Category: Altcoin

Trading strategies, explained

Day traders invest based on complex strategies in a timeframe of minutes to hours, but at the end of their day, they’re out of the market, forgoing potential gains to avoid losses. At first glance, day trading is pretty simple: You buy and sell cryptocurrencies many times over the course of a day, seeking to

Cardano Boosting Manpower To Gear Up for Smart Contract Rollout

Cardano is boosting its workforce as it gears up to introduce smart contract capabilities, according to its creator, Charles Hoskinson. In a new video update, Hoskinson tells his 195,000 subscribers that his team is hiring for key positions in preparation for Cardano’s Alonzo launch in August, an upgrade that will add smart contract capabilities to

BitMEX pledges to go carbon neutral

Crypto derivatives trading platform BitMEX, which has had its fair share of bad press over the past year, is trying to contribute to cleaning up the wider industry’s image by taking action to address growing climate concerns over the carbon footprint of Proof-of-Work currencies like Bitcoin (BTC). In an announcement published on May 21, the

The future of on-chain governance

Decentralized governance, a facet of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), is perhaps the most valuable application smart contracts could bring to humanity. DAOs can be thought of as living organisms on the internet, entities that would function autonomously according to distributed consensus mechanisms. Managed by a community through voting, DAOs are self-governing systems with a built-in

While Bitcoin gained just 10% since Jan 3, this crypto trading strategy netted 2,150% ROI

Bitcoin may be suffering through a succession of negative news stories, but some crypto investors are still celebrating major gains in 2021’s altcoin bull market. Since January 3 this year, Cointelegraph Markets Pro has been live-testing 42 separate automated strategies based on the proprietary VORTECS™ algorithm developed in partnership with The TIE, a data analytics

Max pain scenario intensifies as Bitcoin drops to $31K, altcoins sell-off

Bitcoin (BTC) and the wider cryptocurrency experienced another wave of overnight selling which deepened on May 23 as the majority of tokens pummeled to multi-month lows. The market-wide sell-off resulted in the total cryptocurrency market cap shedding another $250 billion in value to $1.33 trillion.  The total market cap has now experienced a 46% pullback

DeFi token prices obliterated as Bitcoin sell-off knocks TVL under $100B

Decentralized finance (DeFi) was one of the driving forces behind this year’s surge in the cryptocurrency market as projects like Yearn.finance (YFI), Aave (AAVE) and Uniswap (UNI) quickly climbed to ‘blue-chip unicorn’ status and older protocols like Maker (MKR) and Compound (COMP) saw their prices skyrocket to new record highs.  But as the old saying