As of November, there’s $219 billion in total value locked (TVL) within decentralized finance or DeFi. During the same time frame, trading from NFTs amounted to $4.2 billion according to DappRadar.
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EL ZONTE, El Salvador (AP) — After El Salvador’s congress made the bitcoin legal tender this week, eyes turned to this rural fishing village on the Pacific coast. Known to surfers for its pounding waves, El Zonte has had the cryptocurrency in its economy for the past year.
“We weren’t planning on raising for quite a few more months,” CEO John Linden tells TechCrunch. “And [a16z crypto] came to us early and they kind of preempted everybody else. They knew we weren’t raising but they said, ‘Hey, let’s do this now…’ And we’re sitting in such a great position now where we have many years of capital at this point.”
Most applications should consider using the new KeyObject API instead of passing keys as strings or Buffers due to improved security features.
WARREN DAVIDSON: The industry is basically pleading, give us some regulatory clarity.
Coinbase, which went public last week via direct listing, shaved about 10% off its share price this week, but was largely unaffected Friday in intraday trading. BTC $60,655 -1.41% ETH $4,397 -2.42% XRP $1.14 -1.64% BCH $584 -2.80% EOS $4.40 -3.28% DOGE $0.26 -1.63% $ BTC $60,655 ETH $4,397 XRP $1.1354 BCH $584 XMR $255.5 DASH $189 EOS $4.40 ZEC $160 ADA $1.969 NEO $43.95 BNB $608 XLM $0.352 USDT $1.00 MIOTA $1.32 DOGE $0.26
This week, Binance announced it is pairing up with BAM Trading Services — which Coindesk notes is FinCEN-registered and has links to Koi Compliance, which counts Binance as an investor — to launch a U.S. exchange “soon.” That will mean, however a level of disruption for some U.S. customers in the meantime.
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A digital wallet is a gadget or piece of software that securely stores users’ payment information and passwords for numerous payment methods.
A lot right now in the U.S. Congress. One way lawmakers propose to pay for the $1 trillion infrastructure bill the Senate approved Tuesday is by imposing tax-reporting requirements for cryptocurrency brokers, the way stockbrokers report their customers’ sales to the IRS.
Portnoy put together a hilarious video of himself declaring his newfound devotion to SafeMoon—a community-driven DeFi token set to disrupt the financial world. But he also warned followers to “invest at their own risk”.
Although CZ is the leader of Binance, he is not in charge of running Binance.US. In fact, in April 2021, Binance.US announced that it hired Brian Brook as its CEO. Brian Brooks is a former Coinbase executive who also served as Donald Trump’s Acting Comptroller of the Currency.
Finally, users can fund their accounts from as little as $50, making the platform very accessible to beginners. Deposits can be made via credit/debit card, bank transfer, or various e-wallets. Notably, eToro even accepts PayPal and Klarna, making it super easy to fund your trading account!
By late 2010, the first of what would eventually be dozens of similar cryptocurrencies — including popular alternatives like Litecoin — began appearing. The first public Bitcoin exchanges appeared around this time as well.
The company said it hopes that the launch of its new portfolio will boost employee participation in employer-sponsored savings plans and encourage workers to save for their retirement, according to Financial Post.