Tether (USDT)

Ethereum has set a new ATH. In the last 24 hours, the second largest coin has climbed above $1,900. The digital asset is slowly inching closer to a much revered $2,000 price tag.Little stands in the way of Ethereum doubling its 2017 high. After showing strong resilience at $1,800 and setting news ATH, Ethereum now looks set for a breakout. As Ethereum (ETH) price nears $2,000, it is becoming clear that doubling the 2017 high could be easier than expected.Among the best performers in the...

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Ethereum followed Bitcoin’s price through a correction earlier today. However, in doing so, it has also reached oversold levels on the Relative Strength Index (RSI) which are typically followed by a serious uptrend.Ethereum’s Price Goes Through a CorrectionAs CryptoPotato reported earlier today, Bitcoin’s price went through a mild correction which saw it dipping below $46,000 after a rejection at the coveted $50,000 level.Many altcoins followed and ETH was among them. The correction in ETH’s...

Leading cryptocurrency exchanges are rushing to add support for assets based on the Algorand blockchain. The recent additions will allow users to deposit and withdraw assets such as Tether (USDT) and USDC using the Algorand protocol. Users will also be able to trade those assets for other cryptocurrencies in a seamless manner.Assets built on the Algorand network are denoted with the suffix, ASA, to differentiate them from those on other blockchains such as ERC20 for Ethereum and TRC for Tron...

Roubini thinks the crypto industry might collapse if Tether and Bitfinex are indicted later this year. In an interview on CoinDesk Tv, NYU economics professor Nouriel Roubini criticized the recent crypto involvement of Elon Musk while the Tesla company stacked Bitcoin, calling it market manipulation. According to Roubini, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should investigate Musk on market manipulation charges.Notably, Musk has in the past endorsed Bitcoin and Dogecoin...

Ethereum – the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap and the number one competitor to bitcoin – has shot up like no other currency this week. The asset has lost much of the attention thanks to bitcoin once again rising beyond the $37,000 mark in the past few days, but it has still set a new precedent and has traders talking about what’s to become of the world’s primary altcoin.Ethereum Is Growing Like No Other CoinEthereum initially began in 2015, which makes it considerably...

It appears that the IEO season is coming back as the newest project that saw its listing on the Binance Launchpad charted massive gains of about 1800% upon being launched.Binance IEO SafePal (SFP) Goes ParabolicInvestors in the latest Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) that took place on the Binance Launchpad platform saw handsome gains of up to 1800%.SafePal (SFP) saw its listing price at $0.10 and skyrocketed up to $1.9 in the first moments after its listing. While it can be argued that it’s...

Following the recent attack on the Yearn.Finance protocol, major U.S. dollar stablecoin company Tether froze $1.7 million worth of USDT stolen from the platform. Meanwhile, Bitfinex disclosed that it had made the last loan repayment to Tether.Tether Freeze Raises Centralization ConcernsTether CTO Paolo Ardoino announced the news of the USDT freeze via his Twitter handle on Friday (Feb. 5, 2021). The company’s action would subsequently prevent the hacker from spending the stolen funds.....

News of the hack caused the Yearn’s native currency YFI to fall by around 15%, from $35,000 to just under $30,000On February 5, Yearn Finance confirmed that their V1 yDAI vault has been exploited by a hacker. The DAI vault lost $11M with the hacker making away with $2.8M of this. Yearn has in the last few hours reassured the community that the attack has been mitigated with a full report to follow.The attack on the Yearn Finance vault was confirmed by Banteg from the Yearn team who posted on...

Tether has dominated stablecoin markets for the past three years as the treasury has kept churning them out with a record level of almost 27 billion in USDT circulating now.The latest figures from CoinMetrics, however, indicate that its market share has dropped below 75% for the first time ever. More stablecoin options are good for the industry in general as reliance on one centralized provider for dollar-pegged assets is never a good idea.$USDT market dominance in stablecoins is below 75%...