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    Crypto Startup Attempts to Recover From Luna Disaster

    Stader Labs, a Bengaluru-based company that develops software for cryptocurrency trading and analysis, was one of the many crypto firms caught up in the Terra (LUNA) and UST crises.Stader has created a profitable business by providing a platform for staking, in which token holders allow their tokens to be used to help verify transactions on a blockchain in exchange for a return on their investment. Almost all of that revenue came before the fall of Luna, which, like TerraUSD, ran on the Terra blockchain and hit an all-time high in early April.When TerraUSD (UST) fell from its 1-to-1 peg to the US dollar this month, it dragged Luna down, affecting Stader’s company. According to data from industry analyst DeFi Llama, the total value bound on its …Continue reading on CoinQuora More

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    XRP Consolidation Phase May End Soon With a Bullish Breakout

    Ranked sixth on CoinMarketCap’s list of the biggest cryptos by market cap, Ripple (XRP) has seen a slight price loss in the last 24 hours, according to the crypto market tracker.At the time of writing, the price of XRP is around $0.4127, which is a 3.92% price decrease compared to what it was 24 hours ago. The weekly performance of Ripple has also seen it at a loss as its price dropped 4.45% over the last seven days.XRP has also weakened against Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). Currently, 1 XRP is worth 0.00001404 BTC and 0.0002092 ETH. This means that XRP has weakened 1.29% against BTC and 1.63% ag …Continue reading on CoinQuora More

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    FCA will 'absolutely' consider recent stablecoin depegging when drafting crypto rules: Report

    According to a Friday Bloomberg report, Pritchard said the financial regulator will “absolutely” take into account stablecoins like TerraUSD (UST) and Tether (USDT) depegging from the U.S. dollar in drafting regulatory guidelines with Her Majesty’s Treasury for release later this year. While the USDT price only briefly dropped to $0.97 on May 12, UST’s has fallen more than 93% since May 9 to reach roughly $0.06 at the time of publication.Continue Reading on Coin Telegraph More

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    Florida Rep. Donalds introduces Financial Freedom Act companion bill in the House

    The Financial Freedom Act was introduced as a reaction to a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) compliance report dated March 10 that raised objections to the inclusion of cryptocurrencies in 401(k) retirement plans. That report warned the department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration “expects to conduct an investigative program aimed at plans that offer participant investments in cryptocurrencies and related products, and to take appropriate action to protect the interests of plan participants and beneficiaries with respect to these investments.” Continue Reading on Coin Telegraph More

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    OpenSea launches 'Seaport' ​​marketplace protocol allowing NFT bartering

    In a Friday blog post, OpenSea said the marketplace protocol, dubbed Seaport, will give users the option to obtain NFTs by offering assets other than just payment tokens like Ether (ETH). According to the platform, a user “can agree to supply a number of ETH / ERC20 / ERC721 / ERC1155 items” in exchange for an NFT, implying bartering a combination of tokens as a method of payment. Continue Reading on Coin Telegraph More

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    3 red flags that signal a crypto project may be misleading investors

    Over the years, the crypto ecosystem has seen many developers and protocol creators rise in stature to become crypto messiahs for faithful holders who eventually have their best-laid plans end in catastrophe when the protocol is hacked, rugged or abandoned by whimsical developers.Continue Reading on Coin Telegraph More