Starbucks (SBUX) is set to begin a non-fungible token (NFT)-based loyalty program with the blockchain technology provided by Polygon. The company's Starbucks Odyssey will allow customers to purchase and earn digital collectible stamps in the form of an NFT that offer benefits and immersive...
Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi will delist seven different privacy coins from its platform as regulatory pressure mounts on anonymity-enhanced currencies (AECs). The exchange announced that it had terminated the trading service of a number of privacy tokens including Dash (DSH), Decred (DCR), Firo...
Founder of Cardano, IOG and one of the Ethereum creators, Charles Hoskinson, has recorded a video where he comments on the recent White House recommendations about cracking down on all energy intensive industries, including Bitcoin mining. Hoskinson believes that recently presented Cardano...
British consumers face an 80 per cent increase in household fuel bills this autumn, regulators announced in what they acknowledged was "devastating news". The UK inflation rate is already in double figures and is tipped to reach an eye-watering 18.6 per cent, the highest for half a century....
Be on the lookout for institutional investors specifically beginning to ramp up their Ethereum staking activity. Ether’s price could decouple from other cryptocurrencies following The Merge, as its staking rewards will make it similar to an instrument like a bond or commodity with a carry...
Meta will hold its annual virtual reality conference, Connect, on Oct.11, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday. In an announcement post on Facebook, Zuckerberg appears to be wearing a new headset, which is likely Project Cambria, a highly anticipated and powerful mixed-reality headset. This...
Binance’s move to toss USD Coin (USDC) off its platform is a bold gambit to boost the fortunes of its own stablecoin, Binance USD (BUSD) — the third-biggest stablecoin by market cap, following USDC in second place and Tether in the top spot. And the fact that it comes amid reports...
DYDX (dYdX) is a layer 2 non-custodial decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. Built on Starkware’s StarkEx scalability engine, layer 2 is used for trading of cross-margined perpetuals on the platform. The scaling solution allows dYdX to increase transaction speed, eliminate gas costs,...
The past week in the DeFi ecosystem saw major developments centered around the Ethereum Merge. CoinGecko Co-Founder Bobby Ong recently took to twitter to suggest removing all liquidity from DeFi protocols in order to take advantage of ETH PoW Token airdrops. Combined with max ETH borrow...
Polygon (MATIC) has been on a rally lately despite the overall crypto market remaining stagnant. Robinhood, Opensea, and Facebook all added support and integration for Polygon and NFTs in the same month span. We're also nearing our one year anniversary of the legendary metaverse rally in 2021...
Most of the responses to the Biden Executive Order on cryptocurrency are coming due right after Labor Day. The responses expected from the Treasury and Justice Departments will hold particular sway over the future of crypto policy in the US. Meanwhile, George Ball, executive of top investment...
Darius Dale is the Founder & CEO of 42 Macro, an investment research firm that aims to disrupt the financial services industry by democratizing institutional-grade macro risk management frameworks and processes. On this episode, we're discussing what signals and factors need to be in place...
