Lido Deploys Additional Curve Pool to Improve Liquidity Around Bonded ETH Peg – Defi Bitcoin News

On Friday, the value locked in decentralized finance (defi) protocols dropped to a low of $110.35 billion after there was more than $200 billion total value locked (TVL) eight days ago on May 5. One specific defi protocol called Lido, a liquid staking platform and the second largest defi application in terms of TVL size today, has lost significant value losing 49.66% during the past week. Curve’s stETH:ETH Peg Skews, Lido Adds New Pool With Liquidity Incentives While being exposed to the Terra blockchain blunder, Lido’s bonded ethereum tokens have…

The Value of El Salvador’s Bitcoin Holdings Drops by $40B Due to the Ongoing Crypto Market Pullback

Summary: El Salvador’s Bitcoin holdings have lost value by roughly $40 million This amount is almost equal to El Salvador’s next coupon payment on its debt for the month of June, worth $38.5 million However, President Bukele has an 85% approval rating President Bukele also shared plans for the country’s Bitcoin City El Salvador’s Bitcoin holdings have been hard hit by the ongoing crypto market pullback that has seen Bitcoin lose several support zones in one week, from $38k to the local low of $26,700 set yesterday, May 12th. According…

Failed exit? Traders complain Crypto.com reversed profitable LUNA transactions

Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has halted the trading of Terra (LUNA) tokens after it determined that user transactions were quoted at an “incorrect price,” prompting severe backlash from the community. In a Friday news release, Crypto.com said that LUNA trades have been halted due to a pricing error between 12:40 and 13:39 UTC on May 12. “[U]sers who traded LUNA were quoted an incorrect price,” the exchange said. “Our systems quickly detected the error and trading was halted. Trading remains halted until further notice.” Market participants took this to mean that…

A Blockchain-based Crypto Economy Where Content Creators Are Offered Freedom, Control & Unlimited Earning Potential

We all know that when it comes to freedom of expression, platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and alike haven’t always lived up to their promises. The landscape for creators is constantly changing with regard to what can and can’t be expressed, monetizing their content, and adhering to guidelines and rules policed by, well, who really knows? Therefore, artists, vloggers, influencers and entertainers have much to consider before creating and publishing their work to avoid being demonetized at best, or at worst, banned from a platform altogether, and all that hard…

LUNA Exchange-Traded Product Issuances Halted After Price Shellacking

As per Swiss-based 21Shares, a company spokesperson told CoinDesk that given the LUNA network “operating intermittently and inconsistently, 21Shares is unable to provide creation and redemption operations and is suspending the quotation of the Terra ETP. We will continue to closely monitor this fast evolving situation on the underlying.” Source

YouTuber CryptoWendyO shares how her healthcare skills helped with crypto trading

CryptoWendyO heard about Bitcoin (BTC) on the radio and decided to take a risk. Little did she know, the risk she would take would change her life in ways she never thought possible. The influencer shared her Bitcoin journey in this episode of Crypto Stories. In her younger days, life wasn’t too kind to Wendy. According to the crypto influencer, she survived many challenges, including mental health issues, the death of her father when she was 11 years old, and growing up in poverty. For a long while, she thought…

How Poor User Experiences Lower the Market Cap for NFTs

Interest in the revolutionary technology “NFTs” has been growing over the last few years; in many countries, it peaked last year, in others, such as Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, the NFT boom is now.  as interest grows, so does the number of people hearing about and buying NFTs reaching well beyond the world of crypto enthusiasts. Since the real hurdle to expanding a market is turning curious people into investors in order to raise the market cap of NFTs, it’s the new investors that need to be supported.…

Do Kwon Proposes Restart of Terra Blockchain as UST, LUNA Plummet

The plan comes as Terra’s terraUSD (UST) stablecoin, which is supposed to be pegged to the price of $1, “death spiraled” below 15 cents this week – wiping out over $30 billion in value. UST’s sister token, LUNA, which propped up the stablecoin’s value, has fallen to below a penny (LUNA was worth above $80 just a week ago). Original Source BlockchainKwonLunaPlummetProposesRestartTerraUST CryptoX Portal

Following French Montana, Vietnam’s Number 1 Celebrity Singer Son Tung M-TP Joins RACA’s USM Metaverse – Press release Bitcoin News

press release PRESS RELEASE. The Vietnamese music celebrity’s videos have garnered close to 2.5 billion lifetime views on Youtube. RACA Hits a High Note Radio Caca (RACA), one of the world’s leading Web 3.0 companies, today announced the collaboration between Radio Caca and Vietnamese celebrity singer Son Tung M-TP, who will join its United States of Mars (USM) Metaverse. Son Tung M-TP’s Art Gallery, dubbed M-TP Galaxy, will have its opening ceremony and host his first-ever Metaverse Concert in the USM Metaverse at an upcoming date, becoming the first Vietnamese…