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Tech

Terra Devs Need a Home. Other Blockchains Are Courting Them

Armed with multimillion-dollar ecosystem funds, chains like Polygon and Kadena are trying to woo coders whose work is endangered by Terra’s meltdown.

Traders make bullish forecasts after bitcoin's escape from a triangular consolidation . (Source: Pixabay, PhotoMosh)

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State of DeFi: Should Chainlink Oracles Be of Concern?

As the collapse of Terra's ecosystem poses contagion risks across DeFi land, "Proof of Decentralization" Podcast Host Chris Blec unpacks the vulnerabilities and potential consequences of Chainlink oracles relying on multisig and how it could bring down all of DeFi. "This is an intentional point of control that the Chainlink team chose to keep in the protocol," Blec said.

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Markets

First Mover Asia: Regulatory Attention on Terra Could Change South Korean Trading Environment; Bitcoin Goes Sideways

The founders of two prominent crypto-related organizations said tightened restrictions could make it difficult for foreign tokens to list on Korean exchanges, discouraging projects from trying.

Seoul, South Korea (Ciaran O'Brien/Unsplash)

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Acting OCC Chief Michael Hsu on Regulating Stablecoins After Terra ‘Contagion’

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu discusses his take on the rise and fall of Terra’s “hype-driven economy,” its “contagion” to Tether (USDT) and the broader crypto ecosystem, and why he doesn’t think he would regulate algorithmic stablecoins.

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Finance

Consider Digital Assets Instead of Still-Pricey Real Estate, Say JPMorgan Strategists

Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou and team mull the outlook for crypto following the Terra collapse.

JPMorgan strategists like digital assets instead of real estate for alternative portfolios. (Yuichiro Chino/Getty images)

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E-CNY Use Widens in Chinese Schools; Terra Faces Audit

Hydropower plant in China’s Hubei province fined for powering crypto mining. China expands use of digital yuan on school campuses. South Korean regulator to audit Terra and related financial businesses. Those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

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What Terra's Collapse Means for Stablecoin Markets

Stablecorp President and COO Alex McDougall discusses his take on how Terra's death spiral has impacted the rest of the stablecoin market, and how to protect consumers from a similar crash in the future. Plus, the likelihood of USDC "flippening" USDT and insights into the demand for a digital Canadian dollar.

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Grayscale Investments CEO on Crypto Winter, Stablecoins and its First European ETF

Michael Sonnenshein, CEO of digital asset manager Grayscale Investments, discusses his analysis of the crypto markets, the role and importance of stablecoins in the crypto ecosystem in the aftermath of Terra's collapse and the new European ETF. Sonnenshein also shares the latest development on converting the Grayscale's bitcoin trust (GBTC) into an ETF, and the potential lawsuit against the SEC if it isn't approved.

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