Cardano

Layer 1 Tokens Outperform

$200M Fund Planned To Spur Development

Performance Improvements Are Expected To Benefit DeFi Apps

Ether Is Up 5% In A Week While Bitcoin Has Declined 3.5%

Majority Of Investors Now Expect A 0.75% Increase In September

Nomad Hack Exposes Weakness of Cross-Chain Bridges

Global markets are rallying after the US central bank raised interest rates by 75 basis points in a widely expected move.

Crypto markets have stabilized, ending a market free-fall that erased $693B from crypto’s market capitalization from May 5 to May 12. Crypto’s market capitalization fell from $1.81T on May 5 to lows of $1.12T on May 12. The market started to rise on Friday, and now rests at $1.28T, data from CoinMarketCap shows. The crash…

Solana, Fantom and Other Layer 1s Ride the Storm

SundaeSwap is a Decentralized Trading Protocol on Cardano. It’s a native, scalable decentralized exchange and automated liquidity provision protocol.

A new report finds that devs love working in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Fantom's FTM token hit an all-time high this week and is a hot new entrant in the elite club of Layer 1 blockchains.

On-Chain Markets Update by Lucas Outumuro, IntoTheBlock Smart contract platforms’ tokens have been amongst the top performers of 2021. While Ether has recorded a remarkable 330% return year-to-date, newer platforms such as Solana, Avalanche and Terra have seen their tokens grow over 1,000% in 2021. The rise in these platforms has been driven initially by…

At long last, Cardano has smart contracts. Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), one of three companies backing Cardano, announced the release on Sep. 12 as part of the so-called Alonzo upgrade. The deployment means the end of a long wait — Cardano launched its mainnet four years ago but hasn’t been able to run decentralized…

This is shaping up to be a killer week for so-called “Ethereum killers.”  Of the 100 largest tokens in terms of market capitalization, seven of the top ten biggest gainers in the last week are smart contract platforms, according to CoinGecko. Eleven of the top 15 smart contract platforms are up double digits on the…

I have to confess, much like Mr. Cuban I’ve never found myself particularly charmed by Cardano. It’s just never been my jam. But this project is mentioned more than any other in our comments section each and every week. So, I decided to kick my personal biases firmly in the Hoskins and take a good…