Over the past week, The Open Network (TON) ecosystem has encountered a series of setbacks due to a wave of unfavorable news. The turbulence began with the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov, followed by two significant outages on the blockchain network that brought block production to a standstill. Altogether, in just 68 days, the…
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Amidst a rather quiet altcoin market, Akash Network (AKT) has emerged as today’s standout performer among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, recording a significant 46% increase in price over the past 24 hours. This surge has propelled AKT to the forefront, well ahead of its peers such as Core (CORE) and Arweave (AR),…
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In the dynamic trading world where time is of the essence and you are looking for a combo of speed and low fees, the SEI Network is the fastest decentralized Cosmos-based L1 blockchain that is trading-based with the availability of decentralized exchanges (DExs). The SEI Network has been optimized to handle large volumes of transactions…
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According to Coinbase founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, Coinbase is actively working on integrating the Lightning Network (LN), the second-layer scaling protocol. Armstrong emphasized that bitcoin “is the most important asset in crypto” and added that the integration of LN would require more time. Coinbase on Track to Adopt Lightning Network, Says CEO Brian Armstrong…
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According to statistics, 4,498 blocks have been mined in the last 30 days, creating 28,112 new bitcoins over the past month. Bitcoin’s network hashrate has been around 341 exahash per second (EH/s) during the last 2,016 blocks or the last two weeks. This month, the mining pools Foundry USA and Antpool dominated the pack, accounting…
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On Monday, the crypto economy experienced significant market activity with $183.85 billion in global trade volume over 24 hours, with a large portion of those trades involving stablecoins. USDC traded near parity with the U.S. dollar, and several stablecoins, including tether and BUSD, sold at premiums. Tether reached a high of $1.04 per unit and…
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From February 9, anyone who wishes to use the Twitter application programming interface (API) will have to pay. Twitter Scraps Free API Access In an announcement on February 2, Twitter, one of the world’s largest social media platforms, said they will no longer support free access to their v2 and v1.1 APIs. Instead, anyone interested…
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The crypto industry has seen a lot of hype at the beginning of 2023, and the VeChain Foundation is trying to keep up. The sector is attracting attention around non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the Metaverse, Web3, and, more recently, artificial intelligence. The VeChain Foundation has announced the “Spiritual Rebirth” launch of the 2019 VeChain Summit, introducing…
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Avalanche (AVAX) seems to be reaping the benefits of recent partnerships its network sealed with Amazon and finance platform Intain. In fact, despite experiencing severe price drops together with the rest of the broader crypto market during the final quarter of the previous year, the altcoin has managed to stand out as one of the…
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Binance, a leading cryptocurrency exchange by client count and trading volumes, has integrated Binance-Pegged BUSD on the Ethereum layer-2 platform, the Optimism Network. Binance Integrates The Optimism Network In a press release on February 2, Binance said their users can now begin depositing and withdrawing the wrapped token via the Optimism Network. The Optimism Network is a…
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