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A dubious crypto fund, Zeus Capital, is reportedly offering prominent Twitter members up to 5 Bitcoin to post a short-biased price analysis for Chainlink (LINK). Rewards for spreading “FUD” Screenshots and tweets on Thursday showed the fund — whose identity and legitimacy is not verified yet — was giving monetary awards to influential Twitter users. […]

Bitcoin’s intense rally past $11,000 this week came about as a surprise to many investors, as the crypto was previously facing historically low volatility as traders shifted their focus to altcoins. The sharp movement that led the benchmark digital asset up to these highs has altered its fundamental strength for the better, with BTC now […]

Decentralized financial platform Aave introduced a new plan today that is an integral part of their push towards a more decentralized governance structure. It also entails a tokenswap that converts LEND to AAVE with a 100:1 ratio. The new “tokenomics” plan that results from this swap was announced in a blog post from earlier today. […]

It’s been an explosive past few days for the Bitcoin market. Even after a 4.5 percent drop from the local highs of $11,500, BTC remains up 17.86 percent in the past seven days as per CryptoSlate data. There have been some analysts that have been quick to swat down the ongoing rally. One trader, for […]

One of the biggest narratives over recent weeks has been Ethereum’s extremely high transaction fees. Although the blockchain has seen a strong uptick in active users, transactions, and network utilization due to DeFi, the cost to send transactions has risen as a result. And risen dramatically at that. Below is a screenshot I took of […]

Cardano (ADA) has now officially transitioned from the Byron mainnet to the Shelley mainnet via a hard fork. The launch of Shelley has now brought about staking and helped Cardano transition from a centralized federated system to a fully delegated proof-of-stake. Users are now able to cold stake ADA directly from their Ledger hardware wallets, […]

The Shelley hard fork of Cardano (ADA) set to happen later today could send the price of ADA spiraling upwards. Data from IntoTheBlock has shown that there isn’t any major supply barrier that could stop ADA from rising 15% if the current demand for the token was to continue. Strong support at $0.12 could prevent […]

Litecoin — long heralded as the “digital silver” to Bitcoin — led gains in border crypto market this week as the DeFi boom, poor economic outlook in traditional markets, and the rise of gold sparked somewhat of a crypto run. Litecoin a “leading” indicator Founder Charlie Lee pointed out the digital currency was once again […]

The DeFi market has exploded in recent times, bringing back ICO-like returns on some projects. But a recent report said that despite the frenzy, the sector remains a fraction of the crypto space and is worth less than XRP or Bitcoin Cash. Even Dogecoin worth more  Ryan Watkins, an analyst at Messari, tweeted yesterday that […]

Ethereum’s much-awaited validator testnet was launched yesterday, as per a release on the site’s official blog. Interested members and teams can now test validators ahead of the Medalla multi-client testnet launch, in what marks a historic milestone in the history of the Ethereum network.  The development comes after “months of hard work” from the ETH […]