The token, which was airdropped to past Uniswap users in batches of 400 per wallet without warning yesterday, has defied predictions that the market would crash from its initial pricing of $3 as the 75,235 users who have claimed so far raced to dump their free coins. Instead UNI has establishing a trading range of
On September 16, the Bitcoin Unlimited development team launched a new application called Votepeer. The software is powered by the Bitcoin Cash network and allows anyone to set up a transparent two-option voting process. This week a couple of Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) developers released a new voting protocol called Votepeer. BU software engineers, Dagur and
This isn’t the CryptoKitties craze of 2017. “The situation is different now,” Stefan George of Gnosis told CoinDesk. Lots of dapps are clawing for Ethereum’s compute power. If activity calms on one decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, it’s likely to perk up on another. “Ethereum is on the way to becoming a whale chain,” George lamented,
San Francisco-based crypto exchange Kraken has become the first cryptocurrency business to receive a charter to operate as a bank in the United States. When seen as part of a larger-scale shift in regulatory attitudes that may help to bring crypto into the mainstream, the repercussions could be even more significant. Kraken Financial, the firm’s
A report from crypto data provider, Cross Angle, claims that tokens which first gain traction on Uniswap have consistently provided 208% returns on average once listed by major centralized exchanges. In the past, much had been said about the “Coinbase effect” and “Binance effect”, in which a token’s price allegedly experiences fast appreciation once listed by
As the price of Bitcoin (BTC) soared above $11,000 on Sept. 16, the altcoin market suffered mightily. Some analysts believe that profits from the extended altcoin and decentralized finance (DeFi) rally may have cycled into BTC. After major bull cycles or the so-called “altseason”,the dominance index of Bitcoin tends to recover. When it does, it
Mike McGlone, Senior Commodity Strategist at Bloomberg, is convinced Bitcoin will continue to appreciate thanks to its fixed supply coupled with increasing demand. “I don’t see what [could] make it stop doing what [it’s] been doing for the last 10 years. And that’s going up”, he told Cointelegraph in a recent interview. McGlone sees Bitcoin’s
Bitcoin price rebounded hard from $10,000 and in a flash already found itself back above $11,000. Thus far, the key level couldn’t hold, and now signs are appearing that could suggest the rally was noting more than a bull trap and retest of resistance turned support. TD Sequential Indicator Gives Bull Trap Warning With Perfected
The two Russians who were sanctioned earlier this week by the U.S. Treasury Department on accusations of being crypto thieves allegedly got their millions through market manipulation and phishing. Prosecutors detailed Danil Potekhin and Dimitrii Karasavidi’s alleged heists, victims and target exchanges in a 30-page forfeiture complaint filed Wednesday against the pair’s previously seized crypto
In July this year, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted permission for federally chartered banks to provide custody services for cryptocurrency. While significant, the need for enterprise-grade infrastructure to securely deploy custody solutions has become crucial. Adrien Treccani, CEO of METACO — a technology partner for institutions entering the digital asset ecosystem
Peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace Paxful announced Sept. 17 that it had broken ground on a new school in Nigeria. This is the fourth school of 100 planned as part of its #BuiltWithBitcoin initiative to bring quality education to emerging countries. The school, located in the Ankara Nandu community of Sanga Local, will serve an estimated 100–120
Unstoppable Domains has introduced a new feature — Unstoppable email. Now anyone who owns a domain with a .crypto extension can send email signed by the Ethereum (ETH) private key that controls it. This is reminiscent of how the old cypherpunks used to sign their emails with PGP keys. In the 1990s, an early Bitcoin
While Bitcoin (BTC) has been showing weakness in recent weeks as BTC price dropped from $12,000 to $10,000, some light at the end of the tunnel is showing up. The price of Bitcoin showed support at the psychological barrier of $10,000 and bounced numerous times as it’s already close to $11,000. Most importantly, can Bitcoin
Unfazed by the controversy over its SushiSwap listing, Binance has already announced support for Uniswap’s new token around an hour or so after it was announced. The decentralized finance (DeFi) platform’s governance protocol token UNI went live on Ethereum (ETH) around 90 minutes ago. Over the next four years, one billion UNI tokens will incrementally
Bitcoin price climbed further higher above the $11,000 resistance against the US Dollar. BTC is currently correcting gains, but dips are likely to remain supported near $10,800. Bitcoin extended its upward move above the $10,900 and $11,000 resistance levels. The price is now forming a strong support above $10,800 and the 100 hourly simple moving
Despite the broader security token market booming in recent months, real estate tokens appear to be struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. AspenCoin (ASPD), the digital security representing fractional ownership in 19% of a five-star 179-room hotel in Colorado, has announced discounts for token holders who stay at the resort to help boost sales. Aspen Digital