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Tether to Launch USDT Natively on Avalanche
18.5.2021
The blockchain company Tether has announced it will make available its stablecoin token as a native asset in Avalanche, a smart contract platform that has picked steam in the last year. Avalanche has a growing decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem, so this launch will most likely improve...
Avalanche Web Wallet Stalls For 6 Hours After Avalaunch Airdrop Snapshot
4.5.2021
The Avalanche cryptocurrency, the first cryptocurrency ever to implement the Avalanche consensus, experienced an outage of service yesterday when its web wallet presented an outage that lasted for six hours. This was the consequence of severe congestion due to an airdrop carried out by AvaLaunch...
BENQI Closes $6M Round to Create Algorithmic Liquidity Market on Avalanche
14.4.2021
PRESS RELEASE. BENQI, a liquidity market operating on the Avalanche network, has completed a private funding round. A total of $6 million was raised in a round led by Ascensive Assets. A number of leading investors on blockchain and the emerging Avalanche ecosystem also participated. These include...
What is blocking the decentralized internet?
13.4.2021
Interoperability is one of the hottest phrases in the blockchain lexicon, but there are fears that many of the solutions out there merely serve as a sticking plaster
VC Backed Billion-Dollar Stablecoin Project Fei Protocol Falls Below the USD Peg
8.4.2021
The new decentralized finance (defi) stablecoin project called Fei had some issues this week after the 1:1 USD pegged token dropped well below its targeted $1 value. The Fei project was supposed to be similar to Maker DAO’s algorithmic DAI stablecoin and it was backed by major venture capital...
First Mover: Bitcoin Tops $50K and Crypto’s Nouveau Riche Move In
16.2.2021
Break of psychological threshold pushes largest cryptocurrency's year-to-date return to 70%, as a new breed of upstart tokens pushes industry market cap past $1.5T
First Mover: A Bullish ($1 Million) Bitcoin Forecast as Year of Ox Begins
12.2.2021
ByteTree's Charlie Morris shows how bitcoin's price gets to $1 million by 2032. PLUS: JPMorgan hounded by own traders over absence in bitcoin market
Avalanche Developers Rush Client Patch as ‘Bug’ Slows Blockchain Transactions
11.2.2021
A "cross-chain finality" bug has forced the network into "self-healing mode."
Helium (HNT), Avalanche (AVAX) and Pickle rally on partnership announcements
10.2.2021
Partnership announcements, improving fundamentals and growing interest in DeFi are driving the price of Helium, Avalanche and Pickle higher
Bitcoin for Corporations- Michael Saylor Expects an ‘Avalanche’ of Firms to Own Bitcoin
4.2.2021
This week the firm Microstrategy held an event called “Bitcoin for Corporations” which looks at concepts like macro strategy, corporate playbooks, and legal considerations toward bitcoin. Prior to the event, Microstrategy CEO and bitcoin bull, Michael Saylor, said “professionals...
How Researchers Used GM Car Crash Data And Frozen To Explain A Grisly 62-Year-Old Mystery
30.1.2021
I am a fan of the strange and unusual, so when our Editor-in-Chief Rory Carroll spotted this fascinating story in National Geographic about the Dyatlov Pass incident, he immediately sent it to me. He was right to do so, as this is one of my favorite mysteries and it seems it may have actually...
Here’s why IOST, Horizen (ZEN) and Avalanche (AVAX) surged as Bitcoin crashed
12.1.2021
Strong fundamentals and new offerings explain why IOST, Horizon (ZEN) and Avalanche (AVAX) rallied higher as Bitcoin price pulled back
Dynamic Set Dollar faces “massive test” as stablecoin falls as low as $.27
28.12.2020
An algorithmic stablecoin experiment is playing out over Christmas weekend — and real money's on the line
Ava Labs Sets Avalanche Mainnet Launch for Sept. 21
16.9.2020
With $60 million in funding at its back, Ava Labs' Avalanche is the latest next-gen blockchain network to enter the DeFi landscape
Avalanche Launch Fumbles: ‘A Highly-Sophisticated DDoS Attack Derailed Token Sale’
9.7.2020
On July 8, 2020, some members of the cryptocurrency community were prepared to leverage the AVA Labs Avalanche (AVAX) token sale, in order to acquire some of the highly anticipated coin on Wednesday. However, due to “record-breaking demand” and a “highly-sophisticated DDOS...
Base Layer Wars Heat Up With Another $12M Committed to AVA Labs’ Avalanche Blockchain
25.6.2020
AVA Labs has closed a $12 million private token sale. The funding round – co-led by Galaxy Digital, Bitmain, Initialized and others – comes weeks before an anticipated mainnet launch
Meet Snowglobe: An Avalanche-Based Pre-Consensus Protocol for BCH
22.12.2019
On December 20, BCHD and Openbazaar developer Tyler Smith published first draft specifications for a protocol he calls “Snowglobe.” Smith’s Github repository says that Snowglobe is a propagation protocol for nodes using Nakamoto Consensus and it uses an Avalanche-based consensus...
Meet the Developer Who Added Schnorr Signatures to Bcash
14.6.2019
This week news.Bitcoin.com spoke with Jonathan Gonzalez, the blockchain developer who is currently maintaining the Bcash project, a Bitcoin Cash full node written in node.js. Gonzalez explained how he got into Bitcoin Cash development and how he managed to get the Bcash node fully compatible with...