Sage D. Young

Sage D. Young was a tech protocol reporter at CoinDesk. He cares for the Solarpunk Movement and is a recent graduate from Claremont McKenna College, who dual-majored in Economics and Philosophy with a Sequence in Data Science. He owns a few NFTs, gold and silver, as well as BTC, ETH, LINK, AAVE, ARB, PEOPLE, DOGE, OS, and HTR.

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Finance

Crypto Exchange Trader Joe Nears Launch of Upgraded Trading Engine

Liquidity Book V2.1 is intended to make it more efficient for depositors to add tokens to Trader Joe’s liquidity pools.

(Trader Joe)

Finance

Decentralized Liquidity Platform Synthetix Sees Jump in Fees Collected Amid Incentive Campaign

The protocol generated more than $730,000 in fees on Thursday ahead of the start of its allocation of 200,000 OP tokens per week to traders.

Bitcoin jumped over $58,000 on Thursday amid a rally in U.S. tech stocks. (Denny Luan/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Trader Joe Booms on Arbitrum, Spurring JOE Token Rally

Key metrics began booming right after Trader Joe launched a liquidity incentives program to boost deposits.

(Arbitrum)

Markets

Binance’s On-Chain Balance Stands at $64B, Nansen Data Shows

Tether (USDT), bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), binance USD (BUSD) and BNB coin (BNB) make up around 81% of Binance’s total balance.

Binance Logo (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum Staking Provider Lido to Incorporate NFTs Into Unstaking Process

Users will receive a transferable non-fungible token representing their request withdrawal for their staked ether.

(lido.fi)

Finance

Binance Depositors Flee Following CFTC Charges, On-Chain Data Shows

Crypto users have withdrawn roughly $400 million on Ethereum from Binance in the past 24 hours, while Paxos, issuer of the Binance USD, has burned more than $155 million BUSD in the past four hours.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

After Frenzied Arbitrum Airdrop Day, 37% of Eligible Wallets Still Haven’t Claimed Their ARB

Nearly 240,000 addresses still need to claim their governance tokens worth roughly $596 million.

Arbitrum booth at ETHDenver (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Tron Network’s TRX Drops 13% Following SEC Charges Against Justin Sun

Other Sun-related tokens such as SUN, JUST and HT also took hits amid the SEC allegations.

Justin Sun in 2019 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Game Aavegotchi to Build Custom Blockchain Using Polygon Technology

The new platform called Gotchichain is being designed to give gamers lower fees and faster transaction times.

Aavegotchi's "Aavevenger" wearables

Finance

Hacker vs. Hacker: North Koreans Attempt to Phish Euler Exploiter of $200M in Crypto, Experts Say

An unlikely exchange played out on the Ethereum blockchain, sparking confusion and alarm.

North Korea's leader is casting a shadow over crypto. (Korea Summit Press Pool/Getty Images)