The PayPal announcement and the subsequent hike in Bitcoin’s price came at a great time for the altcoin market since many alts were struggling with the downtrend they have been on since mid-August. This speaks to not just Bitcoin’s overwhelming dominance of the crypto-market, but also to its high correlations stats with the rest of...Read More
Major crypto exchange Binance announced today that its investment and incubation arm, Binance Labs has made a strategic investment in a new blockchain-based decentralized streaming protocol, called Audius. Binance Labs led the extension round for Audius which was worth $1.25 million. The community-owned music sharing protocol is yet to launch on mainnet, and had earlier...Read More
Following Bitcoin’s week-long price surge till its breach of the $13,000 level; Chainlink and Tezos also appeared to be bullish, with the two alts trading in green zones at press time. DASH on the other hand succumbed to selling pressure, after going through a short breather of bullish sentiment just a few days ago. Chainlink...Read More
People’s Bank of China (PBoC) published a notice today stating that the country’s central bank has provided various channels such as email, fax and letter to acquire public opinions, or feedback on a revised draft that under Article 19, under Section 3, the draft proposes to include: Renminbi includes both a physical form and a...Read More
As the world’s largest and most dominant cryptocurrency, Bitcoin obviously shares high correlation stats with many of the market’s altcoins. However, while this may be the case, such a correlation isn’t always consistent or even uniform. The same was evidenced when looking at the price charts for Monero, Synthetix, and Crypto.com Coin, with each of...Read More
According to a statement by Changchun Mu, the director of the Chinese Institute of CBDC, China’s dual offline wallet for its CBDC has now been fully developed and is ready for testing. The introduction of this wallet is expected to be the follow up to the pilot, which took place on October 12. This phase...Read More
In an announcement, Stellar said that the Stellar public network will no longer upgrade to Protocol 14 on October 28, skipping straight ahead to Protocol 15. Protocol 15 is reportedly the same as Protocol 14 but fixes an issue that could have caused validators to crash, reports Stellar. After the Stellar testnet upgraded to Protocol 14,...Read More
The last five days have been very bullish for the crypto-market, with the world’s largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, pumping by over 15% over the aforementioned time period. In fact, BTC’s latest pump had the crypto climb by over $1,500 on the charts, with BTC even breaching the psychological resistance of $13,000, albeit briefly. Source: CoinStats While...Read More
Founder and CEO of Filecoin, Juan Benet, took to Twitter to clarify that Justin Sun’s accusations of a Filecoin exit scam were completely false. On this Justin Sun bullshit — these accusations are completely FALSE. Neither PL nor any team member sold FIL as he accuses. & the ridiculous magnitude of trade he claims we...Read More
Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank Fabio Panetta said in a speech at the ECB conference on Thursday that a digital euro, or the Eurozone’s potential CBDC, could become necessary with evolving consumer preferences, especially if people became reluctant to use cash. In his speech that primarily addressed pan-European payments and...Read More
To the delight of bullish investors, a surging market was the highlight of the day, with many of the industry’s altcoins closely aping Bitcoin’s own price movements. At press time, Bitcoin was being traded near the $13,000-level, having risen by over 4.5% in the last 24 hours. Further down the cryptocurrency charts, Stellar Lumens, Cosmos,...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Chainlink and most of the market’s altcoins suffered a brutal crash after the DeFi craze came to a halt. However, there seems to be a revival coming for these altcoins, with some of them...Read More
While Binance is slowing becoming one of the most important names in the cryptocurrency industry, its native token, Binance Coin, is also gaining a lot of traction and interest this year. One of the market’s top performers in 2020, Binance Coin has flipped its objective as just an alternative to avoid transaction fees. Source: BNB/USD...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice With the DeFi craze dying, DeFi coins seem to be really calm. DOT is sharing the same calmness, as its price has seen a 45+% retracement since September. For more than a month now,...Read More
An official from the Russian Central Bank’s National Banking Council, Anatoly Aksakov said that Russia’s CBDC, the digital ruble, would be the “future” of all money circulation in the country, and that the CBDC will start being tested, “possibly” in 2021. This development follows an earlier announcement from the Central Bank regarding the possibility of...Read More
