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Finishing the business week with some big announcements made by Theta Network, Stellar Lumens and Neo.Theta announced today that it has launched the ThetaSwap v1, the first DEX for Theta Blockchain. The ThetaSwap is built on AMM (Automated Market Making) logic similar to UniSwap, which allows to seamlessly exchange TNT20 – Theta-native tokens built on Theta Network. Theta sees a great opportunity in use of Theta Network and ThetaSwap for influencers, streamers, who build their fan tokens and...

Binance Coin, the native token of the world’s leading crypto exchange Binance, has been surging in the past several days to new all-time high records. Despite jumping above $60 earlier today, company CEO Changpeng Zhao urged people to stay calm as this is “just the beginning.”BNB’s Painted A New ATHWhile bitcoin and some altcoins, such as ETH, DOT, and LINK, took center stage during the recent bull run, Binance Coin seemed rather neglected. Although BNB had also increased in value since early...

Bitcoin cash price is currently struggling to clear the $450 resistance against the US Dollar.The price is trading nicely above the $420 level and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours).There is a major ascending channel forming with support near $420 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair is likely to clear the $450 resistance as long as it is above $400 in the near term.Bitcoin cash price is slowly moving higher towards $450 against the US Dollar, while...

Luno – a digital asset exchange based in Malaysia – has released a statement explaining that the institutional interest that drove bitcoin’s meteoric price spikes during 2020 is likely to last throughout this new year.Luno Says Institutional Love of BTC Will Last Through 2021During 2020, many large institutional firms – including MicroStrategy, MassMutual and Stone Ridge – invested hundreds of millions of dollars into the world’s largest digital currency by market cap. The idea was that...

Following today’s remarks from Musk, Dogecoin price has rallied by 55%.The world’s richest man is once again talking about crypto. This time about his ‘favorite’ crypto Dogecoin. Elon Musk after bidding goodbye to his followers on Twitter a few days ago is back. More importantly, his return has been marked by a series of tweets about Dogecoin. The tweets on Dogecoin by Musk have since lit the crypto community and sent DOGE price soaring by over 50% in the last few hours.Elon Musk has shier...

Revealing plans for 2021, PayPal said its “Buy, Hold, and Sell cryptocurrencies” initiative would be expanded to “Venmo and select international markets.”Global online payments company PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PYPL) now offers crypto payments for any of its 29 million merchants later in the first quarter of the year. The company is also planning to expand its horizon by extending its “roadmap around crypto, blockchain, and digital currencies.”PayPal Crypto Payments for MerchantsPayPal is...

In a Q4 2020 investor update, PayPal revealed that it recorded fourth-quarter and fiscal year financial results that were far beyond its expectations. The company noted that it was its strongest fiscal year, with high payment volume and new accounts further strengthening its scale.PayPal recorded a massive surge in the number of active accounts on its platform, with a whopping 16 million active accounts in Q4 2020 alone. For fiscal 2020, the company added 72.7 million net new active accounts,...

The integration of cryptocurrency purchase options for Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and other limited altcoins has proven to be the right move for PayPal as shown in its Q4 results.American payment giant PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PYPL) has released its Q4 2020 result in which it posted a better than expected growth. According to the earnings release, the company recorded a 72% increase year-on-year in the number of its new accounts which came in at 16 million for the quarter.In addition,...

The total crypto market cap has surged to a new all-time high of $1.150 trillion as bitcoin topped $38,000 before retracing back below it. Most alternative coins also marked substantial gains, including fresh all-time highs for Ethereum and Polkadot.Bitcoin Touched $38KAfter the calm weekend in which BTC retraced to about $32,000, the primary cryptocurrency started to gradually increase its value. This led to yesterday’s break out from the consolidation triangle and an intraday high of...

The total value of the DeFi market has jumped by 2,000% in just twelve months, but compared to the total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies, DeFi accounts for less than 2%. This means that there is plenty of room for growth and in 2021, DeFi could take off if the authorities do not impose any restrictions or attack the growing number of stablecoins.It is possible that the total value locked in the DeFi space will surpass $100 billion, as there will be greater integration of...