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Finance

Coinbase Custody to Support Polkadot Staking With up to 20% Returns

Coinbase Custody is partnering with Bison Trails to add staking support for Polkadot’s native DOT tokens in anticipation of the network’s mainnet launch.

Coinbase Custody CEO Sam McIngvale (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

How Fund Managers View Lending and Staking: 3 Takeaways From a CoinDesk Research Webinar

In December, we invited two fund managers, both long bitcoin and other crypto assets, for a CoinDesk Research webinar on lending and staking. Jordan Clifford of Scalar Capital and Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital joined us to discuss how they evaluate risk and returns in crypto lending and staking, what crypto assets' risk-free rate might look like, and what DeFi needs to do to attract investors and new users.

Chart of ETH locked in DeFi lending platforms vs time

Finance

Coinbase Custody Goes International With New Entity in Ireland

Coinbase has launched Coinbase Custody International Inc., a European entity for handling cryptocurrency deposits.

Coinbase Custody CEO Sam McIngvale speaks at Invest: NYC 2019. (Zack Seward/CoinDesk)

Markets

Binance US Now Offers Staking Rewards for These Two Cryptocurrencies

Binance US has joined other major exchanges in the staking game, adding staking rewards for cryptocurrencies algorand (ALGO) and cosmos (ATOM).

Binance.US CEO Catherine Coley

Markets

Do Custodians Wield Undue Influence on Crypto Market Prices?

Noelle Acheson warns of the consolidating power of crypto custodians, and the influence this could have on asset prices.

Credit: New York Public Library

Tech

Kyber Network Aims to Improve DeFi Liquidity With ‘Katalyst’ Protocol Upgrade

Kyber Network, the ethereum-based protocol focused on aggregating liquidity and facilitating swaps for ERC-20 tokens, is about to launch a major upgrade.

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Markets

Coinbase Will Now Reward Users for Holding This Cryptocurrency

Coinbase is for the first time allowing general users to earn rewards by simply holding cryptocurrency, starting with the Tezos (XTZ) token.

Brian Armstrong speaks at Consensus 2019.

Markets

There's Now a DAO for Deciding Which Blockchains to Stake On

StakerDAO will allow participants to vote on where to best earn rewards as validators in a given proof-of-stake network.

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Markets

New Flexa Tech Will Let You Spend Bitcoin From Other Apps Too

Mobile wallets and other apps will soon be able to plug into Flexa's payment rails and offer crypto payments to retailers.

Flexa SPEDN

Markets

This Crypto Asset Doesn't Exist Yet, But Soon You'll Be Able to Stake It

Perlin's PERL cryptocurrency looks to make shipping easier, but could also democratize the proof-of-stake model.

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