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
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
“A portfolio built completely with cryptocurrencies” – to a traditional portfolio manager, is a nightmare in terms of risk and drawdowns. However, to a person that has been in crypto over the last 3-4 years, this seems like a cakewalk. While the traditional portfolio does include Emerging Markets, that, in a way, is similar to...Read More
The feud between Bitcoin and Ethereum is a long-standing one. ‘Feud’ isn’t exactly the right word for it. Perhaps, the communities have fought over which is the superior coin for quite some time. However, comparing BTC and ETH is like comparing apples to oranges, while both may be fruits, both are different and alike in...Read More
Bitcoin shot past $12k and was trading at $12,239 at press time. Crypto Fear and Greed Index stood at 61, indicating growing greed in the market. Bitcoin Dominance rose to 61.75, as Ethereum posted gains and approached a strong level of resistance. Selling pressure did not relent on Tron while Basic Attention Token showed a...Read More
Blockchain research and development startup IOHK, and Ethereum Classic Cooperative today announced a collaboration to provide ETC community with solutions that aimed to improve security of the network, especially after ETC had been 51% attacked three times already. In a release shared with AMBCrypto on Tuesday, the two entities analyzed the vulnerability of the ETC...Read More
“Ethereum 2.0 phase 0 to be launched at the end of 2019. . . .January 2020. . . .July 2020. . .September 2020. . .November 2020?” The digital asset class has created a very unique community over the years. While a person would rarely hear another one promoting investments in Gold, Silver, or whatnot, proponents...Read More
August was a bullish month for altcoin traders as they ranked in profits, forcing Bitcoin dominance to drop below 60% for the first time since the start of the year. However, the altcoin euphoria was shortlived as September brought along the bears. The end of Q3 wasn’t great for Bitcoin traders, but that was expected...Read More
The world’s largest altcoin Ethereum was once again moving up and was priced around the $375 mark. Ethereum could soon move towards a more neutral to bullish phase soon. Stellar Lumens also maintained bullishness while Dogecoin although on an uptrend for the day, was more likely to continue with its price consolidation.Ethereum [ETH] Source: ETH/USD...Read More
It is a well-known fact now, that the Bitcoin blockchain is considerably processing fewer transactions than it’s ‘Ethereum’ counterpart. And this decline in transaction processing has significantly reduced the revenue of miners as well. How much? Well, on-chain analysis firm Glassnode points to numbers that are at a 5-month low. Bitcoin Miner Revenue Touches 5-Month...Read More
Ben Edington, a developer associated with ETH 2.0 at Consensys, recently updated the community about a few “breaking changes,” with respect to the series running on the Medalla testnet. Reportedly, a few configuration parameters have been changed. A previously noted pain point was the genesis delay. This has now been changed to one week, meaning...Read More
Ethereum 2.0 is still in the works after many delays. And yet, it is still receiving a lot of praise from the likes of CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert. While the ETH community is stoked about this, others have critiqued ETH’s timeline to deliver ETH 2.0. At press time, there were many ETH competitors, but none...Read More
At the time of writing, Ethereum, the world’s largest altcoin, was trading within a range, and a close outside the range would give traders clarity on the next direction for the crypto-asset. At the time, the Crypto Fear and Greed Index was noting a figure of 55, a figure that might be an indicator of...Read More
Cryptocurrency trades have steered clear from Bitcoin trading during Q3 2020, said eToro’s quarterly report. In contrast, the multi-asset brokerage platform revealed that some larger-cap altcoins, such as TRON, EOS, BNB, and Tezos, had experienced double- and even triple-digit trading volume surges. Cryptocurrency Trading Changes On eToro In Q3 The popular platform published its latest...Read More
The entire digital assets market lately has been a sort of rollercoaster ride over the last week. The largest altcoin Ethereum noting successive drops over the last few days could finally be in for a bull run. The Algorand market displayed mixed signals of buying and selling sentiment. While expectations around a bullish break out...Read More
As an altcoin, Ethereum has been the leader in terms of its growth observed this year. The evolution of ERC-20 tokens along with the decentralized platform established on Ethereum were vital contributors to Ethereum’s performance. Although the beginning of the final quarter of 2020 did portray as though ‘DeFi was dead’, but that seems to...Read More
