Cryptocurrency transactions tracker, Whale Alert, recently tweeted about how the tokenized bond on the Ethereum blockchain from the Spanish banking giant, Santander, had accrued $99,000 in interest for the first quarterly period. The $20 million bond, first settled in September, was represented by a custom Ethereum token, and settled with another token representing cash held...Read More
December 2019 has not been very welcoming to the bulls in the market. Many major cryptocurrencies have lost enormously under the market’s bearish pressure, including Bitcoin [BTC], which has lost about 4.55% of its value since the beginning of December. Following its lead, many cryptos have met a similar fate. This was reflected by Coin...Read More
Cryptocurrency traders and investors are constantly looking out for the next big thing. One thing learned from the 2017 pump is that FOMO can spread like wildfire and a crypto asset can surge for practically no reason. HEX is getting a lot of attention at the moment but all may not be what it seems.Cryptocurrency...Read More
Ethereum is holding the main $144 support, but also struggling to rise against the US Dollar.The price is now trading below the previous support (now resistance) near $148.There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $147 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken).The price is likely to struggle near...Read More
Blockchain technology still has the potential to disrupt traditional finance. Santander is moving ahead with its DLT venture after successfully redeeming a digital bond. Santander has been active in the blockchain industry for several years now. Another Blockchain Milestone for Santander Albeit most of its projects are kept under wraps, this particular development isn’t kept...Read More
The price of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Ethereum, may be down as much as 90% from its all-time high price of over $1,400, but ICO investors are still up over 400x on their initial investment.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
The Bitcoin [BTC] market has lost 0.54% of its value in December 2019, with the king coin’s price movement recording recurring dips. A recent dip of 2.45% contributed to the price of the world’s largest crypto tumbling down from $7,450.62 to $7,268.03. Following the loss, Bitcoin tried to recover. However, it was stuck at $7,337.32,...Read More
Ethereum saw a major reduction in Google searches in the last few months, attracting less attention than ever before. Ethereum Less Popular Now Than When it Was $20 Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is going through an interesting period as of late. A Trustnodes report indicates that the project has seen the...Read More
China’s Center for Information and Industry Development has published its year-end crypto project rankings. Thirty-five projects were evaluated and ranked overall as well as in three separate categories. Bitcoin has risen in ranking while EOS remains China’s favorite. Also read: China Ranks 35 Crypto Projects as President Xi Pushes Blockchain Year-End Crypto Rankings The Center...Read More
Ethereum is struggling to clear the key $152 resistance area against the US Dollar.The price is declining and it is now trading near the $146 support area.Yesterday’s major bullish trend line was breached with support near $148 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken).The price could continue to move down and it...Read More
Research outfit Matter Labs announced a Zero-Knowledge Proof-based scaling solution, which leverages many of the changes from Instanbul. Critics from the Bitcoin camp claim it’s just another “shitcoin.” ZK-Rollups and “Visa-Scale” Throughput Achieving scale has long been the Achilles heel of public blockchain networks. Earlier approaches to the same problem may have managed to achieve...Read More
Lending and borrowing crypto, a subset of DeFi applications, has quickly boomed into an almost billion-dollar industry. But does it pose a threat to Proof of Stake networks? The DeFi landscape includes lending protocols, security tokens, derivatives, and exchanges, and threatens to usurp traditional financial models into trustless protocols that leverage decentralized networks. The Rise...Read More
China’s Center for Information and Industry Development [CCID] released its 15th Global Public Blockchain Technology Assessment Index that ranked multiple cryptocurrencies based on its tech, application, and creativity. The list placed Bitcoin on the ninth position while scoring highest in the field of creativity and least in terms of application. Bitcoin’s index total stood at...Read More
Ever since its launch last year, Tezos has done quite a lot to improve its feats and keeps on doing so. As the company appears to continue with innovations and partnerships, some of the community is arguing that Tezos might be skyrocketing soon, resembling Ethereum’s surge from 2017. Is Tezos The New Ethereum? 2017 was...Read More
Weiss Ratings has downgraded EOS once again, taking its ranking from a B to a C-. The group cites “failure to decentralize,” “misallocation of resources,” and a congested network as reasons for the fall in rank. “Weiss Crypto Ratings model is not based on opinion. It’s driven by data,” the group claims. In this article...Read More
