[ad_1] On Tuesday, the price of gold soared to new heights as an ounce of the precious metal surpassed $2K per ounce during the early morning trading sessions (EST). Hours later, gold tapped a high of $2,064.27 per ounce as the Russia-Ukraine war and global commodities surge has fueled demand. Gold’s Value Surges Higher Amid Commodities Boom Gold is exchanging hands for prices not seen since August 2020, as the Russia-Ukraine war has caused a significant demand for barrels of oil, commodities, energy stocks, and precious metals. During the last…
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Why States Will Continue To Regulate Bitcoin Use
[ad_1] Regulators continue to debate how to define cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, and whether they are securities, commodities or properties, etc., which is critical for how regulators choose to enforce those regulations. At the recent National Association of Attorneys General Consumer Protection Conference in November 2021, Hester Peirce, commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), commented on the issue, saying “the view we are taking these days is that pretty much everything is a security.” While the public has closely scrutinized nebulous and sometimes contrary statements made by…
Read MoreBancor releases no-liquidation lending with Vortex as AMMs continue diversification
[ad_1] Automated market maker exchange Bancor has rolled out a new mechanism that allows users to increase their capital efficiency while providing liquidity in its pools. Called Vortex, the solution allows users providing liquidity in BNT, Bancor’s utility token, to borrow funds while continuing to obtain yield from swap fees. The Vortex mechanism reworks the existing mechanism of vBNT, a special version of the BNT token that entitles users to participate in governance. The voting token is automatically received when staking BNT into a liquidity pool, and it can be…
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