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Yoni Assia on the Rise of Active Trading in a Blockchain-Based World and Building a 27M-User App
(00:00) Yoni Assia is the founder and CEO of Etoro, one of the most successful crypto and stock buying apps on the market with over 27 million users in over 100 countries at the time of recording. Originally founded in 2007, it was one of the pioneering companies to incorporate crypto to their platform as…

CeFi
Latest on Terra
GM, Good monday to one and all. Are we in a bear market? Yes, we are and we have been for some time already. The truth is the bottom most likely hasn’t happened yet. I would expect that to be much closer to the previous ATH of 20k. And that will hurt. Details on losses…

DeFi
Stablecoins In Regulators’ Crosshairs After Terra Collapse
Regulators around the world are turning their attention to stablecoins after UST's collapse.

DeFi
Stablegains Under Fire After Going All-In On Anchor
Stablegains offered U.S. users a 15% yield on their deposits and used Anchor Protocol behind the scenes. Now, users are alleging they were scammed after UST's collapse.

Markets
Is It Different This Time? Analysts Explain This Year’s Crypto Crash
Analysis of the 2022 crypto bear market in the context of previous cycles.

DeFi
Optimism Targets ‘Ethereum Equivalence’ With New L2 Upgrade
Ethereum scaling solution Optimism today announced Bedrock, an upgrade that improves speeds and cuts costs for those that trade on the L2. Optimism is a rollup: a Layer 2 scaling solution that batches transactions on another blockchain, then feeds them back to Ethereum as a single transaction. Rollups enjoy the security of Ethereum’s mainnet while…

DeFi
ConsenSys Pushes Upgrade for Ethereum Validators Ahead of Q3 Merge
ConsenSys, Joe Lubin’s Ethereum software company, has rolled out a new tool it claims will smoothen Ethereum’s transition to Proof of Stake in August, also known as “The Merge.” The tool, “Bonsai Tries State Storage”, came out of early access on May 17. It runs on ConsenSys’s Ethereum client, Hyperledger Besu. State tries are Ethereum…

DeFi
BTC is a Terrible Hedge Against Inflation. Or is it?
In the last two years the US government has printed a scarcely believable 4.6 trillion dollars. Quantitative easing the only card they could play to combat the pandemic and keep the economy on its feet. The result, rampant inflation over 8% leaving the Fed only one move – raise interest rates to reduce its balance…

CeFi
FTX Launches US Equities Trading with Stablecoins as a Funding Option
FTX now operates the first stock trading platform that allows users to fund their accounts with fiat-backed stablecoins like USDC.




