New report predicts NFTs will explode in popularity during 2021

NFTs are pumping right now, with a new report identifying more NFT sales in the last 24 hours than during the entirety of 2020. Canadian-based analytics company NonFungible has released a report predicting that 2021 is poised for “a new Bull Market in the NFT industry.” Although NFTs have been around since ERC-721 was invented by William Entriken, Dieter Shirley, Jacob Evans, and Nastassia Sachs in January 2018, the sector largely remained an obscurity outside of hardcore crypto circles until the latter part of 2020.

Anon-powered options: DeFi platform Premia goes live

An all-anon team is hoping to realize the long-awaited dream of a flexible DeFi options platform The Anon Powered development team has announced today the launch of Premia, the latest decentralized finance (DeFi) options platform live on Ethereum.  In an interview with Cointelegraph, the group of semi-anonymous developers behind Anon Powered — who collectively requested that they be referred to as “members of the Premia Republic,” the name for Premia’s forthcoming DAO — said that out of the gate users will be able to write, sell and exercise “American-style covered calls and puts,” which can be exercised prior to the option expiration date. Premia’s launch adds to an increasingly crowded DeFi options marketplace, joining projects such as Auctus, Hegic, and Opyn.