The bullish rally at the end of July was pretty significant for Ethereum. The valuation jumped above $250, $300, $350, and eventually surpassed $400 after more than 2-years. Ethereum’s rally was so dominant that options trader expected Ethereum to impute more volatility than Bitcoin itself. ETH-BTC 3 months realized vol spread on 27th July was...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in the Ethereum short-term market and its impact on the price. The sudden surge in the price concluded on 13 October, as Ethereum’s price has been descending since. As the price appreciated there have been some bumps in the way downwards that...Read More
For Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, 2020 has been fairly promising. While its transition to Proof of Stake continues to be plagued by delays, the altcoin has performed rather well on the price charts. At press time, Ethereum was being traded at $376, with ETH’s price seemingly aided by strong hodling sentiment within the Ethereum...Read More
Polkadot announced that a new trustless wrapped Bitcoin – PolkaBTC- will be released on its blockchain in early 2021. This will be Polkadot’s first trustless wrapped Bitcoin which the platform deemed as a critical step toward an interoperable ecosystem. The tokenized bitcoin, which will enable users to mint 1:1 bitcoin-backed assets onto Polkadot, is being...Read More
Ethereum has been the market’s most important altcoin over the years, with the cryptocurrency continuing to be closely correlated to Bitcoin. In fact, Ethereum was one of the year’s better performers on the back of the DeFi boom earlier this year. However, contrary to expectations, ETH’s value seemed to be back on track at press...Read More
A week after the launch of EOS, Litecoin, and Polkadot Perpetual Swaps, Bitfinex has announced the launch of a new yield product. Bitfinex users can now begin to earn rewards on their crypto-holdings following a new partnership with Celsius Network. The integration in question will allow customers of the exchange platform to create a wallet...Read More
Ethereum investors prefer to HODL their assets, according to recent data. About 60% of all ETH tokens haven’t moved in at least one year. The question remains how and if this trend will change in the following months after the launch of the long-anticipated Ethereum 2.0, enabling investors to stake their ETH holdings. ETH Investors...Read More
Active Supply of Ethereum hit a 7 month low of 25,311,416.050 ETH on October 8, 2020. Though there have been several updates on ETH 2.0 and its testnet, active supply started climbing steadily only after July 2020, after maintaining nearly the same level for over two years. ETH Active Supply || Source: Twitter When Bitcoin’s...Read More
There was some bullish sentiment toward the crypto markets as Bitcoin trended higher, alongside news of institutional interest. Ethereum faced a crucial level of resistance, while IOTA approached a level of resistance with strong momentum while BitTorrent formed a bearish pattern. Ethereum [ETH] Source: ETH/USD on TradingView Ethereum was trading within a rectangle bottom (cyan)....Read More
Andre Cronje, the founder of the popular Yearn Finance protocol and its governance token YFI, deployed another ‘experimental’ contract yesterday. Expectedly, a lot of people bought the token despite Cronje’s warnings, and most of them ended up losing money. One investor, in particular, put in 1000 ETH in the token, and his stash is currently...Read More
The digital asset industry has somewhat re-ignited its bullish momentum over the past week as Bitcoin emerged above $11,000 price level yet again. Ethereum kept pace with the king coin and currently, both the assets are enjoying over 6 percent growth over the past week. Yesterday the market opened on another high as Ethereum Grayscale...Read More
The adoption of traditional financial tools to crypto-currencies is not new and when it comes to gauging crypto prices, several trackers have come and gone that especially allows investors to estimate volatility of each crypto. On that note, the fintech platform which enables cross-chain interoperability, COTI (Currency of the Internet) has developed a Market Fear...Read More
A currently running ETH 2.0 testnet called Zinken, which was launched on Monday, Oct. 12, has been ‘performing perfectly’ according to one of the developers and participants. Zinken is a shortened testnet, just like the one before it called Spadina, which is aimed at giving client teams a chance to iron out issues in their...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Ethereum seems to be following Bitcoin’s footsteps like a disciple, mirroring every single one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency’s ‘up and down’ movements. Although unsurprising, this can help predict ETH’s moves. The following article...Read More
