Price Watch
Stablecoins
Maker’s Dai approaches $1 peg following aggressive interest rate hikes and Tether fallout
Interest rates for MakerDAO have exploded to 19.5 percent over the course of three months to combat its stablecoin Dai from trading below its…
Technology
Bitcoin active nodes outnumber XRP active addresses
Bitcoin has more full nodes than XRP has active addresses, observed one crypto commentator. The conversation is part of a larger debate around centralization…
People
Ethereum co-founder predicted the bottom for bitcoin, the future looks bright for crypto
Joseph Lubin, the co-founder of Ethereum and one of the crypto titans, accurately called the bottom of the 2018 bear market. Amidst the mass…
People
Coinbase’s Balaji Srinivasan leaves after one year as CTO
Balaji Srinivasan appears to be leaving Coinbase after serving one year as chief technology officer. In a tweet on May 3rd, Balaji Srinivasan announced…
Adoption
Fidelity: Institutional investment in cryptocurrency likely to grow
Institutional investment in cryptocurrency is likely to increase over the next five years, according to research from Fidelity Investments. The firm surveyed 441 institutional…
Adoption
Cardano enters Ethiopia with enterprise blockchain framework Atala
Charles Hoskinson, CEO of IOHK and founder of Cardano, announced the launch of Atala, an enterprise blockchain aimed at helping governments in developing countries…
Adoption
Ripple signs-on third largest money transfer service to RippleNet
Ria Money Transfer, the third largest money transfer service in the world, joined RippleNet—a settlement layer facilitated by Ripple which streamlines payments through improved…
Adoption
Stellar leads in daily active accounts according to new estimates
Daily active accounts for Stellar Lumens are grossly underrepresented by available charting tools, according to an analysis by OrbitLens. The group claims that active…
Analysis
Innovation around Bitcoin has reduced tx fees, transactions at 2017 highs at 15% the cost
Bitcoin transactions are approaching all-time highs while fees remain low. The number of transactions conducted in April is comparable to the peak of the…
Adoption
New crypto asset data features on CryptoSlate–trusted volume, NVT and crypto sector data
Consistent with our goal of becoming the front page of crypto, we have rolled out a slate of new features to help readers stay…
Exchanges
Tether and Bitfinex confirm USDT is not fully backed by fiat, only 74% of tethers backed with cash
Legal representatives for Bitfinex and Tether confirm the widely held suspicion that USDT is not one-to-one backed by US dollars. Court documents confirm tethers…
Mining
Bitcoin Cash blocks tagged with “Satoshi Nakamoto,” rumors of impending attack
Mysteriously, 25 percent of mined Bitcoin Cash blocks are being tagged with “Satoshi Nakamoto.” Given the May 15th hard fork as part of a…