CEO and founder of hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) Zhu Su tweeted that he has “abandoned Ethereum despite supporting it in the past,” before making a U-turn on the statement. In the Nov. 21 thread, Su claimed that Ethereum culture “suffers massively from the Founders’ Dilemma,” and that “everyone is already far too rich to remember what they originally set out to do.” Yes I have abandoned Ethereum despite supporting it in the past. Yes Ethereum has abandoned its users despite supporting them in the past. The idea of sitting around jerking off watching the burn and concocting purity …

Quidd, a marketplace for digital collectibles and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, has raised a total of $5 million in private pre-sales and an initial DEX offering (IDO). The token sale took place on Polkadot project incubator Polkastarter on Nov. 18. The allotment of 2 million QUIDD tokens at a price of US$0.25 per token sold out in under an hour, raising $500,000. Earlier this month, the private sale of the Ethereum-based QUIDD tokens raised US$4 million from investors including Binance Smart Chain Growth Fund, Genesis Block Ventures, Kingsway, Mind Fund Group Ltd, Sanctor Capital, OneFootball, and other angel investors. …

Bitcoin (BTC) is witnessing a tough tussle near the $58,000 mark but that has not stopped select altcoins from hitting a new all-time high. This shows that traders are watching the fundamental developments on individual coins. One of the recent top performing major altcoins has been Avalanche (AVAX), which has soared more than 120% in November. The coin caught traders’ attention leading up to the announcement by accounting firm Deloitte which plans to build its disaster relief platforms on the Avalanche blockchain. In another step that shows growing crypto adoption, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele announced the launch of Bitcoin …

Bitcoin (BTC) hovered near $59,000 as Nov. 21 came to a close after avoiding a retest of its recent lows. BTC challenges $60,000 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD almost hitting $60,000 before consolidating in a new higher range after sudden gains Saturday evening. The pair had hit lows of $55,650 during the week, these marking its lowest point in over a month, but further retests failed to materialize as sentiment improved. Adopting a calmer perspective into the weekly close, analysts thus looked to the long term to understand the overall health of the market. "Since breaking …

A crowd loan is a Polkadot (DOT) crowdsourcing event in Polkadot that allows the community to support project bids in upcoming parachain slot auctions. Users contribute DOT, receive rewards in project tokens and get their DOT back in two years (a standard slot lease duration). This mechanic helps projects raise substantial capital in DOT tokens that may even exceed a few hundred million in dollar notion value. The obvious downside for users is the need to lock their DOT for two years where they don’t have access to their liquidity during this lockup period. In mainstream finance, there are private …

Avalanche (AVAX) is now the tenth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization after more than doubling in price since the start of November. AVAX entered the top-10 crypto index after pushing out Dogecoin (DOGE). In doing so, its circulating market valuation reached $30.60 billion for the first time compared to Dogecoin's $30.30 billion. AVAX price hits another record high AVAX price climbed while ignoring price corrections elsewhere in the crypto market after Nov. 10. Notably, Bitcoin (BTC) plunged by nearly 20% from its record high of $69,000, and Ether (ETH) — the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap and Avalanche's top competitor — …

A gubernatorial candidate from Venezuela has promised to offer scholarships for citizens interested to join the Technical Training Center for Mining and Administration of Digital Crypto Assets. José Alejandro Terán, the aspiring governor who represents the country’s ruling party, started the initiative as a part of the La Guaira Digital program, which aims to fast-track growth and induce economic stability in the country. As Cointelegraph Spanish reported, Terán’s training center will provide specialized training to the scholarship holders in nonfungible tokens (NFT), crypto mining and trading. Moreover, the drive will be supported by four entities, namely the National Superintendence of …

We’ve argued many times in the past that the correlation between Bitcoin’s price and the market capitalization of hundreds of altcoins makes very little sense. Whether you buy into the idea that Bitcoin is digital gold, or a payment mechanism, or both, it doesn’t have a whole lot in common with Ethereum, Shiba Inu, or FTX’s native exchange token. Well, whether we like it or not, big moves in the price of Bitcoin define crypto markets. Before Bitcoin slid from the latest all-time high above $68,000 back to the region of $55,000 last week, dragging most altcoins down with it, …

Zcash (ZEC) surged by nearly 20% in the past 24 hours, helped by the euphoria surrounding its core protocol's decisive transition from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS). The ZEC price logged an intraday high at $188.80 on Binance after rising two days in a row by more than 27%. The cryptocurrency's move upside also wiped out a big portion of the losses it had faced earlier this week, in the wake of a downside retracement across the crypto market. ZEC price jumped after the cryptocurrency's main developer, Electric Coin Company (ECC), announced that it would move Zcash's protocol from PoW …

New York-based crypto-mining service provider Foundry USA takes the lead to become the world’s second-largest Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool after taking up a 15.42% share of the network. Data from BTC.com shows that Digital Currency Group-owned Foundry USA stands behind the pool leader AntPool by a hash rate of just 4,000 PH/s, which contributed to a 17.76% network share at the time of writing. The rise in the participation of American entities can be attributed to China’s recent blanket ban on crypto trading and mining activities. The ban forced a large-scale migration of local Bitcoin miners, who now reside in …

Its been a rollercoaster week in the cryptocurrency market after volatility returned to shake up Bitcoin (BTC) price, pushing the digital asset to lows not seen since mid-October. As has happened frequently in the past, the drop in price of BTC was followed by a rotation into altcoins and the Altseason Indicator from Cointelegraph Markets Pro suggests that the current market conditions are similar to those seen in the past when altcoins outperformed Bitcoin. Here’s a look at a few altcoins that have been making steady gains over the past few weeks. Avalanche's DeFi ecosystem explodes Avalanche (AVAX) is a …

Keep3rV1 (KP3R) was one of the few altcoins that emerged unscathed from this week’s bearish turn in the crypto market. While many digital assets plunged into the red following the lead of Bitcoin (BTC), which recoiled after recording a new all-time high last week, KP3R added 31.60% against the dollar and 44.17% against BTC between Nov. 12 and Nov. 19. Let's investigate what drove the splendid performance and what factors made the altcoin stand out in the face of the from the bleak dynamics of the wider market? Founder’s magic Much of the momentum underpinning KP3R’s explosive price movement throughout …