After its initial token launch in June, TrustSwap, a smart contracts payments platform announced in a blog that Chainlink’s Price Reference Data – its decentralized oracle network – had been integrated with TrustSwap’s SmartLock and SmartEscrow products in order to determine fees associated with token-locking services. TrustSwap believed that Chainlink’s ETH/USD price oracle, which sources...Read More
2020 saw Ethereum [ETH] briefly take over Bitcoin’s lead in the market. However, this growth was the result of the boom witnessed by the decentralized finance [DeFi] ecosystem. According to data provided by Skew, the price volatility of Ethereum and Bitcoin are converging. The converging spread of the Ether-Bitcoin 6-month at-the-money [ATM] Implied Volatility had...Read More
Multiple mining groups in China have announced that they will fork Filecoin’s blockchain as they claimed to be dissatisfied with mining rewards, according to a report in Sohu.com, a Chinese media company. Moreover, the announcement has come just weeks before Filecoin’s mainnet launch in October. With regard to the fork announcement, Weiping Han, Chairman of MIX...Read More
Binance’s Tether reserves are up 450% in the past one month. The exchange has seen increased volatility in its Tether reserves since April 2020. There was a significant drop in July 2020, however, there has been a massive recovery in the past month. Source: Cryptoquant USDT reserves are up from $88 M to $1.06 B...Read More
Disclaimer: The following price prediction should not be taken as investment advice as it is the opinion of the writer. The market of Bitcoin SV is clinging onto Bitcoin at the moment. As Bitcoin sustained its position above $10,900 for the time being, BSV also appeared to maintain close proximity to the resistance at $165....Read More
Members of European Union have decided to make use of distributed ledger technology and adopt crypto-assets such as stablecoins, by 2024, in order to introduce new regulations to make cross-border payments cheaper and quicker according to two EU documents received by Reuters today. According to the report, this move from the European Commission was a...Read More
Over the past year, many of the market’s altcoins have shown signs of decoupling from the price movement of Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency. However, this wasn’t evident when the movement of the crypto-market in the month of September was assessed. In fact, while many of these alts did follow Bitcoin’s lead when BTC fell,...Read More
This week was nothing short of exciting. Bitcoin started trading at around $10,300 but was on a positive note throughout the entire time. It increased gradually, without any sharp and somewhat surprising movements, and managed to add about 6.5% to its value. The cryptocurrency tapped the important psychological and technical resistance at $11,000 but failed...Read More
Bitcoin’s recovery in the market has been slow but it has been witnessing escalating interest from users. As traders look at the low price of BTC as a perfect opportunity to hold, some old metrics have been suggesting that the bull-run might not be that far away. As the on-chain metric gains strength, Bitcoin’s short-term...Read More
San Francisco-based venture firm, Blockchain Capital has joined Facebook’s Libra Association to make its network of experts and industry heads available to advise on the Association’s creation of a ‘global payment system,’ according to an announcement today. Libra’s head of policy and communications, Dante Disparte, said in the release that their new member, Blockchain Capital,...Read More
Disclaimer: The following price prediction should not be taken as investment advice as it is the opinion of the writer. Just like Bitcoin, Binance Coin has been holding its own at the top of the recovery curve over the past week. Without undergoing a significant drop, Binance Coin has retraced from the support at $26...Read More
Bitcoin Bitcoin saw a positive 6% price increase this week as it edges its way toward the $11,000 level. The cryptocurrency was trading within a symmetrical triangle pattern last week after consolidating prior for 10-days. This symmetrical triangle broke over the weekend – providing the first signal that BTC was about to push higher. After...Read More
With DeFi’s recent brush with death, investors require an impartial and decentralized rating system to support the most desirable investment decisions and avoid future losses. Here’s why. Decentralized finance (DeFi), an ecosystem for lending and borrowing, continues to defy the odds. Despite a significant crash thanks, in part, to unaudited and scam-like clone projects, the...Read More
