Augur News

OMG Network (OMG) and Augur (REP) have seen massive price drops following an announcement that Coinbase would suspend their trading.  Coinbase recently announced that it would suspend trading of six cryptocurrencies from its platform as they failed to meet listing…

Augur has tapped Polygon (MATIC) and Chainlink (LINK) to launch the Augur Turbo decentralized betting platform. The team claims Augur Turbo is designed to offer users frictionless & super past bet resolution, cost-efficiency, and more, according to a blog post…

On July 28, 2020, Augur v2 was deployed on the Ethereum mainnet and a new token, REPv2, introduced after a year-long formal audit. The no-limit betting platform is now urging users to manually migrate their old REP tokens to REPv2. For facilitation,…

Augur (REP), a decentralized oracle and prediction market protocol that prides itself as the world’s most accessible, no limit betting exchange, has announced plans to roll out its Augur v2 upgrade on the Ethereum mainnet on July 28, 2020. The…

The narrative of ETH as the building blocks of crypto finance has come to fruition over the last two years. Bitcoin maximalists and proponents of competitors like EOS, TRON, and Cardano continuously criticize Ethereum and claim the success of DeFi…

On July 12, 2019, Veil, a second layer network over Augur, announced that they would be halting trading in the Augur markets listed on their platform. Users will be able to trade in active markets until July 24, 2019, after…

In a positive move for DeFi and the MakerDAO community, users will soon be able to collateralize six ERC-20 tokens, apart from ETH. As per a blog post by the team, there will be a vote in the last week…

Augur (REP), a blockchain-based decentralized prediction marketplace that enables users to bet on a vast array of events in the real world, has announced the release of its v2 upgrade, which has now loaded the platform with new features like…

On January 24, 2019, Paul Fletcher-Hill, co-founder and CEO of Veil, announced on Medium that Predictions.Global, a platform for accessing Augur markets, will be integrated into Veil, a peer-to-peer trading platform.  Predictions.Global Blended into Veil As reported by BTCManager on…

A lawsuit claiming damages of $152 million involving Augur, a cryptocurrency betting platform for predicting real-world events, has been reportedly settled off-court. As for now, San Francisco county court records show the case as dismissed. The Build-up to the Settlement…

Following months of background work and speculation, a decentralized prediction protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain has gone live. True to stereotypical internet culture, it is already hosting some extremely controversial content. Augur, the Ethereum-based prediction protocol which launched recently,…

Augur co-founder Joey Krug has been accepted to the Thiel Foundation’s 2016 class of Thiel Fellows. The Thiel Fellowship, which was established in 2011 by billionaire German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, is a program which grants entrepreneurs $100,000…

Bitcoin wallet provider, merchant directory, and digital asset-based applications developer Airbitz has announced a partnership that will deploy the Airbitz Edge Security Platform on Augur’s decentralized prediction market platform. What this means for Augur’s users is that they will have…