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Why are Coinbase staking rewards significantly lower than Lido and Rocketpool?

At time of writing, Coinbase offers an APY of 4.18%, while Rocketpool and Lido have 7 day average APRs of 8.21% and 9.00% respectively. Why is there such a dramatic difference? My initial sense is just that Coinbase charges a higher fee for convenience of not having to self-custody and do everything on chain. Is…
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Terra’s $2.8B Defense System — Luna Foundation Guard Audit Says Group Spent More Than 80,000 Bitcoin Defending UST Peg

Months after the collapse of Terra’s U.S. dollar-pegged token UST, the organization created to protect the once-stable coin, the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), published an audit report audited by the New York-based consultancy company JS Held. According to the report, LFG claims to have spent 80,081 bitcoin and 49.8 million stablecoins, which add up to […]

Tom Brady and other celebrities named in class-action lawsuit against FTX

Evidence suggests “FTX’s fraudulent scheme was designed to take advantage of unsophisticated investors,” according to the lawsuit.

Coinbase says it has no exposure to Genesis, touts ‘strong capital position’

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Sam Bankman-Fried updates investors: 'We got overconfident and careless,' claims $13B leverage

“I was on the cover of every magazine, and FTX was the darling of Silicon Valley,” said the former CEO on the crypto firm’s path to bankruptcy.

Justin Bieber Paid $1.3 Million for a Bored Ape NFT. It’s Now Worth $69K – Decrypt

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US House Committee to Investigate and Hold Bipartisan Hearing on FTX Collapse

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee is planning to investigate the FTX collapse, according to a joint press release published by the committee’s chair Maxine Waters and representative Patrick McHenry. Furthermore, a congressional hearing is scheduled to take place in December, according to the joint statement. Bipartisan Congressional Hearing to Be Held in December Over […]

Nike unveils NFT platform: Nifty Newsletter, Nov. 9–15

An image of the sandals worn by Steve Jobs was minted as a nonfungible token and sold for over $200,000.

DeFi platforms see profits amid FTX collapse and CEX exodus

On-chain data flashed positive for DEXs and an increase in protocol revenue, even as markets corrected due to FTX’s insolvency.

This is only the beginning, in the end, cryptocurrency will prove to us all that it was never designed to be centralized.

Let's use Bitcoin as an example, but please feel free to use any truly immutable decentralized coin or token in its place for what I am about to type here, because for one reason or another, a lot of you must have forgotten this, or just never knew it to begin with. If you purchased…
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