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Alt Season Reigns as Big Money Exits the U.S. Dollar

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Time Stamp: August 17, 2020 4:07 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Open up the keg of powder, it’s time to lock and load. It’s alt season. In July, I predicted a bump of BTC followed by an open alt season. I was right. A perfect storm is bringing back memories of December 2017, and this time big money is looking to exit the U.S. dollar. Duck Season? Rabbit Season? No, Alt Season. It’s official. Alt season is here, and non-bitcoin cryptos are doing what they do best: pump. Total crypto markets have seen a surge from $165 billion in March to

Bitcoin Touches $12,000 While Gold Continues Its Rally

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Time Stamp: August 17, 2020 3:58 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Of the many things that happened over the weekend, perhaps the most significant was the announcement from Warren Buffett that he’s now investing in gold and gold-related assets. They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, and this is a huge shift in investment principals for the Oracle of Omaha. Long contending that gold is not a worthwhile asset to invest in, Warren is now very abruptly seeing the appeal. Why? … You know why. This is about money printing. The printer is working overtime, and this is

Record Ethereum Network Use and Gas Fees Pose Risk to DeFi Expansion

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Time Stamp: August 15, 2020 5:31 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The number of Ethereum network transactions more than doubled in 2020 and is now virtually identical to the January 2018 all-time high. As shown on the chart below, the number of transactions doubled in the past six months to stand at 1.23 million per day. Ethereum 7-day average daily transactions. Source: CoinMetricsThis situation might seem very bullish at first, but one must remember both EOS and Tron (TRX) started as ERC-20 tokens before launching their own mainnet and running fully independent blockchains.A similar chain migration is happening on Tether’s USDT, a stablecoin

TRON and Waves Tap Gravity to Connect Their Blockchains

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Time Stamp: August 13, 2020 12:29 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Blockchain projects TRON and Waves have inked a strategic partnership with the aim of achieving mass adoption of inter-chain DeFi. The landmark inter-chain initiative owes a debt to Gravity, the decentralized blockchain-agnostic oracle network that facilitated the integration. When Chains Collide TRON and Waves use completely different smart contract languages, the former having been written in Solidity and the latter using Ride. To bring the pair onto the same page, Gravity’s interoperable oracle queries data on each chain, thereby enabling the ecosystems to increase access to services for both user

Five Signs The 30% Band Protocol (BAND) Correction Is Just Starting

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Time Stamp: August 11, 2020 11:00 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Band Protocol is one of August’s best-performing crypto assets, right behind the showstopping Chainlink and other hot tokens. The altcoin is up over 300% month to date, but a 15% correction began overnight. Is this just a healthy pullback, or will the asset retrace further than most investors are prepared for? Here are five bearish signals that the Band crash may only be beginning.  DeFi And Decentralized Oracles Spark Mini-Crypto Bubble, 300% Returns Month-to-Date The cryptocurrency market is on fire, with nearly every asset posting major gains over the last

DeFi Tokens BAND, LINK, Outpace Bitcoin Price by Gaining 100% in 10 Days

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Time Stamp: August 10, 2020 5:35 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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This week Bitcoin (BTC) price is making waves as the digital asset finally pushed above the $12K mark, but prior to this move, altcoins have been strongly outpeforming BTC for weeks. Two of the most notable performers are Band Protocol (BAND) and Chainlink (LINK) as both surged by 348% and 88% in the past ten days. Each functions as an oracle blockchain network that supplies data to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications.Since the start of August, BAND price rose from $3.9 to as high as $17.78 and in the same period, LINK

BAND Token is Now Available for Trading on Huobi Global

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Time Stamp: August 9, 2020 6:00 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Band Protocol, the cross-chain data oracle platform, said that its token BAND has been listed on Huobi Global exchange.The company clarified in a press release on its blog that trading on BAND token will start on August 10. Huobi will support BAND/U.S. dollar, BAND/BTC and BAND/ETH trading pairs. Regarding deposits, the company stated that they will be available from August 9 and for withdrawals, they will be available from August 10.The company noted that at present, withdrawals and deposits will be limited only to BAND-mainnet coins and that the time for

What is Serum? A DeFi Derivatives DEX Guide

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Time Stamp: August 3, 2020 5:54 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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DeFi-based exchanges have seen wild success in 2020 thanks to yield farming, which has incentivized hundreds of thousands of users to provide liquidity to these platforms. With that being said, DEXs are still a far-cry from centralized exchanges in both UI and UX. Serum is here to change all that. Serum is a protocol that claims to be “pure DeFi” as they have managed to address a lot of issues the space is facing. Most of the users in DeFi today are not traders but yield farmers. Yield farmers are

Blockchain Provides Trusted Data to Counter Spread of Coronavirus

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Time Stamp: April 4, 2020 7:52 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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With each passing day, new data regarding the coronavirus pandemic is being brought to the public’s attention. From the number of cases in various regions to ever-changing safety procedures like wearing masks in public, COVID-19 data is clearly present, yet remains inconsistent.While a lack of accurate information may be frustrating on a personal level, ever-changing data is taking a toll on the health officials and researchers working effortlessly to help subdue the coronavirus crisis. To combat the issue, the San Francisco-based blockchain security company Hacera launched a data analytics platform

Investment in Blockchain in Energy Markets Will Top $35 Billion by 2025

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Time Stamp: April 2, 2020 2:12 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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According to a new report released by Premium Market Insights (PMI), global investment in blockchain technology in energy markets is set to reach $34.7 billion by 2025. Valued at just $156.5 million in 2016, the sector is forecast to grow at a rate of 82% a year. Although $35 billion seems high, it’s dwarfed by the net worth of $1.85 trillion for the energy market as a whole. Key players using blockchain and DLT in the field include Accenture, AWS, Bigchaindb, Deloitte, IBM, Infosys, Microsoft, Nodalblock, Oracle, SAP, Enosi, and Electron. Blockchain