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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 […]

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 […]