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Chainlink Takes Top 10 By Storm, EOS Leaves the Club
13.7.2020
After what has been a relatively quiet weekend for bitcoin (BTC) and most other top cryptoassets, the decentralized oracle platform Chainlink (LINK) has entered what can only be described as a parabolic rally in the crypto market.
After the latest rally, LINK has climbed in the rankings of the most...
Bitcoin, Ethereum & Co Have Plenty of Room Left to Take Over TikTok
10.7.2020
Though TikTokers found one coin to pump, it looks like cryptoassets haven't taken over the major video-sharing social networking service yet. The creators of crypto TikToks (CrypToks, if you will) are few, and videos on the topic are relatively scarce.
The power of TitTokers to affect the current...
Ripple Boss Pays for 1,000 Cameras to Monitor San Francisco’s Streets
10.7.2020
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Ripple co-founder and executive chairman Chris Larsen is spending his crypto-fortune on installing high-definition surveillance cameras around San Franciso, per a new report.
According to the New York Times, Larsen has paid to have “a network of 1,000” cameras installed...
Bitcoin-Focused Investors Missing Out on ‘Mini Altcoin Boom’ - Head Trader
10.7.2020
Despite bitcoin (BTC) being the focus of most financial institutions that are dipping their toe in crypto, the altcoin market is where the action really happens, according to a head trader at New York-based crypto trading firm GSR.
Speaking with Bloomberg Radio, Richard Rosenblum, Co-founder...
Bitfinex, Binance Rush to Capitalize on Dogecoin Fever
9.7.2020
With dogecoin (DOGE) now up by another 18% in the past 24 hours, exchanges are rushing to capitalize on the fever, launching both spot and futures markets in an effort to extract more money from hopeful investors.
The latest exchanges to announce that they will join the race now is Bitfinex...
Latin American Crypto Exchange Bitso Says it Has 1M Active Users
9.7.2020
Mexico’s crypto scene is booming again, with one of the nation’s largest crypto exchanges, Bitso, claiming it has reached the 1 million active user mark.
In an interview with El Economista, Daniel Vogel, Bitso’s CEO stated that crypto was continuing to gain ground in traditional markets like...
Bank of Lithuania's LBCOIN is a 'Playground' for Testing CBDCs
9.7.2020
The reverse of the physical coin. While presenting their new digital coin, the first of its kind, the central bank of Lithuania said that this project serves as a type of a testing ground for a possible future central bank digital currency (CBDC).
At the press conference Thursday morning, the Bank...
Risks of Centralized Stablecoins Materialize as 100k USDC Frozen
9.7.2020
Centralized stablecoins may be about to face more scrutiny from the crypto community after it was revealed yesterday that USD Coin (USDC) issuer Centre has frozen an address holding USD 100,000 worth of the stablecoin.
The actual blacklisting of the address occurred back in June this year, and...
Chainlink Surges to New Highs Fuelled by DeFi Boom
8.7.2020
On its third consecutive day of strong price gains, LINK, the native token of decentralized oracle platform Chainlink, today surged to yet another all-time high, fuelled partly by massive interest from across the cryptoverse in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications.
As of press time today...
Cardano Rally Continues as Hoskinson Suggests Litecoin Collaboration
8.7.2020
Charles Hoskinson. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Charles Hoskinson
Cardano (ADA) continued its rise higher today, after also seeing massive gains in price on both Monday and Tuesday this week. At the same time, Cardano-founder Charles Hoskinson raised the idea of a collaboration between...
As Dogecoin Barks Louder, Tron's Justin Sun Rides the Focus on TikTok
8.7.2020
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As the Dogecoin (DOGE) on TikTok story is getting hotter by the minute, the Cryptoverse turned its focus to this popular platform - with Tron's (TRX) Justin Sun taking the lead.
The Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by Beijing-based tech company...
Digital Yuan Set for Real-world Ride Sharing Pilot with Apple-backed Didi
8.7.2020
China’s digital yuan launch appears to be inching yet closer to rollout after reports in the Middle Kingdom surfaced linking a ride-share operator with pilots for the new central bank-run token.
Per Beijing Business Today and Bloomberg, a digital currency unit of the central People’s Bank of China...
Dogecoin Soars As TikTokers Attempt To Pump It
7.7.2020
Source: a screenshot, TikTok
Dogecoin (DOGE), the cryptocurrency that was created partly as a joke in 2013, is soaring in the market today after what seems to be push by some content creators on the video sharing app TikTok for their followers to buy it.
The #dogecoin tag has now 2.4 million...
Cosmos, Polkadot Join Terra In New DeFi Savings Project
7.7.2020
Guided by a belief that decentralized finance (DeFi) is still missing “a simple and convenient savings product,” South Korea-based stablecoin issuer Terra (LUNA) has revealed Anchor, a new DeFi project.
The new platform will be governed by a newly formed organization the Interchain Asset...
S Korean Province Mulls Local Stablecoin-powered Universal Basic Income
7.7.2020
Typical Korean street food. The Governor of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea’s most populous province, has suggested launching a universal basic income – funded by local stablecoins.
Per OhMyNews, the proposal, spearheaded by Lee Jae-myung, who was elected Governor of Gyeonggi Province in 2018,...
Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 27
6.7.2020
Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today.
Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know...
Crypto Spot Trading Halved in June; Kraken's Move in Europe + More News
6.7.2020
This is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Exchanges news
Spot trading volumes on both top tier and lower tier crypto exchanges plummeted in June to USD 177bn (-36%) and USD 466bn (-53%)...
Crypto Market Sentiment Unchanged; Cardano Joins Bitcoin in Positive Zone
6.7.2020
For the second week in a row, crypto market sentiment score (sentscore) barely moved over the course of the past seven days. It moved even less than last week. Back then, we saw the combined moving 7-day average sentscore for the top 10 coins drop from 4.97 to 4.92, but this time it went up from...
Temporary Relief for XRP Holders as Downtrend Breaks
6.7.2020
Despite a relatively good year for most major cryptoassets, the Ripple-affiliated XRP has struggled with gaining traction and is still down year-to-date. However, an uptick in price today may provide at least some relief for hopeful holders of the cryptoasset.
As of press time on Monday (10:59...
Russian TON Investors Decry UK Firm’s ‘c. USD 1.5m Commission Fee’
6.7.2020
Russian investors in the failed Telegram Open Network (TON) token launch said they have reported a British brokerage they said is withholding almost USD 1.5 million of their funds to the Moscow-based federal investigating authority.
Per a Telegram post from Baza, the group has taken its case to...