If I got an XRP each time someone asked me about the price, I might have become a successful hodler! Addressing the elephant in the room -the question of XRP’s price swings in short-term; surprisingly the grass is green on this side of the coin as key indicators point towards a trend reversal. August was...Read More
Cardano’s Shelley has been one of the most anticipated development projects for the virtual’s asset ecosystem. IOHK’s Charles Hoskinson has released a series of updates, with regards to the progression of the project in his recent AMA. It was reported earlier that Shelley’s testnet program would be categorized into three phases and according to Hoskinson,...Read More
The Electric Coin Company’s privacy-focused coin, Zcash, was in the news lately after the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, announced that it no longer supported the altcoin for UK customers. The exchange did not disclose any details for the delisting of the coin, which in turn led to several speculations by the crypto-community. A recent...Read More
Litecoin is facing death by the cross. Litecoin’s 2019 has taken a sharp U-Turn. Hailed as one of the top gainers among large-cap cryptocurrencies in the market, the fifth largest coin is staring down at an imminent bearish run. The digital silver’s massive gains of 2019, which took it to a 320 percent price high...Read More
During the FiNext Conference in USA, Ripple’s Director of Corporate Payments, Ryan Gaylor, claimed that bank coins like JP Morgan’s do not fix the ailing issue of centralization as opposed to XRP, reported VisionaryFinanc. This statement came up when Gaylor was discussing Ripple’s partnership with Santander. Santander Group, a commercial bank “has been planning for...Read More
With a circulating supply of 42,932,866,967 XRP and a market cap of $10,995,406,740 at press time, XRP is just recovering from revisiting its lowest value in quite some time. Looking at the 1 hour chart for XRP, a diamond pattern alongside the MACD indicator suggests a short period of stabilization moving into an upwards breakout...Read More
San Francisco-based crypto-lending and borrowing firm, Dharma, has clarified that it is not working actively on any projects related to XRP. The question arose on Twitter after the firm announcing its closed beta for Dharma version 2. While addressing the controversy surrounding the alleged case of “XRP dumping,” Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse had previously stated...Read More
In any financial trading space, market sentiment plays a huge role in deciding the outcome or direction of the price over a certain time period. In the cryptocurrency ecosystem, market sentiment is even more evident and sometimes, it is more important than the fundamental properties of the coin itself. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, usually...Read More
Grayscale Investments, a cryptocurrency asset manager reported its Assets under management [AUM] tripling from $926 million to a whopping $2.7 billion, in its Q2 report. Grayscale products like Grayscale Bitcoin Trust and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund reported 178.8% and 147.6%, respectively in returns, this quarter. Source: Grayscale Investments The company noted a strong quarter...Read More
Litecoin’s hash rate continued to plummet as it entered the third week after its halving on August 5th. According to the popular cryptocurrency stats website, BitInfoCharts, Litecoin’s hash rate on 28th August was 331.4 TH/s, a decline of 33.3% from a hash rate of 458.3 TH/s on the day of halving. In the words of...Read More
Pantera CEO, Dan Morehead, highlighted 4 upcoming projects to research blockchain scalability and interoperability in their newsletter. They aim to spark further adoption and use-cases of blockchain technology. Progress in blockchain technology is often taken for granted, while developers work every day toward removing bottlenecks holding back mass adoption and scalability. Using decentralization against legacy...Read More
TRONSCAN, a blockchain browser for TRON community announced its support for the Sun-network, where it would be developing a block explorer for the Sun Network’s Dapp chain. The block explorer will be integrated into the TRONSCAN according to the latest TRON weekly report posted by TRON Japan. Check out the weekly report made by @TRON_JPN...Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced pressing charges against Bitqyck Inc. and its founders for defrauding investors in securities offerings of two digital assets and operating an unregistered exchange. Quoting the official statement, “Bitqyck and founders Bruce Bise and Sam Mendez created and sold Bitqy and BitqyM (tokens) in unregistered securities offerings to more...Read More
Litecoin has dropped below $70 for the first time in four months. Early this month, the fifth-largest cryptocurrency in market experienced its halving, dropping the block rewards from 25 LTC per block to 12.5 LTC per block. However, the price fall began well before the halving, a trend which flies in the face of conventional...Read More
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. has gone live with RippleNet on August 29, becoming the first-ever American bank to process cross-border payments, reported FintechFutures. The bank inked the deal with RippleNet in September 2018 and announced that its Treasury Management Unit would be using Ripple’s current software solution to carry out cross-border transactions. According to...Read More
