Screenshot. Source: OxfordUnion / YouTube Prominent Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev is set to launch a new decentralized finance (DeFi) “cryptobank” – and could spearhead a USD 15 million investment in the new venture. Lebedev, whose fortune was estimated at a cool USD 3.1 billion back in 2008 by Forbes, is the former head of the […]
Tank Man (also known as the Unknown Protester or Unknown Rebel) is the nickname of an unidentified Chinese man who stood in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, the day after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/FRONTLINE PBS Binance Smart […]
Source: a screenshot, Instagram/binance Major crypto exchange Binance seems to be well on its way to re-establishing a presence in China, but by taking the ‘blockchain, not crypto’ entrance. CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), says "education and technology" first. Following the Chinese ban on crypto, Binance had left the country in 2017. It seems that it […]
Source: Adobe/weerasak Major crypto exchange Binance has launched a new feature meant to prevent people from losing their funds by sending cryptoassets to smart contract addresses. "The feature is basically a final check on the outgoing address for user token withdrawals. If the user has entered a supported token’s exact contract address to send tokens […]
Source: iStock/yuriyzhuravov Valuations in the initial coin offering (ICO) market are high and unreasonable and if the bubble bursts, it’s a good thing for the industry, Ella Zhang, the head of Binance Labs, a blockchain incubator, founded by the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, told Bloomberg. “We’d like the bubble to break,” Zhang added. While she’s not […]