Cardano is the next blockchain to integrate with the world’s largest answer engine in 2021. Wolfram Alpha, a major computational knowledge engine providing technology for major services like Apple’s Siri assistant, is integrating data from Cardano blockchain. According to a Dec. 17 announcement, Wolfram Blockchain Labs, or WBL, a subsidiary of Wolfram Research, has partnered […]
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Open interest for Bitcoin options almost touched $6 billion. Amid an ongoing bull run of Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin options are hitting a new historical milestone. Bitcoin options are derivative contracts that grant the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell BTC at a predetermined price. According to data from Skew, Bitcoin […]
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The fourth investment of the year from the Stellar Development Foundation has gone into Settle Network, a Latin American stablecoin and payments provider. The Stellar Development Foundation has invested Settle Network, the largest digital assets settlement network in the Latin American region. It marks the fourth investment this year from the SDF enterprise fund, bringing […]
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More people use Bitcoin now, but transaction fees are much lower than during the 2017 bull run. As Bitcoin (BTC) keeps hitting new all-time highs past $20,000, its network fundamentals paint a different picture compared to the previous 2017 bull run. Three years ago, on this very day, Bitcoin reached its first major all-time high […]
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Newly launched DeFi derivatives platform Perpetual Protocol crosses open interest milestone in barely 24 hours. Perpetual Protocol, a new DeFi derivatives exchange, revealed that the platform had already crossed its $500,000 open interest (OI) cap for decentralized perpetual contracts. The announcement is coming less than 24 hours after the mainnet launch of the service on Wednesday. Following […]
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Bitcoin’s trajectory towards $100,000 is more real than ever, data shows, while one naysayer warns that the market is $11,000 overvalued. Bitcoin (BTC) is following price predictions exactly and not making investors wait longer for gains this bull cycle, says famous quant analyst PlanB. In a tweet on Dec. 17, the creator of the stock-to-flow […]
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The price of Bitcoin has cut through another critical resistance range putting $100,000 in play, on-chain data suggests. The Bitcoin price (BTC) has surpassed the $21,000–$22,000 resistance range to rise above a new high of $23,000 on Dec. 17. Meanwhile, on-chain analyst Willy Woo now says $100,000 is a “ridiculously low” target. BTC/USD weekly chart […]
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Institutions make mincemeat of the whales who just recently held huge sway over market sentiment below $20,000. Bitcoin (BTC) is seeing a new kind of “flippening” above $20,000 as its original whales keep selling their coins to bigger institutional buyers. Data from on-chain analytics service CryptoQuant shows that despite long-term investors rushing to offload BTC […]
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A Malta-based progressive house producer has sold an NFT granting 50% of streaming royalties from an exclusive single to the token buyer. The crypto-powered music streaming platform Rocki has sold its first “royalty income right NFT” — a token granting its owner a 50% share in all royalties generated by a specific track’s streams on […]
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While all eyes are on Bitcoin’s new all-time highs, some analysts are predicting four-figure Ethereum in the coming months. While Bitcoin continues to push into new all-time highs, Ether has also tagged new year-to-date highs following news the Chicago Mercantile Exchange plans to launch ETH futures contracts in 2021. BTC spiked into new highs on […]
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