Category: Altcoins

  • Cardano will be joining Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Norwegian Airlines as McCann’s client

    The Cardano Foundation announced that it has appointed McCann Dublin, the Ireland-based hand of the global advertising agency, as its brand strategy and design agency. According to the company’s announcement, McCann will be tasked with realigning the Cardano brand with the company’s mission. The Cardano Foundation employs a global advertising agency to develop its brand…

  • With a 90% YTD loss, Algorand is the worst performer of the year

    Algorand (ALGO) is the worst-performing coin of the year, having dropped more than 90 percent since January 2019. The company’s token sales and ambitious decentralization goals drastically reduced the community’s confidence in the project, as many criticized its overvalued market capitalization. Ambitious Algorand soars too high Algorand, a Boston-based blockchain company created to improve blockchain…

  • Big traders on Binance panic tanking Matic’s price by almost 75%

    Big traders on Binance panic tanking Matic’s price by almost 75%

    The digital token of Ethereum-based payments company Matic lost almost 75 percent of its value in a matter of minutes after two weeks of massive appreciation. While the matter is still being investigated, both Matic and Binance said that it wasn’t a pump and dump scheme, but a result of a panic cycle caused by…

  • Everything you need to know about Cardano’s Shelley incentivized testnet

    With just days left until the incentivized testnet for Shelley is finally released, Cardano issued a detailed explanation of the incentive model employed in the testnet. While the model introduced to the testnet isn’t the final one, the company published details about the rewards users can expect in the following weeks. Testing out game theory…

  • DGB gets delisted from Poloniex hours after DigiByte founder criticizes Tron

    DGB gets delisted from Poloniex hours after DigiByte founder criticizes Tron

    Over the past few weeks, Jared Tate, the founder of popular blockchain network DigiByte and its native DGB cryptocurrency, has been waging a Twitter war against one individual: Justin Sun, founder of Tron, the blockchain behind currently twelfth-largest cryptocurrency TRX. Tate’s quips started off relatively mild, calling Sun a “crook,” though, on the afternoon of…

  • Data shows Binance Coin’s bullish sentiment is on the rise, can it translate to price?

    Data shows Binance Coin’s bullish sentiment is on the rise, can it translate to price?

    According to the LunarCRUSH research team, social activity and bullish sentiment around Binance Coin (BNB) have risen to six-month highs. The price of Binance Coin has dropped from around $20 to $15.26 in the past month by 23 percent against the U.S. dollar as the Bitcoin price slipped by 20 percent in the same period.…

  • Horizen (ZEN) ranked first by active nodes, while Bitcoin (BTC) second

    Horizen (ZEN) ranked first by active nodes, while Bitcoin (BTC) second

    A renowned analyst is making a compelling case for ranking cryptocurrencies. Instead of taking into account their market capitalization, he puts emphasis on the number of nodes instead. CoinMarketCap rankings are “nonsense” Aat de Kwaasteniet, a former electrical designer at Vialis, explained in a Medium post that the way CoinMarketCap ranks cryptocurrencies is “highly questionable.”…

  • Privacy-focused Brave browser surpasses 40M downloads

    Privacy-focused browser Brave has surpassed 40 million downloads. While it still has a long way to go before it overtakes competitors Mozilla and Google Chrome, Brave is by far the most downloaded crypto-related app on Android, having 4 times more downloads than crypto exchange Coinbase. Brave’s popularity on Android skyrockets in the past Few companies…

  • Cardano’s on-chain metrics show the ADA community is here to stay despite huge losses

    Cardano’s price has been slow to recover since its 2017 drop despite major strides made in the launch of the Shelley era. However, its on-chain metrics tell a story of an active community that has high hopes for the future of Cardano and its native cryptocurrency ADA. Cardano’s latest success barely moves ADA While most…

  • NEO, Ontology, and VeChain appear to be recovering quickly

    Some of the most prominent China-based blockchain projects appear to be recovering quickly after the recent downturn in the market. The following technical analysis evaluates whether NEO, Ontology, and VeChain have the potential for a further advance. NEO Over the last two weeks, NEO saw its value plummet nearly 38 percent. This cryptocurrency went from…