November 25, 2020

An upcoming story about CoinbaseIn the spirit of transparency, we’re sharing an internal email that was sent to our employees earlier today:Tl;dr: The New York Times is planning to publish a negative story about Coinbase at some point in the next few days online, and it will appear in print on Sunday. Given that this story may be read by your friends, family and professional contacts, we wanted to give everyone a heads-up and provide some important context.All,I wanted to give you a heads-up tha… … More

Hello Defiers! here’s what’s going on,12 non-fungible tokens were sold for $65k in an auction yesterday (for perspective, the average NFT is going for ~$100 according to nonfungible.com, and the record for a single NFT sale was ~$140K). But there’s more to this collection than cool digital crypto art: There’s 1 BTC hidden in one of the pieces. Nobody, not even the owners, knows which one. Hence the name of the collection; The Rug Pull. Owners now have the option of openin… … More

Level up your open finance game 5x a week. Subscribe to the Bankless program below.Join the Bankless NationDear Bankless Nation,Let’s be clear: the Bankless editorial thesis is fundamentally bullish Ethereum. I believe DeFi can only fulfill its potential on a credibly neutral, censorship resistant, fully permissionless, property rights system backed by a store-of-value asset and that that Ethereum is by far the strongest contender—this is just a rational extrapolation of th… … More

Liquidity is essential for the creation and growth of all dapps. … More

To investors,I went on CNBC this morning to discuss the recent rally in Bitcoin’s price. Whether it is national media outlets or private investors, everyone is asking the same question — “Why is the price appreciating so aggressively right now?”First, we must go backward to move forward. I wrote numerous times in the summer of 2019 that we were entering… Read more … … More

Two proposals to increase the fees for anyone using the TRON blockchain 4x have been passed. … More

a.image2.image-link.image2-645-1456 { padding-bottom: 44.29945054945055%; padding-bottom: min(44.29945054945055%, 645px); width: 100%; height: 0; } a.image2.image-link.image2-645-1456 img { max-width: 1456px; max-height: 645px; } Now that we know that the eth2 Beacon Chain is going live on December 1st at 12PM UTC, eth2 teams have begun releasing their mainnet-ready clients. F… … More

Total sales volume on the top WAX NFT marketplaces has surpassed $1.8M Since May 2020. … More

It’s quarterly update time again! The big news is is the Q3 grantees, of course, but we always like to share what else the ESP team has been up to. A few things we’ve knocked out lately: Added a Guide to ESP on our website. Here you’ll find details on… … More