Category: Altcoin

Popular US-based crypto trading platform Coinbase Pro is adding another altcoin amid a flurry of new inclusions this week. According to a Coinbase announcement, Voyager Token (VGX), the Ethereum-based coin of centralized exchange Voyager, has been added to Coinbase Pro. VGX is not yet available on the Coinbase retail platform or mobile app. According to

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols have gained significant traction in the cryptocurrency sector, with a total value locked surpassing $271 billion, based on data from DefiLlama. One exceptionally popular category of DeFi services is that of decentralized borrowing and lending, where users can pledge their crypto as collateral and take out stablecoin loans (or vice versa)

News that the iconic Staples Center in Los Angeles will be rebranded to Crypto.com Arena is sending Crypto.com’s native altcoin to new all-time highs. An anonymous source familiar with the plans told the Associated Press (AP) that the Singapore-based company is paying $700 million over 20 years to change the name of the home of

Widely-followed crypto analyst Justin Bennett says Bitcoin (BTC) may be ready to rise again, while noting areas of confluence for three popular altcoins and diagnosing the crypto markets as a whole. In the latest edition of his Cryptocademy newsletter, Bennett says he doesn’t have “high hopes” for BTC making a parabolic move this week. “I know many

A widely followed cryptocurrency analyst and trader says three Ethereum competitors have more room for growth than the smart contract platform Solana (SOL). The pseudonymous analyst known as Smart Contracter tells his 183,000 Twitter followers that Ethereum (ETH) itself will reach a new all-time high (ATH) after correcting in a three-wave ‘A, B, C’ pattern

On Thursday morning, Acala, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol operating on the Polkadot (DOT) network, announced it had won the first-ever Polkadot parachain auction.  Acala raised a total of 32.5 million DOT, worth roughly $1.28 billion, from 24,934 contributors via an initial coin offering (ICO) structured as a crowdloan. As the proceeds are classified as ‘crypto debt,’

Avalanche (AVAX) rose to a new price high on Nov. 18 and posted weekly gains after its developer, Ava Labs, entered a partnership with “Big Four” accountant firm Deloitte. The AVAX price reached a little over $110 after rising circa 16% week-to-date (WTD), with its circulated market cap hitting $23.76 billion, almost 0.93% of the

Cardano (ADA) creator Charles Hoskinson says that the US needs a new system for regulating crypto. In a new interview on Thinking Crypto, the CEO of the technology company behind the blockchain platform Cardano, Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), says that current regulatory approaches do not work well with crypto assets. “The US needs to

Crypto.com’s native cryptocurrency, CRO, hit an all-time high of $0.593 on Nov. 18 after the company won the naming rights to Los Angeles’ Staples Center. The cryptocurrency trading platform announced Tuesday night that it had paid $700 million to the Anschutz Entertainment Group to rename Staples Center to Crypto.com for the next 20 years. In doing so, it

Digital asset analytics firm Santiment is looking at a handful of altcoins to gauge crypto’s strength after the global market cap tanked by 8% in less than a day. In a new Santiment Insights report, the crypto intelligence company analyzes what it calls “blue chips” in the ERC-20 market segment: Shiba Inu (SHIB), Uniswap (UNI),