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The popularity of blockchain continues to spread around the world, and it has evolved from a trend to a mark of an era. It has brought major technological innovations with features such as decentralization, immutability, trustlessness, collective maintenance, database reliability, open source, and privacy protection. Blockchain is advancing a new round of business model changes. Combined with the development trend of quiz entertainment, from 2008 to 2022, the rise of quiz entertainment applications, including Tencent, NetEase, Instagram, etc., is a landmark turning point for WEB3.0 quiz entertainment to truly replace…

A co-founder of Tether, the $41 billion company behind the tether (USDT, -0.02%) stablecoin, said the company and its reserves should be audited at least quarterly, and maybe even monthly. “Every time you print a tether, you should have a dollar being added to that cash pool,” said William Quigley, who left the project in 2015 and now runs the non-fungible token (NFT) exchange WAX. “Audited once a month, once a quarter.” The comments on CoinDesk TV come after Tether last month agreed to a $18.5 million settlement with the New York Attorney General on charges of an…

Bitcoin’s price has nearly doubled this year, but the rally could have room to run. That’s based on a new report by Coin Metrics, a cryptocurrency data firm, which shows bitcoin (BTC) is not at an extreme relative to the previous market top in 2018. The MVRV ratio is a measure of bitcoin’s market value relative to its realized value. The gauge represents the difference between the cryptocurrency’s current price and the average price at which bitcoins were acquired. When it reaches an extreme, the thinking goes, traders might be inclined to take…

“Bitcoin is now ahead of our April 2020 forecast schedule ­– to hit $115K this summer,” wrote Dan Morehead, CEO and co-chief investment officer at Pantera Capital, a blockchain hedge fund, in an emailed newsletter. The Pantera prediction is based on the stock-to-flow model – an analytical framework that values an asset’s price based on its annual issuance schedule. The model measures the scarcity of bitcoin (BTC), which is governed by the underlying network programming coded into the blockchain’s design when it was launched 12 years ago. Under that plan, the number of…

XRP, the digital token used in Ripple Labs’ payments network, was outperforming bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies on Tuesday, with a longer-duration technical indicator flashing a bullish signal. The token’s price was around 48 cents at press time, up 9% on a 24-hour basis, based on CoinDesk 20 data. Other prominent cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, ether, chainlink and litecoin were nursing moderate losses. XRP’s 50-week moving average crossed above the 100-week moving average (MA) earlier this month, confirming a pattern known in price charts as a “golden crossover” – a long-term bullish indicator. Traders and chart-reading analysts often…

Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $55,736.37 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Sliding 1.73% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $53,350.37-$56,988.34 (CoinDesk 20) BTC trades between its 10-hour and 50-hour averages on the hourly chart, a sideways signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase.Source: TradingView Bitcoin traded in a narrowed range as Monday’s sell-off appeared to subside and prices settled in the mid-$50,000 range for the most of Tuesday. Monday’s decline resulted in some $1.6 billion in derivatives bets being liquidated, second only to the record level that took place on…

The total locked-in value of decentralised finance is now a staggering 310 billion and the market keeps on growing as more and more investors are starting to shift towards DeFi; which is great news because the blockchain industry can’t possibly grow without the support of its world wide users, and at the same time, traffic is the main thing that will keep projects going in the long run. As the DeFi industry continues to evolve, Chainge, a coded financial platform customised for both institutional and individual investors, is in full swing with…

The total locked-in value of decentralised finance is now a staggering 310 billion and the market keeps on growing as more and more investors are starting to shift towards DeFi; which is great news because the blockchain industry can’t possibly grow without the support of its world wide users, and at the same time, traffic is the main thing that will keep projects going in the long run. As the DeFi industry continues to evolve, Chainge, a coded financial platform customised for both institutional and individual investors, is in full swing…