Last week, TransitFinance was exploited by multiple hackers who made off with nearly $23 million in ETH, Binance-pegged ETH, and BNB. Since then, the project – which collaborated with PeckShield and other blockchain security firms – stated that it had tracked the attackers and knew, with relative certainty, who they truly were. Most funds have...Read More
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange – Binance – removed over 1.8 million BNB tokens from circulation, completing its 19th quarterly BNB burn. Changpeng Zhao – Chief Executive Officer of the trading venue – argued that the process proves the deflationary nature of the asset. BNB Chain (BNB) – the native token of the world’s largest...Read More
Thailand’s Gulf Energy Development Public Company Ltd. recently announced that it had made a significant investment in the US affiliate of the leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance. Gulf Invests in Binance US and BNB According to a regulatory filing with the Thailand Stock Exchange today, the Thailand-based energy company revealed that it had invested in “Series...Read More
Binance – the world’s largest crypto exchange – recently completed its 18th quarterly burn, marking its first quarterly auto-burn. The burn removed greater dollar-denominated value from the network than ever before. According to a blog post from Binance, the burn removed 1,684,387.11 BNB. At the time of writing, that’s $798,887,962 worth of tokens. 6296 of...Read More
Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the CEO of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has revealed that he has a personal stash of bitcoin in his investment portfolio. CZ Bought Bitcoin in 2014 Speaking in a recent interview with the Associated Press, CZ noted that although a significant percentage of his net worth is made up of...Read More
The cryptocurrency market had a tumultuous week where many projects went up considerably and then stalled and declined. Starting with Bitcoin, this time last week, the price was hovering around $61K, but it had no plans of staying there for long. BTC started climbing immediately and by Monday, it was above $65K. This continued and...Read More
It was a very dynamic week in the cryptocurrency industry, even though it may not seem that way judging by Bitcoin’s price. And yet, we saw a lot of action in the altcoin scene, especially with memecoins and play-to-earn projects, so let’s dive in. Starting off, Bitcoin failed to produce any meaningful gains over the...Read More
Binance recently completed its 17th token burn. Over 1 million BNB were removed from circulation, comparable to previous burns. However, due to increased token value, this is the highest value burn of BNB to date. Binance announced the recent burn on their site earlier today – the 17th burn since the first in October 2017....Read More
After weeks of prolonged consolidation and choppy sideways action in a very squeezed and narrow range, Bitcoin finally broke out. Fortunately, it was to the upside. Over the past week, BTC is up by a considerable 20%. At the time of this writing, it’s trading at around $39K, having pulled back slightly from the psychological...Read More
One of the most highly anticipated events in the Binance community is the quarterly burn of BInance Coin (BNB). This time around, the company burned almost $400 million worth of it. Binance, the world’s leading exchange by means of trading volume, has completed the 16th quarterly burn of BNB. According to the company, the entire...Read More
The past seven days were particularly favorable for altcoins. This is mainly because bitcoin fails to produce any major gains in comparison, which has seen its total market dominance drop down to 44% – a level last seen back in 2018. It’s worth noting that the primary cryptocurrency is up more than 6% on the...Read More
Members of the popular WallStreetBets Reddit forum were suspected of a presumable cryptocurrency fraud that could have caused losses of no less than $2 million. By creating a designated Telegram group, they duped investors by guaranteeing remarkable returns through capitalizing on the recent crypto market rally. The Core of the Hoax Per a report by...Read More
The past week has been overall very favorable for the cryptocurrency market. The total capitalization grew to $2.15 trillion, which is a 17% increase. Most of it came from altcoins, however. At the time of this writing, bitcoin’s price trades at around $56,000 following a quick spike. It’s up 9% on the week and managed...Read More
The past seven days were marked by considerable declines throughout the entire cryptocurrency market. Almost everything is in the red, with the total capitalization sliding beneath $2 trillion. There’s no other way of putting this – the past week was bad for bitcoin’s price. It was almost all downhill. The cryptocurrency was trading in the...Read More
