January 12, 2021

This Thursday (January 14, ~01:00 UTC) an upgrade is being deployed with a major protocol improvement. During this time, which is expected to take up to several hours, users may be unable to interact with the protocol, including using Staking, Mintr, Kwenta, or Synthetix.Exchange, and transferring SNX or Synths.Here’s what is included in this release:SIP-60: New RewardsEscrow Contract — This SIP involves migrating to a new SNX escrow contract that supports liquidations of escrowed SNX, migration… … More

This week’s newsletter describes a new proposed Bitcoin P2P protocol
message, a BIP for the bech32 modified address format, and an idea for
preventing UTXO probing in proposed dual-funded LN channels. Also
included are our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR
Review Club meeting, a list of releases and release candidates, and
descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure
software. News ● Proposed disabletx message: in 2012, BIP37 was published,
gi… … More

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As the most trusted brand in the crypto ecosystem, customer support is hugely important to us. But in recent weeks, our customer service has not been at the levels we expect for ourselves. We wanted to take the chance to both apologise and explain what we are doing to improve it.Some of our customers in the United Kingdom and the EU have recently found it difficult to access their accounts, or have faced restrictions on some transactions. In some cases our customers have not been able to get the… … More

TLDR: with ARC you now can unlock liquidity on your interest-bearing assets, allowing you to supercharge yields! a.image2.image-link.image2-709-1156 { padding-bottom: 61.332179930795846%; padding-bottom: min(61.332179930795846%, 709px); width: 100%; height: 0; } a.image2.image-link.image2-709-1156 img { max-width: 1156px; max-height: 709px; } Hey all! As you may remember, I pos… … More

Hello Defiers! Here’s what we’re covering today,DeFi liquidations spikeETH shorts at highest since 2019New DeFi whale spottedLeverage comes to Yearn financeFEI to join algorithmic stablecoin party and more :)The open economy is taking over the old one. Subscribe to keep up with this revolution. Click here to pay with DAI (for $100/yr) or sub with fiat by clicking on the button below ($10/mo, $100/yr).Subscribe now📺 !! Announcing a new series on our YouTube channel: … … More

To investors,Bitcoin’s price dropped from approximately $40,000 to somewhere around $30,000 over the last 48 hours. It is currently trading at $35,000 or so. Normally I don’t care about short term price movements, but I do think the recent price action brings up a great reminder for those who are new to investing in the digital currency.A significant dr… Read more … … More

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We are pleased to announce that in light of Curve Finance recently launching an sEUR/EURS liquidity pool, Synthetix is running an incentive to provide sEUR liquidity! The goal is to test the demand for a highly liquid pool of Euro stablecoins, with the second Euro stablecoin being provided by the crypto-enabler platform STASIS. This incentive will run for six weeks and went live on Tuesday, January 12, 5:30am (UTC). The SNX will be provided by the synthetixDAO, and will offer 8000 SNX per week. … … More

Happy New Year fellow Kyberians,We hope you had a festive season with your families and are ready to kick off 2021 with a bang. As we closed off 2020, here at the Kyber team we started preparing for the next major innovation in decentralized liquidity provision. EtherDelta introduced liquidity 1.0 on Ethereum, while Kyber Network, Uniswap, and a whole cohort of liquidity protocols followed up with version 2.0, and we now believe we have the technical expertise and product-market-fit understandin… … More