| The open interest of Ethereum futures exceeded 1.5 billion US dollars for the first time; the data shows that the LINK that investors transferred to the exchange reached a new high

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2020-08-17 07:45 (UTC+8)

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Compound General Counsel: Don't invest in DeFi unless you know what you're doing.

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Compound General Counsel: Don't invest in DeFi unless you know what you're doing.

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Skew data shows that $1.3 million worth of short positions were liquidated on BitMEX in the past day as the price of ether rose. Open interest in the Ethereum futures market hit another record high, topping $1.5 billion for the first time. Interest in the Ethereum futures market was strong this Thursday, with daily volume closing at $9 billion. In addition, interest in the options market has also surged, reaching an all-time high of $453 million. However, despite the bullishness of Ethereum in the spot market, the situation may turn bearish. Skew data shows that the put/call ratio has reached above 0.7, which is usually a bearish signal. (AMBCrypto)

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Data: Aave's total lock-up value exceeds $1 billion

DeFi Pulse data shows that the total locked value of the DeFi lending protocol Aave has reached 1.03 billion US dollars, currently ranking second among all DeFi projects, second only to Maker. According to previous news, the decentralized lending protocol Aave has released the V2 version, adding functions such as collateral repayment and lower gas fees.

ETH 2.0 Medalla test network has a clock bug

Preston Vanloon, co-founder of Prysmatic Labs, the Ethereum 2.0 client execution team, said that on August 15, a clock bug appeared on Medalla, the Ethereum 2.0 test network, which affected all nodes. Clock skew (clock skew), validators have also received advanced Slot blocks and proofs one after another. In addition, after the incident, the ratio of the number of validators actively voting to the total number of validators in the Medalla test network dropped from around 75% to below 5%. A few hours later, the developers completed their investigation and issued a fix. After this, though, developer Nishant noticed a serious flaw in the PR 6898 fix. Still under investigation.

Voice has opened the invitation registration function for 23 countries

Voice has opened invite registration, but globally, it is currently limited to 23 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, etc., excluding China. According to Voice's latest policy, each Voice user can only invite 10 friends to join. In addition, according to the feedback from the community, some Chinese users received the invitation code and successfully registered. It is said that it is only successful when they fill in the United States when registering, and the email address is preferably Google email. (EOS gravitational zone)

Data from Glassnode shows that the number of addresses holding more than 0.01 ETH continues to hit a record high, and now reaches 8,978,473.

The decentralized oracle project Witnet will launch the mainnet on October 14

The decentralized oracle project Witnet announced that it will launch its mainnet on October 14. Witnet aims to use distributed nodes to run search engines as information source providers and provide data to smart contracts. The project was founded by the team of Stampery, a blockchain notarization platform. Stampery has received investments from Draper, Blockchain Capital, and BoostVC. It is worth noting that Luis Iván Cuende, one of the authors of the Witnet white paper, is also one of the co-founders of Aragon, but he does not officially hold a position at Witnet.

Bitfinex CTO accuses CMC of 'favoring' certain exchanges when it comes to statistics
Blockstream co-founder Adam Back also supported this view, suggesting that this is because CMC's "new owner (referring to Binance)" is wrongly editing the data of competitors, and pointed out that this is another strategy to exclude competitors. (ZyCrypto)

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Kira Core completes $2.5 million in seed round financing and will develop a "multi-bond PoS mechanism"

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Kira Core completes $2.5 million in seed round financing and will develop a "multi-bond PoS mechanism"

Blockchain development company Kira Core completed a round of US$2.5 million seed round and private equity round of financing. Ascensive Asset Management and Alphabit Fund led the seed round of financing, and Btc12 Capital led the private equity round of financing. Other investors include TRG Capital and NGC Ventures , Origin Capital and WeStaking.
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On August 15, the reporter learned at the Public Resource Trading Blockchain Seminar and Application Achievement Conference held in Guangzhou that the first project in China to use blockchain technology for bidding has been launched in Guangzhou Public Resource Trading Center (hereinafter referred to as Guangzhou) Trading Center) successfully completed the electronic bidding evaluation, which marks a new breakthrough in the application of blockchain technology on the trading platform. At this conference, the number of member units of the country's first public resource trading blockchain platform built by the trading centers of Guangzhou, Beijing, and Zhuhai expanded to 18. The person in charge of the Guangzhou Trading Center said that the application of blockchain in Guangzhou’s public resource trading field is currently mainly used in the bidding of engineering construction projects. In the next step, Guangzhou will be involved in government procurement, pharmaceutical group procurement, transfer of land use rights and mining rights, and investment promotion for urban renewal. Gradually popularize and apply in the field of public resource trading. (Yangcheng pie)