Chelsea Roh

The cryptocurrency market is rebounding following a bearish month, and while many coins haven’t seen any significant gains this week, a select few have. Below, CryptoSlate takes a closer look at why VeChain (VET) and Ontology (ONT) have both gained over 50 percent this week. VeChain (VET) VeChain, the 19th largest cryptocurrency by total market cap, has […]

The China Electronic Information Industry Development (CCID) Research Institute has released its August blockchain ratings, and EOS has landed at the top. Additionally, despite complications Block.One faced during its mainnet launch of the EOS platform, CCID has remained confident in the blockchain project. CCID August Rankings For the third month in a row, EOS has once again […]

eToro, an Israeli-based social trading and multi-asset brokerage company, has revealed that IOTA (MIOTA) is now available on its platform. We are pleased to inform you that our selection of cryptocurrencies is continuing to expand, and IOTA is now LIVE on eToro. #newasset #cryptocurrency #IOTA — eToro (@eToro) August 20, 2018 eToro has also published an […]

Ripple has signed on three new exchange partners–Bittrex, Bitso and Coins.ph–to carry the xRapid digital asset in their respective regions. Dig this: As of right now @BittrexExchange, @Bitso and @coinsph are now official partners for xRapid transactions using #XRP. What does it mean? ?https://t.co/BIVhkpgCM2 — Cory Johnson (@CoryTV) August 16, 2018 Bittrex, Bitso and Coins.ph According to Ripple, […]

A StellarX co-founder has released a new research project that describes why ICOs shouldn’t be held on the Ethereum network. While we finish up StellarX, we wanted to share a research project on Ethereum we did earlier in the year. We ran our own at-scale load tests, and got scary results. https://t.co/oNPKuZ2b24 pic.twitter.com/J0s32ioSHs — StellarX […]

The popular mobile payment service Square has announced that consumers across all 50 U.S. states can now use the Cash App to purchase and sell Bitcoin (BTC). Red, white, and bitcoin. Now you can use Cash App to buy bitcoin in all 50 states. pic.twitter.com/D4fhVRz7WL — Cash App (@CashApp) August 13, 2018 BTC Across the […]

Bittrex, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges within the U.S., revealed that it has partnered with CatalX to bring Bittrex tech into Canada. We’re excited to announce a partnership with CatalX that will launch a new Canadian digital asset trading platform. Beta platform launches on Aug. 27. Details: https://t.co/ESUAKFOSnp pic.twitter.com/Ka6ZvPeVs6 — Bittrex (@BittrexExchange) August 15, […]

Block.one, the company behind EOS, announced the highly-anticipated location for part four of its first-of-a-kind global blockchain hackathon. We're going to San Francisco! Developers, designers and entrepreneurs – are you ready to join us Stateside on Nov 10-11 for part four of our first-of-its-kind blockchain hackathon series? Sign up here for the first-ever #EOSHackathon event […]

The commission-free cryptocurrency market gained more competition on July 25, 2018, when the Voyager revealed the intent to offer free trading for at least 15 different cryptocurrencies. Voyager, a startup backed by Uber co-founder Philip Eytan, will function as an aggregation engine for cryptocurrency prices across more than a dozen trading companies. The platform will allow customers […]

The third round of blockchain rankings has been released by China’s CCID Research Institute and EOS received the top rating for the second time in a row. Ethereum and Nebulas followed close after. Despite the complications Block.One faced during EOS’s main net release, CCID still felt that EOS remained supreme among all the blockchain projects […]

On July 17, 2018, eToro, the world's largest social investing platform, published a market research report on Cardano – the eighth largest cryptocurrency by market cap.

On July 3rd, 2018, CipherTrace reported that the first half of 2018, had three times the amount of cryptocurrency exchange theft than all of 2017.

TRON, the tenth largest cryptocurrency by market cap, celebrates a momentous occasion as TRON’s “Independence Day” is in full swing and token migration concluded June 24th, 2018. #TRON Independence Day live stream starts now, join us to be part of the free, decentralized internet. https://t.co/M5uzhyfjYf — Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) June 25, 2018 The ERC20 TRX token […]

China recently revealed its second batch of state-endorsed cryptocurrency ratings and notably, EOS takes the lead this round as it was entirely excluded in the first set of ratings released in May 2018. Ethereum, Steem, and Lisk held the top ratings the first time around. The blockchain projects ratings depend on three different components based on technology, […]

The TRON token migration is set to launch on June 21st, 2018. The majority of exchanges that trade TRX are prepared for the technical components of the ERC20 TRX to TRX migration. TRON will gain full independence from the Ethereum network on June 25th, when the TRX tokens are fully switched over to the freshly […]

Alfa-Bank and Sberbank — two of Russia’s largest players in the banking market — are currently in the testing phase of cryptocurrency-based investment options geared toward its retail investors, local Russian news Kommersant reported back on June 15th. The two banks will be testing several products of private banking on the Bank of Russia regulatory […]

Six months ago, Western Union began testing Ripple’s XRP for payments, but the money transfer company states it has yet to see any financial benefit. Ripple’s technology is geared towards larger financial institutions and claims its blockchain technology and digital currency, XRP, provides a cheaper and faster way to transfer money internationally. Western Union is […]

The first EOS Hackathon held in Hong Kong has concluded and the results are in. This developer venture will be ongoing throughout 2018, specifically geared toward driving the innovative development of dApps on the EOS blockchain. Thank you for attending the #EOSHackathon held at Kai Tak in Hong Kong over the past weekend and congratulations […]