Bitcoin Price Prediction – January 15 The Bitcoin price prediction shows that BTC keeps moving within the moving averages as the coin ready for the [...]

In a recent interview (with Crypto Capital Venture Founder Dan Gambardello) Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson talked about his vision for Cardano in 2022. According to a report by The Daily Hodl, here are a few highlights from that interview: “I think everything will get done that I outlined – the sidechains, the pipelining, the import […]

NEAR coin price creates a new all-time high level at $20 but falls due to increased profit booking. Will the bulls regain trend control to reach $23? NEAR Protocol is a layer-1 blockchain that was created as a cloud computing platform run by community members. It removes certain limitations that have plagued other blockchains such as slow transaction speed and interoperability. It provides the perfect environment for DApps and provides an easy-to-use and developer-friendly platform. For example, NEAR uses human-readable account names, as opposed to the cryptocurrency-based wallet addresses used by Ethereum. NEAR is also able to provide innovative solutions to scaling issues and also has its own mechanism for consensus called “Doomslug.” Let us move ahead to read about Near Protocol technical analysis. Past Performance of NEAR The NEAR coin price faces rejection near the all-time high level of $20.38, predicted in our previous article. The coin price shows a growth of 60% in the last five days resulting in multiple bullish engulfing candlesticks. The price jump results in the breakout of multiple resistance levels including $18. Therefore, the current retracement acts as the retest of the $18 breakout. NEAR/USD Daily Chart NEAR Technical Analysis The NEAR coin price forms a bearish candle with a minuscule wick, indicating a solid selling pressure in action. However, the free fall in the coin price can find support at $18 as a previous candle shows lower price rejection from the horizontal level. Crucial EMAs (50, 100, and 200) rise in an ascending alignment reflecting a solid bull run in action. Therefore, retracements to 20-day EMA can provide buy-the-dip opportunities. The RSI indicator at 65% shows a small reversal in the slope as it struggles to rise into the overbought zone. Nonetheless, the slope and the 14-day SMA sustain above the center mark in the daily chart. The MACD indicator shows a gradual rise in the MACD and signal lines in the positive segment in the daily chart. Therefore, the indicator remains bullish for the NEAR coin.  Therefore, the technical analysis indicates a solid bull run with a short correction in action to retest the bullish breakout. Furthermore, the indicators maintain a buy signal for the coin. Upcoming Trend The creation of an all-time new high level at $20 marks a significant bullish milestone for the NEAR coin. That is why a fall due to profit booking is seen. However, the retest of $18 will drive the prices higher to the next pivot level. That is why holders can see the price break above $20 shortly. The price action suggests support levels at $18 and $16 can halt the profit booking induced falling price. And, a bullish reversal can find selling pressure at $20 and $23. At press time, the sentiments chart gives a “BUY” signal for the Near Protocol token.

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A low-cap altcoin has skyrocketed by more than 372% in the past seven days after receiving full trading support from Coinbase this week. PolySwarm (NCT) is a threat detection and anti-malware project that was listed by Coinbase Pro on Wednesday, alongside altcoins Inverse Finance (INV), Liquity (LQTY), Propy (PRO). All four crypto assets then received […]

