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Finance

The Fast-Growing NFT Market Is Problematic Yet Promising

There is authentic demand for crypto collectibles, called NFTs, but the introduction of yield farming has introduced new issues.

Yield farming has supercharged the trading of crypto collectibles on at least one platform.

Finance

Polkadot Projects Will Be Able to Mint Their Own Tokens in 2021

A token minting system is coming to the Polkadot blockchain ecosystem, promising to be a leaner, meaner version of Ethereum’s ERC-20 standard.

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Finance

New Index From DeFi Pulse and Set Protocol Offers Easy Access to 10 DeFi Tokens in 1

Data company DeFi Pulse and investment-minded Set Protocol have created a permissionless index of the very best DeFi tokens, called the DeFiPulse Index.

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Markets

Stacks Foundation Will Soon Put Those 100M Tokens to Work

The blockchain governance foundation is stacking stacks.

Blockstack co-founder Muneeb Ali speaks at Consensus 2017. (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

ERX Gets License to Launch Exchange in Thailand

Thailand’s securities watchdog has granted a digital assets exchange license to Elevated Returns’ ERX trading platform.

Bangkok, Thailand

Finance

Kraken Adds 3 DeFi Tokens – COMP, KAVA, KNC

Riding the surge of interest in yield farming, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is listing three tokens from the world of decentralized finance.

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Markets

To His Own Surprise, Crypto Volume Pumper's Business Is Still Thriving

Remember that college student who spoke candidly about inflating crypto trading volumes? He’s still at it – and COVID-19 has kept his business brisk.

Alexey Andryunin (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

‘Social Money’ Startup Inks Deal With Rapper Ja Rule, Releases Song With Lil B

Ja Rule has inked a deal with Roll, an Ethereum-based protocol that allows content creators to control their own platforms using personal crypto tokens.

Ja Rule (Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock)

Markets

Coinbase Open Sources Technical Standard to Streamline Token Listings

Coinbase published an open-source technical standard designed to streamline its token listing process by making it easy for blockchains to share important data with the exchange's platform.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

Finance

With Token Uptick and Israeli Election Work, It's Been a Busy Year for Bancor's Founders

Bancor, the decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol, has seen a number of interesting developments in the first half of 2020.

A voting ballot from the March 2020 election in Israel. (Credit: Shutterstock)