Cardano

A builder of Cardano blockchain nabs ex-Symphony chief operating officer to lead upcoming sidechain

The chief legal officer at Blockchain.com has reportedly jumped ship to build out a legal team at crypto payments startup MoonPay

Binance’s BNB has benefitted as crypto looks to recover from a dismal quarter, now usurping USDC on leaderboards

The veteran top-10 crypto has been chugging along since 2017, but with little adoption to show for it

Crypto’s inherent transparency is a major tool for risk management and security, witnesses said

Crypto markets surged throughout Memorial Day as major US stock exchanges stayed closed, with all top 10 digital assets in the green

The $80 billion asset manager’s latest launches in Europe brings its crypto ETP offerings to eight

The fund, which will support new decentralized exchanges, lending protocols and stablecoin issuers, is building on the Cardano blockchain

The upcoming launch will follow the cryptoasset manager’s launch of a DeFi ETF in February

Switzerland-based DeFi Technologies subsidiary Valour plans to offer more single-asset crypto basket, thematic ETPs

Product will participate in DeFi liquidity mining, yield farming, lending, borrowing and trading.

EMURGO to support companies in Africa and other regions focused on building socially impactful solutions powered by Cardano.

Altcoins investment products stealing market share from bitcoin and ether

In a broad cryptocurrency rally, Bitcoin traded above $50,000 again on Thursday.

The upgrade onto the blockchain platform’s mainnet is still on track for Sept. 12

Layer-1 competition is heating up

“Hawkish commentary from the Fed could bring some volatility to the stock as well as crypto markets,” BKCoin Capital’s Kevin Kang said. “After Bitcoin briefly hit above $50,000 for the first time in three months, which closed May’s CME futures gap, there has been a lot of bullish optimism in the market.”

Hitting an all-time high of $2.52, the altcoin dethroned BNB coin again as the third largest crypto by market cap Friday morning.

“There are risk-off money flows across asset classes as investors fear that central banks are poised to tighten policy into a global economic slowdown this fall,” said Tom Essaye, President of Sevens Report Research.

“It’s great to see some divergence among different assets as we saw Solana (SOL) and Terra (LUNA) continue to hit all-time highs, which I believe shows that this asset class [will] continue to mature,” said Founding Principal of BKCoin Capital Kevin Kang.

The VIX hit a day-high of 19.48, jumping over 11% on Tuesday.

Solana hit record highs on Monday, benchmarking the SOL token as one of the top 10 cryptos by market cap.

The total cryptocurrency market cap hit $2.036 trillion on Monday, reaching the highest level in three months, or since May 18.

Cardano’s ADA token shot up 19% in the morning with a smart contract upgrade on the horizon.

Price acceleration of Cardano comes before platform’s smart contracts upgrade set for Sept. 12