Sage D. Young

Sage D. Young is 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, PEOPLE, DOGE, OS, and HTR.

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Finance

Voyager digital

Voyager Continues Liquidating Crypto Assets for Circle’s USDC Stablecoin

Amid its ongoing bankruptcy case, Voyager has liquidated more than $80 million since March 8, according to on-chain data sourced from Arkham Intelligence.

By Sage D. Young

Mar 9, 2023 at 9:39 p.m. UTC

Mar 9, 2023

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Markets

Token governance

Gaming Protocol Aavegotchi Members Are Voting to End Multiyear Token Sale, Which Could Limit GHST Supply

If passed, roughly $33 million DAI will be allocated to support the development of the Aavegotchi ecosystem.

By Sage D. Young

Mar 9, 2023 at 7:14 p.m. UTC

Mar 9, 2023

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Technology

Tornado cash

Tornado Cash Fork, Privacy Pools, Deployed on Optimism Testnet

Privacy Pools uses zero-knowledge proofs to prove that funds in anonymous transactions are not linked to criminal activity, such as North Korea’s $625 million hack on Axie Infinity.

By Sage D. Young

Mar 6, 2023 at 10:27 p.m. UTC

Mar 6, 2023

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Markets

Token governance

Gitcoin, a Crowdfunding Platform for Open-Source Software Votes to Seed Staked ETH Index

The index could provide a stream of income for Gitcoin to raise funds for grants – if users are attracted to the new index that exposes token holders to a diversified set of liquid staking tokens.

By Sage D. Young

Mar 3, 2023 at 7:51 p.m. UTC

Mar 3, 2023

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Finance

Lido

BridgeTower Capital to On-Ramp Lido, Offers Security Token for Avalanche’s Staking Rewards

The announcements highlight BridgeTower's emphasis on regulatory compliance.

By Sage D. Young

Mar 2, 2023 at 5:56 a.m. UTC

Mar 2, 2023

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Finance

Arbitrum

Decentralized Betting Protocol Thales’ Staking Model Deploys to Arbitrum

By expanding to the largest layer 2 scaling solution, Thales aims to become more resilient and encourage protocol usage.

By Sage D. Young

Mar 1, 2023 at 10:05 p.m. UTC

Mar 1, 2023

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Technology

Lido

Lido Community Conducting Snapshot of V2 Upgrade Design Approval

Lido is gearing up for Ethereum’s upcoming Shanghai upgrade.

By Sage D. Young

Mar 1, 2023 at 3:11 p.m. UTC

Mar 1, 2023

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Markets

Optimism

Optimism DEX Velodrome Generates Record Weekly Fees Following Coinbase Announcement

Coinbase said last week it is launching Base, another layer two network built using Optimism technology.

By Sage D. Young

Feb 27, 2023 at 8:57 p.m. UTC

Feb 27, 2023

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Markets

Investing

Token Offering of Asset Management Platform Factor Raises Roughly $7.6M

Several hours before the public sale ended, Factor announced changes to decrease the initial circulating supply.

By Sage D. Young

Feb 24, 2023 at 9:33 p.m. UTC

Feb 24, 2023

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Finance

Dao

Collab.Land to Airdrop Token to Over 2M Wallets on Optimism

The automated management tool for on-chain asset verification and token gating is growing its ecosystem by establishing a decentralized autonomous organization governed by COLLAB.

By Sage D. Young

Feb 23, 2023 at 2:48 p.m. UTC

Feb 23, 2023

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