A unique Spiderman drawing by Marvel comics artist Adam Kubert has sold for 12.75 Ether (ETH) ($25,000) after being turned into a non-fungible token on the Ethereum blockchain. Kubert’s piece is one of 25 unique artworks expected to be launched as NFTs by several Marvel artists, including Dan Panosian, Matteo Scalera, Dave Johnson, Andy Kubert and
Video game developer Capcom is the latest pop culture brand to enter the crypto collectibles space, launching a series of Street Fighter II-inspired NFTs on the WAX blockchain on Feb. 18. The digital trading cards feature renderings of characters from the ever-popular arcade game, first released 30 years ago in 1991. DATE CONFIRMED: Official @StreetFighter
Financial and investment advisory giant The Motley Fool has announced it will invest $5 million into Bitcoin with the expectation that it will rise to $500,000. Announced earlier today via a blog and Twitter post, the firm stated it won’t be “buying overpriced ETFs” but will be “buying Bitcoin directly.” Currently ranked fifth globally in
The Secret Network, a protocol focused on privacy for decentralized finance (DeFi), has launched SecretSwap, a front-running resistant and cross-chain decentralized exchange. It is now live on the Secret Network mainnet. SecretSwap uses the SNIP-20 secret token standard and Secret Ethereum bridge. “SecretSwap is the first front-running resistant, cross-chain [automated market maker]. Its architecture (being
Ether (ETH) is up 150% in 2021, causing its market capitalization to soar above $200 billion. Most traders are fixated on the unitary price, even though it is entirely arbitrary, therefore missing relevant milestones and comparables. Ether and Bitcoin YTD performance. Source: Digital Assets Data Investors, mainly those coming from the traditional industry, are used
PancakeSwap (CAKE) has emerged as a rising star in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector with the recent surge in price helping the food-themed token become the first billion-dollar project on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC). Data from Cointelegraph Markets and Tradingview shows that the price of CAKE has risen 520% since reaching a low of
While 2020 was a significant year for Bitcoin (BTC), the just-begun year of 2021 is already full of great surprises. On Feb. 8, Bitcoin’s price jumped by almost $3,000 in minutes, then it surged 20% in 24 hours — all due to the news of Elon Musk’s Tesla allocating $1.5 billion of its balance sheet
At 6:00 UTC Thursday, the Stargate upgrade of Cosmos will go live. The Cosmos community recommends that interested observers follow along by watching the @cosmos account on Twitter. Stargate represents an important milestone for the Cosmos project on the way to launching its inter-blockchain communication (IBC) protocol that will allow the 200+ Tendermint-based blockchains to
Sweden’s central bank has extended an ongoing pilot aimed at creating a digital version of the Swedish krona until 2022, as was recently announced by the nation’s Riksbank. In combination with professional services firm Accenture, the “e-krona” pilot program was created to address what the Riksbank sees as “the marginalization of cash”: “The Riksbank sees
Cryptocurrencies are typically pseudonymous, but not necessarily private. Bitcoin (BTC) and other assets run on blockchains, with each transaction posted publicly online. During a transaction between two or more parties, assets move to different wallets, each represented by a string of characters. With these addresses and transactions visible to all, however, a certain level of
Bitcoin (BTC) is gradually gaining ground on gold, the traditional store of value. Data shows that one ounce of gold can only buy 0.0352 Bitcoin as of Feb. 17, the lowest amount of BTC eve. This shows that Bitcoin has been rewarding its investors much more than gold. Bitcoin has massively outperformed gold over various
Bitcoin (BTC) is now worth more in gold than at any time in its history as the largest cryptocurrency passes $50,000. Data noted by markets commentator Holger Zschaepitz on Feb. 17 confirms that one ounce of gold now buys just 0.0352 BTC. XAU/BTC plumbs new depths Since hitting new all-time highs on Wednesday, the price
A flash loan is relatively new type of uncollateralized lending that has become popular across a number of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols based on the Ethereum network. These types of loans have made headlines recently because they have been used to exploit a number of vulnerable DeFi protocols, leading to millions of dollars in losses.
HiFi — the DeFi-focused recent-rebrand of onetime dApp platform Mainframe — is announcing today the launch of a fixed-rate DeFi lending platform. “Fixed-rate lending is an important milestone for DeFi,” said HiFi CEO Doug Leonard in a press release. “Investors and traders need less-volatile options so that they can plan finances in advance, have predictability
Computing hardware manufacturer Zotac angered a customer base of loyal gamers on Feb. 16 after it posted a tweet apparently marketing its new Nvidia 30 series graphics cards to cryptocurrency miners. Zotac’s post showed a stack of what looks to be GeForce RTX 3070 White Edition GPUs, along with the caption, “An army of ZOTAC
Polkadot (DOT) is seeing an impressive 180% gain in 2021 so far, surpassing XRP for fourth place by market capitalization. Polkadot is a multi-chain protocol that has several “parachains,” similar to Ethereum Shards. DOT works on its proprietary technology called Substrate. The platform is fully interoperable between different blockchains while maintaining the ability to process thousands of