PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans, has announced the listing of the OptionRoom Token (ROOM) under the pair USDT/ROOM on Apr 13 at 1:00 p.m. UTC. OptionRoom is a user-governed oracle and forecast protocol built on Polkadot. OptionRoom can serve as an OaaS […]
TIME Magazine Gets Into Bitcoin: Partners With Grayscale, Will Hold BTC on Balance Sheet
TIME Magazine will be holding bitcoin on its balance sheet, the company’s president has confirmed. TIME is also partnering with Grayscale Investments to produce a video series on cryptocurrency and has agreed to be paid in bitcoin. TIME Magazine Will Hold Bitcoin on Balance Sheet TIME Magazine has partnered with Grayscale Investments to produce a […]
Bitcoin Price Taps New All-Time High, Analyst Says ‘Fertile Grounds for BTC to Take a Fresh Leg Up’
The price of bitcoin has crossed a new all-time high (ATH) on Tuesday, as the leading crypto asset has jumped to $63,275 per unit during the early morning trading sessions (EST). At the time of publication, the entire market economy with over 9,203 cryptos is valued at $2.153 trillion with $164 billion in global trade […]
Heralding Waffle Exchange: Here are The Pre-Sale Details
Waffle Exchange is a decentralized exchange aggregator, coming to you on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and for the BSC. The project is bringing to light its public pre-sale set to commence on 16 April at 18.00 UTC. The project also released what they wish to achieve from the pre-sale with their hard cap set at […]
Kraken Daily Market Report for April 12 2021
Overview Total spot trading volume at $1.74 billion, up from the 30-day average of $1.34 billion. Total futures notional at $555.7 million. The top five traded coins were, respectively, Bitcoin, Tether, Ethereum, Ripple, and Cardano. Strong returns from Uniswap (+25%) and Flow (+11%). April 12, 2021 $1.74B traded across all markets today Crypto, EUR, USD, JPY, CAD, GBP, CHF, AUD XBT $59918. ↓0.3% $641.7M USDT $0.9994 ↑0.03% $317.0M ETH $2135.2 ↓0.9% $216.1M XRP $1.3753 ↑1.9% $126.6M ADA $1.2994 ↑2.6% $84.1M USDC $0.9999 ↑0.0% $46.7M DOT $40.310 ↓2.6% $39.1M LTC $245.33 ↓2.9% $34.7M TRX $0.1331 ↑8.9% $33.3M […]
The Hollywood premiere of “Lotawana” is America’s first movie NFT
Upcoming movie “Lotawana” is a Hollywood release with a crypto-twist: Its premiere is getting released as a non-fungible token (NFT) and the movie has its own shares for interested watchers to derive distribution profits from. The movie is the directorial debut of Trevor Hawkins—a director of commercials and shorts whose work has been featured by […]
Japan-inspired NFT game Chainbinders raises $5 million in 2 hours
Chainbinders, the world’s first liquid NFT collection backed by a reserve pool of Ethereum, raised over $5 million in the first two hours after the start of sale of their native BND utility token earlier this week, the firm said in a release to CryptoSlate. $3.8 million of that was raised in just 15 minutes […]
Bitcoin (BTC) breaks $63,000 to new all-time highs
Bitcoin broke the $63,000 mark this morning to set a new all-time high, data from markets tool CoinGecko shows. The network is now worth over $1.1 trillion, with 18.6 million BTC now in circulation. It traded at $60,000 yesterday but convincingly broke through the $63,000 mark on the back of the Coinbase public listing and […]
Dogecoin is one of the top-performers in Q1 2021, but will it see further gains?
The first three months of the year were quite eventful for the cryptocurrency industry. While the central banks’ money printers went “brrr,” trust eroded in the global financial system. The exodus of institutional and retail investors from the traditional markets flooded the crypto space as many looked to hedge against inflation. One of the cryptocurrencies […]
Ethereum lab ConsenSys raises $65 million from JPMorgan and Mastercard
Ethereum incubator and blockchain technology company ConsenSys today announced the final close of its $65 million round, it said in a release to CryptoSlate. We are excited to announce the close of our $65M formation round to accelerate the convergence of #DeFi and Web3 applications on #Ethereum with enterprise blockchain infrastructure.https://t.co/7B81x4lSJq — ConsenSys (@Consensys) April […]