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NFTs existed prior to 2021, but it was last year that digital art exploded in the blockchain space, and digital artists shone in the NFT spotlight. While the crypto world became an exciting place to be, a new generation of NFT artists entered the world’s largest artistic movement to date. Crypto investors are having a difficult time in January 2022, as the price of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies continues to fluctuate wildly. Some have blamed the drop on the Federal Reserve’s recent announcement of additional rate hikes, as well as political unrest in Kazakhstan, which drastically reduced Bitcoin’s hash rate. The price of Bitcoin fell below $42,000 on January 14 as traders hoped for bullish signals. It appears that while the crypto market continues to struggle, the NFT space  is witnessing incredible surge in trading volumes and interest. NFT & GameFi In Sweet Month A new report has shown that NFT and GameFi transactions continued to rise despite falling crypto prices. The report by Dappradar noted that “the number of UAW connected to Ethereum NFT DApps has grown by 43% since Q3 2021,” according to the research. The money generated by NFT trading increased from $10.7 billion in Q3 2021 to $11.9 billion in the first ten days of 2022, according to the research. This rise could also be attributed to recent advancements in the NFT arena, such as the establishment of the LooksRare marketplace. “Blockchain games continue to be widely used,” according to the report, noting that they “represent 52% of the industry’s usage.” The case for blockchain games to continue developing during 2022 has been enhanced by expanding metaverse technologies and the growing success of the play-to-earn model. Data from Dune Analytics revealed OpenSea, the leading NFT marketplace, generated approximately $2.7 billion in volume in the first half of January, on track to beat the $3.4 billion high it set in August. OpenSea had its highest single-day volume of $261 million dollars on January 9. So far in January, OpenSea has surpassed $150 million in trade volume on a daily basis. OpenSea daily volume on Ethereum. Source: Dune Analytics   Related article | OpenSea Transaction Volume Shows That NFTs Are Not Slowing Mason Nystrom, a senior research analyst at Messari, believes the NFT market is in a better position than recent cryptocurrency price moves suggest. Nystrom noted that: “The cryptomarkets are fairly correlated – the market tends to rise and fall with Bitcoin. This has made it surprisingly interesting over the recent downturn as the NFT market has continued to increase in volumes. OpenSea has recorded $2.3 billion in NFT volume in January so far, on pace to break its monthly volume record if volumes continue.” Market Reflects Growing Interest During this market downturn, Chinese consumers have shown a growing interest in NFTs and blockchain gaming, which aligns with recent Chinese announcements that the government will begin building its own non-crypto NFT. “China is now the country with the most extensive user base…increasing 166 percent from the numbers registered in November,” according to DappRadar’s research. Crypto Market Cap Stands at $2 trillion. Source: TradingView Despite the near-term volatility that NFTs may experience as a result of current market conditions, the nature of these digital assets may lead to a decoupling of prices within crypto marketplaces. Despite the fact that the United States is currently ranked second in terms of overall traffic, the country added 175,000 new members to the NFT ecosystem, representing a 38 percent increase. This is due in part to a rise in interest among younger audiences, as Millennials and Generation Z begin to account for a larger share of traffic. Related article | a16z, Mark Cuban invest $23 million in NFT platform OpenSea Featured Image from Unsplash | Charts by Dune Analytics, and TradingView

DCR coin price action gives a bullish breakout of the falling wedge pattern with a 1500+% jump in trading volume teasing a bull run above $100 shortly. Decred is a cryptocurrency based on blockchain that was introduced in February 2016. DCR token and the protocol behind it were created to promote an open and democratic governance system. It is designed so that the community has the authority to approve any changes or transactions made to the protocol. Therefore, there is no way for the large Decred holders to influence the functioning of the system. The driving force for the founding of Decred is that it is an organization known as Company 0. Its purpose is to harness blockchain technology to provide better security for personal data and allow organizations to be more flexible in their projects. Let us move ahead to read about Decred technical analysis. Past Performance of DCR DCR coin price shows a growth of more than 25% in the past 24 hours with a jump of 1650% in the intraday trading volume. Thus, resulting in a huge bullish engulfing candlestick in the daily chart. Moreover, the increasing prices result in the long-coming wedge pattern breakout.  DCR/USD Daily Chart DCR Technical Analysis The DCR coin price finds demand near the support zone at $60 resulting in the price jump and the breakout of a long-coming resistance trendline. However, the resistance zone of $100 is a high selling pressure area that can be hard to overcome. The crucial EMAs (50, 100, and 200) maintain a falling trend with the 50-day EMA providing dynamic resistance resulting in the higher price rejection. However, the increasing demand may soon result in the breakout of these EMAs, which will light a buying spot. The RSI indicator at 55% shows a steep rise in slope as it breaks above the center mark in the daily chart. However, the 14-day SMA remains below the central mark, indicating the bullish pressure is yet to sustain. The MACD indicator shows a bullish crossover in the MACD and signal lines with the gap increasing between the lines. Moreover, the growth in bullish histograms reflects a rise in underlying bullishness.  Therefore, the technical analysis indicates a sharp rise in bullishness which is yet to sustain and might find rejection near $100. Moreover, the DCR price action indicates high price rejection from the 100-day EMA near $100. Upcoming Trend The breakout of the falling wedge pattern with a boom in buying pressure helps DCR gain overnight bullish attention. However, the price struggles to sustain above the breakout and might succumb within the pattern.  The price action suggests support levels at $60 and $30 can halt the falling price in the event of a downfall. However, if the buying pressure sustains, the selling pressure at $100 and the 200-day EMA will be hard to overcome. In conclusion, the chances of prices falling into a pattern is high compared to a bull run. However, traders need to be patient and wait for the price action confirmation. At press time, the sentiment chart gives an overall “BUY” signal for the Decred token.

