Google Cloud is incorporating core technology from Band Protocol, a decentralized oracle service, to enable “immediate and accurate analysis of financial time series data,” according to Kevin Lu, head of business development at Band. Lu announced Thursday that Band’s Standard Dataset is now live on Google BigQuery, an enterprise data […]

Panelists at a DeFi-focused talk held at the BlockDown conference on Thursday expressed their optimism at the past and future growth of decentralized finance, but highlighted the hurdles to adoption due to congestion on Ethereum. The panel, titled “DeFi’s newest waves,” featured Anton Bukov, co-founder of 1inch Network, Ajit Tripathi, […]

Dogecoin (DOGE), the meme-based altcoin which has become a favorite talking point of Elon Musk, has doubled in 24 hours to hit all-time highs of $0.29. DOGE leaves others in the dust Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed DOGE/USD outperforming other major cryptocurrencies by an order of magnitude on April […]

Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader in the United States House of Representatives, hinted that both the current secretary of the treasury and the chair of the Federal Reserve may need to reevaluate their positions on crypto. Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning, host Joe Kernen asked the Republican lawmaker […]

Social token platform Rally has completed its first “liquid token sale” on crypto asset issuance platform CoinList, with 40,000 investors snapping up RLY tokens for $0.60 each between April 1 and April 4. The sale saw tokens distributed to investors at a set price despite RLY trading on exchanges since […]

Bitcoin (BTC) is a “caged bull,” and the end of its current price run is nowhere near at $60,000, said Bloomberg Intelligence. In a tweet on Monday, senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone delivered his latest bullish verdict on the state of Bitcoin this month. Analyst: 2021 bull market is “tame” […]

In an announcement on Monday, Riot Blockchain reported that it produced 187 Bitcoin (BTC) — roughly $11.2 million — last month, an 80% increase over its BTC mining in March 2020. The company said it held more than 1,565 Bitcoin on its balance sheet as of March 31, representing more […]

The Keep Network has released details for the second iteration of its “trust-minimized” Bitcoin tokenization protocol, tBTC. In a blog post on Sunday, Keep Network developer Evandro Saturnino outlined several changes the protocol is considering to address its past issues with collateralization. The second iteration of tBTC is expected to […]

Bitcoin’s (BTC) hesitation near the all-time high suggests that the bulls and the bears are waiting for a trigger to start the next trending move. The bulls are searching for a positive catalyst to thrust the price above the overhead resistance. On the contrary, the bears may be standing by […]

Over the past six months blockchain projects that have issued token airdrops have re-emerged. Most notably, the airdrops by Uniswap (UNI) and MEME will be remembered as recipients were rewarded with gains ranging from $20,000 to $600,000 simply for holding the tokens. One Ethereum (ETH) competitor that has seen numerous […]