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Telegram is publicly testing its much-anticipated blockchain project ‘TON.’ The company’s blockchain will be compatible with Ethereum, allowing developers to port their Ethereum smart contracts, revealed a tech startup working on the project alongside Telegram. Ethereum DApps will be available on Telegram’s new blockchain project Telegram, one of the fastest-growing messaging apps in the world, […]

Binance acquired JEX, a little-known crypto derivatives trading platform. Concurrently, the exchange is publicly testing two Bitcoin futures platforms. These initiatives are part of Binance’s push to capture the crypto derivatives market and usurp incumbents BitMEX and Deribit. Binance’s Bitcoin futures The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange announced that its team is developing two futures platforms, in parallel, […]

Cardano will be making waves this September, with Charles Hoskinson confirming that the proof-of-stake Shelley testnet will launch ahead of schedule. This is on top of several other big updates, along with two more announcements that are yet to be revealed. Shelley testnet going live as early as mid-September With promises to change the world […]

Peter Brandt, a 40-years trading veteran, is back on the bullish side claiming that Bitcoin likely resumed its fourth “parabolic advance.” Parabolic Phases The author of “The Diary of a Professional Commodities Trader,” explained earlier this year that Bitcoin’s market valuation can be divided into three parabolic phases, based on 1-week charts. The first one […]

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, has said that in order to raise the gas limit for Ethereum’s next fork, the community should start an online campaign. An active Twitter and Reddit campaign would convince large mining pools to push the gas limits up and solve the network’s congestion problem. Ethereum’s congestion problem needs a […]

As Bitcoin broke below the $10,000 support, many saw this as a sign of an approaching bear market. However, zooming out showed that Bitcoin has been setting higher monthly lows throughout the year, rising from its lowest February point of $3,391 to its $9,163 July low. With just a day left until the end of […]

Coinbase, one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, will be forced to transfer all of the European accounts on their platform to another entity within the EU. In an email sent to its European users, the exchange said that a no-deal Brexit will prevent the company from providing e-money services to its […]

Cryptocurrency analyst @100trillionUSD pointed out that the premise that Bitcoin’s halving won’t have a significant effect on its price because Litecoin didn’t jump after its own is fundamentally wrong. The analyst said that unlike Bitcoin, Litecoin’s price doesn’t have a significant relationship with the stock-to-flow ratio, which makes its halvings less relevant to its price. […]

The hashrate of the Bitcoin network, which demonstrates the amount of computing power used to secure the protocol to process transactions, achieved a new all-time high at 83 exahashes. At the start of the year, the hashrate of the Bitcoin network was hovering at 35 exahashes, showing a 137 percent increase within an eight-month span. […]

Roger Ver’s newly announced cryptocurrency exchange wasn’t well-received by the crypto community. Bound to go live on Bitcoin.com next week, the exchange was heavily criticized, with some accusing Ver of scamming people and using the platform to wash trade Bitcoin Cash. Crypto exchange set to launch on Bitcoin.com receives community backlash There are only a […]