The Fed and Treasury have established their skepticism when it comes to cryptocurrencies and other digital assets. The industry with a market capitalization of about $1.4 trillion has garnered a lot of attention for itself lately. Amid the many speculations, a more recent and rather bizarre comparison was when the Federal Reserve’s vice chairman forContinue reading “Here’s what the Fed vice chair had to say about Bitcoin, CBDCs and parachute pants”

If a year ago someone told you that a meme-coin, practically a shitcoin could be the most popular cryptocurrency competing with Ethereum, you would think it is possible only in a mad world. Well, the crypto ecosystem isn’t short of any insanity and takes everyone including the Dogecoin creators by surprise.  In a recent surveyContinue reading “Dogecoin outshines Ethereum, BNB, Cardano, and XRP under this condition!”

Major ecosystem-centric upgrades play a vital role in altcoin rallies, irrespective of the larger sentiment of the wider cryptocurrency market. Over the last couple of months, one such heated ecosystem has been the Theta protocol. The Theta ecosystem has seen some exciting price hikes over the last month, ahead of its upcoming Mainnet 3.0 launchContinue reading “What next for THETA after latest Guardian Node release?”

As the market continued to make a slow and steady recovery after the 21 June dip, some altcoins bounced back up earlier than expected. On the contrary, others pictured a more consolidated range and struggled to pull their values up. EOS, for instance, tested its lower support level as its price fell to its FebruaryContinue reading “Dogecoin, EOS, MATIC Price Analysis: 26 June”

The crypto-market has been rather unstable over the past month. The king coin’s correction phase and its subsequent downtrend triggered an increased volatility phase for altcoins as well. The global crypto-market cap that had touched the $2.5-trillion mark in May came crashing down to 1.3 trillion, at the time of writing, highlighting a 47% drop. Continue reading “Traders’ appetite for risk is increasing? Seems the case with Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, ENJ, UNI”

Klaytn, a public blockchain project led by the South Korean Internet giant Kakao, recently announced the listing of its KLAY token on Binance. Soon after the announcement, KLAY’s price grew by over 50% from its 24-hour low of $0.8492 to a high of $1.2769, before showing slight drops and settling at $1.00 at press time.Continue reading “Why there’s more to KLAY’s hike than the Binance listing”

The crypto-space is not new to criticism and jibes that come amid backlashes from some countries and sweet acceptances from others. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have always attracted strong criticism, especially from bankers around the world. The latest to do so is French economist Jean Claude Trichet.  During a recent TV appearance, Trichet, who servedContinue reading “If Bitcoin isn’t a ‘real cryptocurrency,’ what is?”

As the market continued to make slow and steady recovery, some altcoins bounced back up earlier than expected while others highlighted more volatility and steeper ups and downs. With new updates in the SEC v. Ripple lawsuit rearing their heads every other day, XRP hiked after the 21 June fall. VeChain, on the contrary, madeContinue reading “XRP, Chainlink, VeChain Price Analysis: 25 June “

With the global Smart Contracts, market size projected to reach $345.4 million (by 2026) from $106.7 Million in 2019, increased concerns about security risks have been looming over major exchanges.  In the light of this, US cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, recently unveiled new tools to detect and classify smart contract security risks. In a blog postedContinue reading “Coinbase unveils security tool to detect Smart Contract risks”

With Bitcoin’s price highlighting increased volatility and steep ups and downs, the most prominent alt – Ethereum – was quick to follow its lead. At press time, even though BTC’s price showed slight gains, ETH’s price was continuing on its downward trend.  On the contrary, while Cardano [ADA] noted a 14.80% dip over the lastContinue reading “Ethereum, Cardano, Polkadot Price Analysis: 24 June”

What happens when a crypto millionaire, the founder of one of Canada’s top crypto exchanges with secret access to $180 million in Bitcoin and other digital assets “dies” at the age of 30 under suspicious circumstances? Well, for one, numerous stories around the mysterious death of this young mogul start mushrooming, as banks, investors, andContinue reading “QuadrigaCX and missing Bitcoin: Did Gerald Cotten ‘fake his own death’?”

Polygon (MATIC) a coin that saw an almost 6962% growth since the beginning of 2021, still continues to be one of the top 20 coins. It is making new implementations that can drastically improve the network.  The development team behind Polygon (MATIC) recently laid out a proposal for the implementation of EIP-1559 on its network,Continue reading “Polygon proposes implementing EIP-1559 on its network; so what changes?”