A crowd loan is a Polkadot (DOT) crowdsourcing event in Polkadot that allows the community to support project bids in upcoming parachain slot auctions. Users contribute DOT, receive rewards in project tokens and get their DOT back in two years (a standard slot lease duration). This mechanic helps projects raise substantial capital in DOT tokens
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At present, your DeFi product needs to be multichain to be competitive — this is the hard (and exciting) truth of 2021. Whether you’re building a wallet, a lending service or a DeFi game, your target audience knows that there is more to the crypto space than Ethereum. And they expect you to provide the
Bitcoin (BTC) dropped below $56,000 on Nov. 19, completing a near 20% correction from the all-time high. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index, which remained in the greed zone for most of the past two months, has plummeted into the fear category with a reading of 34. Cryptocurrency research firm Delphi Digital said in a
Today, Binance announced the integration of the Arbitrum One core network and opened Ether (ETH) deposits on the Arbitrum One Layer 2. Arbitrum is a third-generation layer-2 optimistic rollup protocol that runs on an off-chain Ethereum contract and lowers costs and speeds up transactions than on the Ethereum mainnet. The announcement notes that Binance users
Rapper Post Malone is the latest celebrity to move into nonfungible tokens (NFT) by promoting a major NFT project and a cryptocurrency firm. In his latest collaboration with The Weeknd, a music video for “One Right Now,” Malone purchased an NFT from Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), one of the world’s biggest NFT collections featuring 10,000
Bitcoin price dropped to fresh lows today and the brief visit to the $56,000 level resulted in a sharp sell-off in Ether and altcoins. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that support at $60,000 was breached early on in the U.S. trading session and this allowed bears to briefly take control of the
Join Cointelegraph host and analyst Benton Yaun alongside resident market experts Jordan Finneseth and Marcel Pechman as they break down the latest news in the markets. Here’s what to expect in this week’s markets news breakdown: After the markets news update, special guest Michael Kong, CEO and chief information officer of Fantom Foundation, discusses the inner
Israel-based StarkWare announced on Nov 16 via Twitter that it had raised $50 million in a Series C funding round, and that the firm’s valuation is now at $2 billion. Sequoia Capital was the lead investor, among other contributors. Seven months ago, StarkWare raised $75 million in a Series B funding led by Paradigm. We
$9 billion in Ethereum was withdrawn from exchanges within the past three days, suggesting that whales might be accumulating. A Massive 2.2M ETH Exited Exchanges In The Last Three Days Alone As pointed out by a CryptoQuant post, on-chain data shows around $9 billion in Ethereum was taken off exchanges in the past few days.
Bitcoin (BTC) bounced at the pivotal $58,400 during Nov. 17 as the day continued choppy price action. Analyst: This isn’t the “real” bear market Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD abruptly reversing after its fourth wick below $59,000 in 24 hours. The $58,400 level had been pronounced as a key line in the
Ether (ETH) traders might have a few reasons to panic after today’s 13% drop down to $4,100. The swift pullback appears to have broken a 55-day ascending channel that had a target at $5,500. Those not worried about technical analysis will understand that the cryptocurrency’s 3.4% daily volatility justifies the 10% negative price swing. Still,
A selloff in Ether (ETH) on Nov. 16 has increased the chances of ETH’s price falling below $4,000. ETH plunged 10% to around $4,100 on Tuesday, amid an ongoing market correction led by Bitcoin (BTC). In doing so, Ether dropped below its fourth-quarter upward trendline support. ETH/USD also tested its 50-day exponential moving average (50-day
Some say that blockchain gaming will inspire the next wave of cryptocurrency adoption. Play-to-earn games are certainly ever-present in headlines and conversations around the world. Are they close to mainstream adoption? Not in the slightest. The industry is just beginning and there’s a long way to go. The companies producing the games are well funded
Bitcoin (BTC) could not sustain its gains and succumbed to profit-booking as the U.S. trading markets started the week, possibly indicating that bears have not given up yet. PlanB, creator of the popular BTC stock-to-flow model, does not seem to be perturbed by the dull price action of the past few days. The analyst believes
On-chain data shows exchanges observed Ethereum outflows of over 100k ETH yesterday. Here’s what it may mean for the coin’s price. More than 100,000 Ethereum Exited Exchanges Yesterday As explained by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the netflows showed a large negative spike yesterday as more than 100k ETH exited exchange wallets. The “netflow”
News that two teams of Chinese scientists have achieved quantum advantage — a technical term for when a computer can perform functions beyond that of a classical computer — may be the signal that we have truly entered a new era. While Google’s 54-qubit quantum processor, Sycamore, became the first widely known example of early-stage