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Livepeer Price Hits New ATH Amid Mist Acquisition and Upcoming Hackathon

Livepeer price is up over 54% today making it the biggest gainer on Crypto.com, followed by Loopring (+32.63%) and Basic Attention Token (+31.93%). With the recent price hike, the crypto also set a new all time high of $61. Let’s take a closer look at Livepeer and its LPT token and see what all the hype is about.What Is Livepeer? Launched in 2017, Livepeer is the first decentralized live video streaming network that allows users to transcode video using their GPUs in exchange for ETH and LPT rewards. LPT is

Livepeer Price Hits New ATH Amid Mist Acquisition and Upcoming Hackathon

Livepeer price is up over 54% today making it the biggest gainer on Crypto.com, followed by Loopring (+32.63%) and Basic Attention Token (+31.93%). With the recent price hike, the crypto also set a new all time high of $61. Let’s take a closer look at Livepeer and its LPT token and see what all the hype is about. What Is Livepeer? Launched in 2017, Livepeer is the first decentralized live video streaming network that allows users to transcode video using their GPUs in exchange for ETH and LPT rewards. LPT

Basic Attention Token Price Up 32% After Solana Partnership Announcement

Basic Attention Token is up 32%, making it the second biggest gainer today on Crypto.com. Currently trading at $1.33, Basic Attention Token price is close to breaking its previous all time high of $1.52, which it hit back in April. Let’s take a closer look at BAT and see what all the hype is about. What Is Basic Attention Token? Basic Attention Token is the cryptocurrency that powers the popular Brave Browser’s blockchain-based advertising platform. The Brave browser works to reward user attention in BAT tokens, and offers a competitive

Could ‘perverted’ CBDCs stop you from buying candy

NSA whistleblower and journalist Edward Snowden is known to comment on Bitcoin and crypto-adoption. However, in the latest issue of his newsletter, Continuing Ed, Snowden cited an article discussing whether the U.S could mint a platinum coin worth $1 trillion. In doing so, Snowden also spurred a discussion on centralized money, CBDCs, and their possible use case as surveillance tools. On banking, bitcoin, and the future of money: a response to a governor of the Federal Reserve, Christopher J. Waller.https://t.co/720SYvqzZM — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 9, 2021 To be or not to

Sports NFTs Are Hot Property: How Blockchain Technology Gives Fans New Ways To Connect With Their Favourite Sport

It’s an exciting time to be a football fan. The sport is embracing new technology that is enabling fans to show their love for the beautiful game in totally new ways. But even as the digital collectible market expands, the crypto community can still offer fantastic physical prizes. Are NFTs the future of football fandom? The big finance firms seem to think so. SoftBank Vision Fund, LionTree, Bessemer Ventures, IVP, Hillhouse and Atomico were all lead investors in Sorare, a European fantasy football platform that offers digital collectibles in the

Pledge: NFT-based fixed lending protocol announces successful Fundraise

Pledge Finance, an algorithm-driven, multi-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, is announcing the launch of an NFT-powered structured collateralized lending platform targeted at the traditional financial sector. The Binance Smart Chain (BSC) based platform will be fully interoperable with other public chains, meaning other DeFi platforms will be able to interact with Pledge’s numerous product and service offerings.  Pledge Bridges the Gap Between DeFi and Finance Pledge Finance will include liquidity pools which will act as money markets so that users can exchange cryptocurrencies without the need for a centralized exchange.

This is driving Dubai’s cryptocurrency market to do ‘fantastically well’

Dubai and the larger UAE have long been touted as rising tech and innovation hubs, providing entry points into Asia and Middle Eastern markets. With exponential developmental growth in the past decades, Dubai is now considered one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the world. It would then not be surprising for some to speculate that the country could also rise up as one of the leaders in the cryptocurrency space. In a recent interview, Bittrex Global CEO Stephen Stonberg opined that Dubai is well-poised to capitalize from the growing cryptocurrency

Litecoin, IOTA, Dogecoin Price Analysis: 27 August

It has been a mixed trading day for the altcoin market despite Bitcoin breaking above $47k. Litecoin lost 2% of its value and was trading close to the $163.24 support line while IOTA declined by 5% and moved closer to the $0.795 price floor. Finally, Dogecoin flashed signs of consolidation with chances of a price reversal according to its technicals.  Litecoin [LTC] LTC/USD, TradingView Litecoin was trading at $169.49 after it lost 2% over the last 24 hours. The coin was trading close to the immediate support level of $163.24.

This time it’s different: When DeFi meets NFTs

With decentralized finance and nonfungible tokens seeing a meteoric, rise it’s easy to believe crypto apps are finally breaking through. But is there actually real user growth, or is it just the same influencers moving from one hyped market to the next? We sought to answer this puzzle and identify what it means for the future of innovation. So, let’s take a closer look at the growth of DeFi and NFTs.DeFi is arguably the most prevalent application of smart contracts today. Automated market makers, algorithmic stablecoins and yield farming strategies

XRP price chart ‘double bottom’ puts next bullish target at $1

Ripple's XRP token could hit $1 in the coming days, according to a classic technical chart setup.Dubbed a "double bottom," the trend reversal indicator appears after the price bottoms out at a level, rebounds toward a higher resistance level, and then pulls back to or near the first bottom level — only to rebound again to the previous resistance line (also called the "neckline").Should the price close above the neckline, an extended move upward is anticipated, the length of which equals the total height between the neckline and the bottom level. It