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Huobi, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges by market cap, is now running a Chainlink (LINK) node on its Wallet service, the firms announced in a release Thursday. Additionally, the exchange is making all its exchange data available on Chainlink’s smart contracts — which developers and applications can access via oracles. Actualizing price fees […]

It has been an exciting week for Cardano, with the ongoing rollout of the Shelly public mainnet electrifying the ADA community and sending the token’s price rocketing higher. The transition to Shelley is expected to increase the blockchain’s scalability and decentralization – two components vital to its future success. The CEO of Cardano’s parent company, […]

Popular non-custodial wallet MetaMask announced it will roll out a Version 8 update for the wallet in the coming weeks, promising increased privacy, a better UI, and other user-centric features. The wallet is popular on all DeFi exchanges and applications and may see increased installations as the broader DeFi sector grows. If you’ve used UniSwap, […]

If you’ve followed the crypto market over the past months, you’ve likely noticed what many others have: a majority of the best-performing altcoins are based on decentralized finance (DeFi). The image below from crypto analyst Taha Zafar depicts this trend well. While two weeks old, the table shows that as of the time of his […]

Bitcoin, and the cryptocurrency market, has largely traded in a tight price band since an initial rise in early-2020. Fund managers have taken note and are actively considering BTC as a hedge against global markets. In fact, the traditional markets are, as Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin puts it, turning into what the world thought crypto-markets would […]

Cardano’a parent company IOHK started off the Shelley Virtual Summit with 5 major announcements, unveiling some of the innovations that were made possible by the public mainnet launch of Shelley, including its identity solution PRISM, a new model for governance on Voltaire, as well as a $20 million fund aimed at dApp development on Cardano. […]

The transaction per second (TPS) metric is informally considered the standard for the scalability of any blockchain. High TPS means a battle-tested network capable of scalability and fast processing of user transactions. This partly helps in positioning blockchain as a steady alternative to centralized providers. Currently, Bitcoin provides 4 TPS, while Ethereum goes up to […]

Compound’s meteoric rise in the crypto-space is coupled with the rise of DeFi tokens and retail traders chasing the next moonshot. COMP, Compound’s native token, rose over 600 percent from a listing price of $61 to over $350 on June 21, before steadily falling to its current $195 level. At press time, COMP is a […]

Prior to the pandemic, it was a common narrative in crypto space that Bitcoin was immune to any macroeconomic and geopolitical issues. In fact, many argued that chaos, at least in some forms, is what drives BTC higher. Yet, if the cryptocurrency market’s brutal crash in March says anything, it’s that this sentiment may not […]

Binance, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world, has officially received the third ever branded Twitter emoji in the industry, after Bitcoin and Crypto.com. Binance celebrates third birthday with a branded Twitter emoji After payments platform Crypto.com became the second cryptocurrency to get its own emoji on Twitter, the community was abuzz with […]