Improvements to Buy-and-burn Token Models

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Examining the Purpose of Burning Mechanisms in Cryptonetworks

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Examining the Graph Network’s GRT Token Economy

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Improvements to Buy-and-burn Token Models
Examining the Purpose of Burning Mechanisms in Cryptonetworks
Examining the Graph Network’s GRT Token Economy

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Nov 24, 2020
  • Yearn.Finance and Pickle Finance set to merge.
    Decentralized finance protocols Yearn.Finance and Pickle Finance have reached an agreement to merge platforms which, if implemented, would mark the first such merger in the DeFi space thus far. The merger would occur alongside the launch of Yearn.Finance v2, which is currently in development. The move comes days after attackers drained nearly $20M in Dai…
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  • Ethereum 2.0 Genesis Day set to occur on December 1st.
    Ethereum 2.0’s ‘Genesis Day’ will occur as planned on December 1st, 2020, after the threshold for ETH staked in Ethereum 2.0’s deposit contract was reached yesterday. On Genesis Day, Ethereum 2.0’s beacon chain will go live and begin operating alongside the current Ethereum blockchain as the network undergoes a four-stage migration process. Developers expect Ethereum…
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Nov 23, 2020
  • Ethereum 2.0 deposits reach 60% of threshold.
    The Ethereum 2.0 staking deposit contract now holds 60% of the total assets needed to begin Phase 0 launch. The remaining 40% must be deposited into the contract by tomorrow at 7:30am EST in order for the launch to commence on December 1st as planned.
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  • KuCoin resumes deposits and withdrawals.
    Singapore-based cryptoasset exchange KuCoin has resumed customer deposit and withdrawal services, though the exchange has placed limits on certain assets. Earlier this year, KuCoin suffered a security breach, in which an attacker was able to gain access to the private keys to the exchange’s hot wallets, that resulted in $281M worth of cryptoassets being stolen….
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