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CryptoSlate recently sat down with Ethan Vera, the CFO of Luxor Mining Pool and a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs. At Goldman Sachs, he worked on the firm’s blockchain team. We talked about a number of subjects, including Bitcoin mining centralization, how money printing affects cryptocurrency, and why the much-fabled BTC mining “death spiral” […]

Financial market data from South Korean banks will now feature on Chainlink’s decentralized oracles services, as announced at an event in Seoul on Friday. Hyperledger-based CenterPrime — which has access to the APIs of top Korean banks —will now share its data feeds on Chainlink. As a result, app developers can now source their information […]

Cardano’s price just set a fresh 2020 high. Today’s sharp climb comes shortly after the Shelley mainnet transition process was launched, with ADA investors taking this as a “buy the news” opportunity. The cryptocurrency is now pushing up against some substantial resistance, but the technical significance of this latest movement does indicate that further upside […]

Love them or hate them, some of Bitcoin’s biggest forks still have a market capitalization in the hundreds of millions or even billions. CryptoSlate data depicts this trend well: Bitcoin Cash has a market capitalization of $4.45 billion. Bitcoin Satoshi Vision has a market capitalization of $3.38 billion. Litecoin has a market capitalization of $3.05 […]

It’s been an explosive past few days for Ethereum. According to CryptoSlate data, the leading cryptocurrency is up by nearly 20 percent in the past 72 hours, rallying from approximately $245 to a local high of $289.  Supporting ETH is a confluence of technicals and fundamentals trends, one such trend being a growing number of […]

Ethereum’s price has been caught within the throes of an intense uptrend throughout the past few days, surging from its recent low of $230 to a high of $285 that was set earlier today. The cryptocurrency’s intense strength is creating a tailwind that has even allowed Bitcoin to climb higher, with the benchmark cryptocurrency now […]

News broke earlier today that a federal court ruled that Bitcoin is defined as “money” under the law in Washington D.C. The ruling came about as a result of a court declining to dismiss criminal charges against a man who operated an underground Bitcoin trading platform accused of laundering money. Naturally, this led to a […]

Tether (USDT) has seen extreme growth since the start of the year. The market cap of the stablecoin has reached $10 billion, according to CryptoSlate data, more than double where this metric started in 2020. Simultaneously, the amount of economic value enabled through the largely Ethereum-based token has gone parabolic. This ongoing uptick in USDT […]

From a pure price perspective, the best-performing crypto assets of the past two months have been Synthetix Network Token (SNX), Chainlink (LINK), Cardano (ADA), and a swath of other tokens. But it is actually Ampleforth (AMPL/Amples) — an Ethereum-based stablecoin of sorts — that is the best-performing crypto asset. If you look at market data, […]

Defi protocols have registered significant growth in terms of token prices, user adoption, and media exposure in the last few months. According to Defi Pulse, the total value locked in Defi has exceeded 2 billion US dollars, and it keeps rising every single day. Fusion foundation is a non-profit organization building state-of-the-art blockchain technologies with […]