Category: Altcoin

Leading oracle provider, Chainlink, has onboarded partner integrations at a rate of more than 1.4 daily during 2021 so far. According to the archives of Chainlink’s ecosystem portal, 281 different crypto projects have announced integrations during 2021 so far, with the calendar currently 201 days into the year. With all time third-party Chainlink integrations currently

Mastercard has announced a pilot program with Circle, the payment technology company behind the widely-used stablecoin USDC. Mastercard is testing USDC on its platform. The trial is designed to facilitate crypto-to-fiat conversions. It will allow customers to spend their crypto assets more easily as card issuers and crypto businesses settle payments to Mastercard.   Circle

Pioneering decentralized finance protocol, MakerDAO, has announced its foundation will formally dissolve in the coming months, marking one of the final milestones in the protocol’s roadmap to decentralized governance. A July 20 blog post describes Maker’s decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, as now being “fully self-sufficient” — with its globally distributed community “now responsible for

The global cryptocurrency exchange Binance continues to torch its own utility token, Binance Coin (BNB), in an effort to maintain the asset’s value. This week, the exchange completed its 16th quarterly token burn of 1,296,728 BNB worth about $393.67 million, according to a press release.   Binance performs coin-burning events every quarter until it destroys

Popular crypto strategist and trader Michaël van de Poppe says he’s keeping a close watch on one low-cap altcoin that can potentially surge over 250% amid bearish conditions in the digital asset market. Van de Poppe tells his 354,200 followers that he’s eyeing Fetch.ai, a decentralized machine learning network, against Bitcoin (FET/BTC). According to the

  “Clearly, the thing that’s transforming is not the technology — the technology is transforming you.” Jeanne Ross, formerly of the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research If El Salvador’s “Bitcoin Law” was “the shot heard round the world” for Bitcoin, then when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank questioned the

Bitcoin (BTC) failed to regain $30,000 after losing support on July 20 as fear & greed indices raced each other to the bottom.  BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView BTC price stays below $30,000 waterline Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD continue trading in the $20,000-$30,000 zone on Tuesday. The largest cryptocurrency

Every once in a while, a new indicator pops out that can be used to detect price tops and bottoms in the market. This assertion is even more evident in cryptocurrencies because the data comes from exchanges and on-chain data extracted from the blockchain. These indicators are constantly monitored and commented on by analysts and

Analysts and traders prepare for the worst after Bitcoin price broke below $31,000 and triggered a sell-off in major altcoins.

Crypto investment giant Grayscale has launched a new Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Fund in partnership with CoinDesk Indexes. It’s the crypto asset manager’s 15th investment product and will feature 10 different assets in a market-capitalization weighted portfolio designed to track the CoinDesk DeFi Index. As of Monday, the same day as the fund’s launch, Grayscale already