Category: Altcoin

The CEO of the Cardano Foundation, Frederik Gregaard, says onboarding mainstream financial institutions and large corporations is part of a five-year growth strategy for the fifth-largest blockchain project by market cap. Gregaard says the Swiss-based foundation, which is responsible for overseeing and supervising the growth of Cardano, is looking to partner with mainstream financial institutions

Despite the immediate success of dog-themed decentralized exchange ShibaSwap, there are warnings  the DEX’s liquidity providers are throwing capital into an opaque protocol of questionable security. Building on the popularity of their Dogecoin fork, Shiba Inu (SHIB), amid the Elon-Musk stoked dog-token trading frenzy, the coin’s developers launched their DEX with enticing yield incentives for

Altcoins continue to move higher while the price of Bitcoin (BTC) remains trapped in the $31,000 to $36,000 price range.  The predictable range appears to be helping Terra (LUNA), a blockchain protocol that specializes in fiat-pegged stablecoins like TerraUSD (UST) to power a price-stable global payment system. LUNA/USDT 1-day chart. Source: TradingView A quick scroll

Closely-followed crypto analyst Michaël van de Poppe says Chainlink (LINK), Aave and three more altcoins are waking up after the big sell-off event in May. The analyst tells his 350,000 Twitter followers that Chainlink looks ripe for a 25% rally against Bitcoin (LINK/BTC) from its current value of 0.0006.   “Chainlink looking ready for continuation

Dogecoin (DOGE) has proven to the world that even a project that started as a joke can gain value and notoriety in the cryptocurrency space. This phenomenon opened the door for multiple ‘meme’ cryptocurrencies to gain a foothold and a quick look at the trending tokens list on CoinMarketCap shows the meme effect has found

Popular crypto trader and analyst Cantering Clark believes two altcoins may be ready to take off while one sector of the markets shows signs of strength.  While Bitcoin moves mostly sideways, the pseudonymous trader tells his 60,200 followers that he closed a short position on Synthetix (SNX) as the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector is starting

KuCoin (KCS) prices ticked up in the early Wednesday session on July 7, in part because of an ongoing market rally across the top exchange-based utility tokens. The 72nd-largest cryptocurrency peaked for the day at $14.847 before correcting lower on interim profit-taking sentiment. The move downside accompanied decent volumes, alerting that the sell-off momentum could

My colleague, Elias Simos, likes to say we’re living through a digital asset renaissance, including the digitization of non-digital asset value. Decentralized solutions to a myriad of financial and peer-to-peer obstacles are flourishing, but many innovators and entrepreneurs are still tied to old models of building the projects. Some platforms, such as Polkadot and Cosmos,

Shiden, the sister-project of leading Polkadot-native layer-two decentralized app hub, Astar Network (formerly Plasm Network), has won the third parachain auction for Polkadot’s experimental sister-network, Kusama. Shiden secured the slot with a total of 137,020 KSM tokens bonded — worth nearly $29 million at current prices. Shiden is a smart contract platform for Kusama-based DApps,

A number of altcoins are showing signs of life in the last seven days, with Ethereum breaking away from Bitcoin. Ethereum, the largest second cryptocurrency by market cap, has rallied 12.52% in the last week, according to CoinMarketCap. In the same timeframe, Bitcoin has shed 0.35%.   One of the best-performing altcoins of late is