Tl:dr Later this year, we’ll begin sunsetting Coinbase Pro to migrate all advanced trading into one unified Coinbase account, bringing customers access to popular features like staking, Borrow, dapp wallet, and Coinbase Card from a single platform balance.Advanced Trade on Coinbase.com is already available globally, with the same volume-based fees as Coinbase Pro.Over the coming weeks, we’ll be rolling out…
Yahoo Hong Kong executive Lorraine Cheung said that activities in the Metaverse are seen by Hong Kong residents as a good alternative to social interaction amid the pandemic. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/tag-heuer-has-an-nft-smartwatch-nifty-newsletter-june-15-21
The game’s publisher, Mythical Games, also just released two other play-to-earn titles and is working with the NFL on its own NFT game. Source: https://decrypt.co/103561/blankos-block-party-nft-game-epic-games-store
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Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, said it will introduce a token pegged to the British pound next month. The stablecoin (GBPT), according to a company statement on Wednesday, initially will be supported by the Ethereum blockchain. GBPT is set to become the fifth fiat currency-pegged stablecoin launched by Tether, joining the U.S. dollar-pegged USDT, euro-pegged EURT, Chinese Yuan-pegged CHNT,…
On Thursday, crypto derivatives platform dYdX, which is currently built on Ethereum layer 2, announced that it would be moving to a standalone blockchain based on the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint proof-of-stake consensus for its v4 update. The firm cites the Cosmos blockchain’s decentralization and performance as reasons for being a “best fit” for building dYdX for v4. We’re excited…
The Central African Republic (CAR) shocked the world when its president announced that the country had adopted bitcoin as legal currency. While some assumed that another nation would eventually follow the steps of El Salvador, which last year became the first country in the world to declare bitcoin a lawful currency, most didn’t expect this small African nation to be…
Connecticut House of Representatives member Jim Himes has released a proposal aiming to start a dialogue on the United States potentially launching a central bank digital currency, or CBDC. In a white paper released on Wednesday, Himes urged Congress to begin exploring the rollout of a digital dollar issued by the Federal Reserve to prevent the government from falling behind…
The Federal Reserve is closely watching the crypto world—but isn’t worried, according to the central bank’s chairman. Fed Chief Jerome Powell said today at a Senate committee meeting that the bank saw no “macroeconomic implications” from Bitcoin and the wider crypto market’s volatile price swings, but that better regulation still was required. “I think the principle implication is really what…
NFTs and DeFi have taken the world by storm in recent years, but both industries have downsides. Bringing them together could be a force for good. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/this-is-whats-standing-in-the-way-of-defis-nftification
