Category: Altcoin

Solana has attributed the 17-hour outage it suffered last week to a denial-of-service attack aimed at Grape Protocol’s Sept. 14 initial DEX offering (IDO). In a Sept. 21 blog post, the Solana Foundation stated that bots spammed the network as Grape launched its IDO on the Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) Raydium at 12:00 UTC last

Institutional investors are unphased by Solana’s recent network outage as they continue to pour capital into SOL, according to crypto asset management firm CoinShares. Last week, the smart contract platform Solana (SOL) suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that caused the network to go offline.   However, Solana developers managed to restart Solana’s mainnet and

A closely followed crypto trader and strategist predicts that one explosive altcoin is poised to go parabolic even after doubling its value in just 11 days. The pseudonymous trader known as Pentoshi tells his 277,000 followers that he’s expecting Cosmos (ATOM) to go on a steep ascent after taking out its previous all-time high at

Open blockchain platform TRON (TRX) will join mutual fund VanEck as part of an upcoming listing on the Deutsche Börse German stock exchange. The new product is an exchange-traded note (ETN) called VanEck Vectors TRON ETN (VTRX). It will debut on Europe’s largest stock venue tomorrow, with further expansion to Zurich, Paris, and Amsterdam expected.

Crypto strategist and trader Scott Melker calls Bitcoin trading is a “game of inches” as he sees a bounce on the horizon for two altcoins. Melker tells his 573,800 followers on Twitter that he expects Bitcoin to continue grinding upward en route to his target at $52,956.27.   “BTC trading can be a game of

The crypto markets and the U.S. equity markets sold off today on fears that the collapse of Chinese property giant Evergrande could not only hurt China but also have wider implications in other markets. When the sentiment is bearish, traders dump positions that they perceive as risky in favor of safe-haven trades. This could be

The host of Coin Bureau says that Cardano can spark a massive new wave of crypto innovation that will rival the launch of Ethereum. Pseudonymous analyst Guy says tells his 1.36 million subscribers that with many decentralized applications (DApps) set to launch on its mainnet, Cardano is providing massive opportunities.   “We are now on

The term “Ethereum killer” is beginning to pick up the pace once again in the cryptocurrency markets as the native tokens of several competing blockchain networks are posting significant gains during September. For any alternative network to be considered as a part of this category, it needs to have one essential feature that serves as

Bitcoin (BTC) retested $47,000 on Sunday as the weekly close looked set to hinge on the CME futures gap. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Bitcoin comes full circle after erasing gains Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed mixed signals from BTC/USD as the week drew to a close. Saturday had seen a

Bitcoin price is struggling to flip $48,000 to support, but the steady protocol developments taking place in DeFi projects could lead to further upside from DOT, LUNA, ATOM and FTT.