Category: Altcoin

One surging gaming-based altcoin is vastly outperforming Bitcoin, Ethereum and other large-cap crypto assets amid its meteoric ascent in the last nine months. CoinGecko shows that Axie Infinity’s governance token AXS has surged from a low of about $0.12 early last November to an all-time high of $82.40 on August 21st. The move represents staggering

Bitcoin (BTC) saw fresh local lows on Aug. 31 as limp price action diverged further from bullish sentiment. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Bitcoin evades bullish continuation Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD reversing at $46,700 on Bitstamp after dropping $2,000 in hours. Part of a multi-day rangebound construction, the

Institutional inflows to altcoin investment products have continued to increase this past week, but the same cannot be said for Bitcoin. In its Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report on Aug. 30, institutional asset manager CoinShares identified overall inflows of $24 million to altcoin-based investment products. The capital flows mark the second consecutive week of

Prominent crypto strategist and trader Scott Melker is keeping a close eye on seven altcoins that he says are threatening to take out their immediate resistance levels. In a new strategy session, Melker tells his 83,000 YouTube subscribers that he’s watching the price action of ETH as it looks to exhaust sellers at $3,330.  

The Ethereum (ETH) network continues to enjoy the status of being the top smart contract platform in the blockchain industry, but the competition is slowly gaining market share because high costs and network congestion are still challenges for the protocol.  One project that has been gaining traction in the month of August is Fantom (FTM),

The cryptocurrency market once again finds itself waiting for some form of catalyst to get the prices moving and this week commenced with the market moving sideways as Bitcoin struggles to find its footing near $48,000.  Several altcoins have managed to break free of the wider market malaise and post impressive gains, giving credence to

The Cardano Foundation is launching a ‘Bug Bounty’ program that offers hackers rewards for finding any weaknesses in the smart contract platform’s blockchain. In a blog post, the Swiss-based, Cardano-focused non-profit says that they’re teaming up with HackerOne, a vulnerability management firm that uses hackers to expose cyber security flaws.   “Over the coming months,

Cream Finance, a major decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol focused on lending, has suffered a major exploit, with a hacker stealing nearly $19 million from its platform. An unknown hacker has managed to gain $18.8 million in the latest flash loan exploit of the Cream Finance protocol through a reentrancy bug introduced by the Amp (AMP)

Solana (SOL) prices rose on Aug. 30 as traders speculated on what appeared to be a key but mysterious feature launch later this week. The SOL/USD exchange rate climbed to a new record high of $103.06 following a 9.35% intraday rally. The upside move surfaced days after Solana introduced “Ignition” on their official media handles.

Enterprise adoption of blockchain technology is an important long-term goal of the cryptocurrency community because the integration of digital currencies with daily business activities will bring new users into the ecosystem and provide a boost to on-chain activity. One protocol that has been gaining traction on the enterprise adoption front is XinFin Network (XDC), an