Crypto Jebb and independent market analyst Scott Melker agree that the crypto market’s toughest days still lay ahead. Discussion of the state of the crypto market has been a dominant headline over the past few weeks as non-crypto native media excoriate Bitcoin (BTC) and DeFi investors for investing in assets with no fundamental value. At the...Continue Reading

A new staking mechanism through RADAR token has been created that is set to minimize gas fees and support recurring APR across multiple blockchains. DappRadar and omnichain interoperability protocol LayerZero have launched a new token to enable cross-chain staking across multiple blockchains and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible networks — a move designed to minimize fees...Continue Reading

The cryptocurrency exchange filed a notice of default to Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital earlier in the week, but promised it would continue operations. Cryptocurrency exchange Voyager Digital announced Friday that it was temporarily suspending trading, deposits, withdrawals and loyalty rewards. “The failure of a borrower, Three Arrows Capital, to repay a substantial loan from us...Continue Reading

While price volatility remained a key factor, major DeFi tokens registered double digit loss over the past week as the DeFi TVL hovers near $50 billion mark. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of key decentralized finance (DeFi) insights, a newsletter crafted to bring you some of the major developments over the last week....Continue Reading

According to CEO Zac Prince, BlockFi signed agreements with FTX US totaling $680 million — for a company that had a $5 billion valuation in June 2021. FTX US has inked a deal with BlockFi that will give the crypto derivatives exchange the option to purchase the lending firm. In a Friday Twitter thread, BlockFi...Continue Reading

Peng Zhong stepped down as CEO roughly a month after former company head Jae Kwon said he would be leading NewTendermint, part of Ignite’s split to two firms in May. Peng Zhong, the chief executive officer of Ignite — formerly Tendermint and backer of the Cosmos ecosystem — has announced he will be leaving the...Continue Reading

Traders expect Bitcoin to swoop below its swing low before the price flattens out and altcoins begin to recover. Bitcoin dropped 56.2% in the second quarter of 2022, according to crypto analytics platform Coinglass. That makes it Bitcoin’s worst quarter since the third quarter of 2011 when BTC price fell by 67%. A large part...Continue Reading

Cointelegraph sat down with Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov at Consensus 2022 to get his thoughts on the crypto and NFT market. Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster and chair of the Human Rights Foundation, doesn’t appear at all bothered by the current crypto bear market. Kasparov, who is also a long-time Bitcoin supporter, told Cointelegraph...Continue Reading

Binance, Ripple, and Kraken are hiring, while Coinbase, Gemini, and Crypto.com have announced staff cuts. Amid the recent volatility in the crypto market affecting investments and stock prices, many firms made significant staff cuts in the last month while others continued hiring. In June, major crypto exchange Gemini was among the first to reportedly cut...Continue Reading

The addresses mainly run by active human traders have notched more than 147,000 addresses for the first time since November. The market cap of Bitcoin (BTC) dropped another 33% in June, which is now beginning to numb the Twitter community. On the upside, many crypto traders who wanted out did so fairly aggressively from March...Continue Reading