The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) token rose more than 10% as ENS Labs announced details of its new Ethereum layer-2 solution “Namechain.” Namechain is a purpose-built Ethereum layer-2 solution aimed at scaling blockchain identity by making it easier to register names at reduced costs via rollups, ENS Labs executives said in a presentation at the
Month: November 2024
Cryptocurrency analytics platform Nansen is expanding its capabilities beyond Ethereum by moving into Bitcoin through a partnership with the Bitcoin layer-2 (L2) network, Bitlayer. Nansen is debuting Bitcoin (BTC) analytics services by delivering blockchain data analytics to Bitlayer, an L2 network supporting smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps) on Bitcoin. As the first Bitcoin L2
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Infinex has announced plans to list the top 500 crypto assets and release an updated version of its platform in early 2025. In an interview at Near’s Redacted conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Infinex founder Kain Warwick told Cointelegraph editor Andrew Fenton about the DeFi platform’s plans to list the top 500
The six-hour train journey from Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, to the coastal city of Mombasa is a pleasant one. Clean carriages, very well-dressed passengers and a punctual timetable make a nice change from the uncertainty of traveling in Africa. Opening in 2017, it replaced a colonial-era railway line known as the “Lunatic Express,” which is fitting
Victims win first civil action against the FTX of Hong Kong A Hong Kong court has ruled in favor of two investors who filed a civil suit against defunct Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange JPEX and its affiliate, Web 3.0 Technical Support. With the judge’s ruling, 1.85 million Hong Kong dollars (around $238,000) will be recovered on
Top Stories of The Week Michael Saylor posts fake quote from Trump on crypto to 3.6M followers With the United States Election Day coming up and many voters already going to the polls, social media is rife with misinformation about candidates’ policies. MicroStrategy executive chair Michael Saylor seems to have fallen for a social media
Bitcoin’s (BTC) rejection near the all-time high earlier in the week may have attracted profit booking by the short-term traders. Although the price has dropped near $68,000, analysts remain positive on the markets. They anticipate Bitcoin to find support between $65,000 and $68,000. The next major trigger for the cryptocurrency markets is the United States
The use of AI agents to create, promote and transact cryptocurrencies has been largely theoretical — until now. But with AI shitposter Terminal of Truths promoting Goateus Maximus, the Luna bot tipping users for engagement, and Based Agents enabling quick and easy crypto agent creation on Ethereum L2s, the future has become very real all
Crypto punters shouldn’t be throwing extra cash at AI agents for trading — just stick to what you’d invest if you were trading solo since there will still be losers, a crypto venture capitalist says. “Trading is always a zero-sum game,” Web3 venture capital studio LiquidX co-founder Giulio Xiloyannis tells Hall of Flame. “There is
Blockchain technology is planting the seeds of change in Africa’s farming sector, providing solutions to long-standing barriers like market access, financial limitations and fair pricing. For farmers like Sophia Wambui Ngamate from Nakuru County, Kenya, aged 54, it has been a lifeline. “One Million Avocados has wonderfully assisted me in planting more than 120 avocado
Asian crypto traders catch late-night surge as Trump wins election The cryptocurrency industry celebrated Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 United States presidential election, as Bitcoin surged to new all-time highs. Asian markets joined in the rally, local sources tell Magazine. “A lot of Asian traders were working overnight to catch this surge and are
Blockchain domain provider Unstoppable Domains has partnered with Cake Wallet, an open-source wallet, to launch a new top-level domain specifically for Monero users, the companies announced. Unstoppable Domains said the new .xmr domains will allow Cake Wallet and Monero (XMR) users to send and receive tokens using human-readable addresses instead of long, alphanumeric strings. The
Ether (ETH) recorded its largest three-day return of 2024, with a 21% spike after President-elect Donald Trump was announced as winner of the US presidential election. The rally also took the altcoin above its overhead resistance of $2,800, breaking a trend bottom consolidation range that lasted 96 days. Ethereum 3-day chart. Source: TradingView With the
Bitcoin (BTC) preserved $76,000 into Nov. 9 as “spoof city” kept BTC price action pinned in a narrow range. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView Bitcoin still “underperforming” after trip to $77,200 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView captured familiar trading conditions for BTC/USD: heavy volume and new all-time highs. The latest record came in
Top Stories of The Week BTC investors pour $1.1B into BlackRock ETF as Bitcoin marks another high The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, accumulated more than $1 billion of inflows to its Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) across a record trading day as Bitcoin continued to break all-time highs. On Nov. 7, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust
Bitcoin (BTC) is dividing opinion as a weekend BTC price surge takes BTC/USD to nearly $80,000. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView Mixed reactions as Bitcoin sees weekend surge Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows Bitcoin gaining almost $2,000 in a single hourly candle on Nov. 10. Keeping in line with recent weekend price