Another weekend starts with another adverse price movement for bitcoin as the asset dropped by several thousand dollars to below $31,000. The alternative coins are also deep in red, with ETH dumping below $1,800, and the total market cap has seen $160 billion gone in a day. Bitcoin Plummets Below $31,000 It’s almost becoming a...Read More
This week was a complete rollercoaster in the cryptocurrency market. Unfortunately, things failed to turn out for the better and the majority is trading in the red. Bitcoin Bitcoin is down a steep 11.7% this week as it currently trades beneath $34,000. The cryptocurrency started the week by dropping into support at $31,185 (downside 1.618...Read More
No boring days in crypto as bitcoin went through a roller-coaster with a few thousand-dollar moves down and up. The alternative coins also recovered some of the losses, with the entire market cap regaining $200 billion since yesterday’s low. Bitcoin Reclaims More Than $5K It all seemed calm during the weekend when BTC stood in...Read More
ADA/USD – ADA Plummets Beneath The 100-day MA Key Support Levels: $1.07, $1.00, $0.913.Key Resistance Levels: $1.20, $1.30, $1.42. ADA fell beneath the 100-day MA at $1.42 over the weekend and has since plummetted as low as $1 today. The cryptocurrency was trading inside a symmetrical triangle pattern and broke toward the downside of the...Read More
Bitcoin’s price continues to lose ground, and it dropped to just over $31,000 hours ago. However, its dominance over the market has increased to a monthly high as most alternative coins have dumped by double digits. Bitcoin Dominance on the Rise Despite the Correction As CryptoPotato reported over the weekend, BTC had recovered some of...Read More
Charles Hoskinson – the founder of Cardano – stated that the project’s native cryptocurrency ADA is one of the greenest and most eco-friendly digital assets. He further opined that Tesla (TSLA) should choose it if it really cares about environmental sustainability. Tesla Should Go for Cardano (ADA) In a recent interview with Lex Fridman, Charles...Read More
One of the largest peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplaces, LocalBitcoins, has expanded its portfolio of available payment methods with the inclusion of Cardano (ADA), Dogecoin (ADA), Polkadot (DOT), Chainlink (LINK), and more. LocalBitcoins Adds More Crypto Payment Methods Founded in 2012, LocalBitcoins acts like a cryptocurrency peer-to-peer marketplace. The platform, based in Helsinki, Finland, facilitates over-the-counter trading...Read More
While explaining the potential impact of decentralized autonomous organizations on legacy businesses, billionaire investor Mark Cuban, who recently joined the cryptocurrency space, ironically denied referring to Cardano’s blockchain. No, Not Cardano, Says Cuban Mark Cuban used to be among the many critiques of the cryptocurrency industry in the past. However, as it happened with quite...Read More
Charles Hoskinson – the creator of Cardano – opined that central banks would fade away as they are slow and corrupt. Furthermore, he claimed that crypto is the cure to the current financial system. Crypto Is The Antidote In a recent video, Hoskinson shared his thoughts on the financial ecosystem and the significant role of...Read More
Charles Hoskinson – the founder of the blockchain platform Cardano – revealed his three reasons why Ethereum falls behind his project. Additionally, he scratched the topic of BTC’s energy consumption. Why Cardano Is Superior to Ethereum? In a recent Yahoo Finance interview, Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson criticized Ethereum’s network by calling it overrated and outlining...Read More
The veteran US exchange Kraken has added Cardano (ADA) staking as of May 4th. This comes amid the growing interest in the cryptocurrency, the price of which has been on a roll since the start of the year. Staking in the cryptocurrency world requires the token holders to lock a certain amount of coins based...Read More
IOHK and World Mobile have teamed up on an initiative that will use Cardano’s blockchain to create digital identities, mobile internet connection, and financial acceptance to communities in Tanzania. Tanzania To Benefit From Cardano The continent of Africa, consisting of 1.3 billion people, has a huge problem with Internet connection. As revealed, more than half...Read More
$50 million worth of various cryptocurrencies has disappeared from the automated market maker platform running on the Binance Smart Chain – Uranium Finance. While the team behind the project claims the funds were stolen, the cryptocurrency community speculates of a possible rug pull. $50M Gone From Uranium Finance The DeFi project took it to Twitter...Read More
Cardano’s native cryptocurrency – ADA – will be available for direct purchases from credit or debit cards, Apple Pay, or even bank transfers. This becomes possible following a partnership between the popular blockchain project and Simplex – a solution facilitating fiat on/off ramps to the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Cardano Partners With Simplex Founded in 2014, Simplex...Read More
Cardano, currently the sixth-largest cryptocurrency project by means of total market capitalization, has partnered up with the Ministry of Education of Ethiopia to work on a blockchain-based national ID system. Announced on Twitter, Cardano has entered into a partnership to create a blockchain-based national ID and attainment recording system. Touted as the “world’s largest blockchain...Read More