This week we saw altcoins taking for the skies as Bitcoin was rangebound. This led to a plummeting BTC dominance that hit a 2-year low. Bitcoin was trading slightly below $60K this time last week, and everyone had their hopes up that it would conquer this coveted level. Unfortunately, last Saturday, the price started showing...Read More
This week was undoubtedly bullish for the entire cryptocurrency market, which came inches away from $2 trillion. This happened as Bitcoin looks to reclaim $60K, Ethereum surged above $2,000, and BNB saw a brand new all-time high. In retrospect, it was up only for the entire market during the last seven days. Bitcoin started trading...Read More
TurtleDex, a decentralized Binance Smart Chain protocol, went through a rug pull. The protocol drained 9000 BNB, approximately $2.5 million. The owners immediately deleted TurtleDex’s telegram, the official website, and the Twitter page. A “rug pull” is a popular term in the DeFi space. In essence, the team behind the project pulls out the liquidity...Read More
This is one of the most monumental weeks in Bitcoin’s history. Today, February 19th, 2021, for the first time ever, the cryptocurrency’s market capitalization surpassed $1 trillion. That’s right! Bitcoin became a trillion-dollar asset! This became possible after a dynamic week of trading where BTC’s price surpassed $50K for the first time in history. Just today,...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
Apart from BNB, Changpeng Zhao, the founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange heavyweight Binance has another reason to smile. Yesterday the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) handled 21 percent of Ethereum transactions, at 0.6 percent of the gas fees charged for transfers on the latter. This makes BSC about 35 times cheaper, he said. Also, CZ...Read More
Binance has made it no secret that it aims to dominate the world of DeFi as it has done with the crypto industry. The company is clearly angling to become the Google of crypto, launching new products and incentives on an almost weekly basis. The latest hot DeFi launch, Binance Smart Chain, is gaining traction...Read More
On September 12, 2020, CZ, the CEO of Binance, the leading cryptocurrency exchange, shared with his followers an unfortunate accident that led to a client losing $20,000 in the blink of an eye. In a tweet, CZ told the story of a user —whose identity he did not reveal— who sent 800BNB (about $20,000) to...Read More
The events of the past days shook the DeFi space in a way that no other project did this year. The lead developer of the project dumped all of his token on the market, crashing SUSHI’s price by over 50%. After that, he transferred the control over the protocol to FTX’s CEO and the price...Read More
Many major altcoins showed signs of reversing their recent downtrend. Binance Coin appeared to be caught in a range and consolidating. Tezos has been steadily dropping since hitting an ATH. Enjin approached a region of confluence and any break-out from this region can be expected to be a strong move. Binance Coin [BNB] Source: BNB/USDT...Read More
Binance Coin made gains in the past few hours and looked to have reclaimed a support level. Whether this is successful will be revealed in the next few sessions of trading. BAT was retracing gains made during the recent surge. TRX dropped in value almost as quickly as it gained, and it indicated further bearishness....Read More
In the long-term, multiple metrics seem to suggest Bitcoin will command a price in the 6 figures. However, short-term analysis saw Bitcoin fail to break past $11,800 and could be set to drop back to $11,300. Source: CoinStats The major altcoins also show some indecision and bearishness. Binance Coin indicated a possible drop of almost...Read More
After a couple of days of bearish pullback, the collective crypto industry breathed a sigh of relief as major altcoins registered a minor uptick to keep pace with its overall bullish trend. Although bearish signals were still evident in the markets, the past 24-hours have highlighted a sea of green signals all across the board....Read More
Bitcoin dominance climbed from a recent low at 60.22 to 61.59 at the time of writing. The recent Bitcoin dip to $11,400 did major altcoins no favors, with a lot of red across the board. Some coins with excellent recent gains also dropped, such as TRON. Binance Coin might have also embarked on a short-term...Read More
Binance Coin continued its uptrend, after a pullback in early August. BNB had important support levels to fall back to if faced with sell pressure. In the case of the market’s altcoins like IOTA and Zcash, both coins faced significant resistance near its current price level. Binance Coin [BNB] Source: BNB/USDT on TradingView Binance Coin...Read More
Even as Chainlink and Bitcoin steal the limelight, one cannot forget Litecoin. The world’s first altcoin is currently in the 8th spot on the coin market, ahead of resurgent coins like Cardano and Binance Coin, trending with a daily gain of 7.13 percent, second only to Chainlink. Litecoin’s market cap was a strong $4.03 billion...Read More
