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This week was undoubtedly an altcoin party. Even though Bitcoin is up quite a bit in the past seven days, it was altcoins that stole the show, charting major increases almost every single day.Let’s start with BTC, though. It began the week at around $34,000 and was rather indecisive in the first few days, dipping below $33,000 on a few occasions. However, it was on Tuesday when the price started going up, reaching a weekly high at just shy of $39,000 before settling to where it’s currently...

The decentralized finance field continues expanding in all directions as the total value locked in various projects has tapped $35 billion. At the same time, numerous DeFi tokens have exploded in price in the past 24 hours, including an all-time high for Chainlink and double-digit pumps for Aave, Maker, Synthetix, Compound, and more.Skyrocketing DeFi TokensThe total crypto market cap marked a new all-time high today at over $1.170 trillion, and DeFi coins have attributed the most to these...

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 world’s leading payment processor, Visa, has announced a partnership with First Boulevard – a digital neobank that is focused on building generational wealth for the Black Community.The aim of this collaboration is to pilot Visa’s new suite of cryptocurrency API’s that will enable the company’s customers to purchase, custody, and to trade digital assets held by Anchorage.Anchorage is a federally chartered digital asset bank.As CryptoPotato reported last week, the company said that it...

Despite another attempt to overcome $35,000, bitcoin has continued to trade inside the tight range of $33K to $35K.In contrast, large-cap altcoins, along with some DeFi ‘stars’ had performed a lot better. This includes a new ATH for Binance Coin, Ethereum rising above $1400, getting near the previous January 2018 ATH range. On the other side, XRP has plummeted following the recent gains.Binance Coin Surpassing $50 To New ATHMost of the large-cap altcoin market is well in the green against the...

After a sharp drop that led BTC for another retest of $32,000, the asset has recovered and climbed back up to nearly $34,000, as of now. However, its dominance continues to decrease as some alternative coins have outperformed their leader, including XRP surging above $0.60.Bitcoin Eyes $34,000The primary cryptocurrency went through a roller-coaster on Friday after Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk updated his Twitter profile to include “Bitcoin” as the only description.The asset responded with an...

The debate as to whether or not we are still very early on in the cryptocurrency space is one that’s been going on for quite some time. For some reason, a lot of people tend to tie it up to the current pricing of different cryptocurrencies – something, that in my opinion, has nothing to do with the bedrock of the conversation.We’re in a bubble. Well, at least most of us are in a bubble. And I’m not talking about prices.The Bitcoin BubbleWhether you realize it or not, we’re in a bubble. Me,...

Following the highly volatile few days in which BTC displayed $6,000 price moves in both directions, the cryptocurrency has calmed around $34,000. At the same time, XRP and a few more altcoins have exploded in value and reduced BTC’s dominance to 62.5%. Uniswap’s UNI token even hit $20.XRP’s Massive Surge Reclaims #4th SpotThe past few days have been anything but boring in the cryptocurrency space – from the retail-driven hype for Dogecoin and up to four-digit gains, through the Elon...

Visa, the world’s leading payment processor with millions of merchants in its network and hundreds of millions of users, might add cryptocurrencies to its payments network.Visa Jumps on the Crypto BandwagonVisa, the multinational financial services corporation, might be joining the cryptocurrency bandwagon.In the company’s fiscal first-quarter 2021 earning call, the CEO of the company, Al Kelly, said that they are in a position to make cryptocurrencies more “safe, useful, and applicable.”In...

There are no boring days on the cryptocurrency market, and that’s particularly true for this week. After the GameStop saga, Dogecoin’s pump, and Elon Musk putting Bitcoin in his bio, it appears that it’s now XRP’s time to shine.The price for Ripple’s native cryptocurrency, XRP, has increased by as much as 80% in a few short hours. Less than 12 hours ago, the coin was trading at around $0.28 but has since surged to an intraday high of $0.51 for an increase of about 80%.The price has since...