Unlocking the Potential of Smart Contracts in the Crypto Ecosystem

Fundamental to DeFi, smart contracts automate financial processes such as payments and loans, enhancing efficiency and reducing costs. The post Unlocking the Potential of Smart Contracts in the Crypto Ecosystem appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Crypto Derivatives Exchange Bybit to Settle Options Contracts in USDC

The derivatives leader announced in a press release that it will be settling its options trading market in the second-largest stablecoin by market cap.

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Australian Crypto Firm Lays off Workers as the Crypto Winter Bites Harder

As the crypto winter shows little to no end, Australian crypto giant Banxa wants to save itself by rescinding the employment contracts of a cross-section of its workforce. The post Australian Crypto Firm Lays off Workers as the Crypto Winter Bites Harder appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Is DOGE a good buy after Elon Musk’s investment in it?

Dogecoin DOGE/USD is a cryptocurrency that initially began its journey throughout the crypto space as a meme-coin. What this means is that when it launched, it did not introduce smart contracts, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), or any other notable advancement when compared to other projects.

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BlockFi Mentions That It Liquidated Three Arrows Capital, Here’s What We Know!

Crypto Lending Platform BlockFi has confirmed via a tweet that despite “best business judgement” it had to liquidate a “large client”. This decision was primarily taken in order to alleviate risks which are in accordance with the contracts including specific counterparties.

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Laid-Off Workers May Find Home With Wall Street Regulator; Coinbase Still Eying India Expansion

The crypto winter is one of the hardest times with thousands of jobs lost as firms brace themselves for the long night. For those with terminated contracts, there’s a chance to switch sides and become regulators in the industry that they once worked in.

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Decentralized crypto trading & DeFi platform Injective adds support for Polkadot assets

Injective, the interoperable smart contracts platform optimized for DeFi apps, announced today it now officially supports Polkadot native assets. The integration enables Injective to be a primary gateway for cross-chain Polkadot assets to enter the Cosmos universe.

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CFTC Sues Gemini Over Futures Contract Statements

Gemini, a leading crypto exchange, has been sued by the CFTC over statements regarding its earliest Bitcoin futures contracts. Lawsuit Concerns Bitcoin Futures Contract According to the U.S. Commodity Futures...

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CFTC sues Gemini claiming crypto exchange lied in futures contract evaluation

The agency says the exchange gave false information in person and in documents in its 2017 bid to be among the first to offer Bitcoin futures contracts.

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Enjoy Easier Futures Trading Through CoinEx Futures

According to TokenInsight 2021 Crypto Trading Industry Annual Review, the industry continues to break through, with 2021 full-year trading volume reaching $112 trillion, of which about half is futures contracts ($57 trillion), compared with spot trading that accounts for 43% ($49 trillion).

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Introducing JPEX – a Global Digital Asset Trading Platform

Founded in 2020, JPEX is a global crypto trading platform. Its users are located in many countries and regions around the world. The trading products provided include futures contracts, spot trading, etc.

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ECB survey: Crypto's futures contracts and options trading is bound to be...

The European Central Bank (ECB) recently published a report titled 'Decrypting financial stability risks in crypto-asset markets.' The report comes at a time when crypto-assets are at the center of inThe post ECB survey: Crypto's futures contracts and options trading is bound to be... appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Nomura Starts Trading Crypto Derivatives, Joining Rivals Goldman, JPMorgan

The Japanese investment bank began trading cryptocurrency derivative contracts this week, joining rivals including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan in giving clients a way to access the crypto market.

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Binance will delist LUNA/USDT contracts as price falls below 0.005

The major crypto exchange said on Thursday it would delist the trading pair if the price fell under 0.005 USDT, which has already happened.

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BitForex Review – Is BitForex Legit & Safe To Use?

What is Bitforex Bitforex is an emerging crypto exchange that offers spot trading, margin trading, perpetual contracts with leverage up to 100x, and a Social Trading platform. There’s over 300 trading pairs and 163 cryptocurrencies available, with services being offered in more than 180 countries.

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What major sports are paying athletes in crypto?

Athletes are slowly becoming more and more interested in contracts paid out in crypto. What’s their reasoning and how does this impact the blockchain industry?

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FTX contracts Eventus for global risk monitoring needs

Global crypto exchange FTX. COM (FTX/USD) and Eventus, a leading provider of market risk and multi-asset class trade surveillance solutions, have entered into a groundbreaking partnership. Under their agreement, Eventus’ Validus platform will be deployed for trade surveillance and risk monitoring on all FTX markets worldwide, Invezz learned from a press release.

