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Tech

Crypto Staking Goes Live on Starknet in First for Top Ethereum L2 Blockchains

Now, anyone with 20,000 STRK ($12K) can make money as a validator, and users with smaller holdings can delegate tokens to validators to stake on their behalf.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

Policy

UK to Draft a Regulatory Framework for Crypto, Stablecoins Early Next Year

The U.K.'s long awaited crypto rules are starting the legislative process just as the European Union's take effect.

Tulip Siddiq  (Nicola Tree/Getty Images)

Tech

Ethereum Layer-2 Project Starknet to Roll Out Staking Feature Later This Month

StarkWare, the main developer firm behind Starknet, had shared in July that it would introduce a proposal for staking on the blockchain, but had not previously fixed the date of the rollout.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

Finance

Solv Raises $11M to Grow the $1.3B Bitcoin Staking Protocol

Solv Protocol's SolvBTC product has more than 20,000 BTC staked ($1.24 billion) deployed across 10 major blockchain networks

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Markets

Bitcoin Protocol Babylon Pulls in $1.5B of Staking Deposits as Cap Lifted

The round, known as "Cap-2," allowed users to add staking deposits to the platform for over the course of about 10 Bitcoin blocks on Tuesday.

Babylon co-founder David Tse (Babylon)

Markets

Bitcoin Protocol Babylon Hours Away From Opening 'Duration-Based' Staking Round

The round, known as "Cap-2," will kick off at some time around 18:30 UTC, lasting for about one hour and 40 minutes thereafter

David Tse, co-founder of Babylon (Bradley Keoun, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Fed Rate Cut Could Crash Crypto Markets, but Era of Central Banks Is Over: Arthur Hayes

A rate cut could add to inflation and strengthen the Japanese yen, crashing markets, Hayes explained.

Arthur Hayes at Korea Blockchain Week 2023. (Factblock)

Tech

Starknet Token Holders Ratify Plan to Implement Staking, in Landmark Decentralized Election

The new mechanism on Starknet means that anyone holding more than 20,000 STRK will be able to stake on the network, from the fourth quarter of this year.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, speaking at ETHDenver on Thursday. (Danny Nelson)

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Markets

Bitcoin Yields as High as 45% on Offer in Pendle's New Pools

The floating yields on the bitcoin-based LBTC token are from pools that went live on Wednesday. There's also a fixed-yield option of an annualized 10%.

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Markets

Are Ethereum Staking Yields Too High?

As staking grows in popularity through liquid staking derivatives, there is a need to better quantify staking returns for different platforms and how they change over time, says Marcin Kazmierczak, co-founder and coo, RedStone.

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