Sep 18, 2020 at 16:00 UTC.As bitcoin battles to establish a foothold above $11K and with DeFi surging on Ethereum, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!
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Bitcoin is again looking to establish a foothold above $11,000 on Friday, although the technical charts are anything but stridently bullish.
More than 92,000 bitcoins have been tokenized on Ethereum.
Decentralized trading platform Uniswap has launched a governance token, UNI, minting 1 billion coins to be released to the public over the next four years.
A minimum of 400 UNI was airdropped to everyone who used Uniswap prior to September.
Some called it "Stimulus for Ethereum users."
Miners may be the real winners from DeFi as a surge in Ethereum activity sees them earn a record $16 million in a day.
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Bitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 18, 2020
Published on Sep 18, 2020
by Coindesk | Published on Coinage
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