Altcoins

The Chief Executive Officer of Binance – Changpeng Zhao (CZ) – said one reason why his company recently introduced the stablecoin FDUSD is the terminated partnership with Paxos. While the two entities teamed up in 2019 to launch the USD-denominated BUSD, the New York state regulators told Paxos to stop minting new tokens earlier this year. CZ said that, as of the moment, Binance has no intention to list its own stablecoin but rather collaborate with other companies focusing...

It may not seem like it today, with crypto markets tanking, but DeFi assets have been steadily recovering over the past month, according to Glassnode. On July 31, on-chain analytics platform Glassnode published a report on the state of DeFi tokens amid this year’s regulatory issues. “Regulatory conditions in 2023 have been a tug-of-war between positive and negative news, with altcoins and DeFi tokens being the most heavily impacted,” it stated. Regulatory conditions in 2023...

Where will non-fungible tokens (NFTs) be in the next few years? NFTs… Where Will the Future Take Them? NFTs were, at one point, the big rage of the crypto industry. They saw a lot of action and activity, and within two or three years, the arena was worth billions of dollars and was all the rage of crypto fanatics. However, since then, NFTs have taken a serious dive, and we’re not seeing that many people engaged with them anymore. In a recent roundtable that saw...

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Stellar lumen price is attempting a fresh increase from the $0.14 zone against the US Dollar. XLM price is now trading above $0.150 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There was a break above a major bearish trend line with resistance near $0.145 on the 4-hour chart (data feed via Kraken). The pair could start a major increase if there is a clear move above the $0.1650 resistance zone. Stellar lumen price is trading above $0.150 against the US Dollar,...

Ripple price started a fresh decline below the $0.785 zone against the US dollar. The price is now trading below $0.725 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There was a break above a key bearish trend line with resistance near $0.715 on the 4-hour chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex). The pair could extend losses if it breaks the $0.675 support zone. Ripple price is struggling below $0.765 against the US Dollar, similar to Bitcoin. XRP price...

The Bank of Canada published a report on Wednesday outlining Canadian crypto ownership trends last year. Its Bitcoin Omnibus Survey found that Bitcoin (BTC) ownership across the country declined from 13% to 10% of the population in 2022. The report noted that the ownership decline occurred on the back of Bitcoin’s massive price decline of over 50% throughout the year and increased regulatory scrutiny after FTX’s collapse in November. Altcoin ownership also decreased in 2022....

Bitcoin’s price movements continue to be highly uneventful as the asset continues to remain just inches above $29,000. Most altcoins have mimicked BTC’s performance, aside from DOGE, SHIB, UNI, and OP, all of which have jumped by more than 3% daily. BTC Boring at $29K It was precisely a week ago when the primary cryptocurrency tried its hand at taking down $30,300 but failed in its tracks, and the subsequent rejection pushed it south hard. In about a day, the asset had lost...

Michael Saylor, the former CEO of MicroStrategy, commented in an interview that the present SEC lawsuits against platforms like Coinbase and Binance will pave the way for bitcoin to become bigger than it’s ever been. Michael Saylor on the Future of BTC He anticipates that the bitcoin dominance in the crypto industry (which currently stands between 40 and 48 percent) will shoot up to a whopping 80 percent, leaving only a 20 percent margin for remaining altcoins. He...