Binance has announced support for Binance Vietnamese Dong [BVND], a BEP2 stablecoin pegged to the Vietnamese Dong [VND]. BVND will be available for direct purchase and redemption at a 1BVND = 1 VND rate. The announcement added: “Binance will list Binance VND (BVND) and open trading for BUSD/BVND and USDT/BVND trading pairs at 2020/12/18 12:00...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice The performance of Binance Coin has been impressive for its investors as it was returning around 97% year-to-date. Along with the value of Bitcoin reaching new highs, BNB has been witnessing a sharp rise...Read More
Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer [CTO], David Schwartz had announced an upgrade to the XRP Ledger [XRPL] back in November. Schwartz has now shared the first results of the major performance optimization of the ledger. Calling the results “incredibly encouraging” Ripple’s CTO spoke about combining different performance optimizations proposed by various software engineers. The CTO added...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex announced the launch of a new product offering on its P2P lending platform, Bitfinex Borrow, according to a press release shared with AMBCrypto. Bitfinex Borrow will now offer Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) personal loans, which will enable users to obtain loans in BTC and ETH. Borrowers can use US Dollars (USD),...Read More
With bitcoin climbing to new all-time highs, the cryptocurrency has garnered the attention of centralized financial institutions. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. offered its views on the market and said that BTC’s rise shouldn’t threaten gold’s position as the inflation hedge of choice as both assets can coexist. Bitcoin And Gold Can Coexist Ever since bitcoin’s...Read More
Tornado.Cash announced the launch of a new governance proposal wherein users will gain governance rights through the TORN Token. The Torn token is an ERC-20 compatible token with a fixed supply that governs Tornado.Cash. TORN holders can make proposals and vote to change the protocol via governance. However, the protocol stated that TORN is not...Read More
These are bullish times for the cryptocurrency market. Not only is Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, breaching new ATHs by the day, but the altcoin market is reciprocating as well, with the market’s top alts all recording significant gains on the charts. Cardano, IOTA, and DigiByte were few of the alts to note a price...Read More
The decentralized finance (DeFi) space continues to experience frequent attacks, and the latest victim is Warp Finance. The project admitted earlier today that undisclosed perpetrators have compromised the protocol and taken nearly $8 million by initiating a flash loan attack. $7.7M Taken In A Flash Loan Attack The significant growth of the DeFi space that...Read More
Global trade finance bank, Euro Exim is working with Ripple to connect banks, payment providers, and digital asset exchanges via RippleNet. Euro Exim is a class A International Banking Financial institution incorporated under the revised laws of St. Lucia, which authorizes it to conduct business with third parties across industries worldwide. The bank has implemented...Read More
Bitcoin’s price has been on a steady uptrend; while most altcoins benefited greatly from this bullish momentum, there have been a few exceptions to the rule, and these coins seem to be stuck in a consolidation phase. Litecoin [LTC] Source: LTC/USD, TradingView Litecoin’s price has risen by close to 23 percent in the past 24-hours....Read More
Bitcoin’s price managed to go past quite a few significant price levels in the past 24-hours and is now trading at $22,800. This bullishness translated well for many of the market’s altcoins, with the likes of Binance Coin, Dash, and Tezos all registering uptrends. Binance Coin [BNB] Source: BNB/USD, TradingView Binance Coin currently occupies the...Read More
With bitcoin marching to new all-time highs and dragging most alternative coins higher as well, the assets under management for the leading crypto manager Grayscale jumped to nearly $14 billion. This is a 7-fold increase for the company whose managing director categorized 2020 as the “coming of age story for the asset class.” Bitcoin Breaking...Read More
Link’s 679% YTD return overshadows both Atom and BAT’s meager returns of 28% and 20% respectively. This is despite Link’s surge to $20 per coin and then a massive collapse to $7.2. Chainlink [LINK] Source: LINKUSD TradingView Chainlink seems to be surging alongside bitcoin at the moment. The coin has seen a 13% hike in...Read More
Some of Bitcoin’s narratives have become extremely popular over the past few months. Store of value, Digital Gold, etc. are some of them but recently, its characteristics as a hedge against inflation have taken new precedence. However, people fail to understand why Bitcoin has clarity in terms of inflation and the U.S dollar does not....Read More
Altcoins, including Polkadot, seem to be doing well and the reason for this is bitcoin’s new ATH. While at the moment DOT’s price may be benefiting from bitcoin’s surge, however, if bitcoin crashes, DOT’s dip may be more serious than that of BTC. Hence, it is advised to take profits and not try to catch...Read More
