Tagged: augur

September 21, 2025 @ 5:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Augur, a platform that has been known for enabling decentralized prediction markets, appears to be undergoing a significant reboot (or at least planning or considering it at the moment). Launched in 2014 by the Forecast Foundation on the Ethereum blockchain, Augur has long been known… Read More

May 25, 2021 @ 7:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Augur (REP), the developers of a decentralized prediction markets platform, have announced the launch of Augur Turbo— which is the world’s only “fast-resolving, easy-to-use, decentralized betting platform” that reportedly comes with daily markets for sports, crypto, politics, and current events. The Augur… Read More

August 8, 2020 @ 7:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Santiment, which offers on-chain, social and curated information on over 900 cryptocurrencies, notes that, quite often, development activity is an “underrated” indicator of the success of a blockchain or digital asset project. Santiment believes that developer activity for crypto-related initiatives proves or shows the month-to-month… Read More

June 30, 2020 @ 8:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum-based Augur, a decentralized prediction market, has confirmed that it’s planning to launch the second version (V2) of the software on July 28, 2020. After V2 goes live, Augur’s existing native REP tokens will be called “REPv1” and the new REP tokens issued on Augur’s… Read More

April 3, 2020 @ 11:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Augur (REP), a decentralized prediction market platform, are planning to release the protocol’s second iteration on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain network in June 2020. Augur’s second version (v2) will add new features such as a Dai stablecoin-denominated token, which will be a… Read More

April 22, 2019 @ 7:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Coinbase announced last week it is now offering support to Augur (REP) through its cryptocurrency platform, as well as its mobile apps on iOS and Android. Coinbase customers may officially buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store REP. The crypto will be available for customers… Read More

March 22, 2019 @ 5:53 am By Cali Haan  |  

A scammer is using subtle wording tricks to cause bets on crypto-based prediction platform Augur to default in his or her favour. The scam was revealed by users of Reddit on March 20th. In the post, “Augur is being gamed!” the poster “singlefin12222” claims: “Some… Read More

January 12, 2019 @ 8:18 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Alex Sunnarborg, a crypto fund manager at Tetras Capital has questioned user numbers claimed by operators of the “decentralized prediction market” platform Augur, Cointelegraph reports. On Jan 10th, Sunnarborg claimed on Twitter that, in its most recent weekly report, Augur had inflated its user numbers by… Read More

October 25, 2018 @ 2:53 am By Cali Haan  |  

A $152 million lawsuit filed by the self-proclaimed expelled CEO against remaining executives at the prediction market platform Augur, has reportedly been settled, and has been taken “off calendar” at San Francisco courts, Forbes reports. According to Forbes, the case filed last April by Matthew Liston… Read More

October 24, 2018 @ 10:20 am By Cali Haan  |  

A man in Bloomington, Indiana claims he was coerced into cooperating with a group of “Call of Duty” players that “cryptojacked” (stole) $3.3 million dollars of cryptocurrency from various victims, Chicago Sun Times reports. Though no charges have yet been laid, unsealed court documents show… Read More

October 18, 2018 @ 12:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Developers that write predictive smart contracts could be subject to various types of enforcement action and liability, CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz told an audience in Dubai yesterday. Quintenz, whose agency regulates derivatives markets in the US, singled out both securities-preformance predictive software (“It could look… Read More

August 2, 2018 @ 4:08 am By Cali Haan  |  

  House Representative Bill Huizenga of Michigan told Bloomberg July 27th that American regulations may need to be modernized to support crypto industries and ensure that retail investors get a piece of the action. “We’ve seen so much more of the capital getting locked up into… Read More

August 11, 2015 @ 10:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, ShapeShift.io announced that it has integrated the Ethereum digital asset onto its instant exchange platform. Customers anywhere in the world can now buy or sell “ether” instantly along with Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ripple and several dozen other digital assets through ShapeShift.io. Erik Voorhees, ShapeShift’s CEO, shared: “Ethereum… Read More