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.

Sage D. Young

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Tech

Rocket Pool Community Voting Whether to Self-Limit Its Growth

If passed, the vote establishes a guiding set of principles to inform Rocket Pool’s decision-making process in limiting the percentage of staked ether in its ecosystem.

The Ethereum Merge is ready to launch. (DARPA/Wikimedia)

Finance

Crypto Trading Firm Cumberland Can Trade Crypto With Canadian Dollars

The move comes one week after Cumberland inked a deal with Canada-based crypto platform BitBuy to boost liquidity on that exchange.

(Sebastiaan Stam/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Custodian Aegis to Add Coverage of Lido's Staked Token Derivatives

Aegis’ end-to-end custody now includes liquid staking services through Lido for its institutional users wary of regulation.

(Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Robinhood’s Twitter Account Promotes Scam Token on Binance’s BNB Chain in Unauthorized Posts

Block explorer BscScan shows roughly $16,000 flowed into the promoted coin.

(Shutterstock)

Tech

Aave Community Voting to Deploy Version 3 on Ethereum

If the proposal passes, the latest iteration of the Aave protocol will come to the Ethereum blockchain, Aave’s first and largest market.

(MidJourney/CoinDesk)

Finance

Swapping More Than $157M of ETH for stETH and Levering Up, the Wormhole Network Exploiter Is a DeFi Degen

The address that hacked one of the most popular cross-blockchain bridges Wormhole started moving capital in the DeFi ecosystem.

Cypher Protocol suffers exploit (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

Finance

A Dive Into 0xd62, a Genesis OTC Wallet That’s Moving Money

It just had one of the biggest movements of ETH ever, just as its corporate sibling filed for bankruptcy. Its big transfers tend to coincide with big events at the company.

The separation of light from darkness in Genesis 1. (Getty Images)

Finance

Genesis’ Crypto Trading Arm Is Moving Money Around, a Sign of Normality Amid Sibling’s Bankruptcy

About $125 million was sent to exchanges in the run-up to Genesis’ lending division filing for Chapter 11 protection. More was moved the next day.

Business as usual for the Genesis trading arm. (Getty Images)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner 1Thash Sent Almost All Its BTC to Binance

On-chain data sourced from CryptoQuant show the 5,592 BTC worth some $124 million that was transferred out of the miner’s address in the past three days ended up in Binance.

Racks of crypto mining machines.

Finance

Gemini’s Bitcoin Inflows From Other Exchanges Dropped to Roughly Six-Year Low, CryptoQuant Data Shows

The data suggests traders may be finding Gemini to be less desirable than other exchanges.

(CoinDesk and CryptoQuant)