BlockFi settles with the SEC, Russia’s CBDC trials begin and Cointelegraph releases its 2022 top-100 list: Hodler’s Digest, Feb. 13-19

[ad_1] Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week $1T opportunity: JPMorgan becomes first major bank in the metaverse United States banking giant JPMorgan Chase has taken a dive into what it considers a significant up and coming arena of opportunity: the metaverse. The bank has recently opened a digital lounge called Onyx…

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Bitcoin.com Games Releases its Very First Crash Game Space XY – Promoted Bitcoin News

[ad_1] Play a brand new crash game on Bitcoin.com’s crypto casino brought to you by BGaming! First-Ever Space Crash Game on Bitcoin.com Games Crash gambling is a type of casino gaming genre that includes a pretty simple and fun-to-play mechanic. It is relatively new and is oftentimes found to capture the imagination of modern-age gamers that like to multiply their thrill with insane money multipliers. Crash games have found a niche spot among Bitcoin gaming enthusiasts as it closely resembles the nature of cryptocurrency charts and the thumb-rule…

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WEF releases resource suite for CBDCs and stablecoins aimed at regulators and businesses leaders

[ad_1] The World Economic Forum, or WEF, has published a resource suite aimed at informing lawmakers and individuals in the private sector about digital assets including central bank digital currencies and stablecoins. On Friday, the WEF announced its Digital Currency Governance Consortium White Paper Series, a resource suite created by 85 organizations from 40 countries around the world. The publication contains eight separate white papers exploring topics such as the impact of lawmakers regulating stablecoins and central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, as well as informing readers about their risks,…

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dYdX exchange releases governance token, making its airdrop worth up to $100K

[ad_1] Airdrops have been a fan-favorite in the cryptocurrency ecosystem for years because they offer projects a way to reward early adopters and increase token distribution. The latest project to surprise its community of supporters with retroactive rewards for its newly minted token is dYdX, a non-custodial decentralized derivatives exchange that operates on a layer-2 version of the Ethereum (ETH) network. Data from CoinGecko shows that on its first day of trading live in the markets, DYDX is trading at a price of $10.28 at the time of writing after…

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1inch releases composable Limit Order Protocol

[ad_1] Today, decentralized exchange and liquidity aggregator 1inch announce the launch of the 1inch Limit Order Protocol. The new feature boasts 5 different security audits, and will enable users to buy or sell assets at specific price targets on Ethereum, BSC, and Polygon. The new feature will also be able to interact with smart contract logic, and be able to execute orders based on oracle data.  Limit orders were previously available to the DeFi ecosystem through a variety of protocols including Gelato and 0x, the latter which 1inch utilized. However,…

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Bancor 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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