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COTI to Launch Decentralized Market Fear Index for Cryptocurrencies

October 13, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

October 13, 2020 — A decentralized version of the stock market’s Volatility Index (VIX) promises to revolutionize the digital economy when it launches this year. The crypto industry’s first Market Fear Index, cVIX was developed by enterprise-grade fintech platform COTI but runs in a completely decentralized manner. This means it...

Binance Research: Ethereum Actively Powering the DeFi Ecosystem

Ethereum Still King of DeFi but Other Protocols Are Fast Gaining Traction

October 12, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at DeFi

DappRadar’s Q3 2020 Decentralized Finance Report shows that Ethereum-based protocols including Uniswap (UNI), Sushiswap (SUSHI), and Balancer (BAL) accounted for a massive 96 percent of total transaction volume in the DeFi space. However other protocols including EOS, Tron (TRON), IOST (IOST), Ontology (ONT) and NEO (NEO) have also started to...

Cardano (ADA) Unveils Delegation Methodology

October 8, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

The Cardano Foundation, a Zug, Switzerland-based organisation that’s focused on standardizing, protecting and promoting the Cardano protocol technology, has unveiled the delegation system for the project, as it marches towards complete decentralization. Cardano (ADA) Unveils Delegation Methodology With the Cardano Shelley era now upon us, the team is now putting...

Yup’s Multi-Chain Token Launch Will Reward Liquidity on Ethereum and Influence on EOS

Yup Online Content Rating Platform Unveils YUP Token, Content Curators to Earn Huge Rewards

October 8, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Yup, an opinion layer of the web that’s focused on rewarding the masses for rating content across the web, has announced that its Yup Protocol v1 and its native YUP token will go live on October 9, 2020. Once the YUP token goes live, it will be distributed as rewards...

Researchers Build Superfast IOTA-Based File Sharing Platform

October 7, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

IOTA (MIOTA) has been adopted by three researchers at Taiwan’s National Kaohsiung University for the development of a super-fast and highly scalable alternative to BitTorrent called IOTA-BT, according to reports on October 6, 2020. A Tangle-Based BitTorrent Li-Yiuan Hou, Tsung-Yi Tang and Tyng-Yeu Liang, three researchers at the electrical engineering...

AdEx Network Goes to Mainnet with Chainlink ADX-ETH Price Feed Integration, Pioneers Elastic Issuance

October 7, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Sofia, Bulgaria — October 07, 2020 — AdEx Network (https://www.adex.network/) is going live on mainnet with a Chainlink oracle integration and launches a novel DeFi concept: elastic token issuance. In August 2020, AdEx Network announced plans for integrating Chainlink data oracles in the AdEx staking ecosystem. The advertising platform is now going live with...

Someone Sent $99 Million in Litecoin, Costing Just $0.40 in Fees

Litecoin Launches MimbleWimble Testnet for Enhanced Privacy and Scalability

October 6, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Litecoin (LTC) has announced the launch of the MimbleWimble (MW) testnet as part of plans towards creating a more private and scalable network, according to a blog post on October 5, 2020. Litecoin (LTC) Reaches Significant Milestone At a time when more and more financial authorities are pointing their searchlights on...

Gala Games Unveils Epic RPG ‘Mirandus’ with Real Ownership of Unique Citadels

October 6, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain

Games studio and developer Gala Games has announced its latest title ‘Mirandus,’ a fantasy RPG that enables players to own scarce in-game items. Set in a massive world ruled by five monarchs, Mirandus gives players complete freedom of choice, including the ability to acquire, utilize, and sell assets ranging from...

SLOBLOCO 2020; Innovation and Accessibility Within Blockchain

October 6, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain

One of the most significant technological breakthroughs that the world witnessed in the last ten years is the emergence of blockchain. It quickly snowballed from being an abstract model into a multi-use application. Initially, it was applied to only cryptocurrency, but now, blockchain has found its way into several areas...

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Egyptians Turn to Bitcoin Amid Economic Hardships

October 5, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin

More and more Egyptians are now joining the cryptocurrency mining business in a bid to survive economic hardships brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. At present, more than 16,000 Egyptian youths are actively mine bitcoin and altcoins and that number is expected to keep rising. Egyptians Latch Onto Bitcoin for...

BTFS Mainnet to Serve as TRON’s Storage Solution

October 5, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

TRON will be the first blockchain to use BTFS as its storage solution with more blockchains to follow SAN FRANCISCO, CA October 2nd, 2020 -BitTorrent Inc., the leader in peer-to-peer protocols and products, has announced that the BitTorrent file system (BTFS) will serve as the storage solution for running TRON...

Orion Protocol Partners with Blockchain Research Institute

October 5, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

October 1, 2020 — Orion Protocol, the defi platform building B2B and B2C solutions on an advanced liquidity aggregator, has partnered with the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI). In signing an agreement with the world’s largest independent blockchain think tank, Orion Protocol aims to extend its influence beyond the crypto space. As...

Crypto Launches Italian Version Mobile App

Crypto.com Launches Italian Version of Mobile App and Exchange

October 1, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Hong Kong, Oct 1st, 2020 —Crypto.com has introduced an Italian language version of its popular App and Exchange. The news follows recent launches for the Spanish, French, and Korean markets and opens Crypto.com up to another key demographic. With Italian being the second most widely-spoken native language in the European...

eToro to provide staking rewards for Cardano (ADA) and TRON (TRX)

October 1, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

October 01, 2020: eToro, the multi-asset platform with over 14 million registered users globally, announced that it is launching its new staking service today. eToro’s staking service is initially for Cardano (ADA) and TRON (TRX). Cardano staking is a new addition to the crypto space, and eToro is delighted to...

IOVlabs and Grupo Sabra Launch Blockchain Platform for Enterprise

September 30, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Blockchain firms IOVlabs and Grupo Sabra have partnered up on a joint venture named Extrimian and launched a new platform for governments and enterprises looking to build distributed ledger applications. Dubbed RSK Enterprise Cloud, the new platform leverages IOVlabs’ RSK smart contract infrastructure to create a cloud-based ecosystem for the...