The decentralized cryptographic ledger and the house of Ripple’s native cryptocurrency, XRP Ledger index 49624361 contained 370 transactions and the closing time for the ledger was just 3.5 seconds in the early hours of 28th August. The total fees for the transactions executed was 26.27 XRP. This event was tweeted by a Twitter user called...Read More
Ripple’s efforts towards XRP adoption led to a partnership with SBI Holdings, which led the way to a joint venture “SBI Ripple Asia”, to promote the use of the Virtual currency in Asian markets. Under the said partnership, SBI announced Shareholder Benefits Campaign to grant them with 30 XRP, on August 28. An excerpt from...Read More
The latest Binance Research, while showcasing China’s CBDC initiative, highlighted its possibility of being a renminbi (RMB) replacement. Creating a buzz in the context, the report read, “The People’s Bank of China plans to replace China’s M0 money supply with its CBDC. Several potential improvement areas were discussed as reasons to justify this move including...Read More
China’s aggressive push towards cryptocurrency has forced global economies to ensure a common-ground for crypto-innovations within their jurisdictions. Taking a closer into the Chinese government’s crypto initiative, Binance Research released a report that details on the People’s Bank of China’s (PBoC) proposed digital legal tender. Highlighting the primary concern, the report stated, “Following Facebook’s recent...Read More
Bitcoin futures platform Bakkt recently took the lead in terms of delivering substantial innovation for the crypto community. As per the company’s latest announcement over Twitter, “On Sept 6, our Warehouse will begin offering secure storage of customer bitcoin to prepare for the launch of Bakkt Bitcoin Daily & Monthly Futures when they launch on...Read More
Wietse Wind, XRPL developer, creator of the XRPTipBot and XRP Text, announced on Twitter today that the XRPL Testnet provided by Ripple had been reset. Please note: the XRPL Testnet provided by @Ripple has been reset (this happens every now and then: a fresh testnet ?). I just gave the @XRPLLabs testnet node (wss://testnet.xrpl-labs.com) a...Read More
Litecoin is looking to slump even further. The world’s fifth largest cryptocurrency has been in a slump since its halving earlier this month, dropping below resistance after resistance and breaching the $75 mark. Now, the coin is on the precipice of a slump below $70 for the first time in 4 months. The larger market...Read More
The cryptocurrency ecosystem has been critiqued by traditional markets for being unregulated and a place for crooks, criminals, and grifters to fleece noobs who know very little about what happens behind the scenes. It has been the center of speculation for many, while for others, it has been a place to get rich quick. Today,...Read More
Ripple has substantially reduced XRP sales. While Ripple had claimed to have remained transparent about the actual figures of XRP sales in its recent market report, the blockchain firm was at the receiving end of allegations which claimed that it provided manipulated figures. One of the front-runners of the industry, Ripple, has drawn passionate and...Read More
Bitcoin SV’s Craig Wright hasn’t been one to stay away from the spotlight for long. nChain’s Chief Scientist in in the limelight again after the latest ruling in the case between the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto and David Kleiman broke the cryptoverse. In the aforementioned case, it was ruled that Craig Wright must forfeit half of...Read More
The performance of some of the altcoins this year was nothing short of spectacular. The likes of Litecoin hiked by an impressive 387 percent, registering its yearly high of $145. Bitcoin did not shy away from its consistent growth as it reached a yearly high of about $13,800. It was currently valued at $10,362.3. Since...Read More
The latest XRP wealth distribution statistics showed interesting insights into rising trends by the XRP holders over a period of three months. According to the latest XRP Richlist Stats, which monitors the trend line for the XRP wealth distribution, only 0.01% of the total XRP accounts have a balance of more than 14,231,299 XRP, which,...Read More
A plethora of advances made by the XRPL developers in terms of solidifying XRP’s usage have enhanced the coin’s adoption rates. The creator of popular XRPTipBot, a platform that enables sending and receiving of XRP tokens on social media platforms like Discord, Twitter and Reddit, XRPL Labs’ Lead Developer Wietse Wind was on the forefront...Read More
Tether has maintained its prominence as the gateway coin in the financial ecosystem. Recently, the Tether ecosystem managed to create buzz after a whale transaction was caught by Twitter’s prominent crypto enthusiast @whale_alert, who tweeted, “? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 46,140,337,592 #USDT (46,169,056,069 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown...Read More
The Ethereum Foundation has unveiled over $2 million of funding for the development of Serenity or ETH2.0. The official announcement read, “We are today unveiling over $2M USD in Foundation-led and co-funded grant funding aimed at furthering Serenity (Eth2.0) development as we move nearer to the launch of the Beacon Chain.” The update is primarily...Read More
