Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s note Technology is by and large not the major barrier — though many in the…
France’s top financial regulator has proposed to change the way the cryptocurrency industry is supervised in Europe. Robert Ophèle, chairman of Autorité des Marchés Financiers, addressed crypto-realted regulatory issues at the 5th Annual Conference on FinTech…
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has partnered with major global fan token makers, Chiliz and Socios, Cointelegraph Japan reports. As part of the new partnership, Coincheck will list Chiliz and Socios’ fan tokens on Coincheck’s non-fungible…
The simplest version of a DeFi liquidity pool holds two tokens in a smart contract to form a trading pair. Let’s use Ether (ETH) and USD Coin (USDC) as an example, and to make it…
Much has been written about the Sept. 30, 2020, decision by Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Kik Interactive. In that order, the…
In a first for professional soccer, Spanish team DUX Internacional de Madrid has used crypto to buy a new player. Ex-Real Madrid player David Barral is a new acquisition for the club facilitated by the…
The first Aave-friendly Ethereum to Matic bridge has opened for business, allowing users to port Aave’s interest-bearing aTokens back and forth between the DeFi protocol and the faster, cheaper layer-two network. The smart contract for…
Active decentralized finance (DeFi) users woke up yesterday to yet another “airdrop” of governance tokens, this time courtesy of self-described “multi-service platform” Stake DAO — but, due to the unique distribution method and some bugs…
Data is becoming one of society’s most valuable resources. And yet, our existing approaches fail to unleash its massive intrinsic value. Why is this the case? The issue is that our data — who we…
After a week of at times rancorous debate, an 11-author team of Yearn.finance core contributors and community members have submitted today a proposal to increase the supply of YFI by 6666 tokens — a quantity…