Hong Kong’s largest digital bank now allows bitcoin trading

ZA Bank, Hong Kong’s largest digital bank, has taken a step into cryptocurrency trading through a partnership with exchange HashKey, with the aim of offering access to digital assets to retail users. According to the entity’s representatives, this makes them “the first bank in Asia to offer this service.” The news was shared on the … Read more

¿Qué es el maximalismo de Bitcoin?

Vitalik Buterin usó el término por primera vez en 2014 a modo de crítica. Los maximalistas consideran que las demás altcoins son inferiores e innecesarias. El movimiento maximalista defiende que la red de bitcoin es la más descentralizada y segura. Muchas altcoins han surgido como respuesta a los obstáculos y limitaciones de bitcoin. Los maximalistas … Read more

“The Ethereum Foundation has less tact than a man”: Paul Ironforce

For the specialist, “Ethereum does not compete with Solana but with Bitcoin.” Unlike 2021, narratives do not accompany Ethereum. Paul Ironforce, pseudonym of an Argentine specialized in decentralized finance (DeFi), spoke about the low price of ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network. If its price is measured in BTC, ETH currently has … Read more

Coinbase removes wBTC and promotes its version of wrapped bitcoin

Coinbase users will be able to continue accessing their funds “at any time.” The team behind Wrapped Bitcoin regretted Coinbase’s decision and urged it to reconsider. Coinbase, the second exchange largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, announced that it will eliminate the token Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) from its asset list, as of December 19, 2024. … Read more

Binance lists new memecoin pairs and adds trading bots

The new automatic trading tools will be available from November 20, 2024. Trading bots optimize cryptocurrency operations and reduce human intervention. Binance, the exchange largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, announced that from November 20, 2024 it will incorporate new pairs of tokens commercials and the enablement of trading bot services on its Spot platform. … Read more

Ethereum ETFs left “the dark depths” behind

Ether (ETH) ETFs, Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency, have seen a sea change in their performance over the past week. Eric Balchunas, investment fund specialist, described the rebound as a “rapid and sudden rise” which allowed them to emerge from what he called “the dark depths.” This analysis is not a coincidence. Since their launch in July … Read more

¿Qué es yield farming de criptomonedas?

Yield farming permite obtener recompensas en múltiples plataformas de manera simultánea. Los depósitos permiten a los pools de liquidez respaldar préstamos. Con el yield farming, los usuarios pueden participar en la gobernanza de los protocolos DeFi. Las monedas más usadas en yield farming son stablecoins como USDT, USDC y DAI. Protocolos como Uniswap, MakerDAO, Compound … Read more

Institutional investment in Ethereum soared

Goldman Sachs has acquired $25 million in Ethereum ETFs. Citadel has purchased more than $3.5 million in these investment funds During the third quarter of the year, institutional investment in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on ether (ETH), the digital currency of the Ethereum ecosystem, skyrocketed. This is shown by the 13F forms that several financial … Read more

They invent a way to reverse transactions in Ethereum

These transactions were created by Ethereum researcher Vlad Zamfir and Anuj Das Gupta. Smart transactions could be reversed with “time machines.” They invent a technological functionality, called “travel transactions”which relativizes the immutability of transactions in Ethereum accounting. This functionality would apply to so-called “smart transactions” (smart transactions) behaving like a time machine, which goes back … Read more

You can now move PayPal cryptocurrency between Ethereum and Solana

LayerZero uses operations validators from companies such as Paxos, Google Cloud and others. PYUSD reached $1 billion in market capitalization in just over a year. The payment platform PayPal announced on November 12, 2024 that its stablecoinPayPal USD (PYUSD), has integrated the LayerZero protocol to enable third-party transfers between the Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) … Read more