Get the weekly summary of crypto market analysis, news, and forecasts! This Week’s Summary The crypto market ends the week at a total market capitalization of $1,48 trillion. Bitcoin increased by nearly 5% to reach around $40,000. Ethereum is up by almost 4% to cement its price above $2,100. XRP lost almost 1% in value this week. Almost all altcoins are trading in the green, with some exceptions. The DeFi sector increased the total value of protocols (TVL) to around…
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A Guide to Secret Network (SCRT) – Privacy for the Decentralized Web
Cryptocurrencies have come a long way since their inception more than a decade ago. However, they have yet to make the final leap to mainstream adoption for two reasons. Firstly, some regulators bemoan the lack of transparency in the cryptoverse. Secondly, some investors consider that current blockchains do not offer them enough privacy. So, how can you fix it and have it both ways? Is there a solution that is highly transparent and offers complete privacy at the same time?…
3 years ago 1 k views
Crypto Staking, Delegating, and Validating Explained
The cryptocurrency network requires a robust infrastructure built on blockchain technology to enable it to run smoothly. Furthermore, users in these networks are essential in providing resources to maintain them. Two processes are essential in maintaining cryptocurrency systems: mining and staking. The mining process requires equipment and attention to monitor. Staking, on the other hand, provides users with a chance to earn coins without the need to mine or the need for high computational power. What is Crypto Staking? Staking involves…
3 years ago 8 k views
Dapps on EOS – The Best Decentralized Apps on the EOS Blockchain
Blockchain veteran Dan Larimer formed EOS as a social smart contract platform. The EOS white paper, published in 2017, proposed releasing an open-source software system (EOS.IO) to help entrepreneurs and app developers create DApps quickly and easily. Future users' main benefits were server hosting, cloud storage, and user authentication. EOS was marketed, developed, and released by a private institution, block. One, under Dan's leadership. EOS made mainstream headlines when its Initial Coin Offering (ICO) campaign attracted over $4 billion from investors who saw it as…
3 years ago 1.5 k views
Steem Developers and Community Collaborate in Launching Hive Blockchain
On March 18, 2020, Steem developers and community announced the launching of Hive a DPOS governance blockchain. The Blockchain is a hard fork from Steen's source code. According to the announcement, the launch is scheduled for March 20. At the same time, Binance affirmed its support for the project in a Match 18 Blogspot. Hive's developer team consists of over thirty developers, end-users, and business people. They are brought together by the drive to renew Steem's codebase and expand Hive Blockchain's…
4 years ago 903 views
Tezos (XTZ) Review: What Makes Tezos Stand Out?
Since you have stumbled upon this article, you must have heard about Tezos or the good stuff this project is doing in the crypto space. Getting right into it, Tezos is one of the few projects developed from scratch, unlike most cryptocurrencies that have taken after Bitcoin's infrastructure. As far as the long list of merits of the Tezos blockchain goes, it depends on a less power-hungry algorithm than Bitcoin or Ethereum. The algorithm is less computationally rigorous and less…
4 years ago 1.7 k views
Evaluation of Blockchain Consensus Algorithms
Since the dawn of the Internet, value transmission has always been a problem. The open nature of the Internet allows anyone to copy and propagate information without repercussions. Because of the infrastructure that involves the transfer of packets in a predefined protocol, it is easier to copy stuff on the Internet than to gulp down water. There arose a need for a protocol that could propagate with the same speed but does allow replication. A protocol for transferring value was…
4 years ago 2.7 k views