Cosmos

Bitcoin

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Holding at $18K; Active Ethereum Addresses up 140% in 2020

Bitcoin’s price dipped below $18,000 for the third straight day while an increase in active Ethereum addresses is fundamentally positive.

Markets  ·  11 December 2020
Bitcoin

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Hits $18.4K; $260M in Ether Options Expire in December

Bitcoin’s price is making gains not seen since back in 2017 while traders increasingly bet on ether’s December performance.

Markets  ·  18 November 2020
Bitcoin

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Flat at $15.3K; Crypto Locked in DeFi at All-Time High

Bitcoin’s price takes a break while DeFi value locked is at record levels.

Markets  ·  10 November 2020
Cosmos

Cosmos Gains Traction in India Amid Broader Crypto Resurgence

Cosmos and its ATOM token are finding success among university students in India during the 2020 bull market.

People  ·  2 October 2020
CoinFlash

Coinbase Launches 5% Staking Rewards for Cosmos’ ATOM

ATOM is only the second cryptocurrency to join Coinbase’s staking rewards program.

News  ·  29 September 2020
BitGo

BitGo Weighs Building a Sidechain for WBTC as Ethereum Fees Climb

Digital asset trust company BitGo is in the process of “reaching out” to community partners to build an Ethereum sidechain because of rising fees, according to CTO Ben Chan.

Tech  ·  25 August 2020
Cosmos

Cosmos’ Founding Team Broke Up Early This Year. The Project Didn’t

How Cosmos, the blockchain interoperability project that turned a small ICO into a thriving ecosystem, survived the breakup of its founding team.

Business  ·  10 August 2020
DeFi

Proof-of-Stake Chains Team Up to Prove DeFi Is Bigger Than Ethereum

Terra is joining forces with Cosmos, Web3 Foundation and Solana to roll out a DeFi product meant for a wider consumer audience. Meet Anchor.

Business  ·  28 July 2020
Cosmos

Researcher Hopes Cosmos-Style ‘Checkpoint’ Could Fix Ethereum’s Data Problem

The “ReGenesis” proposal by Ethereum researcher Alexey Akhunov would “nuke” the state for certain nodes. It might just fix the network’s growing data issue.

Tech  ·  13 July 2020
Cosmos

How Chainlink and Cosmos Fit Into China’s Grand Blockchain Initiative

Chainlink will help the state-backed Blockchain-Based Service Network with oracles, and Cosmos-powered Irisnet will assist with interoperability.

Tech  ·  23 June 2020
Cosmos

A Digital Art Project Might Have an Answer to the Woes of Staking Centralization

Drawing inspiration from Reddit's r/place, AstroCanvas is an experiment in boosting staking participation – without appealing to financial incentives.

Tech  ·  6 June 2020
Cosmos

Alibaba Claims Patented Cross-Chain System Is Better Than Cosmos

The e-commerce firm says its new patent would improve upon current systems used by blockchains to communicate with one another.

Tech  ·  1 June 2020
Bitcoin

Zcash Alliance Aims to Bring Privacy Tech to Bitcoin, Cosmos and Ethereum

Zcash-inspired privacy tools are coming to Bitcoin's Lightning Network and many other blockchain ecosystems, creating a shared cryptocurrency privacy layer.

Tech  ·  11 May 2020
Cosmos

Ready Layer One: Base Layer Protocols Team for Virtual Developer Event

A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot.

Tech  ·  7 April 2020
Cosmos

What Is Going On With Jae Kwon and Cosmos?

Internal tensions at Tendermint, the company building the Cosmos blockchain, have begun to spill out into public view.

Business  ·  4 February 2020