Category: Adoption

ConsenSys acquires Truffle Suite, the world’s most used blockchain developer tools

ConsenSys, the largest Ethereum venture production studio, has acquired Truffle Suite, the company behind one of the most widely used blockchain developer tools. In a press release shared with CryptoSlate, the company said that the addition of Truffle to ConsenSys will provide enterprise customers with a wider array of services and a slew of high-quality,…

November 17, 2020
DeFi is here to stay despite signs of a bubble, says Binance CEO

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are the best form of money, Binance’s CEO says.

November 17, 2020
Retail Is Coming: Game of Thrones star asks Twitter if she should long Bitcoin

It appears that we’re in the part of the Bitcoin bull run where celebrities want in on our favorite orange coin. Joining a number of other prominent celebrities, “Game of Thrones” star Maisie Williams recently asked her Twitter followers if she should buy the leading cryptocurrency. Arya Stark actress asks if she should buy Bitcoin…

November 16, 2020
Cardano’s Goguen update brings native tokens implementation and better dev tools

Cardano’s Goguen team has spent the first two weeks of November working on bringing native token and token locking functionalities to the Ledger hardware wallet. In the latest Goguen rollout development update, the team revealed that they kicked off the Marlowe Alpha grogram and gave the community a glimpse of the work that’s set to…

November 16, 2020
Why this Wall Street fund quietly signaled its intention to invest in Bitcoin

Bitcoin is up 60 percent in the past month alone. This performance makes it the best-performing macro asset, hands down. It’s no surprise that considering this performance, investors want in. While retail interest in the cryptocurrency market has yet to pick up as BTC is not yet past its $20,000 all-time high, Wall Street investors…

November 16, 2020
COVID-19 popularized decentralization, but blockchain may not catch on

Some predicted the pandemic would provide the “perfect storm” for blockchain adoption. Did they overpromise?

November 16, 2020
Another mainstream company is seeking approval to invest in crypto

Anthony Scaramucci’s investment firm, SkyBridge, seeks approval from the SEC to invest in crypto.

November 16, 2020
“YouTube’s King” PewDiePie briefly mentioned Ethereum in a recent video

While he’s not an outspoken advocate for cryptocurrency, Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, known online as “PewDiePie,” has been increasingly been getting involved in the space, often through sponsorships. This much was made clear just recently when he briefly mentioned Ethereum in a YouTube video that has been watched nearly four million times as of this…

November 16, 2020
Intercom co-founder jumps onto the “Bitcoin wagon,” encourages others

Eoghan McCabe, the co-founder of the software conglomerate Intercom, said he jumped onto the Bitcoin wagon. In a tweet, McCabe encouraged others to do the same. In recent months, the perception of Bitcoin as a store of value and a hedge against inflation has been strengthening. The purchase of $425 million worth of Bitcoin announced…

November 16, 2020
Why a Citibank analyst is calling a $318k target for Bitcoin

The banks are borderline following the playbook created by Bitcoin and cryptocurrency believers in the past few years: Deny all ties to the asset class at first, try to disallow clients from banking crypto profits to their accounts then, and wholeheartedly embracing the sector later. Citibank’s the latest to do so, after banks in Asia…

November 16, 2020