Category: Altcoin

On Monday, developers of the Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain announced a hard fork to implement the project’s latest version, now scheduled for launch in late July. The upgrade, which the community has dubbed “Magneto,” will include the four Ethereum Improvement Proposals, or EIPs, first seen in Ethereum’s Berlin upgrade earlier this year. These proposals are

Internet Computer (ICP) rose to spotlight among day-traders after rising 41.69% on Sunday. The ICP/USD exchange rate closed the session at $42.98 after correcting lower from its intraday high of $45.01. At its quarter-to-date low, the pair was trading at $28.31. Meanwhile, on Monday, it surged to a new intraday high of $47.63. Therefore, its

The cryptoverse has been overrun with negative events lately. One of the most recent ones was the Iron Finance bank run that occurred on June 16. Iron Finance is a multi-chain, partially collateralized stablecoin protocol with the main goal of providing a dollar-pegged stablecoin to be used for DeFi applications. It was the first large-scale

BADGER, the governance token of Ethereum-powered Bitcoin yield protocol, BadgerDAO, will be included in Index Coop’s DeFiPulse Index (DPI) token from August. Index Coop announced the news on June 26, noting BADGER’s inclusion would be pushed back by one month due to prioritizing other upgrades. Slight Correction DeFi Pulse Index has added $BADGER to the

Dogecoin creator Billy Markus unveils that he’s getting back into crypto after staying on the sidelines for nearly a decade. Markus tells his 425,900 Twitter followers that he bought the meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE) using investing app Robinhood.   “I bought Dogecoin after eight years of vowing never to buy crypto again, an hour ago.

Real-world use cases and delivered value are important when evaluating the long-term prospects of a cryptocurrency project, and this is especially true in down markets when sentiment is low and the possibility of an extended bear market is a reality.  One project that has been gaining momentum over the past month despite the market-wide downturn

Cryptocurrency trader and analyst Ben Armstrong believes that the battle for dominance among smart contract blockchains is well underway. In a video, Armstrong says Solana (SOL) and Elrond (EGLD) are the newest blockchain platforms that could “possibly unseat the big boys” such as Ethereum (ETH), Cardano (ADA), Polkadot (DOT) and Binance Smart Chain. The cryptocurrency

Major crypto investment firm Pantera Capital unveils that it is expanding its decentralized finance (DeFi) portfolio. The firm is backing Risk Harbor, a risk management marketplace for DeFi that was founded this year. It utilizes an automated, transparent and impartial claims process to protect liquidity providers and stakers against smart contract hacks and attacks.   

There are always two components to each altcoin’s price. One is the coin’s own characteristics: Fundamentals, investor sentiment toward the asset, liquidity and trading volume, among many others. Another powerful factor — the one that often renders any altcoin-specific dynamics irrelevant — is Bitcoin’s performance. Like it or not, when the king of cryptocurrencies soars,

One little-known crypto asset is on a parabolic rally, recording new all-time highs despite the prolonged market-wide correction. The altcoin in question, Quant (QNT), rallied to a new all-time high of $104.41 from a seven-day low of $45.23, according to CoinMarketCap. The meteoric ascent represents a surge of 130.84% in just one week.   Quant