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This year's 500% accumulated gain took Ether's (ETH) price to a $4,380 all-time high on May 12, and this rally was even more robust than the late-2017 move. The famous bull market, or bubble, depending on how you see it, took Ether's price on a 390% rally from $290 in November 2017 to $1,420 in…

New crypto market trends are starting to emerge now that Bitcoin and equities markets move closer to make-or-break levels, which will determine the markets’ direction. 622 Total views 8 Total shares

Top Stories This Week Memecoin hype drives Bitcoin transaction fees to multi-year highs The ongoing trading frenzy of memecoins like Pepe has triggered an unwanted consequence for Bitcoin (BTC) — raising its transaction costs to their highest point in two years. On May 3, the total amount of fees paid on the Bitcoin blockchain reached…

Bitcoin (BTC) futures open interest at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) hit an all-time high of $3.65 billion on November 1. This metric considers the value of every contract in play for the remaining calendar months, where buyers (longs) and sellers (shorts) are continually matched.Bullish momentum on CME Bitcoin futures, but cautious BTC options marketsThe

Bridges have become one of the largest points of failure in the crypto industry. Polkadot wants to do away with them. 526 Total views 15 Total shares Blockchain platform Polkadot has launched a new cross-chain communications protocol, saying it will do away with cumbersome bridging mechanisms that have cost the crypto industry billions in cyber…

Roscosmos is the first organization to test Waves Enterprise’s IP Guard solution. 3036 Total views 24 Total shares Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, aims to fight intellectual property infringement in the space industry wit blockchain technology.Roscosmos started testing an IP protection solution based on the Waves Enterprise blockchain platform, a hybrid blockchain platform developed by the…

The Initial Litigation Offering is being used to help a hemp grower crowdfund legal fees in a fight against California, and has important implications for a new type of fund raising with crypto. 422 Total views 51 Total shares Hemp grower Apothio has raised $330,000 for a lawsuit against Kern County, California via what’s known…

Open-source refers to the practice of making source code freely available to the public, allowing anyone to view, modify and distribute the code. In computer science and software development, open source is important for several reasons, as explained in the below sections.Collaboration and innovationGlobal collaboration and contributions to the creation of software projects are made…

Bank of America has filed for a patent for a settlement system citing a ‘ripple’ distributed ledger, according to a filing on Google Patents.The patent in question — the application of which was published on June 6 — describes a system using distributed ledger technology (DLT) as an interbank communication tool. The proposed system would…