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It has been a rocky past few years for the price of XRP. After incurring an explosive rally that sent it up to highs of nearly $4.00 in the first week of 2018, the cryptocurrency watched its buying pressure evaporate, causing it to plunge alongside the rest of the market. This decline eventually led it […]

An incident earlier this week showed what peak Decentralized Finance (DeFi) could look like — one where the smartest survive and rent-seekers are eradicated immediately. Gaming the game On June 25, Predictions Exchange tweeted FTX was creating tokens and listing them on CoinGecko, while supplying its own liquidity for capturing Balancer (BAL) distribution. The tweet […]

Chainlink’s immense momentum has shown some slight signs of slowing down after the cryptocurrency set fresh all-time highs yesterday. This slow-down doesn’t by any means mark a rejection, although it has faced some slight resistance just above its current price level that has slowed its advance. As for what could be fueling this immensely bullish […]

It was a long time coming. After Bitcoin’s May 12 halving event, many in the cryptocurrency community suggested weaker miners would move out of the market and leave much of the hash rate open to stronger players.  But, as the Bitcoin protocol is, the network’s hashrate adjusted itself negatively — meaning lower difficulty — allowing […]

Ethereum’s fundamental strength has grown immensely throughout 2020. This growth has come about due to a major shift in the ETH ecosystem’s landscape, with the rise of decentralized finance driving immense usership to the platform. One metric that shows just how heavily utilized ETH has become in recent times is its daily transaction count, which […]

The crypto market has seen a strong correction since its attempted breakout earlier this week, Cardano (ADA) has been no exception to this drop. From this week’s highs, the top altcoin has experienced a drawdown of over six percent. This is similar to that of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Unfortunately for ADA holders, data from a […]

Innovative Bitcoin products are not falling short of delivering this year, with institutional firms notching up one crypto product or other. While none are as bold as FTX’s Shit-perp futures, one Switzerland bank is providing investors a way to earn a handsome yield on Bitcoin prices — if they can stomach some losses along the […]

Much of the ICO boom in 2017 was driven by massive surges in ETH prices — with scammers, aspiring technologists choosing the Ethereum protocol to issue their tokens, and reap some profits off the frenzy. At the time, currently available stablecoins were either not popular or didn’t exist, meaning token holders had to sell their […]

It’s been hard not to hear about decentralized finance — better known as “DeFi” — over recent weeks. This crypto sub-sector, largely tied to Ethereum, is all over 4chan, Twitter, and crypto news sites like the one you read now. This is for good reason: due to the introduction of the Compound (COMP) and Balancer […]

Ethereum has been incurring intense fundamental strength in recent times. Much of this strength has come about as a result of the growing popularity of decentralized finance, which has ushered a significant number of new users into the ETH ecosystem. It still remains unclear as to whether or not DeFi is a lasting sector within […]