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Hamster Kombat’s Whitepaper Promises Major 60% Token Allocation to Players

Hamster Kombat has unveiled its whitepaper, revealing plans for a native token airdrop among other exciting goals. Over half (60%) of the HMSTR token airdrop will be distributed to current Hamster Kombat players, with the rest used for liquidity and collaborations.  Additionally, the airdrop will help facilitate the creation of the Hamster Foundation, a team used to support the development of Hamster Kombat and its broader ecosystem. Ultimately, Hamster Kombat...

El Salvador and Argentina Regulators Sign Agreement to Help Develop Crypto Industry

Regulators from both countries are looking to collaborate to foster crypto innovation. Updated Dec 10, 2024, 9:29 p.m. UTC Published Dec 10, 2024, 9:22 p.m. UTC El Salvador and Argentina are partnering to help develop the crypto industry in Latin America. Juan Carlos Reyes, El Salvador’s top crypto regulator and president of the Comisión Nacional de Activos Digitales (CNAD), and Roberto Silva, the president of the Comisión Nacional de Valores...

Dev's Defection Highlights Ethereum's Growing Solana Problem

"There's just so much more possibility and potential energy in Solana," Max Resnick told CoinDesk after quitting his Consensys job for a job at Anza. Updated Dec 10, 2024, 3:46 a.m. UTC Published Dec 9, 2024, 10:18 p.m. UTC Ethereum's place near the top of the crypto market is unquestioned from the perspective of market cap. But beneath the surface – at the product, developer and decision-making levels – the...

What is Sharding?

By Mark Hunter 2 weeks agoFri Nov 22 2024 07:32:35 Reading Time: 2 minutes Sharding has been introduced to improve scalability on blockchain networks like Ethereum It has been designed to divide the Ethereum blockchain into smaller pieces to process transactions more efficiently Developers have implemented sharding to address bottlenecks in transaction speeds and network congestion Sharding has become seen as one of the most promising means by which Ethereum...

Restoring trust to BTC in 2024: Let’s start with wrapping

Restoring trust to BTC in 2024: Let’s start with wrapping Aki Balogh · 1 month ago · 4 min read Utilizing discreet log contracts ensures user-controlled, decentralized wrapped BTC, restoring faith in cryptocurrency. 4 min read Updated: Jul. 13, 2024 at 1:03 am UTC Cover art/illustration via CryptoSlate. Image includes combined content which may include AI-generated content. The following is a guest post by Aki Balogh, CEO & Co-founder of...

Uniswap A Retailer’s Hub? Average Trade Sizes Fall From $30,000 to $1,000 In 2 Years

Crypto and some key sub-sectors, like decentralized finance (DeFi) or non-fungible token (NFT) trading or minting, remain dynamic. While activity is highly influenced by price, other changes are settled not by how prices gyrate but by time. Uniswap Users Are Increasingly Posting Small Trade Sizes Events in Uniswap, a leading decentralized exchange (DEX) on Ethereum, draw the interest of Token Terminal, a blockchain analytics platform. According to Token Terminal ,...

Financial Stability Oversight Council Reveals Stablecoin Concerns

By Mark Hunter 19 hours agoTue Dec 10 2024 10:41:54 Reading Time: 2 minutes The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) has raised concerns about the risks posed by the expanding cryptocurrency market Stablecoins have been flagged as vulnerable to market runs and lacking comprehensive federal oversight FSOC has recommended new legislation to improve the regulation of crypto-assets and ensure market stability The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) has used its...

Sui Dubbed Next Solana as Blockchain Outage Lasts 2 Hours

The Sui Network, a Layer-1 blockchain, experienced its first major disruption since its May 2023 launch, with block production halted for two hours on November 21, 2024, due to a critical bug in the transaction scheduling logic. The bug, triggered by a specific transaction type, caused all validators to crash, but the Sui development team and validators swiftly deployed fixes, restoring block production and stabilising the SUI price, which had...

Binance Executive Released from Nigerian Custody, Money Laundering Charges Dropped

2024-10-23T15:06:18.845+02:00 W e d n e s d a y , 2 3 / 1 0 / 2 0 2 4 | 1 3 : 0 6 G M T by Jared Kirui Tigran Gambaryan has been in prison since April for allegedly laundering $34.4 million. His release was prompted by diplomatic pressures from US lawmakers and concerns over his health. Nigerian government dropped all money laundering charges against the...

Mass Liquidations, Billions Wiped | How I Protect My Portfolio!

$813,000,000 liquidated in 60 minutes, $1.7 billion gone in 24 hours! The key charts I personally watch during volatile times: OTHERS, TOTAL, and USDT Dominance (USDT.D). How I position my portfolio during volatile moments to suit my trading style. $63,000 Turnaround! Here’s David’s Story First, a massive shoutout to one of Empire Crypto Trading’s members, David G, for pulling off an incredible turnaround! He went from losing $37,000 USD and...