Crypto Asia in Review As imToken is based here in Asia, let us present what happened around us over the last weeks: Inner Mongolia (the China’s autonomous region ) may ban cryptocurrency mining, and proposed to shut all current projects by April 2021. It aims to lower energy consumption in 2021, which leads Bitcoin…

You are not super technical and have no multiple of 32ETH laying under you sofa, but still want to stake ETH? Then this guide is for you: Ways to stake your ETH in 2020. — Today Eth2 Phase 0 is launching! That means validators are starting to earn $ETH by running the ‘beacon chain’, the base-layer for coordination & consensus of the future PoS chain. Below we will explain how to find a fitting validator service and be rewarded in $ETH!

In part 4 of DeFi Explained we try to make sense of self-custody: How it lowers risks and how you can distinguish custody from self-custody. — Smart contracts have a curious, unique feature. Unlike traditional businesses, DApps (i.e. smart contract based applications) let you store your funds while letting you keep full control. This self-custody (sometimes: non-custody) simply means that no third party can take your funds, be it a hacker or the actual custodian, while…

In part 3 of our series, we try to make sense of margin trading on Ethereum — You want to leverage your trades? However, you don’t want to take the custodial risk of traditional exchanges? In this post, we are breaking down different margin trading platforms on Ethereum for you, look into different features and developments. Let’s take a look at the basics first. 👀 Or skip…

Part 1 explained lending protocols. In part 2 of our series, we want to make sense of synthetic assets on Ethereum 📊 — In our DeFi Explaind series, we deconstruct open finance applications. In today’s part 2, we want to find out what synthetic assets are, how they can be useful. We’ll also find differences in current applications on Ethereum. Note, that we won’t look into Bitcoin futures and such.

How to get your fair portion of decentralized finance at this year’s Ethereum Developer Conference 😎 — It’s THAT time of the year again: The awesome folks at Ethereum Foundation have been busy and invite builders, investors, crypto twitter — and those who want to become part of it — to the yearly meeting. This year already in its 6th edition (counting from Devcon 0 in Berlin)…

imToken’s mobile hardware wallet supports USDT. Stay safe! — We are happy to announce that imKey now supports USDT, in addition to Ethereum, EOS, Bitcoin and Cosmos as well as tokens on those chains. Find more details on imkey.im In short, imKey is a mobile hardware wallet — mobile in the sense that it’s light and small (fitting into…

We introduce the Cosmos hardware wallet support with imKey — imToken’s mobile hardware wallet. Stay safe! — We are happy to announce that imKey now supports Cosmos, in addition to Ethereum, EOS, Bitcoin and USDT as well as tokens on those chains. Find more details on imkey.im In short, imKey is a mobile hardware wallet — mobile in the sense that it’s light and small (fitting into…

💃🏻Version imToken 2.4.5 introduces Cosmos & USDT on imKey, improved fingerprint and Face-ID support, Bitcoin fee optimizations and more! 🤖 — imToken 2.4.5 update: imKey supports COSMOS blockchain & BTC-native USDT BTC Miner Fees are optimized for lower consumption Fingerprint & Face-ID payments for all channels Performance optimizations Introducing Cosmos imKey hardware wallet support Since April 25, imToken 2.4.0 officially supports COSMOS Since April 17, imToken 2.3.1 …