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Celsius files to reopen withdrawals for a minority of customers: CoinTelegraph

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Bitcoin Dominance Drops Under 40% For The First Time Since January

Moonbirds Fly High On $50M Round and New Collections

Christensen Calls For MakerDAO to Float Stablecoin

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 Who owns what when someone owns an NFT? It’s not always clear. When Actor Seth Green’s Bored Ape was 

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 Despite moving in unison for much of the year, Ether has outperformed major U.S. stock indices this week. The S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite were on track for five consecutive days of losses before rallying late Thursday, dropping 1.4% and 1.7% respectively since they opened on Monday.

 Several major cryptocurrencies, meanwhile, have eked out gains over the week. Ether has rallied 5.4% since Monday, according to data from 

. Cardano is up 1.1%, and Polkadot is up 0.4%.

 Bitcoin, Binance and Ripple have also fared better than the stock market, having dropped 1.1% or less since Monday. While stock markets hit fresh weekly lows earlier today, major cryptocurrencies held above their Aug. 28 lows.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to One of DeFi’s Most Important Stablecoins

 After the collapse of Terra’s UST stablecoin in May and the wipeout of $60B in market capitalization it has become increasingly urgent to see how stablecoins are backed. DAI, one of the earliest stablecoins, is one of the most important such tokens in DeFi.

 On a spectrum between fully algorithmic and backed by cash reserves, DAI stablecoin lies somewhere in between. Let’s learn more about DAI.

 DAI stablecoin is supported by MakerDAO, a DeFi lender. Founded by Rune Christensen, the Maker Foundation launched open-source MakerDAO in 2014 to spearhead decentralized finance. Like other protocols, Maker runs on Ethereum’s smart contracts to replicate traditional finance without intermediaries such as banks.

 As a lending protocol, MakerDAO was missing a key component — money that is digital but not as volatile as cryptocurrencies. This is where 

Celsius has motioned for $50 million worth of the total $225 million held in the Custody Program and Withhold Accounts to be released to owners.

The Ethereum Name Service reported its third highest month of revenue in August, with 2.17 ENS domain names created on the service.

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Bitcoin dominance (BTC.D), which is the market capitalization of BTC relative to that of all digital assets, has fallen below 40% for just the second time since 2018 and stands at an eight-month low, according to 

Institutional investors continue to place bullish bets on NFTs despite the current bear market in digital assets.

In what would mark a dramatic strategic reversal, Rune Christensen, the founder of MakerDAO, is calling for the DeFi stalwart to reduce its exposure to real-world assets and freely float the value of its stablecoin, DAI, against the dollar.

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