Bitcoin’s price has broken past old barriers and registered a new all-time high on 17 December 2020 at $23,777. However, this peak was short-lived as the shorts began liquidating in the market. Within minutes, Bitcoin’s trading price fell to $22,674 and is trading around a similar price level at press time. The 5-minute BTC chart...Read More
DeFi protocol Uniswap recently announced the integration of Sybil, a new governance tool for discovering delegation. 👥 Introducing https://t.co/I5jCdJiwtB, a governance tool for discovering Uniswap and Compound delegates! 📜 Sybil maps on-chain addresses to digital identities, while avoiding on-chain transactions and user signups 🦄 Verify and discover delegates now!https://t.co/3W13fTCZTN pic.twitter.com/ipH5K2O3Jg — Uniswap Protocol 🦄 (@UniswapProtocol)...Read More
Ripple partnered with MoneyGram, one of the world’s biggest remittance and payment companies in the United States in June 2019. Since then, the two parties have managed to report tremendous growth due to the partnership, and Alex Holmes, the chairman, and CEO of MoneyGram International [MGI] highlighted a few aspects of this growth in a...Read More
The large bitcoin institutional investments keep emerging frequently, and the latest one has come from the US-based hedge fund One River Asset Management. After establishing a new company oriented in digital asset investments, the fund has purchased $600 million in BTC and plans to add ETH and expand its holdings to $1 billion in the...Read More
The Bitcoin market reached an all-time high as it went past the $22k price level and due to Bitcoin’s high correlation with altcoins, most major alts such as XRP, Monero, and Dogecoin saw a strong surge in their respective trading price. XRP Source: XRP/USD on TradingView The XRP market had noted high volatility towards the...Read More
Crypto Wallet company, MathWallet just closed a $12 million Series B round of funding led by Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubator of Binance. The investment round is expected to strengthen MathWallet’s future innovation in DeFi and the blockchain space. This is also a part of Binance Labs’ ongoing initiative to promote DeFi, to...Read More
Bitcoin breached its all-time-high earlier today, crossing $22,000 briefly, before dipping back down to levels around $21,800. It has now crossed $22,000 once more and was trading at $22,091 at the time of writing. Source: BTC/USD, TradingView The level of optimism around the world’s largest cryptocurrency was exceedingly high, as many in the crypto community...Read More
It looks like there’s no stopping Bitcoin, at least not today, after the world’s largest cryptocurrency breached the $21,000-mark within hours of breaching the $20,000-mark. At the time of writing, BTC was trading at a price of $21,274, having gained by 9.18% in the last 12 hours. Source: BTC/USD on TradingView The aforementioned developments came...Read More
As the value of Bitcoin went past $20k, many of the market’s altcoins were also seeing their price rise on the charts. The performance of Litecoin, Zcash, and Compound did not witness major uptrends but registered positive gains. Litecoin [LTC] Source: LTC/USD on TradingView The Litecoin daily chart indicated the sideways movement of the digital...Read More
XRP’s price drop over the past few days was expected. After registering a massive bullish rally towards the end of November, the asset has declined a bit over the past few days. December hasn’t been kind and currently, the asset is looking to re-test a critical support. At press time, XRP was valued at $0.4504...Read More
Bitcoin and gold share similarities but also vary significantly from each other. While bitcoin has been the go-to asset for millennial investors, institutions too, see bitcoin as a very promising asset. Interestingly, the rivalry between supporters of bitcoin and gold is a longstanding one, and while there are people who support both investment firms like...Read More
The overall cryptocurrency market has been witnessing a push and pull from its traders. In the case of the world’s largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin, its value has continued to inch closer to the $20k level and can be seen to have an impact on altcoins like Ethereum, Tezos, and FTX Token. Ethereum [ETH] Source: ETH/USD on...Read More
Grayscale Investments caught the media’s attention this week, after breaking above $10 Billion in digital assets under management. Interestingly, as Grayscale investment’s news broke the Internet, the trade volume on spot exchanges cooled off dropping below the $550 million price level based on data from Skew. BTC Aggregate Daily Volume || Source: Skew Retail traders...Read More
DeFi projects added to its TVL at an astonishing rate this year. The TVL stood at $691 Million in January 2020 and nearly a year later, the TVL surpassed $15 Billion on Monday. The YTD growth of DeFi is over 2000% with the top 6 DeFi projects including Maker, WBTC, Aave, Compound, etc. registering over...Read More
Bitcoin’s dominance is one of the biggest drivers behind its institutional interest and mainstream adoption. However, in anticipation of an altcoin rally, it was observed that Ethereum and XRP’s dominance rose 1.1% and 2.6% respectively, based on data from CoinGecko’s report. Against Bitcoin’s gradual price rally, Ethereum’s price increased by over 50% in November and...Read More
