Wrapped Bitcoin

Wrapped Bitcoin

Wrapped Bitcoin ‘Burns’ Outpaced Minting for the First Time in December

Zack VoellJan 9, 2021

BitGo “unwrapped” over 11,600 WBTC last month.

DeFi

BitGo Launches Wrapped Bitcoin, Ether on Tron Blockchain

Zack VoellJan 6, 2021

Nearly 100 DeFi-friendly WBTC have already been minted as TRC-20 tokens on Tron.

Kadena

Wrapped BTC, ETH Coming to Kadena’s Decentralized Exchange

Nathan DiCamilloFeb 24, 2021

Tokensoft is wrapping bitcoin and ether so traders can access them on any one of Kadena’s chains.

Wrapped Bitcoin

Wrapped Bitcoin ‘Burns’ Increase as Traders Rotate Capital Out of Cooling DeFi

Zack VoellDec 3, 2020

WBTC burns picked up in November, continuing into December.

ETC

Ethereum Classic Gets DeFi Treatment With Wrapped ETC

Ian AllisonNov 18, 2020

Ethereum Classic wants to play in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space of the blockchain from which it contentiously split in 2016.

Wrapped Bitcoin

Market Wrap

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Fails to Reach $16.5K; Wrapped BTC Hits $2 Billion

Daniel Cawrey

Bitcoin’s price is climbing for the third straight day as more of the cryptocurrency is locked into the Ethereum network.

DeFi

Nearly $360M in Bitcoin Moved to Ethereum in October Despite DeFi Cool-Off

Zack Voell

October’s growth is less than half of September’s 68,000 newly tokenized bitcoins.

Zcash

Privacy Coin Zcash Makes Its Ethereum ‘Wrapped’ Debut With Tokensoft and Anchorage

Ian Allison

WZEC is the first asset to be launched by “Wrapped,” a partnership between Ethereum tokenizers Tokensoft and qualified custodian Anchorage.

Wrapped Bitcoin

Wrapped Bitcoin Sees Record $57.1M in Tokens Minted by CoinList for Customers

Zack Voell

CoinList set the record for most tokens minted in a day by a single merchant.

Wrapped Bitcoin

Record $616M of Wrapped Bitcoin Minted in September

Zack Voell

Monthly value of minted WBTC grew 160% from August.

Wrapped Bitcoin

Record WBTC Mint Completed by Three Arrows Capital as Demand for Bitcoin on Ethereum Continues to Grow

Zack Voell

The Singapore-based firm minted 2,316 WBTC Thursday afternoon.

Wrapped Bitcoin

Supply of Tokenized Bitcoin on Ethereum Now Tops $1.1B: Here’s Why

William Foxley

The supply of BitGo’s wrapped bitcoins (WBTC) topped 76,000 after setting an all-time record of nearly 21,000 WBTC minted within one week. Here’s why.