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Sage D. Young

Sage D. Young

Sage D. Young was a tech protocol reporter at CoinDesk. He cares for the Solarpunk Movement and is a recent graduate from Claremont McKenna College, who dual-majored in Economics and Philosophy with a Sequence in Data Science. He owns a few NFTs, gold and silver, as well as BTC, ETH, LINK, AAVE, ARB, PEOPLE, DOGE, OS, and HTR.

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Staking
Rocket Pool Community Voting Whether to Self-Limit Its Growth
If passed, the vote establishes a guiding set of principles to inform Rocket Pool’s decision-making process in limiting the percentage of staked ether in its ecosystem.
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By Sage D. Young
Feb 1, 2023 at 10:31 p.m. UTC
Feb 1, 2023
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Finance
Canada
Crypto Trading Firm Cumberland Can Trade Crypto With Canadian Dollars
The move comes one week after Cumberland inked a deal with Canada-based crypto platform BitBuy to boost liquidity on that exchange.
(Sebastiaan Stam/Unsplash)
By Sage D. Young
Jan 30, 2023 at 8:19 p.m. UTC
Jan 30, 2023
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Finance
Staking
Crypto Custodian Aegis to Add Coverage of Lido's Staked Token Derivatives
Aegis’ end-to-end custody now includes liquid staking services through Lido for its institutional users wary of regulation.
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By Sage D. Young
Jan 26, 2023 at 11:37 p.m. UTC
Jan 26, 2023
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Finance
Robinhood
Robinhood’s Twitter Account Promotes Scam Token on Binance’s BNB Chain in Unauthorized Posts
Block explorer BscScan shows roughly $16,000 flowed into the promoted coin.
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By Sage D. Young
Jan 25, 2023 at 9:43 p.m. UTC
Jan 25, 2023
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Aave, which is Finnish for "ghost," is voting to execute its third iteration on Ethereum. (MidJourney/CoinDesk)
Tech
Aave
Aave Community Voting to Deploy Version 3 on Ethereum
If the proposal passes, the latest iteration of the Aave protocol will come to the Ethereum blockchain, Aave’s first and largest market.
Aave, which is Finnish for "ghost," is voting to execute its third iteration on Ethereum. (MidJourney/CoinDesk)
By Sage D. Young
Jan 24, 2023 at 9:49 p.m. UTC
Jan 24, 2023
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Finance
Defi
Swapping More Than $157M of ETH for stETH and Levering Up, the Wormhole Network Exploiter Is a DeFi Degen
The address that hacked one of the most popular cross-blockchain bridges Wormhole started moving capital in the DeFi ecosystem.
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By Sage D. Young
Jan 24, 2023 at 8:57 a.m. UTC
Jan 24, 2023
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The separation of light from darkness in Genesis 1. (Getty Images)
Finance
Genesis
A Dive Into 0xd62, a Genesis OTC Wallet That’s Moving Money
It just had one of the biggest movements of ETH ever, just as its corporate sibling filed for bankruptcy. Its big transfers tend to coincide with big events at the company.
The separation of light from darkness in Genesis 1. (Getty Images)
By Sage D. Young
Jan 23, 2023 at 10:08 p.m. UTC
Jan 23, 2023
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Business as usual for the Genesis trading arm. (Getty Images)
Finance
Genesis
Genesis’ Crypto Trading Arm Is Moving Money Around, a Sign of Normality Amid Sibling’s Bankruptcy
About $125 million was sent to exchanges in the run-up to Genesis’ lending division filing for Chapter 11 protection. More was moved the next day.
Business as usual for the Genesis trading arm. (Getty Images)
By Sage D. Young
Jan 20, 2023 at 11:33 p.m. UTC
Jan 20, 2023
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Finance
Mining
Bitcoin Miner 1Thash Sent Almost All Its BTC to Binance
On-chain data sourced from CryptoQuant show the 5,592 BTC worth some $124 million that was transferred out of the miner’s address in the past three days ended up in Binance.
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By Sage D. Young
Jan 20, 2023 at 9:27 p.m. UTC
Jan 20, 2023
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(CoinDesk and CryptoQuant)
Finance
Gemini
Gemini’s Bitcoin Inflows From Other Exchanges Dropped to Roughly Six-Year Low, CryptoQuant Data Shows
The data suggests traders may be finding Gemini to be less desirable than other exchanges.
(CoinDesk and CryptoQuant)
By Sage D. Young
Jan 19, 2023 at 9:03 p.m. UTC
Jan 19, 2023
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