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Injective debuts BAYC Perpetuals

Injective Pro a Crypto derivatives exchange, a few days ago, listed perpetual contracts based on Bored Ape Yacht Club; here’s more on this development Successful NFT projects have become inaccessible NFTs have grown considerably in recent times, and during that period, the valuation of the most successful NFT projects has become outrageously expensive.

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Crypto assets for liquid democracy: The future of public finance

In the world of Web3, we will participate in collective decision-making through liquid democracy powered by crypto assets and smart contracts.

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Crypto data provider Kaiko integrates with oracle network Pyth

Kaiko, a cryptocurrency & blockchain asset market data provider, today announced a new integration with Pyth network, an oracle platform that provides secure market data sources for on-chain smart contracts.

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The 3 Most Popular Smart Contracts Explained

Smart contracts hold the key to the crypto economy, enabling the transfer of value and a wide range of financial applications across blockchains such as Ethereum. But what are smart contracts exactly, and how do they work? That’s what we’re about to discuss…  In actual fact, smart contracts are not all that dissimilar to traditional […]

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Bitfinex Derivatives lists perpetual swaps for ApeCoin (APE) and Gala (GALA)

Bitfinex Derivatives, a derivatives platform accessible through crypto exchange Bitfinex, today announced the launch of perpetual swap contracts for ApeCoin (APE) and Gala (GALA). Settled in Tether tokens (USDt), with up to 100x leverage, APE and GALA perps are now live.

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Bityard Exchange Review 2022 – Is This a Legit Crypto Contracts Trading Platform?

One of the major complaints newcomers into the crypto space have is the complexity of the whole bitcoin world. From unintuitive and user-unfriendly trading platforms and wallets, to completely new terminology and philosophy, bitcoin is a lot to digest for a newbie trader and investor.

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Trading Giant DRW to Offer Bilateral Crypto Options

Trading Firm DRW will launch bilateral cryptocurrency options contracts

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Tatum Allows Users To Create NFTs Without Holding Crypto Through ‘NFT Express’

Tatum, a blockchain development platform backed by Octopus Ventures, is thrilled to introduce NFT Express, a first-of-its-kind feature for creating NFTs. As per the announcement, the NFT Express allows users to mint NFTs without using crypto to pay for transactions and the deployment of smart contracts.

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2 key indicators cast doubt on the strength of the current crypto market recovery

BTC and altcoins flashed bullish this week, but the perpetual contracts funding rate and Tether premium reflect a lack of confidence from traders.

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Stellar To Deploy Smart Contracts By End Of 2022? XLM Reacts To The Upside

Stellar (XLM) records a positive performance in 24-hours as the crypto market in general recovers from its sell-off. As of press time, XLM trades at $0. 20 with a 4. 8% profit in the last day. Related Reading | Stellar Development Foundation Launches New Account Model, How Users Will Benefit On January 25th, Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) Vice President of Technological Strategy Tomer Weller announced via Twitter the integration of smart contract on this network.

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Crypto data platform Kaiko integrates with Algoracle, Algorand’s first decentralized oracle network

Kaiko, a provider of institutional-grade cryptocurrency market data, today announced a partnership with Algoracle, the first native oracle service on the Algorand blockchain. Kaiko’s cryptocurrency market data will be integrated with Algoracle’s decentralized oracle network, available for use in smart contracts.

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Elon Musk Explains DOGE Edge Over Bitcoin, But Where Is He Wrong?

In an interview for the Lex Fridman Podcast, CEO at Tesla Elon Musk talked about Dogecoin (DOGE), Bitcoin, Web 3, smart contracts and more. Musk has been more involved with the crypto space in 2021, but most of his takes have sparked debate and controversy.

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Should you buy Chainlink (LINK) today? Price analysis and predictions below

Chainlink (LINK) is a smart contracts platform that ranks among the top 20 crypto… The post Should you buy Chainlink (LINK) today? Price analysis and predictions below appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Cardano Network Records Significant Growth In Number Of Plutus-Based Smart Contracts

Plutus smart contracts on the Cardano blockchain rapidly increasing. The over 200% increase in the past few weeks is coming amidst increasing activity on Cardano. The price of ADA however continues to struggle along with much of the crypto market.

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Ethereum Is Well On Its Way To Becoming One Of The Most Productive Assets In The World — Here’s Why

Crypto analyst Croissant looks at a few factors which could propel Ethereum higher. A large majority of ETH tokens are held in smart contracts. The supply of ETH on major exchanges is almost hitting a three-year low.

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Exodus wallet integrates with SportX to enable esports betting with crypto

Cryptocurrency and smart contracts are redefining the future of online betting. Esports, meanwhile, represent a growing market for gambling.

