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With a week left before the official November product update, Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, took to YouTube to share a brief glimpse of what’s been accomplished at Cardano this month. Hoskinson said that the regular update will take place at the end of November, while a bigger, end-of-the-year update will happen on Dec. […]

Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggest that privacy concerns at “Big Tech” firms like Facebook—which are developing their own digital currencies—could help position Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as a better alternative. The economists, in their note, also stated that digital payment protocols and systems have bolstered this year as a […]

IOHK, the company behind Cardano, has introduced Smash—a new metadata framework that will act as a better and more accurate source of stake pool information. Smash is a server that can aggregate, fetch, and store stake pool metadata such as owner details, pool name, and homepage. As the server code is open-source and can be […]

The price of Bitcoin surpassed $19,000 on November 24, reaching $19,299 on Binance. As BTC rallied, major alternative cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum and XRP, fell sharply. Whether the trend of profits from altcoins cycling into Bitcoin would continue in the near term remains to be seen. One variable could prevent a broader altcoin market downturn, and […]

Bitcoin has undergone a strong rally since the lows of September and October. From the mid-October lull at $11,200, the coin has rocketed over 60 percent higher to $18,350 as of this article’s writing. Just a few days ago, BTC was trading just a few percent shy of $19,000 as investors began to flood in […]

XRP has ripped higher over the past few days as the coin finally begins to catch up with Bitcoin and the decentralized finance (DeFi) market. Despite the fact that the coin has not seen ostensible fundamental events, it is roaring higher, pulling no punches in its ascent to the upside. The coin is up over […]

During the latest Litening Series webinar, the heads of the Litecoin Foundation explored the idea of introducing interoperability between Cardano and Litecoin. David Schwartz, the project director of the Litecoin Foundation, said that it was important to generate as much talk about this idea as possible, as having a bridge between Litecoin and Cardano wouldn’t […]

Crypto research firm Coinfirm has found that US authorities have left “substantial funds” left on various cryptocurrency wallets seized from criminals over the years, as a result of multiple “forks” that issued newer cryptocurrencies that traded on public markets. The firm traced a majority of such funds back to a Silk Road wallet seized by […]

All eyes will be on Ethereum over the next 24 hours. The reason: today will decide whether or not the launch of ETH 2.0 (Serenity) will take place by the specified launch date of Dec. 1. For some context, here’s a recap of ETH2: ETH2 is a multi-phased overhaul to the Ethereum blockchain that has […]

After fears that Bitcoin would tank on the weekend (and it did), the crypto bull run seems to be back in full force as of Monday morning. According to CryptoSlate market data and CoinGecko market data, there is literally no crypto-asset in the top 100 by market capitalization that is down in the past 24 […]