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Why $4M Dai Made From WBTC Matters for DeFi's Maturation
Crypto lender Nexo minted $4 million in dai on MakerDAO using synthetic bitcoin token WBTC as collateral. Here's why that matters.
Hybrid Blockchain Maker Kadena Adds Chainlink Price Feeds
The former JPMorgan blockchain leads at Kadena have inked a deal to use Chainlink’s oracles for pricing crypto assets on Kadena's high-throughput network.
Developers of Ethereum Privacy Tool Tornado Cash Smash Their Keys
Developers of ether mixer Tornado Cash have destroyed their admin keys, turning the privacy tool into permissionless code.
Popular BTC Derivatives Product Goes Live on DeFi's dYdX
Andreessen Horowitz-backed dYdX released its Bitcoin Perpetual Contract out of private alpha on Wednesday, bringing a key BTC derivatives product to DeFi.
Vitalik Buterin Clarifies Remarks on Expected Launch Date of Eth 2.0
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin: “I defer to the client devs on timelines and if they are now saying ‘Q3’ more broadly then I believe them.”
Trust No Dapp: Chainlink Launches Oracle for Provable Randomness
Chainlink may be solving part of the problem that first drove Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s interest in decentralized applications.
Schlesi Testnet Is Latest Step in Long Road Toward Eth 2.0
Ethereum clients are beginning to sync and validate a new Eth 2.0 testnet, Schlesi, ahead of the network's prospective launch in July.
The CoinDesk 50: Binance Eyes the Whole Pie
Binance, #1 on the new CoinDesk 50 list, continues to move aggressively after the biggest opportunities in crypto.
The CoinDesk 50: Cosmos and the Dream of Anti-Maximalism
In an industry known for tribalism and infighting, Cosmos is banking on everyone else’s success. That's why it's on the new CoinDesk 50 list.
'Very Near Launch': Polkadot Founder Gavin Wood Details Network Rollout
Polkadot founder Gavin Wood outlined the “five or six” steps the network will be taking as it moves to a full launch, some four years after first being conceived, during his Ready Layer One presentation.
