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Markets

Serum Token Becomes Latest Project in Bankman-Fried Empire to Turn Heads

FTX-backed serum has surged to an all-time high price.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried

Tech

Thorchain Is Ready to Grease the Wheels of Crypto-to-Crypto Trading

Set to launch Tuesday, the network would allow trading of assets from different blockchains without middlemen or synthetic “wrapped” substitutes.

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Markets

Tendermint Acquisition Takes Aim at New Interoperable DEX for Cosmos

Tendermint enters the decentralized exchange arena with the ambitious goal of creating a one-stop DEX for trading any and all coins.

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Tech

‘Continuous Vampire Attack’: The AMM Wars Are Getting Interesting With Integral

“Whenever another exchange tries to beat us with better liquidity, we mirror this liquidity onto ourselves.” Investors have poured $239 million into the platform on launch day.

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Finance

Controversial Dapps Test Binance Smart Chain’s Decentralization

Developers built politically sensitive applications on Binance Smart Chain as a way of showing the increasingly popular blockchain platform is not as decentralized as Ethereum. The dapps remain online.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao

Finance

ShapeShift Is Going Full DeFi to Lose KYC Rules

Erik Voorhees’ ShapeShift is morphing into a decentralized exchange (DEX). It's losing the KYC restrictions at the same time.

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Tech

Uniswap May Re-Up Rewards as SushiSwap Angles to Catch Itinerant Yield Farmers

A new governance vote would continue liquidity mining rewards for certain asset pairs as the original allocation ends.

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Markets

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Bounces From $13.2K; Ether on Centralized Exchanges at 2-Year Low

Bitcoin's price is trending up after a dip while traders are moving ether off from centralized exchanges.

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Markets

Kadena Looks to Capture DeFi Energy With New Decentralized Exchange

Kadenaswap, the hybrid blockchain protocol's coming DEX, will begin a rollout later this year.

Kadena co-founder and President Stuart Popejoy

Markets

Crypto Long & Short: Does Decentralization Create Value or Destroy It?

This week, bitcoin rallied past $11,000 and value in DeFi climbed toward $4 billion. But what's the point of crypto if regular markets are just as volatile?

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