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IOHK has announced that Daedalus 1.0.0 mainnet wallet has finally launched and is now available to every user of Cardano (ADA). The launch of Daedalus comes after 18 months of work and marks the beginning of a series of important launches from IOHK that will bring about Shelley, the blockchain’s staking era. The company has […]

Tezos (XTZ) is up 28 percent in the past three days, well-outperforming Bitcoin which has increased by 11 percent in the same period. Three major factors are behind the strong momentum of the cryptocurrency. Three factors that are pushing the price of Tezos are thriving ecosystem supported by large grants for projects, stable asset portfolio […]

China’s long-touted digital currency will soon start trials at three U.S. restaurant chains in Beijing, the SCMP reported on April 23, 2020. Alongside the franchise giants in the upcoming trials are local gyms, hotels, convenience stores, and a bookstore. China looks to digital currency as it seeks to go cash-less As per local filings in […]

Throughout 2019 and the first part of 2020, the growth of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem captured investors’ attention, leading to a significant influx of investors into Ethereum while also giving rise to the fast-growing stablecoin sector. DeFi’s meteoric growth hasn’t come without growing pains, however, as multiple lending protocols have faced issues that impact […]

Bitcoin saw an explosive upside movement earlier today that caught the cryptocurrency’s bears off-guard, leading to over $75 million in positions to be liquidated. Open interest (OI) on popular crypto trading platform BitMEX has also plunged in the time following this movement, with the freshly liquidated positions apparently leading many traders to move to the […]

Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BTSE has announced the launch of a new tool that will make it easier to access OTC trading on the platform. In a press release shared with CryptoSlate, the company said that the Request for Quote (RFQ) tool will allow traders to obtain a quote on a fixed price before purchase, enabling […]

Bitcoin’s performance over the past few weeks since the mid-March bottom has undoubtedly been impressive. The cryptocurrency, after all, is up nearly 100 percent from the $3,700 lows, a performance that only companies that got supported by the U.S. government, like Boeing, have been able to match. Even still, the rally isn’t done yet. 8 […]

Bitcoin has been on a remarkable run over the past decade, despite the recent downturn. Case in point: the cryptocurrency, which first traded at around $0.001, is now worth upwards of $7,000, a percentage gain that is literally in the hundreds of millions of percent. While such a gain is ludicrous in and of itself, […]

Ethereum has seen a notable price spike today that has come in tandem with a recovery seen across the aggregated cryptocurrency market. This movement has allowed ETH to recapture its position above $180 as Bitcoin navigates into the $7,000 region. One interesting fundamental development that has coincided with Ethereum’s recent price rise is that its […]

Data suggests that large buyers – sometimes referred to as “smart money” – have been in full Bitcoin accumulation mode over the past couple of months, with the number of proverbial “whales” hitting multi-year highs just in the past week. From a macro perspective, this data metric is offering significant hope to investors, as it […]