Filecoin has officially become the storage collaborator for the Flow Blockchain. Filecoin said in a Wednesday announcement that the move was a part of a push to ensure holders' and issuers' nonfungible tokens (NFTs) are "securely available everywhere." The announcement follows from a previous move in August in which Dapper Labs was working to integrate Filecoin’s storage services with the Flow Blockchain. The collaboration enables Flow users to mint NFTs, leverage InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) content addressing and store tokens in the decentralized storage hosted by Filecoin. According to Filecoin, IPFS content addressing is a solution to location addressing, which …

Bitcoin (BTC) is struggling to sustain above $50,500, but that has not stopped the altcoins from following in Ether's (ETH) footsteps after the top-ranked altcoin hit $4,000 on Sept. 3. This has pushed Ether’s market dominance above 20%, while Bitcoin’s dominance has shrunk to 41.1%. However, Bitcoin’s hesitation in the past few days has not altered the outlook of Bloomberg senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone, who has retained a $100,000 target on Bitcoin and $5,000 on Ether. Apart from the top two cryptocurrencies, the nonfungible token (NFT) sector had been attracting the attention of investors since July. Cointelegraph contributor Jordan …

Filecoin (FIL) accumulated 65% gains over the past 30 days to reach its highest price since June 8. The recent strength was accelerated after an Aug.6 partnership with Chainlink's oracle protocol on Aug. 6 allowed the projects to join their grant initiatives to speed up the development of hybrid smart contracts to leverage code running on the blockchain while the managing data computation process off-chain. Numerous events triggered the $235 all-time-high on April 1, but that movement is clearly long gone because the cryptocurrency is 67% below that level. Let's take a moment to understand what triggered the rally and …

In financial markets, the uneven distribution of information comes hand in hand with the uneven distribution of economic power. The cryptocurrency market is no exception, and oftentimes, those with insider knowledge or access to industry-grade data intelligence tools can put their digital assets to work in ways the everyday retail investor can’t. Still, regular traders can profitably leverage publicly available, market-moving news if they are lucky enough to get to it before the rest of the pack. Research suggests that certain types of news announcements — such as those related to staking, listings and partnerships — have the greatest potential …

Cryptocurrencies might be anathema for certain members of United States President Joe Biden's administration, but that has not stopped one staffer from owning a small fortune in Bitcoin (BTC). According to a report by Politico on Monday, Tim Wu, special assistant for technology and competition policy to the president at the National Economic Council, owns over $1 million in Bitcoin. Wu’s BTC ownership came to light after a recent personal financial disclosure that also revealed his ownership of Filecoin (FIL). Wu reportedly owns between $1 million and $5 million worth of Bitcoin as well as between $100,001 and $250,000 worth …

FIL, the native crypto asset of the Filecoin network, was among the best performing digital assets Friday as it maintained its gains against a very bearish cryptocurrency market. The FIL/USD reached an intraday high of $102.109 at around 3:00 am UTC — up more than 37% on a 24-hour adjusted timeframe. The pair underwent a sharp correction later on profit-taking sentiment but sustained its 24-hour gains by staying upward of 17%. In contrast, Filecoin’s top rivals Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) were down more than 6% and 7%, respectively, as of 9:45 am UTC. Almost all the top-cap digital assets …

Filecoin (FIL) is one of the most prominent coins in the storage sector of cryptocurrencies. In the past month, the price and market capitalization of FIL has rocketed to new highs. On April 1, the coin reached $233.68 along with breaking into the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. Basically, Filecoin is a decentralized cloud-based data storage network that allows its users to gain rewards on selling their excess storage on an open-source platform. Filecoin is made by Protocol Labs. Although FIL’s stint in the top 10 list was short-lived, it’s important to note that Filecoin’s fully diluted market capitalization …

It’s been another great week for altcoins as the total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies moves within spitting distance of the $2 trillion mark. And it’s been equally positive for the Cointelegraph Markets Pro platform, which tracks crypto market conditions and real-time headline news in the blockchain industry to deliver market intelligence for every investor. Markets Pro offers two unique features: the VORTECS™ Score, an algorithmically derived weighted score that compares current market conditions to historically similar marketscapes, and NewsQuakes™ — the industry’s most rapid aggregator of market-moving news, analyzed and collated from over a thousand primary sources every minute. …

The Internet Archive, an American nonprofit behind major digital archive Wayback Machine, has received a $10 million cryptocurrency donation from the Filecoin Foundation. According to a Friday announcement, the Filecoin Foundation has donated 50,000 Filecoin (FIL) tokens to the Internet Archive, worth more than $10 million at the time of writing. The grant is designed to help the Internet Archive increase access to its online library including books, data, web pages, music and software. In addition to the donation, the Internet Archive’s founder Brewster Kahle and director of partnerships Wendy Hanamura have joined the boards of advisors for the Filecoin …

For the first time, shares in Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust traded at a discount compared to spot BTC for an entire month. Rafael Schultze-Kraft, the CTO of on-chain analytics provider Glassnode, shared the observation to Twitter on April 1, noting shares in the institutional fund manager’s Bitcoin Trust had traded at a notional discount of -6% on average during March. He noted the discount in Grayscale’s BTC shares has coincided with the launch of the Purpose Bitcoin ETF in Canada — which has accumulated 16,000 BTC worth roughly $940 million since launching in late February. 3/ The drop in $GTBC premium …

Distributed storage network project Filecoin is the talk of the town as FIL was the most highly traded token on Huobi, OKEx and Gate on Thursday. These three exchanges have a predominantly Chinese user base and represent a large part of the Tier One trading volume for major pairs. On Thursday afternoon, Huobi trading volumes of FIL were more than three times that of BTC as the price reached a 7-day increase of 170%. Filecoin has had strong success in capturing the attention of Chinese investors, including large investment groups such as Fenbushi Capital, SNZ Capital and Neo’s EcoFund. These …

The fully diluted valuation of Filecoin (FIL), a digital payment and cryptocurrency system built on top of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), has reached $450 billion. Filecoin is a blockchain that enables users to rent unused hard drive space to store and retrieve data. Its model is similar to Snowflake, which completed the biggest software IPO in history in September 2020. If you're excited about Snowflake, just wait until you learn about Filecoin — Barry Silbert (@BarrySilbert) September 16, 2020 A combination of three factors likely led the price of FIL to surge in recent weeks: technical momentum, rising demand …