Tachyon Protocol has enabled IPX wallet staking on Tachyon VPN v2.6. Users now able to stake tokens directly inside the Tachyon VPN platform without the need to operate a node. This function will only be supported on the Android client.
Nord Finance partners with leading blockchain security and engineering firm Zokyo. Zokyo team is working with Nord Finance to complete a security audit in order to prepare for the launch across all Nord Finance ecosystem products. Nord Savings V1 is due for release in Q1 2021.
1inch launches new liquidity mining program on January 9. Under the new program, another 1% of the 1INCH token total supply will be distributed among providers of liquidity to the pools: ETH/1INCH, ETH/DAI, ETH/USDC, ETH/USDT, ETH/WBTC. The program will run for one month.
TOP 10 best performing coins that had premiere listing in 2020. The projects are sorted by return on investments. Only coins with 30 days trading history were analyzed. If there was no public sale ROI is based on the closing price on the first day of the trading.
e-Money will have a public sale on Polkastarter on January 19th. A limited supply of 300K NGM tokens will be available for purchase at a fixed price of $0.5 per token. Token metrics TBA. e-Money was among top 10 most anticipated PoS networks last year.
BiFi Finance launches its lending service and liquidity mining on January 7. BiFi (BIFI) is the multichain DeFi platform powered by Bifrost’s (BFC). Lending service allows users to deposit ERC-20 assets including ETH, USDT, LINK, DAI, and borrow against their deposit. To secure initial liquidity, BiFi Rewards Program will offer BIFI tokens to users who deposits or borrows on the platform.
Antler Interactive raises $2.1M for My Neighbor Alice, a new blockchain game. NGC Ventures, Bitscale Capital, Genesis Block, Kyros Ventures, Coin98 Ventures, Asymm Ventures, Augment Ventures, Btx capital, Rarestone Capital and X21 Digital are among investors.
My Neighbor Alice is a multiplayer builder-game where players build their own virtual lands, interact with neighbors, perform exciting daily activities and earn rewards.
Binance will offer Bitcoin Standard Hashrate Token (BTCST) farming on Binance Launchpool as of January 8. Users will be able to stake their BNB, BUSD and BTC into separate pools to farm BTCST tokens over 30 days period. Binance will then list BTCST into the innovation zone at 2021/01/13 6:00 AM (UTC) and open trading with BTCST/BTC, BTCST/BUSD and BTCST/USDT trading pairs.
Total cryptocurrency market capitalization hits record $1 Trillion on January 7. Previous record of $835 billion was set on January 7, 2018. Current BTC dominance is around 68.5%.
Web traffic to crypto exchanges sets a new record in December 2020. Crypto web traffic in December was the highest ever recorded. According to data from SimilarWeb in December in average web traffic of cryptocurrency exchanges has increased by 20%.
Google Trends: global interest in Ethereum spikes to all time high. The previous ATH level recorder in January 2018 is at 82 out of 100 at the moment.
Google Trends: global interest in Bitcoin spikes to 79 out of 100. The highest level of global interest that equals to 100 has been recorded between December 17 and December 23 in 2017. In some countries (Argentina, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Greece, Spain, Mexico, Nigeria, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uruguay and others) Bitcoin search term is already at ATH level.