Crypto news

IOHK, the company behind Cardano, has partnered with Orion Protocol, becoming the first liquidity aggregator of the Cardano blockchain.  Orion has provided a non-custodial gateway to the crypto market by aggregating liquidity from crypto exchanges into a single DeFi platform. The partnership with Cardano comes after a series of integration to other protocols, such as Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche, and Elrond.  Cardano’s Bridge to the Crypto Market This partnership provides...

Ethereum has stolen the show in the past few days price-wise as the asset surged to a new all-time high at around $2,150 (as of writing these lines). While this may be surprising to some, on-chain data reveals the rapidly growing adoption of the network behind the second-largest cryptocurrency with new records for active addresses. Network Activity Behind ETH’s Latest ATH? The date was March 24th, and a market-wide correction wiped billions off the entire crypto space....

Bitcoin’s inability to overcome $60,000 has caused him a massive chunk of its dominance in the past few weeks as the metric is down to a 7-month low well beneath 60%. In contrast, some altcoins have charted impressive gains, including new all-time high records for Ethereum and Polkadot. Polkadot’s ATH Takes it to 4th Place The past several days have been quite bullish for the altcoin market. Ethereum led the charge with several consecutive green daily candles, resulting in...

Financial giant Goldman Sachs says it’s looking into potentially allowing its richest customers to invest in cryptocurrencies and crypto-related products within the next few months. The news comes after the firm says crypto demand from clients has reached an all-time high. Goldman Sachs Opens Its Doors to Crypto Mary Rich – global head of digital assets – says the bank is looking to permit crypto investing beginning in the second quarter of 2021. In an interview with...

This week was undoubtedly bullish for the entire cryptocurrency market, which came inches away from $2 trillion. This happened as Bitcoin looks to reclaim $60K, Ethereum surged above $2,000, and BNB saw a brand new all-time high. In retrospect, it was up only for the entire market during the last seven days. Bitcoin started trading at around $54K and progressed slowly but steadily through the week. On Monday, the price skyrocketed to above $58K before another leg up Tuesday,...

Early this week, PayPal began allowing cryptocurrency payments through its platform. The company has been on track to become a major haven for crypto-related activity since October of last year, and the platform’s goals just got much more serious. PayPal Says “Yes” To Digital Currency Payments While the service isn’t available to everyone just yet, many of PayPal’s users – when they purchase items – will be given several payment options when it’s time to check out, some...

Bitcoin mining continues to earn hate from environmentalists around the world, as the most recent calculations suggest the process requires more energy than the entire country of Sweden. Bitcoin Mining Gets More Expensive as the Price Expands A new report suggests that the higher the price goes, the more energy is needed to extract and mine new coins. Right now, bitcoin is traversing high $50,000 territory; it recently hit a new all-time high of approximately $61,000....

Ethereum has been on a roll in the past week or so by gaining over $500 of value. This has resulted in a new all-time high reached today of over $2,080. Just a little over a week ago – on March 24th – ETH dropped to a low of $1,520 during a market-wide retracement that drove all crypto assets south. However, the second-largest crypto has decisively reversed the trend since then. In the following nine days, ether added about $500, which led to breaking above $2,000 earlier...

Just a few weeks after IOTA introduced Mana in its testnet platform, the blockchain project has enhanced its trials by releasing a newer version of the Pollen testnet. It will be integrated into two Coordicide modules, which should serve as a major step towards achieving complete decentralization.  In a recent blog post, IOTA announced the release of Pollen v0.5.5, introducing several changes to its network. Most of them are concentrated towards the Coordicide modules, namely...

This week was undoubtedly bullish in the cryptocurrency market. The major coins saw serious increases. The same is true for small-cap cryptocurrencies, as the notion of a booming altcoin season is strengthening. Bitcoin Bitcoin is up by a strong 15.8% this week as the cryptocurrency starts to push back toward the $60,000 level. It found support at the 50-day MA last week, at around $50,200, and started to rebound. Throughout the course of the week, Bitcoin managed to push...