The past week saw Bitcoin scale new heights with the coin going past its $18K resistance in a bid to recreate the historic 2017 rally. At press time Bitcoin was being traded at $18,242 with a trading volume of $23.1 billion. Source: CoinStats On the back of the Bitcoin bull run, many altcoins have noted...Read More
“You are only as good as your last race”, the famous line is also quite applicable to the crypto-verse. After its stunning rise during mid-year, DeFi tokens have somewhat lost their shine due to a series of misfortunes over the past few weeks. Certain projects underwent massive depreciation and others exhibited rug-pulls, to the joy...Read More
Earlier this month, SNX witnessed its largest drop and lowest TVL to date at $420 million as the DeFi crash led to several SNX stakers being liquidated. Source: DeFi Pulse However, since then, the TVL has risen to $800 million at the time of writing, and the price of the SNX token has risen by...Read More
Tezos, IOTA, and BAT have all shown negative returns from October to date; Tezos [XTZ] has the least negative return in comparison with a -7.99% return as of this writing. Following Tezos is IOTA with a -11% return and BAT has a -18% return for the same time period. The altcoins have been brutally beaten...Read More
The impact of the world’s largest cryptocurrency’s price movement was evident this week after many of the crypto-market’s alts followed BTC’s lead to record gains of their own on their charts. Interestingly, while Bitcoin was continuing to consolidate after failing to sustain a breach of the much-anticipated $18K-mark, most alts were already starting to see...Read More
Polkadot has competitors that claim the same thing as DOT – throughput that achieves scalability, lower fees, security, and the ability to build a defi ecosystem on its chain. However, only a few actually deliver these things and are yet to gain adoption. The adoption isn’t here yet due to the fact that Ethereum is...Read More
The root cause of IOTA’S mainnet incident that took place last week was identified to be related to the infrastructure and deployed software which was unable to process all the transactions into the network. In a Github report published by Jakub Cech, the Director of Engineering at the IOTA foundation, the incident was addressed as...Read More
For all the talk about an incoming altseason, Bitcoin’s movement is the one that catches the imagination of most in the crypto-market. Owing to its market share and the high correlation stats it shares with most altcoins, BTC’s hikes and falls usually determine the direction of the general market movement. The same was evident when...Read More
Bitcoin’s price performance over the past week seemed to have a uniform effect across most of the crypto-market after altcoins like EOS, Zcash, and Tron rallied across the board. At press time BTC was being traded at $17,675 with a trading volume of $26.7 billion. Source: CoinStats While corrections had already started setting in at...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in Carano’s short-term market and its impact on the price The price of Bitcoin has been re-visiting old highs and has also ended up carrying many altcoins with it. Cardano [ADA] has been one of the major alts that has been moving...Read More
Chainlink has successfully been deployed on the Matic Network, as confirmed by an announcement today. Matic is now the second blockchain after Ethereum to integrate Chainlink Price Feed Oracles. Five price feeds have already been launched on the mainnet: MATIC/USD, USDC/USD, ETH/USD, USDT/USD, and DAI/USD. As it stands, more price feeds are expected to follow soon...Read More
Earlier today, TrustSwap disclosed that they are currently working on an acquisition of another crypto company. The announcement states that TrustSwap is set to buy out another crypto company and onboard all of their assets, team, IP, etc to grow TrustSwap into an ‘absolute monolith’. TrustSwap anticipates that they will have all the details and...Read More
Bitcoin SV is currently stuck in a strong resistance range. In the past articles, we had discussed this particular range between $150 and $165 and collective bullish market sentiment also did not assist in a positive breach. The spike over the past 24-hour indicated a minor re-test at $180, but it quickly dropped below $165...Read More
Bitcoin’s brief breach of $18,000 and its sustained consolidation above $17,000 has renewed the bullishness in the market, with many of the industry’s alts climbing on the charts on the back of BTC’s performance. The cases of Monero, Ontology, and DigiByte followed this template, with their price performances replicating the general optimism in the market....Read More
Bitfinex’s derivatives platform is in the news today after it announced the launch of its perpetual contracts for IOTA, Chainlink, and Uniswap. Each of these contracts will offer users maximum leverage of up to 100x, leverage that is typical of such contracts and they will be settled in Tether (USDt) tokens. Interestingly, according to a...Read More