Bakkt’s cash-settled Bitcoin futures were launched in December 2019 on popular demand. Physically settled Bitcoin futures exposed traders to the risk of holding the asset and didn’t exactly fly among derivatives traders. Despite the initial roadblocks, cash-settled Bitcoin futures have doubled in volume in the past six months. What’s interesting is that it has maintained...Read More
Hacked crypto exchange Cryptopia’s assigned liquidator, Grant Thornton New Zealand shared an update that Cryptopia account holders will soon be able to register to claim their trapped crypto funds, which in total is worth nearly $100 million. The claims registration process is said to open by the end of the year, however, the release did not...Read More
MicroStrategy’s CEO Michael Saylor continues to dig deeper into Bitcoin after his company purchased $425 million worth of the cryptocurrency. In a recent podcast episode with long-time BTC proponent Anthony ‘Pomp’ Pompliano, Saylor claimed he’s ready to HODL Bitcoin for a century and said it’s 1,000 times better than gold. Saylor On His Change Of...Read More
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The East-Asian market is the largest in the cryptocurrency landscape, accounting for a whopping 31% of the total volume over the past year. It is also home to the highest mining activity with China controlling close to 65% of the total Bitcoin hash rate. While the trading volume is driven by a robust professional group...Read More
Diving into the world of investing can be risky, particularly if you’re considering the cryptocurrency exchanges, which are fast-moving and highly volatile. However, there is one platform, which is changing the game for everyone. Source: Arbismart ArbiSmart.com is offering crypto investment at close to zero risk, with profits reaching up to 45% a year. The...Read More
Cryptocurrency fake giveaway scams continue to emerge frequently, and the latest example involves the popular DEX protocol Uniswap. Just a day following the UNI token release, scammers began promoting fake UNI giveaways by impersonating Uniswap’s creator – Hayden Adams. Fake UNI Giveaways On YouTube As CryptoPotato reported yesterday, the popular decentralized token swap platform launched...Read More
Bithumb’s situation worsens as South Korean authorities have reportedly summoned company Chairman Lee Junh-hoon for alleged fraud regarding the sale of BXA tokens. This comes days after local police raided the exchange for the third time in less than a month. Three Police Raids For Bithumb In September September turns out to be a rather...Read More
For thousands of years, gold has been the most valuable physical asset of humanity, or at least the most popular. This is not only because it is scarce and unlimited, as is also the case with bitcoin. It is also a precious metal that shines on its own and is used by the best craftsmen...Read More
There’s never a dull day in the cryptocurrency market. From food-based meme coins that attract billions of locked value and generate extremely high yield, to a likely mistake that caused the price for a token to surge half a million percent in a few hours – there’s something for everyone. Buying the Wrong UNI UNI...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article attempts to analyze the evolving patterns in the Ethereum market and its impact on price. The Ethereum market witnessed a momentary boost in its price on 17 September. This boost placed its current value at $387.34, which was closer to $376, an important point of support for Ethereum. As the market...Read More
Bitcoins are being tokenized at a rapid rate for use on the Ethereum blockchain. Just ten days back, BTC supply’s on the world’s largest smart contract development platform was 73,000. Now that number is nearing 100,000. Consequentially, the valuation of Bitcoin’s supply on Ethereum has topped $1 billion. Bitcoin Supply On Ethereum Approaching 100,000 As...Read More
Most of the cryptocurrency market has been relatively calm in the past 24 hours. Bitcoin trades around $11,000, and Ethereum jumps by 2% to $385. Most of the attention went to Uniswap’s governance token (UNI) that launched yesterday. After listings on the most prominent digital asset exchanges, UNI trades at $5.3. Bitcoin Remains Below $11K...Read More
Bitcoin’s price drop over 2-3 September had a ripple effect across the rest of the crypto-market. Altcoins across the board depreciated, lending weight to the argument that despite all the talk about an altseason, the world’s largest cryptocurrency continues to share a strong correlation with the rest of the market. Interestingly, the correlation in question...Read More
Uniswap’s launch of its native token and associated farming rewards has caused a digital gold rush, which has crippled the Ethereum network for the second time in as many weeks. The news has been good for Ethereum miners, though, as their revenue has reached a five year high according to on-chain analytics provider Glassnode. 📈...Read More
