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Crypto Lending Platform Maple Finance Unveils Major Overhaul, Stops Lending on Solana

The improvements attempt to solve Maple’s design shortcomings highlighted during a recent debt crisis, but they may reduce incentives for holding the protocol’s native MPL token in its new form, an analyst said.

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Bitcoin Falls as Federal Reserve Slows Rate Hikes but Stays Hawkish

The U.S. central bank raised its benchmark interest rate to a range of 4.25%-4.5% on Wednesday. Officials now expect the current rate-hiking cycle to peak next year at a "terminal rate" above 5%.

The Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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First Mover Americas: Binance Hits Turbulence as Withdrawals Mount

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Dec. 14, 2022.

Binance is hitting a rough period as withdrawals from its trading platform surge. (Sotheby's/Wikimedia Commons)

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As Bitcoin, Stock Investors Cheer US Inflation Slowdown, One Macro Expert Calls for Caution

Slower inflation often portends a decline in corporate profitability, and that is yet to be priced in by risk assets, analysis by Steno Research's Andreas Steno Larsen shows.

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Ether, Bitcoin Post Gains as Crypto Market Cheers Sam Bankman-Fried's Arrest, Inflation Data

With the former FTX CEO's arrest, the crypto market has now shifted its focus to improving macroeconomic conditions, analysts said.

Someone is happy about a bull market.

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Binance CEO Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao Warns Staff of Turbulent Times

"While we expect the next several months to be bumpy, we will get past this challenging period," CZ said while assuring the organization is built to last.

Changpeng Zhao ,CEO of Binance, at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Could Drop to $10K-$12K by Q1 2023, VanEck Says

A wave of miner bankruptcies could keep bitcoin under pressure in the first quarter of 2023, VanEck's Matthew Sigel said. But he forecast a bull revival in the second half of the year.

Morgan Stanley rebajó la calificación de las acciones del banco de criptomonedas Silvergate Capital para infraponderar desde igual valoración. (Unsplash)

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Crypto Markets Today: Sam Bankman-Fried Hearing Tops Another Troubling Day

But prices rose on U.S. inflation data that was more favorable than expected.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Crypto Markets Analysis: Bitcoin Holds Initial Move Higher Following Unexpectedly Strong Inflation Report

The Federal Reserve’s efforts to stem inflation appear to be paying off for bitcoin and other asset prices.

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Crypto Market’s Near-Apocalypse in 2022 Turns Zombie Tokens Into Dead Coins

The number of cryptocurrencies has dropped by about 1,000 since February, the biggest-ever decline, according to Statista. Often tokens are removed from pricing sites like CoinGecko because they're no longer trading – even if they still technically exist on the blockchain.

When a zombie token gets removed from a crypto pricing site like CoinGecko, it's considered dead, even if it still technically exists on the blockchain. (Sergey Nikolaev/Unsplash)

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