Category: Altcoins

IOHK launches the new Plutus Playground for Cardano (ADA) developers

IOHK, the company behind the Cardano blockchain, has announced the launch of the new Plutus Playground. The playground represents a new testing environment enabling developers to write and deploy test versions of Plutus smart contracts for Cardano. Developers can now test Plutus smart contracts on Cardano With Cardano’s Goguen phase set to see the light…

January 28, 2021
Mark Cuban reveals his crypto wallet and Ethereum DeFi coins

Mark Cuban, billionaire investor and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, has inadvertently “doxxed” his Ethereum (ETH) wallet today, revealing a cornucopia of mostly DeFi ERC-20 tokens that he holds. I definitely got my share of shitcoins lol. — Mark Cuban (@mcuban) January 28, 2021 “I definitely got my share of shitcoins lol,” Cuban replied…

January 28, 2021
Major Russian Bank Sberbank Files Application to Launch Its Own Stablecoin — Possibly Pegged to the Fiat Ruble

A major Russian bank revealed an upcoming digital asset launch, which complements another of its latest crypto-related moves. Sberbank applied to register a platform to issue a token named “Sbercoin.” Bank Expects the Stablecoin Could Launch in the Spring of 2021 During an interview with 1prime, Anatoly Popov, Sberbank’s deputy chairman, said the bank made…

January 26, 2021
EMURGO, Ergo, and IOHK announce AgeUSD, the first stablecoin that will come to Cardano

The Ergo Foundation, EMURGO, and IOHK have announced AgeUSD, a stablecoin protocol based on the Ergo blockchain. According to Roman Pellerin, the CTO of IOHK, the crypto-backed algorithmic stablecoin will also be available on Cardano once its smart contract functionality is unlocked. A new type of stablecoin to launch on the Ergo blockchain EMURGO, a…

January 26, 2021
USDT Transactions on Tron Surpassed Ethereum Tether Transactions Every Day in 2021

During the last two months, tether transactions have spiked considerably. More recently, however, USDT transactions on the Tron network have outpaced the number of tether transfers on the Ethereum blockchain. Despite a whole lot more ERC20-based tethers in the wild, the minted stablecoin using the TRC20 standard has seen a much larger transaction count all…

January 25, 2021
Ethereum (ETH) rockets to new all-time high despite apathy in Bitcoin price

Ethereum just rocketed to a new all-time high despite the apathy in the Bitcoin price, which fell toward $30,000 on Sunday morning. The price of ETH is up 15 percent in the past 24 hours, making it one of the top-performing crypto assets in the top 100 by market capitalization, according to CryptoSlate market data.…

January 24, 2021
Tezos (XTZ) price surges following DAO framework announcement and Grayscale rumours

New York-based tech company TQ Tezos has announced Homebase—a new project that allows Tezos (XTZ) users to easily set up and interact with decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) to establish a community governance structure. The price of XTZ reacted quite positively to the news, surging by over 20% today on the heels of the announcement—up to…

January 23, 2021
Ampleforth-like Bitcoin rebasing token DIGG drops: crypto stimulus checks

The latest crypto stimulus (or DeFi stimulus check, to be more accurate) has just dropped. Badger DAO, a Bitcoin-focused decentralized finance project based on Ethereum, just rolled out a new coin called DIGG. BADGER, the governance token for the protocol, already exists. DIGG is a new token that works much like Ampleforth, a supply-elastic cryptocurrency…

January 23, 2021
Privacy-Centric Cryptocurrency Firo Suffers 51% Attack on Its Network

The proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrency Firo announced that its protocol came under a 51% attack, notifying its holders to stop transactions. Formerly known as Zcoin, the privacy coin was reportedly subject of a blockchain reorganization attack. Firo Team Clarified the Attack Cannot Be Attributed to a ‘Coding Error’ According to a series of tweets published by…

January 22, 2021
The value of Cardano’s treasury reaches $100 million

As the price of ADA reached $0.38, the value of the tokens locked in Cardano’s treasury briefly surpassed $100 million. But what does this mean for the Cardano ecosystem and how can the Cardano community benefit from the growing amount of funds locked inside it? There’s almost $100 million currently locked in Cardano’s treasury The…

January 22, 2021