Category: Altcoin

Major protocol upgrades are one of the most potent sources of price movement for cryptocurrency projects as community members and investors get excited about new features and traders rush in to “buy the rumor and sell the news”.  One protocol that has seen its price rise to new rights this week despite the overall bearish

Cardano’s (ADA) impressive 816% gain in 2021 catapulted the smart-contract platform’s market capitalization to $61 billion. To fully grasp how far this third-generation protocol has gone, the absolute leader, Ether (ETH), held the same valuation just six months ago. As Cardano’s price evolves, so do its derivatives markets, and the nearly $1 billion futures open

Cardano Estates Winery is now accepting smart contract platform Cardano’s ADA token as a means of payment for its red wines. The Napa Valley, California-based winery says it accepts ADA on purchases made via its website or through social media channels. Some wine enthusiasts say they’re already using the sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap to make

A Goldman Sachs executive is quitting his job after reportedly making a fortune trading Dogecoin. Based in London, Aziz McMahon, managing director and head of emerging market sales, had been with the U.S. investment bank since 2007, according to his LinkedIn profile. McMahon’s abrupt departure was first reported by The Telegraph, which says McMahon has made

Like most crypto journalists, Will Foxley has a horror story about a bad encounter he had with a dodgy PR person. The former tech reporter at CoinDesk recalls being embarrassed in his first few days on the job after he relied on bad information fed to him in an announcement. “I got burned by a

Popular crypto analyst Elliot Wainman says several low-cap and upcoming crypto projects could explode in value due to their associations with the Polkadot (DOT) ecosystem. Wainman tells his 327,000 YouTube subscribers that he’s betting big on projects that will win Polkadot parachains. Polkadot, founded by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood, is a relay chain that does

The founder of one of the first physical cryptocurrency exchanges has slammed what he perceives as hypocrisy on the part of Elon Musk, after the Tesla CEO announced the electric car firm would stop accepting Bitcoin (BTC) as a form of payment. The charges of hypocrisy levelled at Musk stem from the fact that around

Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoin traders are more nervous than any time in over a year as a classic sentiment gauge signals “fear” is driving the market. According to the Crypto Fear & Greed Index, cryptocurrency traders have not had such cold feet about the market climate since April 2020. March 2020 on repeat Fear &

After months of touting the benefits of Bitcoin (BTC) and blockchain technology, Tesla CEO Elon Musk shocked the crypto Twitter on May 12 by announcing that the electric car company would suspend its accepting BTC as a form of payment, citing concerns related to the energy required to mine the top cryptocurrency.  As Tesla issued

Popular crypto trader and analyst Nicholas Merten is listing a handful of altcoins that could skyrocket on the heels of Ethereum’s astounding rally to over $4,000. In a new video, Merten first names Uniswap (UNI) as an asset that could benefit from Ethereum’s rapid ascent. The trader tells his 449,000 YouTube subscribers that he has