The University of Zurich has announced that they are adding Cardano to their “Deep Dive into Blockchain 2021” curriculum. It will be taught to students studying in the UZH Blockchain Center modules and is being posited as a ‘blockchain platform for changemakers, innovators, and visionaries’ to ‘bring about positive global change.’ Blockchain Education The course...Read More
IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson has replied to critics calling Cardano a scam that has not been able to develop any smart contracts since its launch. Baseless Allegations Drive Investors Away Responding to comments made by Bankless podcast co-owner David Hoffman, Hoskinson noted that over the years, podcasters had used their platform to level baseless allegations...Read More
Multinational blockchain technology company Emurgo initially announced the AgeUSD stablecoin in January 2021. The firm has since announced a partnership between the Ergo Foundation, Emurgo, and Charles Hoskinson’s Input-Output Global, the parent company of IOHK. The AgeUSD stablecoin will be available on Cardano as soon as smart contract capabilities are launched on the blockchain, it...Read More
Cardano has released more details on Plutus, it’s native programming language that will be used to write smart contracts after its next major upgrade, Alonzo. In a blog post on April 13, IOHK – the firm behind Cardano – explained that Plutus contracts consist of parts that run on-chain and parts that run on a...Read More
The Cardano Foundation has partnered with a goods and products platform providing digital brand protection – Scantrust – to launch a supply chain traceability and anti-counterfeit solution. The first implementation saw the light of day with a Georgian artisan wine producer. The Cardano-Wine Connection The independent Swiss non-for-profit organization behind the popular Cardano blockchain announced...Read More
IOHK, the company behind Cardano, has partnered with Orion Protocol, becoming the first liquidity aggregator of the Cardano blockchain. Orion has provided a non-custodial gateway to the crypto market by aggregating liquidity from crypto exchanges into a single DeFi platform. The partnership with Cardano comes after a series of integration to other protocols, such as...Read More
On March 31, Cardano will become a fully decentralized platform, this means that over 1,800 community pools will be responsible for block production. Since the release of the Shelley update in July 2020, Cardano was slightly criticized by the DeFi community for issuing their own blocks while its SPO (stake pool operator) was being developed,...Read More
While doing the necessary work on the upcoming hard fork Alonzo, Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson said that his project would also focus on NFTs and NFT marketplaces. He noted that Cardano has already carried conversations with several such marketplaces about potentially transitioning to its blockchain. Cardano and the NFT Mania Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) are undoubtedly...Read More
The founder of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, has stated that his company has seen “overwhelming demand” despite only being in the second stage of its Goguen upgrade. Currently, Cardano does not have programmability at the base layer, with no smart contracts for the moment, but this didn’t stop companies from subscribing to it, according to Hoskinson....Read More
Cardano is working on new deals that will bring millions of users into its ecosystem, said the project’s founder Charles Hoskinson. He added that his team is negotiating contracts with several African nations to enable citizens to have digital identities linked to wallets and payment systems. Millions of Users Coming on Cardano While speaking during...Read More
The US government sent another set of stimulus checks to its citizens following the most recent relief bill signed by President Joe Biden. Interestingly, two surveys asking people how they plan to utilize the funds indicated that about 10% will be allocated in cryptocurrencies. 10% of Americans to Put Stimulus in Crypto? Earlier this month,...Read More
Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson is the latest to address the growing threat of fake cryptocurrency giveaways. He blamed social media platforms like Twitter and YouTube for inaction, threatened to delete his accounts, and said his company will investigate if these giant firms are actually benefiting from the ongoing scams. The Growing Threat of Crypto Giveaway...Read More
Decentralized finance representatives like Uniswap are bubbles that come and go, but Cardano is looking to run entire countries on its blockchain, said Charles Hoskinson. In a recent interview, the project’s founder also predicted that at least 100 protocols could switch from Ethereum to Cardano when it goes live. From Ethereum to Cardano While speaking...Read More
It has been precisely a year since one of the worst trading days in the history of all financial markets. On March 12th, 2020, the day that became known as Black Thursday, every market was painted in dark red as the health and financial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic became real to the entire world....Read More
Less than a year after launching its IOHK-owned network of federated nodes, Cardano is on schedule to reach full decentralization at the end of March 2021. At that point, the already established network of over 1,800 community pools will be responsible for producing all new blocks. Cardano Goes for Full Decentralization With the approaching so-called...Read More