Bitfinex announced today listing of HUMAN Token (HMT) which serves as the medium of exchange which will be used to power the decentralized labor markets built on the HUMAN Protocol. Deposits for HMT on Bitfinex will open on October 27, while Trading of HMT with USD and USDT pairs on Bitfinex will go live on October...Read More
Owner of the Bitfinex crypto exchange, iFinex announced today integration with cross-chain system pNetwork (pTokens network) which would enable BTC, ETH and LTC to automatically be tokenized, and moved on to DeFi blockchains directly from the Bitfinex platform. pNetwork is the decentralized governance layer operating the pTokens bridges. pTokens makes cryptocurrencies “compatible” with blockchains, such...Read More
In what is a significant development, Algorand will be partnering with VeriTX to build a digital marketplace for Aerospace Manufacturing. In a recent announcement, VeriTX Corp, a marketplace for digital assets enabling decentralized manufacturing, said it will develop a digital supply chain for aircraft parts using Algorand‘s blockchain technology. The VeriTX digital marketplace allows customers...Read More
Binance Coin’s price on the charts has been on a steady uptrend for a few months now. The past 24-hours further strengthened this narrative as the price saw a 2.5 percent hike. With the coin’s price action being limited to an ascending channel formation a downward breakout for the coin cannot be ruled out. At...Read More
Proving to be one of the market’s top-performing digital assets on the charts, Bitcoin Cash was quick to add over 6% to its value in lieu of the prevailing bull market. Decred too was painted in green, with northbound price momentum in the DCR market likely to push the cryptocurrency towards its immediate resistance level....Read More
Barring a few digital assets such as Zcash that continued to remain bearish, a swirl of bullish momentum was witnessed in the rest of the crypto market. Towards the end of the day, Bitcoin too gained over 3% since yesterday. Noting some losses in Zcash, impressive bullish sentiments were visible on the trading charts of...Read More
It seems that not everybody from the crypto community has warmed up to PayPal’s decision to venture into the crypto market. In a tweet calling out the payment giant’s move into crypto, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said he was disappointed with Paypal’s upcoming crypto integration since he believed this would spur the benefits of crypto...Read More
After witnessing a brief sell-off period just two days back, the privacy coin Monero regained its bullishness. The presence of bearish sentiment was confirmed by the moving averages for Crypto.com Coin, with the digital asset falling back to its June 2019 lows. Given Synthetix’s persistent downtrend and a clear bearish outlook, the SNX market was likely...Read More
With several blockchains integrating the USDC stablecoin last week, crypto payments tech firm Circle announced today that it would now make the dollar-backed stablecoin available for the Solana blockchain, after partnering with the firm. According to Circle, Solana, the blockchain behind decentralized exchange Serum, supports up to 50,000 transactions per second (tps). This surpasses Ethereum’s...Read More
Binance Coin broke beneath its uptrend of the past month, although this could be a temporary haven for the asset than a reversal in trend. Cosmos had bearish momentum while Dash experienced a period of high volatility and registered big gains but was unable to hold on to them all. Binance Coin [BNB] Source: BNB/USDT...Read More
A favorable week for Bitcoin in which the coin witnessed a price hike of 7% at press time. While Ethereum’s price hasn’t set the market on fire, its on-chain numbers were better over the past week in comparison to Bitcoin. Coinmetrics’ recent report suggested that Bitcoin’s active addresses were down by 2.7% and its transaction...Read More
With a bullish sentiment reaffirmed by EOS’s technical indicators, the altcoin was on its way to breach a key resistance level over the next few trading sessions. IOTA traders speculated the rise of bullish sentiment, but a weakening buying sentiment could soon cause a trend reversal for the altcoin. FTX token, on the other hand,...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has shared an update today again declaring that its users were safe and that it would resume trading from 12:00 pm UTC onwards for certain fiat pairs such as CNY, INR and VND. It further added that the exchange will be reactivating its ‘Buy Crypto’ fiat gateway at the aforementioned time. However,...Read More
Bitcoin Cash has moved back up to 5th in the charts after dropping down to 8th a few weeks earlier, and now the asset indicated a return of collective volatility alongside the market. While the asset tested $267 earlier this week, currently it is consolidation near $250. With the trend gunning for another breach above,...Read More
XRP hasn’t been able to rally behind Bitcoin over the past week but the altcoin has kept pace in the short-term trend. Currently breaking above immediate resistance at $0.244, XRP is looking to enter an important transition range at the present moment, which may direct the imminent short-term market. XRP is currently valued at $0.249...Read More
