The holidays are the perfect time of the year for giving back, and the rise of cryptocurrencies has created even more opportunities for charitable initiatives. This was highlighted during Giving Tuesday 2021, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving which saw over $2.4 million raised in cryptocurrency from the nonprofit fundraising platform The Giving Block. As crypto philanthropy …
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Ethereum (ETH) competitor Terra (LUNA) is surging in terms of both the price of its native asset and its network’s total value locked (TVL). LUNA, the 9th-ranked crypto asset by market cap, is up more than 123% in the past 30 days and is trading at $97.36 at time of writing. The project’s market cap …
Charles Hoskinson is looking forward to a busy 2022 as smart contract platform Cardano (ADA) pursues long-term growth within the global market. In a new solo YouTube chat, the Cardano founder and CEO of Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK) tells his 300,000 subscribers about 2021 milestones and the future goals he’s working toward. A major …
New statistics show that Ethereum (ETH) whales are gobbling up gaming and social altcoins as the crypto market recovers from its latest pullback. The top 1,000 ETH whales are snapping up millions of dollars worth of metaverse tokens, stablecoins and ETH-based altcoins, according to whale-surveying platform WhaleStats. WhaleStats reveals that the top 10 coins being …
Tristan is the core contributor to Zeta Markets, an under-collateralized DeFi derivatives platform, providing liquid derivatives trading to individuals and institutions alike. “We’ve seen a Cambrian explosion in the DeFi ecosystem in 2021, with peak TVL approaching $300 billion vs the 2020 peak of $21 billion. This sounds like the growth surely has to slow. …
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This year, new research showed that there’s still a long way to go before there is gender parity in the crypto and blockchain space. WEF’s April Global Gender Gap Report 2021 found that it will take close to 135.6 years to close the gender gap due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, that hasn’t stopped these …
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Cryptocurrency trader Lark Davis is listing Ethereum and two altcoins among his top investment picks for 2022. Davis tells his 475,000 YouTube subscribers that Ethereum and two altcoins will make “good returns for investors” next year. In the case of Ethereum, the crypto trader and analyst says the second-largest digital asset by market cap could …
The wish of owning cryptocurrencies this Christmas came true for a 12-year-old schoolkid with an intelligence quotient (IQ) higher than Albert Einstein. Barnaby Swinburn, a resident of Bristol, England had asked for two Christmas presents, a Mensa test for testing his IQ and a cryptocurrency portfolio. According to BristolLive, Swinburn scored the highest possible score …
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Bitcoin (BTC) held $50,000 into Dec. 25 as BTC bulls avoided an unwelcome Christmas Day surprise. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView “Bears become bulls” short term? Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD maintaining $50,000 support into the weekend, having ranged after local highs above $51,500. The pair was calm as the …
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A Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Dogecoin (DOGE) competitor has skyrocketed in value this week as Bitcoin and numerous other crypto projects have seen significant price increases. The meme coin Dogelon Mars (ELON) has surged by nearly 50% in the past seven days and is trading at $0.000002 at time of writing. The 126th-ranked crypto asset …
Public blockchain network Terra has confirmed an ongoing scam attack via an official governance poll on Mirror, an in-house synthetic assets protocol. According to Mirror, the attacker launched a public poll on Mirror’s official website, which proposes a freeze on the community pool in case of a scam. NEW MIRROR POLL! ALERT: Poll 211 is …
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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reportedly confirmed the completion of a crypto law draft that will soon be shared with the Parliament for mainstream implementation in the country. In an effort to counter the falling value of the Turkish lira, President Erdoğan shared plans to implement a new economic model while speaking at a …
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Michael Saylor is one of the most vocal supporters of bitcoin and is CEO of MicroStrategy, the company with the largest bitcoin holdings in the world. The CEO has always been a big proponent of the digital asset, taking both a personal and professional stake in the asset. Saylor had revealed in 2020 that he …
Ripple Labs managed to stay strong in 2021 despite the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s “attack on crypto”, AKA the lawsuit against Ripple and its executives. Now the payments solutions company celebrates its “strongest year ever”. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced the achievements and had some comments to share about the SEC’s case. Ripple’s first …
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As Bitcoin once again breaks past the $51k mark, on-chain data suggests more than 20k BTC exited exchanges before this price move. Bitcoin Netflows Say Around 20k BTC Flowed Out Of All Exchanges Yesterday As pointed out by a CryptoQuant post, netflows amounted to 20k BTC exiting exchanges yesterday, the largest spike since September. The …
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