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The leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance released a report explaining the way scams targeting cryptocurrency investors attempt to achieve credibility. The report, released on June 30, noted that the observations are based on an examination of reports of fraudulent investment schemes which promises quick or exponential returns on cryptocurrency investments. Binance Sentry which is an internal risk intelligence unit structured within Binance’s security team examined the reports, thereby coming up with its observations. However, the frauds go beyond cryptocurrency but likewise include forex,…

Blockchain Service Network (BSN) is China’s national blockchain backed by the nation’s State Information Center, China Mobile, UnionPay, and others. Reports have it that BSN, sponsored by the Chinese government, is moving to initiate the integration with public blockchains such as Ethereum and Nervos Network. This is coming after it was noted last week that BSN is using Chainlink Oracles towards the enhancement of the speed and security of transactions taking place on-chain. It appears that this new development bodes well for…

The DeFi space of Ethereum has gone parabolic over the past few weeks. Cryptocurrencies locked in DeFi applications are now worth $1.65 billion, representing a 65 percent increase from the value on June 17. At the same time, there is an upsurge in the number of people using applications such as Compound, Maker, and Synthetix. However, the growth of decentralized finance may be temporarily slowed down by an alleged hack that took place some hours ago. On June 28, reports had…

Get the weekly summary of cryptocurrency market trends, news, and forecasts! This Week’s Summary ● The Crypto Market ends the week at a total market capitalization of $254 billion. ● Bitcoin drops by more than 1.5% and ends the week trading just a few bucks above $9k ● Ethereum started the week on a 1% rebound but finished it on a 4.5% decrease. ● XRP continues to disappoint with yet another drop, this time below $0.18 ● As COVID-19 cases…

Ross Ulbricht, the brains behind the infamous Silk Road website, recently penned down a piece on the Maker Dao Protocol. Ross, who is currently serving a life sentence, coined the protocol as a ‘cool concept’ that provided the benefits of a cryptocurrency without the volatility usually associated with them.  In his Medium article, Ross acknowledged that he couldn’t have gotten all the details on Maker while behind bars. He, however, believed that he had read enough to give some suggestions…

The top peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange LocalBitcoins has noted a 70 percent decrease in the number of transactions related to darknet since its adoption of AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and KYC (Know Your Customer) regulations in September last year. LocalBitcoins noted its ability to remarkably decrease the number of transactions related to darknet carried out using its platform between September last year and May this year. In the words of the chief marketing officer at LocalBitcoins, Jukka Blomberg to Cointelegraph, the…

The consolidation of Binance Coin (BNB) has been within a narrow trading range. Within the previous two months, most of its price action has been between the $15 support level and the $18 barrier. Regarding the technical outlook of the cryptocurrency asset, the current stagnation phase is due to the Bollinger bands squeezing its 1-day chart. Such squeezes suggest times of low volatility, generally succeeded by wild price movements. The possibility of having a robust breakout increases with a longer…

IOTA - A Brief History IOTA is a cryptographic protocol that runs on a unique form of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), significantly different from most cryptocurrency projects. It is different for one vital reason; IOTA doesn’t run on a blockchain! As we have tried to iterate multiple times, blockchain, the distributed database technology, is just a subset of DLT. So then, what kind of database technology does IOTA use? IOTA was developed and initiated by David Sønstebø, Dominik Schiener, Sergey…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has enjoyed a strengthened narrative in 2020. This is such that some DeFi tokens like Aave (LEND) have incurred more than a 1,000 percent increase while the price of Ethereum increased by 90 percent since the beginning of this year. It appears that investors are developing more interest in this market sector. According to cryptocurrency derivatives analytics company Skew, Ethereum will enjoy this trend the most in the long-term. Skew noted that these DeFi tokens powered by Ether appear to…