Cardano › Altcoins
Cardano’s Babel fees mechanism allow users to pay transaction fees in native tokens
Once the Mary Hard Fork is implemented, users on Cardano will be able to pay transaction fees in native tokens, essentially requiring no ADA to utilize the blockchain.
Cardano · Polkadot › United Arab Emirates › Investments
Major Dubai crypto fund to sell $750M worth of BTC to buy Cardano and Polkadot
FD7 Ventures, a Dubai-based crypto investment fund with $1 billion under management, has announced plans to sell off $750 million worth of their Bitcoin holdings in the next month.
Polkadot › Technology
Polkadot’s upcoming parachains to be tested on the Kusama Network
Ahead of its long-awaited parachains launch, Polkadot published a comprehensive roadmap where it revealed that all upcoming parachains will be tested and optimized both on regular parachain testnets such as Rococo and on the Kusama Network.
Polkadot › Adoption
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, UBS clients buying the first ETP offering exposure to Polkadot’s DOT
Data from the Bloomberg Terminal has revealed that some of the biggest Wall Street players have bought the world’s first exchange-traded product (ETP) for Polkadot.
Cardano › Adoption
Cardano’s Daedalus wallet receives its most significant update yet
Version 3.3 of the Daedalus wallet brings support for the upcoming Cardano protocol update that delivers native token support to the blockchain.
NFTs
Theta Network to release limited edition NFT to celebrate Mars Rover landing
Theta Network, the leading decentralized video delivery platform will celebrate the landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars on February 18 with the minting of special collectible and rare NASA-themed non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on its live streaming site Theta.tv, as per a release shared with CryptoSlate.
Altcoins
Cardano (ADA) and Polkadot (DOT) push XRP out of the top five cryptos
Cardano (ADA) and Polkadot (DOT) outpaced Ripple’s XRP today, pushing it out of the top five cryptocurrencies by market capitalization.
Cardano › Analysis
Almost 72% of all ADA is now staked on Cardano
With 71.9 percent of the total circulating supply of ADA now staked, Cardano is still the most decentralized blockchain network on the market.
Cardano · Ethereum › Partnerships
Ben Goertzel’s SingularityNET begins second phase of migration from Ethereum to Cardano
SingularityNET, an artificial intelligence (AI) solution built on Ethereum, has begun the second phase of its migration to Cardano.
Edge › Ethereum › Analysis
Other DeFi-focused networks are surging as Ethereum congestion narrative spurs up
Ethereum has been facing extreme network congestion once again, which has been made worse by the cryptocurrency’s rapidly increasing price.
DeFi
Bitcoin-focused DeFi protocol Badger joins hands with Yearn.finance (YFI)
Badger DAO, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol on absorbing bitcoin liquidity on Ethereum, recently announced a partnership with Yearn.finance.
Binance › DeFi
DeFi thrives on Binance Smart Chain as users flee exorbitant ETH fees
The prices and market capitalization of tokens in the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) ecosystem are booming as the whole sector is up 135% over the past week, according to CryptoSlate’s data.
Cardano › Africa › Adoption
IOHK on the brink of securing a massive Cardano government contract in Africa
IOHK, the company behind the Cardano blockchain, is in the final stages of securing a huge government contract in Africa.
Cardano › Altcoins
IOHK delegates 3.2M ADA to 100 Cardano community pools
To further distance itself from the actual running of the Cardano blockchain, IOHK has delegated 3.2 million of its own ADA to 100 different stake pools ran by the Cardano community.
Dogecoin › Analysis
Elon Musk boosts Dogecoin by 76% with a rocket tweet
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has just boosted “meme crypto” Dogecoin (DOGE) in the stratosphere by just tweeting a photograph of a rocket taking off and adding a single word to it: “Doge.” In just one hour, the price of DOGE surged by up to 75.6% and reached around $0.056.
Cardano › Adoption
The Cardano treasury now holds almost double the funds raised in the 2016 ICO
With over 276.5 million ADA currently sitting in its treasury, it’s safe to say that Cardano has got the back of its community.
Cardano › Technology
The Mary hard fork will bring Cardano (ADA) one step closer to smart contracts on Goguen
Mary, one of the two hard forks set to transition Cardano from Shelley to Goguen, took place on February 3rd at 20:00 UTC.
Polkadot › Technology
Polkadot (DOT) has set out to solve the problem of fast innovation
One of the most decentralized networks in the world, Polkadot created a spark that ignited the blockchain revolution and the switch towards more community-oriented protocols.
Altcoins
Proof-of-Stake (PoS) coins are having a blast this week
Cryptocurrency tokens based on Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithms have been booming over the last seven days as many of them are seeing weekly growth of 50% or more, according to CryptoSlate’s proof-of-stake sector data.
