Cardano
Markets
ETH/BTC Ratio Soars To Nine-Month High Ahead Of The Merge
Ether Is Up 5% In A Week While Bitcoin Has Declined 3.5%
Markets
Ether Dives 10% As Powell Signals More Rate Hikes To Come
Majority Of Investors Now Expect A 0.75% Increase In September
Markets
Ethereum Pops 10% as Fed Signals Rate Hikes Are Working
Global markets are rallying after the US central bank raised interest rates by 75 basis points in a widely expected move.
DeFi News
Crypto Markets Stabilize After $693B Sell-Off
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…
DeFi News
Alt Layer 1 Trade Unravels as Ethereum Killers Sink Below ETH
Solana, Fantom and Other Layer 1s Ride the Storm
DeFi First Looks
Cardano’s SundaeSwap Dex is Here. Does It Work? | Sundaeswap First Look
SundaeSwap is a Decentralized Trading Protocol on Cardano. It’s a native, scalable decentralized exchange and automated liquidity provision protocol.
Byte
Devs Flock to Ethereum But Fulltimers Still Sorely Needed as DeFi Expands
A new report finds that devs love working in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Byte
Fantom Surges 90% in 30 Days to Hit All-Time High and Challenge Elite Layer 1s
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.
DeFi Research
Exploring the Multi-Chain Universe Amid Incentives & Upgrades
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…
DeFi News
Cardano Launches Smart Contracts But Now Must Deliver on Ecosystem’s Promise
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…
Byte
It’s Been a Killer Week for 'Ethereum Killers'
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…
DeFi Videos
Cardano: DeFi’s Dark Horse or Dead Duck?
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…