In yet another jolt to the decentralized finance (DeFi) community, margin, and leverage-based lending and trading platform, bZx became the target of another hack. In the hack, which was much… Read more »
The European Commission, the executive arm of the E.U., has drawn up regulation to tightly monitor cryptocurrencies it considers “significant”, including asset-backed stablecoins like Facebook’s libra. Euractiv, a European news… Read more »
Key Takeaways The European Union is pursuing strict regulations against fiat-backed stablecoins Those regulations could prevent some stablecoin projects from operating until issues are addressed It is not clear how… Read more »
The supply of the Coinbase-backed stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) has grown by 250% since the start of 2020, including an 80% expansion in just the past two months. After starting… Read more »
Stablecoins have been gathering a lot of steam and settling massive value in recent months. Moreover, on Thursday, Coin Metrics’ executive Nic Carter mentioned on Twitter that “stablecoins have been… Read more »
In digital-asset markets, stablecoins like tether and USDC are supposed to represent $1 of value. But their prices often fluctuate on the pubescent trading platforms of decentralized finance, or DeFi. … Read more »
As a new COVID-19 stimulus bill is debated in the United States Senate and Bitcoin (BTC) begins to bounce back from its volatility lows, the demand for stablecoins continues to… Read more »
A number of gold-backed stablecoins seem to be approaching new all-time high price levels as the price of their underlying asset has hit its highest levels since September of 2011…. Read more »
Key Takeaways CENTRE, run by Circle and Coinbase, executed the first ever address blacklist, complying with a request by U.S law enforcement. The USDC can be traced back to an… Read more »
Alexander Lipton is the CTO of Sila, a visiting professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Jerusalem Business School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Connection Science Fellow at… Read more »