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Bancor is updating its protocol once more to defeat the insidious issue of impermanent loss, which it earlier called “DeFi’s dirty little secret.”Impermanent loss, also called divergence loss, affects exchanges based on automated market makers like Bancor or Uniswap. It happens when the prices of two assets in a liquidity pool diverge significantly, with one side…

On Aug. 2, English Premier League football club Leicester City FC announced the renewal of its partnership with multi-asset and cryptocurrency investment platform eToro. EToro’s second season with the FoxesThe Foxes’ head of partnerships Harj Hir added:“Our relationship with eToro last season was a really positive one so we’re pleased to renew the partnership and continue…

The Crypto Volatility Index, or CVX, is now live as a beta test and proof of concept. The index tracks the implied volatility of crypto options in a similar fashion to the VIX index used in stock markets.The VIX is usually referred to as the “stock market fear index” as it often spikes in anticipation…

Cryptocurrency scammers are trying to bank on the viral popularity of the Telegram-based clicker game, by staging fraudulent airdrops.

In Sweden, cash in circulation represents only 1% of the country’s gross domestic product, and some experts predict the nation will go “totally cashless” by 2023. In China’s largest cities, over 90% of people use WeChat Pay and Alipay as their primary payment method, with cash a distant second. It may seem that the transition to…

Cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain Technologies has opted to reduce its operations in the Netherlands, the company said in a statement on Jan. 14.Bitmain, which in November announced the first in what has become a series of cost-saving measures by shutting down a blockchain development center in Israel, said the move was part of its longer-term…

A representative from the company expects 2021 to be "a breakout year for blockchain." 2428 Total views 19 Total shares Many financial institutions are poised to increase their blockchain spending in 2021, according to an upcoming survey from Deloitte titled "Financial Services Industry Outlooks 2020."Preliminary results shared with Cointelegraph indicate that 27% of the institutions…

Sept. 12 will leave a mark that will probably stick for quite a while. Traders at Bitfinex exchange vastly reduced their leveraged bearish Bitcoin (BTC) bets and the absence of demand for shorts could have been caused by the expectation of cool inflation data.Bears may have lacked confidence, but August's U.S. consumer price index (CPI)…