Category: Altcoin

Trader Tyler Swope Tracking Two Nascent Crypto Assets for Next Altcoin Boom

Crypto trader Tyler Swope says he’s tracking two crypto assets that may be poised to ride the clean energy wave. Swope tells his 232,000 YouTube subscribers that he’s investing in Ocean Protocol (OCEAN) and NuCypher (NU), which both have tangential links to Elon Musk’s $100 million carbon removal competition. The four-year global competition is facilitated

Tether’s reserves are fully backed, according to latest assurance opinion

Moore Cayman, a Cayman Islands-based accounting network, has again affirmed that Tether Holdings Limited’s USDT stablecoin tokens are fully backed by its reserves.  In the latest report, signed on March 31 and released Thursday, Moore Cayman confirmed that Tether’s consolidated assets exceeded its liabilities. “In our opinion, the [Consolidated Reserves Report] by the management of

Fantom surges 52% following network upgrade

The token of smart contract platform Fantom, FTM, was subject to a 52% price increase leading into Thursday morning following the successful implementation of a new network upgrade. Dubbed “Go-Opera,” the latest upgrade to Fantom introduces a range of technical changes that, according to a recent explainer by the Fantom Foundation, makes the network faster,

Dogecoin Destined for Wild Price Swings, Says OKCoin COO Jason Lau

The chief operating officer of the crypto exchange OKCoin says anyone investing in Dogecoin should be prepared for an extremely wild and volatile ride. Chief operating officer Jason Lau tells Kitco that he believes the Wall Street Bets community on Reddit continues to fuel high interest in the coin that originally started as a meme.

Cardano To Roll Out Blockchain-Based IDs to Millions of Students in Africa

Blockchain firm and Cardano developer Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK) is announcing a partnership with the Ethiopian government aimed at digitizing the country’s education sector. In a blog post, IOHK’s director for African operations John O’Connor says that the blockchain firm will deploy its decentralized identity solution Atala PRISM to thousands of schools in Africa’s

Uni of Wyoming allocates $4M to staking three coins

The University of Wyoming is allocating $4 million to running nodes and staking at least three cryptocurrencies. The news was shared to Twitter on April 28 by Caitlin Long, a Wyoming Blockchain and Fintech Select Committee appointee and founder of Avanti Bank & Trust — a local bank servicing the digital asset sector. NEWS NOT