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State Of The Art Auditing Procedure By Solidproof Set To Revolutionize The DeFi Industry

Solidproof, a German-based DeFi auditing firm, is set to revolutionize the blockchain and crypto industry by providing both manual and autonomous auditing services. Notably, Solidproof has specialized in auditing smart contracts and is capable of pinpointing any vulnerability of a system.

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Polygon: Ethereum’s Friend Is Looking To Make Big Strides

In a time of many new crypto coins, platforms, and contracts, Polygon is starting to pave a way and rise to the throne of Ethereum layer 2s. Polygon, formerly known as the Matic Network, is a scaling solution that aims to provide multiple tools to improve the speed and reduce the cost and complexities of transactions on blockchain networks.

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Ripple Liquidity Hub for the Enterprise

The world is fast moving towards a crypto-first future. One in which every company will have a strategy for how to leverage crypto, tokenized assets, smart contracts and more to transfer value and fuel a rising tide of global digital transactions and commerce.

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BitForex Review [2022] – Is BitForex Legit & Safe To Use?

What is Bitforex Bitforex is an emerging crypto exchange that offers spot trading, margin trading, perpetual contracts with leverage up to 100x, and a Social Trading platform. There’s over 300 trading pairs and 163 cryptocurrencies available, with services being offered in more than 180 countries.

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NFTs – The New Frontier of Crypto Security, But Just How Secure Are They?

It’s well known in crypto that hackers follow the money. In the earlier days, centralized exchanges and soft wallets were the prime targets. Over recent years, attackers have also expanded their remit into DeFi smart contracts, exploiting programming bugs and vulnerabilities to drain lending and liquidity pools.

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How to mint NFT directly from smart contract? Complete Guide

Why learn writing directly from smart contracts? In today’s world there are a lot of improvements and developments for crypto projects. One of the main products that we use today is smart contracts.

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IOTA Introduces New Smart Contracts To Circumvent The Network Flaws

The use of smart contracts remains the key turnaround factor with the cryptocurrency space. Smart contracts brought about the decentralization of digital assets and eliminated third-party interferences in crypto transactions.

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It’s Still Early Putin Says on Bitcoin

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Telos launches EVM-compatible layer-1 chain to eliminate crypto insider trading

Telos, a next-generation blockchain platform, today announced it is launching the Telos EVM Mainnet, a fully EVM-compatible layer-1 chain. The Telos EVM is a non-Ethereum fork, Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) that runs existing Solidity and Vyper contracts without modification, just like Ethereum, but with 30X greater speed, around 1% of the cost of Ethereum gas […] The post Telos launches EVM-compatible layer-1 chain to eliminate crypto insider trading appeared first on CryptoNinjas.

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BlockFi Joins the Bitcoin Futures ETF Race Which Experts Predict Is Coming to Fruition This Month

Crypto lender BlockFi is the latest one to file for a bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF). This week, the company filed for a fund called “BlockFi Bitcoin Strategy ETF” that would not invest directly in Bitcoin, rather in futures contracts traded on the regulated derivatives exchange CME, according to the regulatory filing.

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Bakkt And Tech Powerhouse Google Team Up To Bring Crypto To The Masses

NYSE owner-backed exchange Bakkt has long been trumpeted as a future catalyst for crypto adoption on Wall Street. The firm offers highly regulated physically-settled BTC contracts.   Bakkt just yanked the lid off its fierce crypto ambitions.

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ADA, Alonzo, And 200 Smart Frozen Contracts

Amongst the madness in broader crypto, along with Cardano’s substantial volatility, the Alonzo hard fork update for ADA has sought to provide a solution to maintaining its powerhouse status, and continue to dominate the year.

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Cardano (ADA) developers can now leverage Chainlink for better smart contracts

Cardano is scaling up its decentralized finance (DeFi) smart contract development with a new partnership with Chainlink who will be providing the upgraded crypto asset with its oracle integration services for developers on the ecosystem.

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Genesis tests end-of-day pricing for institutional crypto futures product

Genesis has introduced a trading method allowing institutional investors to trade Bitcoin futures contracts based on their end-of-day closing price.

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Only 10 Korean Crypto Exchanges Have Made Registration Deadline

Only ten cryptocurrency exchange companies have registered with the KFIU, while only four have additionally secured contracts with banks, which was the second requirement. The post Only 10 Korean Crypto Exchanges Have Made Registration Deadline appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Ethereum balance on crypto exchanges hits new lows as ETH price retakes $3K

Meanwhile, the amount staked in Ethereum 2.0 smart contracts reached over 7.75 million ETH.

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