Category: Altcoins
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IOHK on the brink of securing a massive Cardano government contract in Africa
IOHK, the company behind the Cardano blockchain, is in the final stages of securing a huge government contract in Africa. According to John O’Connor, the director of African Operations at IOHK, the project could add millions of users to Cardano for real-world blockchain implementation. IOHK making major strides in Africa with real-world blockchain solution built…
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Blockchain Innovation Done the Polkadot Way According to Gavin Wood
In a recent Realvision interview, the developer Gavin Wood explains how Polkadot reimagines the innovation ecosystem from the ground up. Wood also discusses how the Polkadot protocol is both similar but also different than Ethereum, the second-largest crypto asset by market valuation. Polkadot: A Bet Against Maximalism Innovation involves the pioneering and actualization of a…
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A Mysterious Dogecoin Address Absorbed 27% of the Supply, the Top 20 Addresses Captured 50%
Just recently, the crypto asset dogecoin has seen some significant price gains and on Wednesday, Tesla’s founder Elon Musk tweeted about the digital currency incessantly. While people have been discussing the dogecoin pumps and Elon’s suggestive tweets, crypto supporters have been discussing a single dogecoin address that holds 36 billion tokens or more than 27%…
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IOHK delegates 3.2M ADA to 100 Cardano community pools
To further distance itself from the actual running of the Cardano blockchain, IOHK has delegated 3.2 million of its own ADA to 100 different stake pools ran by the Cardano community. This is part of IOHK’s larger plan to delegate funds to a new set of pools each quarter and support operators in developing countries.…
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Elon Musk boosts Dogecoin by 76% with a rocket tweet
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has just boosted “meme crypto” Dogecoin (DOGE) in the stratosphere by just tweeting a photograph of a rocket taking off and adding a single word to it: “Doge.” In just one hour, the price of DOGE surged by up to 75.6% and reached around $0.056. The coin’s 24-hour trading volume has…
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The Cardano treasury now holds almost double the funds raised in the 2016 ICO
With over 276.5 million ADA currently sitting in its treasury, it’s safe to say that Cardano has got the back of its community. However, this number becomes even more relevant when considering the fact that the treasury now holds almost double the funds that were raised in the project’s 2016 ICO. The value of Cardano’s…
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Doge Token Pumps After Elon Musk Tweets ‘Dogecoin Is the People’s Crypto’
Elon Musk has tweeted that dogecoin is people’s crypto shortly after the billionaire pledged to go off the social media platform for while. Incidentally, the token, which traded at $0.0411 on February 3, surged to $0.0588 just as Musk was tweeting. However, at the time of writing, the token appeared to have retreated to $0.0541,…
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Today’s Mary hard fork will bring Cardano one step closer to Goguen
Mary, one of the two hard forks set to transition Cardano from Shelley to Goguen, is scheduled to take place at 20:00 UTC today. The long-anticipated hard fork will finally bring native asset support to Cardano, a move that will unlock decentralized finance on the network. Native asset support coming to the Cardano testnet later…
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Today’s Mary hard fork will bring Cardano one step closer to Goguen
Mary, one of the two hard forks set to transition Cardano from Shelley to Goguen, is scheduled to take place at 20:00 UTC today. The long-anticipated hard fork will finally bring native asset support to Cardano, a move that will unlock decentralized finance on the network. Native asset support coming to the Cardano testnet later…
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Polkadot (DOT) has set out to solve the problem of fast innovation
One of the most decentralized networks in the world, Polkadot created a spark that ignited the blockchain revolution and the switch towards more community-oriented protocols. We explore what’s behind the network that calls itself a “chain of chains” and wants to disrupt the way people innovate with blockchain technology. Polkadot is an exercise of blockchain…