Month: October 2020

PayPal (PYPL) reached $215.87 on Oct. 21, a few dollars past its previous all-time high of $212.38, set on Sept. 2, 2020, according to data from TradingView. This price action came shortly after the payments company announced that it would soon be including crypto assets on its platform. PayPal plans...

CasperLabs has raised $14 million in a private validator token sale, with over a dozen investors participating in a round led by Digital Strategies. The company expects to launch its public mainnet in the first quarter of 2021, followed by a public token offering which will...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced the end of its lawsuit against Kik Interactive. The Canadian messenger app fell afoul of the U.S. regulator for failing to treat its sale of KIN tokens as a securities offering. A district judge confirmed the SEC’s...

The crypto markets are cheering PayPal’s decision to allow its customers to use cryptocurrencies to shop from its vast merchant network. PayPal also revealed that U.S. account holders will be able to buy, sell, and hold cryptocurrencies in the PayPal app.  The company plans to...

A significant amount of Bitcoin’s (BTC) total supply has not moved for more than 10 years, according to data from cryptocurrency analytics data provider Glassnode. During this decade-long interim, 1.8 million Bitcoin (of the current 18.5 million supply) has been locked in dormant Bitcoin addresses. Its...

Decentralized finance has quickly risen to prominence, largely driven by the fact that there is over $11 billion of total value locked in the sector. While it makes sense that DeFi — a space characterized by terms such as “yield farming” and “meme tokens” —...

What feels better than watching Bitcoin (BTC) skyrocket on bullish mass-adoption news? For hodlers, there aren’t too many events in life more satisfying than a trip to the moon — and now the rest of the world seems to be catching on. Bitcoin, it seems,...

As Bitcoin’s price broke through resistance at $12,000, its on-chain transfer volume exceeded 4 million and set a 14-month record high. Source: Glassnode. Unlike exchange volume, on-chain metrics cannot be easily faked or manipulated. To put this in perspective, the total current supply of Bitcoin (BTC) is...

Blockchain firm ConsenSys has made official a collaboration with open-source software laboratory Protocol Labs to integrate Filecoin’s marketplace for data storage with ConsenSys’ Ethereum product stack. According to the announcement, Filecoin’s miners, developers and users of the network will be able to access ConsenSys’ development...

Bitcoin has risen dramatically in market capitalization over the years, recently taking its place among the top 25 largest companies and assets by market cap.  At press time, Bitcoin (BTC) holds a market value near $240 billion. The coin is 22nd on a list of...