Bitget experienced significant growth across its trading volumes and user base in the first quarter of 2024, riding the wave of widespread market resurgence. The Seychelles-headquartered exchange revealed that its futures trading volume soared to around $1.4 trillion, marking a 146% increase, while spot trading volume surged by 113% to exceed $160 billion. Bitget saw […]
On April 9, the EigenLayer team announced that the platform’s EigenDA, the first Available Validator Service, had launched on the Ethereum mainnet. The team added that over 4.1 million ETH had been restaked on EigenLayer, and over the past few weeks, 70% of all new Ethereum validators restaked to the platform. Moreover, restakers can now […]
The highly anticipated Dencun fork on March 13th has significantly boosted the adoption of Layer 2 solutions on Ethereum. This was evidenced by the surge in increased activity post-upgrade. Intotheblock’s latest analysis revealed a similar trend as it noted a surge in the number of transactions on Ethereum’s layer 2 solutions after the Dencun upgrade. […]
In yet another eventful and painful evening trading on Saturday, Bitcoin’s price tumbled by another five grand to a multi-week low of around $61,000. The alternative coins were hit even harder, with numerous double-digit price declines. The main culprit for this crash was the rising tension between Iran and Israel. BTC’s Rollercoaster Continues It was […]
Wally Adeyemo, Undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury, released an official statement saying Russia is increasingly resorting to alternative payment methods, such as the stablecoin Tether (USDT), to evade sanctions and sustain its military operations. The hearing, titled “Countering Illicit Finance, Terrorism, and Sanctions Evasion,” marks the committee’s second discussion on the topic within the last […]
While the past several weekends went quite calmly for Bitcoin and the entire crypto market, this time, things are significantly different. Whether propelled by yesterday’s announcements by a few presidents of the US Federal Reserve or today’s reports of Iran preparing an attack against Israel, the reality is that BTC’s price has tumbled hard, and […]
TL;DR LINK’s price has recently dropped to around $15 but is expected to rally according to multiple analysts. Factors like negative exchange netflow suggest reduced selling pressure, indicating potential for significant value growth in the short term. The Latest LINK Forecasts Chainlink’s native cryptocurrency – LINK – was among the market’s top performers earlier this […]
The cryptocurrency market is known and critiqued (by some) for its enhanced volatility, a good example of which it witnessed in the past 12 hours or so when prices tumbled, leaving nearly $1 billion in liquidations. Bitcoin was among the least affected assets, but its price still tumbled from around $71,000 to $65,000 before it […]
Pac Finance, a lending app on Blast, has had its users report a $24 million liquidation on April 11 due to a sudden change in parameters by the developer wallet. Mass liquidations are common for leveraged traders who borrow crypto, but they often occur due to fluctuations in the market, not protocol parameter changes. Pac […]
On April 11, Chainlink announced Transporter, which it described as “the next evolution in cross-chain bridging.” The app is powered by Chainlink’s Cross Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), which allows smart contracts to securely access data from external systems and enable trustless data connectivity between blockchains. “Having a secure way to move both value and data […]