Crypto Fear and Greed Index stood at 91 to denote extreme greed as Bitcoin, after a brief dip below $17,500, rose past $18,000 once more. Binance Coin broke out of a triangle pattern and showed signs of an uptrend. Monero was also strongly bullish, while Algorand traded within a range over the past two weeks....Read More
Decentralized oracle provider Chainlink seems to be having a ubiquitous influence on the cryptocurrency ecosystem lately. In fact, over the past few weeks, several developers have been integrating the network with their projects at a rapid pace. Base Protocol is the latest to do so after the project, having a new kind of synthetic crypto-asset...Read More
Bitcoin Dominance continued to rise and stood at 67.17% at press time. A rise past 67.5% could delay an altcoin market rally. At press time Bitcoin was being traded at $18,028 with a trading volume of $38.2 billion. Source: CoinStats Polkadot was unable to flip a level of resistance it ascended past. EOS saw some...Read More
Bitcoin approached its ATH after years in a bear market. The euphoric sentiment aside, no asset moves upward in a straight line and retracements are part of a healthy uptrend. However, an eventual Bitcoin pullback could hurt the altcoin market in its immediate aftermath. Litecoin approached an important level of resistance on the back of...Read More
IOHK, the technology company behind the Cardano blockchain, today announced the introduction of SMASH – a Stake pool Metadata Aggregation Server, as a new component of the Cardano ecosystem. Noting that node decentralization is a “key element,” a primary reason behind introducing Smash is to allow IOHK to try and minimize the influence of bad...Read More
There is a sense of bullish urgency in every top digital asset at the moment, and XRP is no different. After taking a back seat for much for the rally, XRP breached above $0.254 on 13th November, and over the past-24 hours, it tested $0.30. XRP is currently consolidating near the present high and collectively,...Read More
Bitcoin cash isn’t the only crypto feeling the brunt of bitcoin’s volatility. Bitcoin’s return has surged the highest since August, accompanying this high return is the volatility, which has also seen a stark surge. The above table shows bitcoin volatility which has affected all altcoins’ returns and price movement. The highest volatility is being seen...Read More
Ethereum saw a rapid move down from $492 to $470 and major altcoins saw a pullback as well. This could turn into a deeper correction if ETH continued to drop. Chainlink moved past $14 and could test resistance at $14.5 in the coming days. IOTA tried to climb upward but was met by selling pressure,...Read More
Bitcoin had nothing but thin air above it to reach ATH, while Ethereum was trading above $480 once more, with $500 a level it has not been above since mid-2018. Tezos saw strong interest from buyers in the past week, while Compound appeared to be recovering from the last two months’ heavy losses. Ethereum [ETH]...Read More
The maiden halving event will cut the Zcash inflation rate from 25% to 12.5%, which is significant because the privacy-focused altcoin has been hampered by high inflation since its inception in 2016. A series of halvings every four years beginning with today’s one in around six hours’ time which will decrease inflation substantially. Zcash block...Read More
A 21-year-old man from Dublin who took part in the online theft of over $2 million worth of cryptocurrencies has now been imprisoned for just under three years. United States Department of Homeland Security identified one Conor Freeman for being the person behind certain internet handles connected to the offenses. Local police said that Freeman was...Read More
Bitcoin touched a high of $17,081 at press time and large-cap altcoins performed remarkably well in recent days as well. Cardano and Monero broke strongly upward out of a downtrend, while Vechain pulled off the same feat. Cardano [ADA] Source: ADA/USDT on TradingView Cardano surged off the $0.1 support and broke past the descending channel’s...Read More
The central bank of the Netherlands, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), announced that it has imposed new Anti Money Laundering rules that now require customers of all local crypto exchanges to “prove” that they control their withdrawal addresses linked to their accounts. Crypto journalist, Aaron van Wirdum drew attention to the DNB’s latest regulations in his...Read More
Ethereum is currently consolidating above $460 over the past couple of days. On 15th November, the asset did re-test a low below $450 but now it looks lively again for a rally upwards. However, amidst such a bullish scenario, it continues to be difficult to ignore the bearish signs that were evident in the analysis....Read More
USDT has replaced XRP yet again, to rank third in market capitalization. Based on data from Skew, it has hit a new high of $18 Billion. On Coinmarketcap.com, Tether’s market capitalization is 0.13 Billion shy of 18 Billion. USDT Market Cap || Source: Skew So is Tether taking on the popular altcoin XRP or is...Read More
