COMP, the native token of Ethereum-based lending platform Compound, blasted through the roof on increasing bids for decentralized finance (DeFi) assets. The latest wave of buying sentiment in the DeFi market followed the launch of Yam Finance. The so-called “yield farming” project surfaced with the promise of offering an elastic supply crypto-asset called YAM as…
Bitcoin continued its tumbling on Wednesday under the pressure of a rising US dollar. Safest Haven Returns The cryptocurrency plunged by up to 1.43 percent to hit an intraday low at circa $10,389. Its latest move downside came as a part of a larger bearish correction that began when BTC/USD had formed a year-to-date top…
A calm and balanced question to Craig Wright about whether or not he has access to Satoshi Nakamoto’s $9 billion bitcoin wallet met with a bizarre response: “It’s none of your goddamn business.”Appearing in an interview with BlockTV, the Bitcoin SV founder showed his trademark hot-tempered, “censorship-resistant” mood when faced with straightforward questions about his…
Ethereum has undergone a consolidation period for over the past month. Since the beginning of June, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap has mostly traded between the $217 support and the $250 resistance level. Such a narrow trading range has made it nearly impossible to determine what the future holds for Ether.Nonetheless, the TD sequential…
It is February 1 and bitcoin is up by a modest 0.52 percent.The benchmark cryptocurrency left an impressive month behind in January, returning 30.27 percent in profits against an otherwise gloomy global market outlook. The wild move upside marked bitcoin’s best January close in seven years, convincing traders that the gains could grow further heading…
Binance Coin (BNB), the eighth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, opened on Tuesday in a severely negative area as a string of poor fundamentals scared investors away.BNB plunged by 5.78 percent, or $0.77, to trade at $12.65. The latest downside move came as a part of an extended bearish correction seen across the entire cryptocurrency market.…
Following a 157% bull rally throughout the first half of August that saw Chainlink hit a new all-time high of $20, this cryptocurrency entered a massive downtrend. As sell orders began to pile up, LINK took a 36% nosedive to reach a low of $12.8 on August 21. Over the past few days, however, the…
Decentralized finance asset LEND continued its gravity-defying price rally ahead of the New York opening bell Wednesday even as its peers across the crypto space suffered sizeable intraday losses. The 21st-largest cryptocurrency surged 11.28 percent to $0.858 per token, its highest level to this date. Its upside move followed a four-week winning streak, wherein LEND/USD…
The wait is over. After over a month-long delay, the Ethereum blockchain finally forked and activated Constantinople. These are exciting times for the Ethereum community. The Constantinople upgrade proposes to remove significant technical roadblocks that – till date – hampered the project’s growth. First, the Hard Fork paves the way for Ethereum’s broadly delayed scaling…
Arithmetic researchers Willy Woo and David Puell might have pulled off methods to realize bitcoin price bottoms. In their latest tweetstorm, the cryptocurrency analysts shared two experiments after analyzing the bitcoin’s price action relationship with a time-value relating to how long an investor held their coins. Woo’s experiment was about finding Cumulative Value-days Destroyed (CVDD),…