Research from on-chain analytics provider Glassnode has revealed that the top three stablecoins represent more than 90% of the sector’s entire market cap. Glassnode’s April 13 “Week On-chain” report found that the top three stablecoins…
The co-founder and CEO of Circle, Jeremy Allaire, has made a bold prediction that the company-issued stablecoin is on track to surpass payments giant PayPal in terms of transacted dollar value. The comments came in…
Bitfinex and Tether settled with the New York Attorney General office in the landmark case against Tether. New York authorities alleged that Tether misrepresented the degree to which Tether (USDT) coins were backed by fiat…
Popular stablecoin Tether (USDT) is the first token to go live on the Hermez layer-two network, the company announced on Monday. As part of the collaboration, batched USDT transactions will be possible once the Hermez…
The market cap of Tether (USDT), a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, has surged in recent weeks, potentially helping to fuel the recent Bitcoin (BTC) rally that drove prices to near all-time highs. Paolo Ardoino, who serves…
An Ethereum-based decentralized finance, or DeFi, platform known as Cheese Bank recently suffered a $3.3 million loss — the product of an early-November hack. The thieves utilized a somewhat newly-found weakness in the DeFi sector…
Robert Bench, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s director of applied research, thinks privacy should be a focus during the creation of digital money, not an afterthought. “Privacy is a question that we have learned…
Amid a year of significant growth for the decentralized finance space within the crypto industry, British Virgin Islands-based crypto exchange Bitfinex has unveiled its new lending service today, called Bitfinex Borrow. “Bitfinex Borrow is a…
Cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx is introducing a stopgap measure to reintroduce withdrawals after some problems last month. According to an official announcement on Nov. 8, DragonEx is introducing a temporary solution to allow crypto withdrawals. The…
According to Tether’s official transparency data, the USDT market cap crossed a $17 billion mark for the first time, hitting over $17 billion in total assets. Tether’s market cap has been growing exponentially in 2020….