Until quite recently, Ethereum’s price seemed to have surged overnight owing to the ongoing DeFi craze. In fact, according to many analysts, DeFi’s explosion has been the top driver for Ethereum’s growth. What’s more, DeFi’s Total Value Locked figures have grown from under $1 billion at the start of 2020 to upwards of $10 billion....Read More
Following the launch of its mainnet earlier this summer, Elrond continues with new developments. The company recently introduced a new economic model for its native cryptocurrency and a token swap implemented firstly on Binance that transitioned ERD to the new coin called eGLD in a 1000:1 ratio. Elrond’s Token Swap Implemented On Binance As CryptoPotato...Read More
Binance may have entered the derivatives space late, but within no time, it has established its place in the market and among users. The reason behind its success was the variety of altcoins offered by the exchange along with the major coins. 2020, has been the year of DeFi and Binance realized this and added...Read More
The largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Binance, has created its own centralized version of an automated market maker (AMM) pool, named BSwap, or Binance Liquid Swap. Launched on September 4, Binance’s take on the Uniswap decentralized exchange (DEX) will bring token swap functionality, and allow users to provide liquidity in return for an annual...Read More
Decentralization has been the key differentiator between the world of cryptocurrencies and that of traditional finance. However, over the past decade, as cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin grew in popularity and more products were introduced, crypto-exchanges were the ones to cement their position as the industry’s most dominant entities. Interestingly, with the monumental growth of the DeFi...Read More
After starting the month of September around the $12k mark, Bitcoin experienced a sharp correction today that crashed it to lows of nearly $1,160 in a matter of hours, erasing the gains of almost five days. Admittedly, a nervousness during the correction was to be expected as several traders adapted their strategies to this sharp...Read More
Five months after the project was unveiled, Binance announced the launch of its Binance Smart Chain blockchain today, which enables creation of smart contracts and allows users to stake BNB, Binance’s very own token. The blockchain is compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine, which may increase the utility of both Binance Chain and the BNB token....Read More
The crypto industry is scrambling to find a solution for the unfeasibly high gas fees that make smaller transactions on the Ethereum network financially unviable. The 2020 DeFi boom and explosion in yield farming platforms have strained the Ethereum network so much that whales and minnows alike are now fighting for block space to get...Read More
CoinMarketCap Chief Executive Officer Carylyne Chan and Vice President Spencer Yang have departed from the leading cryptocurrency price tracking company. In an open letter on her blog, Chan bid adieu to CoinMarketCap community after working with them for 2.5 years. Chan hinted that she could soon begin a new venture of her own as she...Read More
YFI has undoubtedly been the best performing cryptocurrency of the past month in terms of pricing. The governance token of Yearn Finance was announced on July 17th by Andre Cronje and has since taken off in a way no one probably expected. What started as a “0 value” token is currently trading at around $36,000...Read More
BitMEX the old? Once the OG and pioneer, BitMEX seems to be getting old, or at least the contracts listed on the exchange are. There are contracts for 8 coins – BTC, ADA, BCH, EOS, ETH, LTC, TRX, and XRP. Most of these coins were popular in 2017 but few seem to have survived and...Read More
Yearn Finance, the DeFi protocol that took the entire crypto field by a storm, continues to break new grounds. Its governance token, YFI, suddenly shot up to 77,000 BUSD on Binance in what appears to have been some sort of a mishap. In any case, the cryptocurrency continues to impress as its price already surpassed...Read More
A recent report released by Chainalysis revealed how U.S officials including the FBI, among other agencies, investigated the recent case of cryptocurrencies stolen by the Lazarus Group, a North Korea-affiliated hacker group. It was published soon after the U.S. Department of Justice forfeited 280 crypto-accounts involved in the laundering of approximately $28.7 million worth of...Read More
Binance, Houbi, and OKEx have revealed that they will support Qtum’s new offline staking feature, enabling users of the world’s largest exchange to earn QTUM rewards simply for hodling. Binance’s decision to support Qtum staking is a significant boost for the smart contract network as it embarks on a new phase in its development. In...Read More
Consider this – Exactly three months ago, the TVL locked in DeFi was well under $1 billion. At the time of writing, the same figure was closing in on $7 billion, with DeFi’s market cap north of $14.5 billion. The differential over the three months is just one of the metrics that tell us how...Read More
