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The state of the broader crypto-market hasn’t been winsome lately. The diminishing returns offered by top coins including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano have triggered a drop in the global crypto-market cap too. In effect, the state of the on-chain metrics for most of these cryptos has started withering already. However, Polygon’s tale has been slightlyContinue reading “Polygon’s struggles on the on-chain front could mean this for MATIC”

Bitcoin and Gold. At press time, both of these asset classes were trading in the red. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap, was trading under the $42k-mark whereas the yellow metal stood at $1,730. Both registered corrections of about 4% and 1%, respectively, yesterday. Needless to say, this is doing little to alleviateContinue reading “Bitcoin could soon be ‘off to the races’ and hit $90,000 if…”

While most of the market’s alts were hesitant and complacent over the weekend, UNI’s price pumped significantly. In fact, in less than two days, the crypto’s valuation managed to inch from its $17.7 low to a weekly high of $26, before corrections set in. Role of China FUD In China, the crypto-space has remained underContinue reading “Can Uniswap capitalize on China’s crackdown on crypto”

Bitcoin has come a long distance since its inception. A year ago it traded at the $10k mark, fast forward to 2021, it stands just above the $43k mark. Needless to say, a lot has changed since then. With countries as well financial institutions adopting it, there’s a mass adoption factor at play. Where doContinue reading “Bitcoin: Here’s what you can expect over the next 12 months”

Just a day back, the Cardano-Chainlink partnership was officially announced. Apart from the aforementioned networks mutually benefiting from the new collaboration, the DeFi space is also in a position to reap both tangible and intangible benefits from the same. As per the official announcement, developers using the Cardano blockchain would be able to feed Chainlink’sContinue reading “Will the Cardano-Chainlink partnership be a real game-changer for the alts”

Voyager Digital’s third-quarter sentiment survey found that 96% of investors were confident in crypto’s near future. This marked a rise, compared the 81% investor confidence recorded previously, in Q2 2021. With respect to Bitcoin, 8 out of 10 investors were bullish for the coin in the upcoming quarter. This was largely owing to the expectationContinue reading “Is the China ban ‘a precursor’ to a similar turn of events in the U.S.”

It has been almost two weeks since Alonzo went live on Cardano’s network. The narrative before the hard fork was largely conformist, one that proclaimed ADA’s price would soon surge to new heights after its release. The hard fork, however, turned out to be a ‘non-event‘ and did not impact the token’s price much. InContinue reading “Following the latest ‘non-event,’ what’s next on the price front for Cardano”

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has been quite the head-turner and is often referred to as a game-changer for the blockchain. The Lightning Network aims to enable fast, digitally native payment infrastructure for BTC without sacrificing its core principles of security, privacy, and availability. At the time of writing, BTC’s Lightning Network had hit an all-time-high capacityContinue reading “Bitcoin’s LN packs a punch, but is it truly far from having security concerns “

Ever since the Alonzo hard fork took place on the Cardano network earlier this month, its developers have been on their toes to maximize its smart contract functionality. While its commercial arm EMURGO had announced the development of a DeFi platform on Cardano last week, its development team Input Output HK (IOHK) has now revealedContinue reading “Cardano layer-2 solution, Hydra to improve scalability among other things”