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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 […]

A project from the ConsenSys “Codefi” cohort said Friday it will be one of the first projects to offer seamless Ethereum staking services across a range of applications; when the upgrade is rolled out later this year. Bringing ETH staking to institutions  London-based Trustology announced today they be one of the first to offer built-in […]

One of America’s biggest crypto-exchange said Friday it was working “closely” with a global payments process on seamless digital asset transfers and adoption. Coinbase, the San Francisco-based crypto exchange known for its regulation-first approach to cryptocurrencies, said today it was “proud to work with innovators like Visa” to bolster digital currency adoption: We’re proud to […]

Research by Jesus Rodriguez and Lucas Outumuro of IntoTheBlock At IntoTheBlock, we have been working on predictive models for different crypto assets. The work ranges from sophisticated quant strategies to more basic directional forecasts. Based on that work, we have learned quite a few lessons about effective methods, challenges, and very peculiar aspects that should be taken into […]

Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, said that public-key cryptography could be used to solve Twitter’s identity verification problem that led to the massive hack last week. He explained that the concept of verified tweets would be easy to implement and wouldn’t change Twitter’s business model, and would provide its users with the ultimate control […]

Chainlink does not seem like it’s stopping with its partnerships and adoptions anytime soon. Yet another project onboarded the blockchain agnostic platform’s oracles solutions today — this time for changing how legal documents are secured and verified worldwide. Blockchain-based e-document solution FirmaChain said it is integrating Chainlink to bolster the digital contract signing process, as […]

Cardano (ADA) parent IOHK announced a partnership yesterday with Wyoming-based BeefChain. The firms will build a solution for the traceability and security of beef products. Tracing beef with blockchain Jerry Fragiskatos, the chief commercial officer at IOHK, announced the partnership at the Cardano virtual conference held Wednesday. He said the effort will power ranchers to […]

After facing a prolonged bout of sideways trading, Ethereum has now found itself caught within the throes of an intense uptrend that came about suddenly yesterday. As buyers step up and catalyze some notable momentum, it now appears that bulls are making a bid at revisiting its 2020 highs that were set in February around […]