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Finance

Voyager CEO Says Revenue Growth Accelerates 8-Fold as DeFi Trading Surges

CEO Steve Ehrlich says this quarter's revenue is on track to double what the company produced in all of its last fiscal year.

Voyager Digital CEO Steve Ehrlich

Markets

On-Chain Data Suggests Ether Investors Bought September Dip

Ether's recent price drop has failed to deter investors from accumulating the cryptocurrency, on-chain data indicates.

Ether prices, Aug. 25 to Sept. 25, 2020.

Markets

First Mover: Tron's Play for WBTC Shows Competition to Relieve Ethereum Congestion

Competition builds in market for tokenized bitcoin, used to get extra profit off holdings of the cryptocurrency recently denigrated as a "pet rock."

Bitcoin has been likened to a "pet rock," but tokenization allows it to be deposited for interest in DeFi applications on the Ethereum blockchain - and now Tron too.

Markets

First Mover: Federal Reserve, Congress Play Game of Chicken Over Stimulus as Market Lurches

Markets from stocks to bitcoin have groaned amid dimming prospects for more U.S. stimulus, and neither Congress nor the Fed are taking the lead.

As traders look for fresh stimulus to keep markets buoyant, neither Congress nor the Fed appears ready to blink.

Markets

First Mover: Bitcoins Hit Exchanges as Bloomberg Touts Crypto and DeFi Hedge Fund Seeks $50M

Bloomberg hails crypto as top 2020 asset, bitcoin hits exchanges, options traders see calm around U.S. elections, hedge fund seeks $50M for DeFi.

Wall Street sees U.S. November presidential elections injecting chaos into stock markets, but cryptocurrency options traders see nothing but calm ahead in the bitcoin market.

Markets

Crypto Hedge Fund Looks for $50M to Buy DeFi Tokens Amid Market Pullback

Panxora, a cryptocurrency hedge fund manager, seeks $50 million to buy digital tokens associated with decentralized finance, known as DeFi.

Panxora is raising money for a hedge fund focused on DeFi tokens.

Tech

Supply of Tokenized Bitcoin on Ethereum Now Tops $1.1B: Here's Why

The supply of BitGo’s wrapped bitcoins (WBTC) topped 76,000 after setting an all-time record of nearly 21,000 WBTC minted within one week. Here’s why.

wrapped bitcoin

Tech

Bitcoin-on-Ethereum Token tBTC Relaunches Following Buggy Debut in May

TBTC, a decentralized way to copy bitcoin (BTC) over to Ethereum, is relaunching today after a smart-contract bug sunk the project in May.

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Markets

First Mover: Bitcoin's Latest Sell-Off Gets Crypto Traders Mulling Election Chaos

Monday's sell-off shows bitcoin is likely to trade off with risky assets like stocks if U.S. election chaos sends markets into a fresh downdraft.

U.S. election chaos in November might spill over into crypto markets.

Finance

The Fast-Growing NFT Market Is Problematic Yet Promising

There is authentic demand for crypto collectibles, called NFTs, but the introduction of yield farming has introduced new issues.

Yield farming has supercharged the trading of crypto collectibles on at least one platform.

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