This week has been quite the ride on the cryptocurrency markets, and, of course, Bitcoin was in the spotlight, at least for a while. The price started at around $11,700 and stayed there for a few days until Monday when we saw a significant move forward as BTC reached about $12,500. The cryptocurrency community was...Read More
Early traders of Polkadot’s new DOT token have come in for an unfortunate surprise, as two prominent exchanges decided to list the token ahead of its “redenomination” despite warnings from the project. The redenomination, due to take place on August 21, will see the new DOT denominated at one-hundredth of the value of the DOT...Read More
Swipe is set to venture into the U.S. market following approval from regulators. The news of the launch caused a rise in the price of its SXP tokens. Swipe Crypto Trading Functionality Coming to 200M Americans In a tweet on Tuesday (August 18, 2020), crypto wallet and card provider Swipe announced that it received a...Read More
The leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has assisted Ukrainian authorities to arrest a cybercrime organization that allegedly stole and laundered $42 million from various ransomware attacks across the world. Binance And Ukraine Partner To Stop A Cyber Gang Last year, the exchange launched a new initiative, dubbed Bulletproof Exchanger aiming to identify and track hubs of...Read More
Changpeng Zhao, CEO of the world’s most popular crypto asset exchange, Binance, recently posted the milestone, adding that traffic is even higher than when Bitcoin was at a peak at the end of 2017. We are seeing ATH in terms of system traffic. Higher than Dec 2017. Should be interesting to see what happens next....Read More
It feels like just a few weeks ago we were talking about Bitcoin’s $10,000 breakout, and now the cryptocurrency is positioned to go past $12,000. This wouldn’t be the first time Bitcoin has broken over this level in the past few days, but if it manages to stay above the same for at least a...Read More
The leading cryptocurrency data aggregator website CoinMarketCap has launched a new earning initiative for users. Dubbed CoinMarketCap Earn it will enable customers to watch educational videos and complete quizzes about certain digital assets and receive a pre-determined amount of coins as rewards. CMC Earn Is Live The official announcement from the popular data aggregator asserted...Read More
Binance Coin, the exchange token of the popular exchange Binance, has done well in the last 24 hours. The coin has seen a 1% surge and currently stands at $21.83 per coin. The market cap of BNB is $3.152 billion making it the 10th largest cryptocurrency in the world. BNB 4-hour chart Source: BNBUSDT TradingView...Read More
The decentralized exchange aggregator sourcing liquidity from multiple platforms 1inch has raised nearly $3 million in a funding round led by Binance Labs. Other prominent participants in the series include Galaxy Digital, Greenfield One, Libertus Capital, Dragonfly Capital, FTX, LAUNCHub Ventures, and Divergence Ventures. 1inch Raised $2.8M According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato,...Read More
Swipe, one of the latest acquisitions of Binance, has announced a new simplified white paper, which should assist in mass adoption for the company. With many developments coming from Swipe, its native cryptocurrency, SXP, has soared by over 60% in the past week alone to a new all-time high painted today. Swipe’s Latest Developments The...Read More
DeFi ecosystem has come a long way over the past few months. From a Total Value Locked (TVL) figure of $539.8 million right after the market crash in March, it has recovered extraordinarily well. At the time of writing, the same figures had risen to as high as $4.58 billion. Leaving ETH behind Interestingly, while...Read More
As far as exchange tokens go, Binance Coin is the top-dog, but among the top-coins in the market, not so much. Currently occupying the 10th spot in the coin market, the exchange token has seen fallen by 1 percent in the past 24-hours, while most of the cryptos above it are in the green. Among...Read More
The last 24 hours have been nothing but volatile when it comes to Bitcoin’s price. The cryptocurrency went on a rollercoaster, surging above $12,000, dropping to $10,490, going back up and back down. In short – it’s been a wild few hours. Most interestingly, however, a user’s algorithm “went ballistic,” according to Changpeng Zhao, seemingly...Read More
The launch of the updated Augur v2 betting platform has attracted massive interest from investors. Recent data indicated that the number of active addresses has skyrocketed on the day after the v2 release. Augur V2 Is Live The veteran decentralized betting platform allowing customers to place bets on various cryptocurrency-related outcomes Augur launched the second...Read More
Bitcoin’s price took a turn for the best over the past couple of days as it breached the coveted $10,000 mark in today’s early hours. Naturally, this brought a lot of excitement in the cryptocurrency community, and a definitive testament of this is the reaction of Arthur Hayes – the CEO of one of the...Read More
