьев Уинклвоссов Gemini Dollar (GUSD). HitBTC strongly supports the concept and philosophy of stablecoins. And today we’re happy to open markets for the Gemini Dollar ($GUSD), https://t.
2018-9-21 10:24 | |
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Two crypto companies, Gemini Trust and Paxos, got a green light from a New York state regulator to launch their own stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U. S. dollar. New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) gave an okay to Gemini Trust, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, to launch Gemini Dollar (GUSD).
2018-9-11 01:58 | |
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Blockchain money transfer company Wyre has announced a partnership with MakerDAO, creator of the Dai stablecoin, to offer Dai as part of a fiat-crypto trading pair in more than 30 countries across the world including the U.
2018-8-15 00:54 | |
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As with brick-and-mortar industries that are slowly fading away to the globalism of the online world, so too will the traditional prediction market industry have to innovate to keep up with the sheer efficiency, reliability and security that the decentralized prediction markets promise to bring.
2018-7-31 15:58 | |
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Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies with stable value; unlike most other crypto assets, they have low volatility against the world’s most important sovereign-backed currencies (fiat). They are essentially a cryptocurrency with a fixed price.
2018-7-16 21:26 | |
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The three characteristics that are always held against the cryptocurrency market are, a) the speculation that surrounds it, b) the lack of regulation and c) its volatility. While the first two are subject to change and are in more than one aspect responsible for the third characteristic, people in the cryptocurrency world are taking the The post Top 5 Stablecoins to fall back on during the bear season appeared first on ItsBlockchain.
2018-6-11 07:45 | |
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CELO's surge highlights the growing influence of endorsements in crypto markets and underscores the potential for increased global financial inclusion. The post CELO jumps 25% after project gains endorsement from Vitalik Buterin appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
The indexing layer is also expanding to Avalanche and Celo.
CELO is up by more than 2% today despite the network suffering a phishing attack over the weekend. CELO, the native coin of the Celo blockchain, is one of the best performers amongst the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap.
CELO has lost more than 4% of its value in the last 24 hours despite the development announcing a huge funding round yesterday. The cryptocurrency market could end the week in a bearish trend as most coins are trading in the red zone.