Istanbul hard fork on the Ethereum has officially taken place on block # 9069000 on Sunday, December 8th. A new era of Ethereum has arrived at 0:25 UTC this Sunday. The Istanbul hard-fork contains six distinct upgrades to improve performance, adjust the costs of opcodes, enable Ethereum and Zcash to interoperate, and enable more creative...Read More
The weekend has seen marginal gains for most crypto assets as total market capitalization claws back above $200 billion. Tezos has been the clear leader in terms of performance though as it tops $1 billion market cap and closes in on a top ten position.Tezos Outperforming Crypto MarketsThe good news is that there has been...Read More
Ethereum is approaching the main $152 and $155 resistance levels against the US Dollar.The price is likely to rally significantly once there is a clear break above $152.There is a key bullish trend line forming with support near $148 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken).The price could dip a few points,...Read More
Ethereum’s price action has been closely correlated to Bitcoin’s over the past several weeks, leading ETH’s price to dip into the lower-$150 region, which is where it has been able to find some levels of support.Ethereum’s much-anticipated Istanbul hard fork has come about concurrently with ETH’s ongoing downtrend, and it appears that investors are not...Read More
While Ethereum‘s Istanbul upgrade was deemed successful, it was, however, not all smooth-sailing. The upgrade that went live on block 9,069,000, introduced six Etheruem Improvement Protocols, and all the major clients such as Geth, Parity, Aleth, Besu, Nethermind, and Aleth had released version that would be compatible with Istanbul, and the result of failing to...Read More
An art lover who paid $120,000 for an installation of an over-ripe banana duct-taped to a wall, had his investment eaten by a performance artist. One hopes that if he has that much money to ‘waste’ on what is now just a banana skin with some tape stuck to it, he’s already filled his bags with...Read More
The term digital gold has been used on Crypto Twitter after several influencers pointed out similarities between Bitcoin and gold. While some thought that it was good to view Bitcoin as digital gold or store of value asset, a few others highlighted the fact that this was defying Bitcoin’s use case as digital cash. The...Read More
Ethereum, one of the world’s most popular networks for the deployment of smart contracts and development of decentralized applications (DApps), has undergone a hard fork. Dubbed ‘Istanbul,’ the system update adds new features and improvements to the existing solution. Ethereum’s Istanbul Hard Fork Goes Live Ethereum’s network underwent its long-awaited hard fork called Istanbul. It...Read More
Over the past few months, Ethereum community had been gearing up for its eighth network update, Istanbul. Earlier today, Istanbul went live on the network at block number 9,069,000. Several developers of the Ethereum network along with Vitalik Buterin live-streamed the “Istanbul Upgrade Countdown Party!” Buterin revealed that the fork block was mined by SparkPool....Read More
Ethereum and most major altcoins have been closely tracking Bitcoin’s price action as of late, and the aggregated market has been unable to find any decisive momentum over the past few weeks. This lack of momentum has caused ETH to hover around the $150 region as bulls and bears remain deadlocked.Analysts are now noting that...Read More
The long-awaited Ethereum Istanbul hard fork will take place at 12 AM GMT on December 8. Once again, most ETH nodes are waiting until the last moment to upgrade. Ethereum Nodes Wait to Upgrade Until Last Moment Based on Ethernodes, the percentage of nodes that had not upgraded with the Istanbul version was pegged at...Read More
Ethereum client Parity released an urgent announcement, admitting that they forgot to include an EIP in the latest upgrade. Ethereum’s Biggest Client Forgets EIP Inclusion A recent announcement posted by one of Ethereum’s biggest clients, Parity, came as a surprise. The service admitted that it forgot to include an EIP (Ethereum Improvement Proposal) into their...Read More
In an Ethereum Q&A session conducted on YouTube, Bitcoin and open blockchain expert, Andreas Antonopoulos spoke about the proposed Ethereum 2.0 hard fork, the ‘first-mover advantage’, and whether or not he thought Ethereum would become the next Bitcoin. Antonopoulos explained how Ethereum and Bitcoin store accounts and code in fundamentally different ways. Where Bitcoin uses...Read More
After touching an 8-month low on November 25, the Ethereum community saw the flagship coin make some modest gains, including a brief move up to $156 two days before December began. Since then, ETH has been consolidating between the $150 and $146 marks, with a value of $148 at the time of writing. CoinMarketCap shows...Read More
A Bloomberg article published on December 4 cited a study conducted by the San Francisco-based ‘Crypto Fund Research’, which stated that nearly 70 crypto-focused hedge funds catering to pensions, family offices and wealthy individuals had closed down this year. It also claimed that the number of new funds launched this year is less than half...Read More
