Category: Altcoin

One under-the-radar altcoin is on fire after helping to bring in-game non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to the mainstream gaming industry. Blockchain network Tezos (XTZ) announced that game designer Ubisoft’s new Quartz feature was built using its native technology to enhance gameplay while remaining energy efficient. In-game #NFTs are here, and they are built on #Tezos.@ubisoft has

Coinbase has come under fire recently following a technology snafu that reportedly resulted in the company closing many of its customer’s accounts.  When users attempted to purchase Japanese stablecoin GYEN and Powerledger (POWR), they suffered from technical difficulties. This was then followed by an error in the system response. Now, deeply frustrated customers have launched

Cryptocurrency analyst Aaron Arnold is naming two altcoins that he says possess massive potential. The crypto analyst tells his 1,160,000 YouTube subscribers that the first altcoin with massive potential is Chainlink (LINK), an Ethereum-based crypto project that facilitates the transfer of data to smart contracts from off-chain sources. Arnold says that Chainlink Labs has bagged

Real Vision chief executive Raoul Pal is revealing most of his crypto portfolio for public viewing. In a new interview with Thinking Crypto, the former Goldman Sachs executive says that he primarily started out as a Bitcoin (BTC) investor then switched most of his BTC into Ethereum (ETH). Pal says he then built a basket

Reddit has launched a waitlist for the upcoming site-wide expansion of its Ethereum-based ‘Community Points’ token rewards program, as well as a dedicated website. The social media platform, which runs on upvotes that earn users’ karma scores, first dabbled in crypto token rewards in Dec 2019, when it launched Ethereum-based token rewards called “Donuts” in

Decentralized finance (DeFi) offers one of the most widely applicable use-cases for distributed ledger technology and today it is one of the main avenues for the wider adoption of blockchain technology. Last week, as the wider crypto market corrected and Bitcoin (BTC) dropped by 22%, DeFiChain (DFI) bucked the trend and rallied 76% to establish

Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Terra (LUNA) has surpassed its rival blockchains to become the third-largest crypto by total value locked (TVL). Crypto market intelligence firm Delphi Digital says that the Ethereum competitor has now overtaken Solana (SOL) and Avalanche (AVAX) in terms of TVL primarily due to value growth in Bonded Luna (bLuna), which is

A popular crypto analyst and trader says several crypto assets on his watch list have survived the recent market-wide pullback and are now primed to jump. In a series of tweets, the pseudonymous trader Credible Crypto looks at the charts to give his 278,000 followers an updated price forecast for XRP, Bitcoin (BTC), Curve DAO

The roller coaster ride that is the cryptocurrency market continued its volatile ways on Dec. 8 as Bitcoin (BTC) price briefly slipped below the $49,000 level. Despite the setback, there are still clear signs that crypto mass adoption is taking place, a prime example being Visa’s announcement that it will launch crypto consulting and advisory services

Whales are diving into an altcoin project that was originally designed to help to scale Ethereum but has since emerged as a direct competitor to the leading smart contract platform. The on-chain data aggregator WhaleStats was the first to track two huge whale transactions of the Ethereum-based altcoin Polygon (MATIC). One whale accumulated 900,000 MATIC