Travala is expanding its crypto-powered offerings thanks to a new partnership. Travala.com has recently added an additional 600,000 hotels to its crypto-powered online travel platform thanks to a recent partnership with booking giant, Agoda. Travala’s CEO, Juan Otero, told Cointelegraph that the number of properties on the platform has now reached over 2.2 million in […]
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Huobi Japan is now part of the local self-regulatory body supporting the development of security token offerings. Huobi’s Japanese branch has joined the Japan Security Token Offering Association, or JSTOA, as a “supporting member” along with Zaif, FXCoin, and 8 other local crypto players, according to the announcement published earlier today. “A full member must […]
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The price of Bitcoin dropped 13% in 15 minutes on Sunday, and traders are seeing various scenarios playing out for BTC. The price of Bitcoin declined by more than 13% within 30 minutes on Aug. 2. The shocking short-term price action caused $1 billion worth of liquidations in futures contracts for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum’s […]
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XRP price has broken through several key resistance levels including $0.30 as it tries to catch up to Bitcoin with its own impressive gains. Most markets are rallying since receiving a severe shakeout throughout the weekend, during which the price of Bitcoin (BTC) fell by $1,400 in minutes below the $11,000 level, liquidating $1 billion […]
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Entries to the Reddit Scaling Bake-Off are coming in from several layer-two builders. A number of projects introduced potential scaling solutions prior to Reddit’s July 31 deadline. Most contest participants are existing developers of Layer 2 solutions for Ethereum. The majority of entrants seem to have tweaked their existing technologies to accommodate Reddit’s demands. The […]
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A number of crypto businesses and non-profits have written to the main banking regulator in the U.S. asking for banks to have more authorization to deal with crypto. In response to a request for comment on potential rules from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), many major players in crypto have written […]
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pTokens has now listed Ethereum-compatible pLTC tokens on the Kyber Network. The Kyber Network, a decentralized, on-chain cryptocurrency exchange, has just listed the Ethereum-compatible pLTC token — a new cross-chain token developed by pTokens project. Announcing the news to Cointelegraph on Aug. 3, Kyber Network said that pLTC tokens will be accessible through KyberSwap and […]
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The DeFi sector recently achieved a record $4.23 billion in total value locked, so why did Yearn Finance distribute its full token supply to its users? As Decentralized Finance protocols continue to grow on all fronts, their infrastructure grows alongside them. While the total value of USD locked in DeFi recently hit a new all-time […]
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Bitcoin overtakes Intel and Coca-Cola at a market capitalization of $205 billion. Amid a major bullish trend on cryptocurrency markets, Bitcoin’s (BTC) market capitalization is outstripping some major publicly traded companies like Intel and Coca-Cola. Following a bullish market in late July 2020, Bitcoin’s market cap saw a significant increase to cross a $200 billion […]
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DeFi-focused oracle platform DIA is using crowd-sourcing to improve the accuracy of price oracles. Oracle platforms, which provide links between blockchain smart contracts and trusted sources of real-world data, are a crucial component of many decentralized finance — or DeFi — applications. With the meteoric rise of Chainlink (LINK) this year, one might be forgiven […]
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