Cryptocurrency

The IOTA Foundation, the non-profit organization behind IOTA, IOTA Tangle and MIOTA, announced they will be joining Austria’s newest Christian Doppler Laboratory, or CDL, as an industrial partner. The first of its kind, the laboratory is housed at the Vienna University of Technology and named the CDL Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things, or CDL-BOT.

Analysts are pointing to demand from financial institutions and publicly listed companies as the primary forces behind BTC’s sudden re-test of its all-time highs. “The primary reason for the steady grind up in Bitcon has been the increased interest and aggressive buying activity from institutions,” said Nick Cote of gamified trading platform Hxro Labs. “A

Some of the biggest names in DeFi, including Framework Ventures and Alameda Research, are backing the expansion of decentralized asset management protocol dHEDGE. The investors and the protocol’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) will collectively invest $1.15 million into an initial cohort of 33 fund managers operating on the platform. dHEDGE is a non-custodial social trading

The price of Stellar Lumens (XLM) shot up 60% in the past 24 hours and crossed the 20 cent mark for the first time since Sept. 2018. The ‘stellar’ price action followed an announcement by the project’s developers that a new version of the Stellar public network protocol had been implemented by validators. The Protocol

Bitcoin (BTC) has topped $19,000 in a fresh bullish surge, but traders are all about altcoins on Nov. 24. In what many are heralding as the beginning of “altseason,” large-cap cryptocurrencies are seeing their biggest gains in three years. XRP, XLM lead new “altseason” Cointelegraph takes a look at five of the biggest movers, all

In the past month, the price of XRP rallied 91% as the digital asset at last found some spark and is now playing catch up with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH).  The likely catalysts for the XRP rally are the rise in unique addresses, buybacks from Ripple, and the possibility of a new product realease. XRP/USD

Bitcoin (BTC) has made a stellar comeback from its March lows in 2020 and this performance is getting noticed by institutional investors. Recently Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s CIO of fixed income, said that Bitcoin could replace gold as it is “more functional than passing a bar of gold around.” Comments like these are a positive sign

While 2020 will go down as one of the toughest the world has faced collectively in many years, the success of the decentralized finance sector stands out as a major milestone for the cryptocurrency community. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, economies have shuddered, and governments and financial institutions have had to introduce drastic monetary policies

Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Ray Dalio might be wrong Path to $20,000 Bitcoin price

Bitcoin’s (BTC) current rally has largely been led by investments from institutional investors and public listed companies. Data from Bitcointreasuries shows that companies hold about 4.54% of the current Bitcoin supply. A survey of 700 high-net-worth individuals chosen from across the globe shows that about 73% of respondents either own or want to own cryptocurrencies

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has requested a default judgment against three companies and four individuals associated with the allegedly fraudulent art and gold-backed cryptocurrency Meta 1 Coin. The SEC filed its Nov. 18 motion for a default judgment after the defendants failed to appear to put their case, despite having corresponded with both

Celo has awarded a grant to staking service provider Chorus One to build a bridge facilitating interoperability between the Cosmos and Celo networks. The proof-based bridge will allow “bidirectional communication’ between Celo and Cosmos, allowing Celo’s cUSD stablecoin to operate on the Cosmos network, and Cosmos-based assets including ATOM, BAND, and KAVA to be held

Within the last 24-hours, Bitcoin (BTC) price hit an intraday high of $18,466.14 and this is just roughly 8% lower than the magical $20,000 figure being watched by many traders.  However, investors in several countries such as Russia, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico have already seen their Bitcoin holdings hit a new all-time high in their

Origin Dollar (OUSD), the yield-generating stable token launched by Origin Protocol in late-September, has been hacked to the tune of $7 million. On Nov. 17, Origin Protocol founder Matthew Liu announced the stablecoin had been hacked, noting that $1 million of the $7 million in lost funds including DAI and Ether had been deposited by

Ether (ETH) price is currently ranging between $440 and $470, which is similar to the price action seen in December 2017. Back then, the scenario ended up being incredibly bullish, and the altcoin quickly rocketed toward $1,400.  Fast forward to 2020, and some investors believe a similar outcome may occur as a few key on-chain

Bitcoin (BTC) has long been touted as digital gold by crypto enthusiasts. Now as the digital asset faces its first economic crisis since its birth, Bitcoin has validated the narrative and outperformed gold by a large margin in 2020. This suggests two important things, Bitcoin is here to stay and it is a better bet