Research firm Messari published a report on the performance of 5 sectors in the crypto industry after the recent crash. Written by Roberto Talamas, the report determined that smart contracts (Solana, Cosmos, Polkadot, Kusama, and others) have been amongst the least affected by this event. Relentless selling pressure caused the main cryptocurrencies to correct by…
Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky sat down live at Miami’s Bitcoin 2021 Conference with Yahoo! Finance for a brief discussion on Celsius, Elon, and more. With a quick question out of the gate around Elon’s latest Twitter chatter, Mashinsky didn’t hesitate to share his opinion. ‘The Crypto Tourist’ “Elon is a tourist in crypto”, Mashinsky stated,…
Crypto yield-earning platform Celsius now holds over 100 bitcoin, according to a company press release issued today. BTC accounts for roughly 25% of the platform’s total community assets. Celsius: The In’s And Out’s Despite a challenging month for bitcoin in May, the company also reported that BTC users with inflows over doubled the amount of…
Safe to say, Polygon has been on a tear lately. On the heels of a DappRadar report noting more than 75,000 active users and nearly $1B in value flows through their layer 2 protocol, the Polygon team has announced a new developer SDK for streamlined app creation. In the past month, our team at NewsBTC…
For the last few days, Ethereum has been adding incredible returns for investors. According to CoinMarketCap, on Monday, ETH added over 16% pushing the coin to a new record of slightly over $3,450. At the time of writing, the coin was trading at around $3,470, a gain of 9.43% over the last 24 hours. Ethereum…
In only three weeks OlympusDAO native token OHM has gone from $812 to $1639, at the time of writing. In the 30-day chart, the token has a 74.2% profit and a 55% profit in the 7-day chart. The protocol’s fundamental continues growing at an impressive pace and could yield further gains. OHM moving sideways in…
The DeFi sector saw a sharp drooped in its Total Value Locked, according to DeFi Pulse data. At the time of writing, the metric is recovering quickly and stands at $54.93B. Sitting at the number six spot on the top 10 DeFi protocols by TVL with $3.88B, SushiSwap could be on the verge of taking…
Taking the market by storm, OlympusDAO’s native OHM is up 95.8% this week alone and 31.1% in the past two weeks. At the time of writing, OHM is trading at $812,76 with 7.3% profits in the 24-hour chart. With a market cap of just $68 million, OlympusDAO might have gone unnoticed by many investors. However,…
The initial growth of the DeFi industry helped to lay the foundation of the current bull market. Innovation in the decentralized finance sector helped fuel Ethereum’s growth, and once Bitcoin got going, the rising tide lifted all other boats. Doing away with any fears of the tide rolling back out just as quickly as it…
Aave has announced integration with Ethereum’s sidechain Polygon. Aiming to provide alternatives for DeFi applications to be used by everyone, the implementation will allow users to leverage “nearly-free” transactions. With a “nascent ecosystem” composed of protocol such as Quickswap and Aavegotchi, Polygon is connected to Chainlink oracle service. Therefore, the information that will feed into…