Category: Altcoin

Leading digital asset manager CoinShares says institutional inflows to Bitcoin (BTC) and one Ethereum (ETH) rival aren’t slowing down despite a week of sell-offs and market jitters. According to CoinShares, crypto asset products saw nearly $200 million worth of inflows last week. However, major outflows occurred at the end of the week, apparently in response

A closely followed crypto strategist and trader is naming one Ethereum rival that he believes will surge to new all-time highs faster than many altcoins. Pseudonymous trader Credible tells his 276,300 Twitter followers that he keeping an eye on smart contract platform and Ethereum (ETH) competitor Solana (SOL). Credible believes SOL will rally to new

Smart contract platform Cardano (ADA) has reached a new milestone for the number of wallets ready to stake the sixth-largest crypto by market cap. According to Cardano-tracking site pool.pm, there are now over one million ADA holders ready to stake their coins to earn rewards. Users who hold ADA on the Cardano network have a

Following a near $200 million hack on the BitMart exchange, the Shiba Inu (SHIB) community and crypto exchange Huobi Global aim to help the exchange strengthen security and track inflows of stolen assets. On Dec. 5, crypto exchange BitMart became victim to a hot wallet compromise hosted over the Ethereum (ETH) and Binance Smart Chain

New data shows that the world’s biggest Ethereum whales are loading up on meme crypto Shiba Inu (SHIB) and two of the hottest metaverse tokens.  The latest numbers from WhaleStats are revealing the investment behavior of the 1,000 wealthiest non-exchange Ethereum addresses. The whale-monitoring website shows that in the last 30 days, deep-pocketed crypto investors bought

A prominent market intelligence firm has identified one crypto sector that is exponentially outpacing all others in terms of growth. UK-based market research firm MacroHive created four indices which the company believes capture the popular use cases of cryptocurrencies. Each index, except for Bitcoin, consists of five tokens that represent the market value of a

Crypto exchange Bitmart lost nearly $200 million in a hot wallet compromise hosted over the Ethereum (ETH) and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) blockchains. The $200 million Bitmart hack was first revealed by Peckshield, a blockchain security and data analytics company, who initially identified a transfer of roughly $100 million over the Ethereum blockchain. Further investigation

As the crypto markets move sideways, a prominent blockchain researcher is analyzing whether another “altseason” could be on the horizon. Head of research blockchain intelligence firm IntoTheBlock Lucas Outumuro notes in a recent newsletter that Ethereum’s (ETH) price against Bitcoin (BTC) has just hit a 42-month high. He points out that the last two times

Virtual real estate is booming in the metaverse as popular altcoins saw millions of dollars in land sales over seven days. A new report published by DappRadar finds that sales of virtual non-fungible token (NFT) land on leading metaverse crypto assets The Sandbox (SAND) and Decentraland (MANA) totaled just over $100 million. SAND, a blockchain-based

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen says she has yet to make up her mind about whether the US should implement a central bank digital currency (CBDC) or not. Yellen says in a new interview with Reuters that she’s waiting on the Federal Reserve to publish an evaluation on CBDCs. She notes Fed Chairman