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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Flat at $37K as Investors Tangle With Bulls and Bears

Positive news from El Salvador couldn't completely overcome negative news out of China.

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Stake Technologies Raises $10M Ahead of Polkadot and Kusama Auctions

With auctions to win a place building on the Polkadot blockchain ecosystem beginning soon, projects are coming out with strategies to secure one of the coveted slots.

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Market Wrap: Bullish Basel News Causes BTC Jump to Week-High $38K Level; ETH Slips

Bitcoin busted out a quick 5% gain early Thursday on positive news from that continent before losing some steam.

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DeFi Network Karura Raises $100M Ahead of Kusama's Parachain Auction

The money came from a "crowd loan" and included more than 8,500 contributors.

Karura raises $100 million in funding.

Markets

Kraken Now Lets Users Back Contender Projects on Polkadot's Kusama Platform

Kraken is adding support for Kusama parachain auctions, allowing users to effectively vote for their favorite projects.

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Polkadot’s Kusama Network to Start Parachain Auctions Next Week

The start date was heralded by the upgrade to Kusama’s Statemine parachain, Polkadot founder Gavin Wood said Tuesday.

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Master Ventures Launches $30M Polkadot Fund

This first-of-its-kind fund will invest in projects bidding for parachain slots on Polkadot and canary network Kusama.

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Videos

Polkadot’s Wood Acknowledges Legacy EVM Design’s Role But Ties Future to Upgrades

Speaking at Consensus 2021, Parity Technologies founder Gavin Wood discussed changes to Polkadot, using WebAssembly as a smart contract and how legacy blockchains are not fit for modern day use, though he acknowledged the Ethereum Virtual Machine’s (EVM) pole position in blockchain development today.

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Markets

Market Wrap: Ether Trading Volume Up, Closing In on Bitcoin; Crypto Market Struggles

Action in the ether market might take the spotlight from bitcoin over time due to very different mechanics between the two assets.

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Polkadot’s Gavin Wood: WebAssembly Is the Future of Smart Contracts, but ‘Legacy’ EVM Is Right Now

“It's super important to support these legacy protocols, these legacy languages, and that's what we're doing,” says the former Ethereum developer.

Gavin Wood (second from left) speaks at Web3 Summit 2019. (Credit: Christine Kim / CoinDesk)