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In an unexpected Twitter poll, Vitalik Buterin asked the ETH community which currency they want to dominate in 2035 if it isn’t Ethereum.

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Individuals and families feel more exposed and ill-equipped to secure their digital lives U.S. trends to watch in 2022: While life online is loaded with conveniences, they’re not enough. People want to be secure. Consumers want a protected connection, even if it costs them. Gamers will take a pass on so-called “free” videogames. AI monitoring […]

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Until now, NEAR Protocol has quietly grown as a scalable, proof-of-stake network.

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The software platform Cardano has entered the third stage of its roadmap, the Basho era. It promises to improve the network’s performance and scalability. Cardano’s roadmap is “a summary of Cardano development” divided into five eras to deliver improvements in diverse functionalities of the network that are “delivered across multiple code releases”. Now that the platform’s core smart contract capability Plutus has been deployed, the launch of the Basho era focuses on scaling Cardano, promising “Parameter adjustments, improvements, enhancements and other innovations” supposed to increase the network’s capacity. They also call it “an era of optimization”, promising to enhance the performance and interoperability “to better support growth and adoption for applications with high transaction volume.” It is supposed to bring high performance, resiliency, and flexibility to the network. Related Reading | Cardano Foundation Completes Funding To Plant 1 Million Trees Scalability And Interoperability Scalability and interoperability are some of the main solutions that Cardano wants to offer as the “ethereum killer”. While the Ethereum network is working to handle up to 100,000 transactions per second (tps), Cardano plans to reach millions of tps through the second-layer solution Hydra. On the interoperability’s side, the Basho stage will introduce the sidechains, “new blockchains, interoperable with the main Cardano chain”, which eventually intends to allow the blockchains, with different architectures and codes, to be able to communicate: interoperate. The Cardano Roadmap explains that “Sidechains can be used as a sharding mechanism by off-loading work from the main chain onto a sidechain to increase the capacity of the network. They can also be used to introduce experimental features without affecting the security of the main blockchain.” Similarly, this stage will also introduce parallel accounting styles: “the ability to support and switch between UTXO and account-based models will be added using sidechains.” This is also meant to enhance interoperability and “support new kinds of use cases on the network.” “Building on these foundations, and steadily increasing capacity and throughput to deal with the growth in the DApp ecosystem and onboard first hundreds of thousands, then millions of new users. From DeFi degens to citizens of developing nations.” Cardano has been widely criticized for its slow start. Many people thought the platform was lagging behind, noting it took a long time to deploy its first smart contract. However, the CEO of the Cardano Foundation Frederik Gregaard argues that they take a careful approach to launch functions, with rigorous testing and peer review. This time around, the Basho stage’s launch report noted that they expect “periods of high demand, network congestion at times”, but they see it as part of the ‘journey’ and added that they will be maintaining a “considered, safe approach”. “We’re on an exciting journey and usage will be high. While we may at times feel impatient, this is the way. Here’s how we will optimize and scale as we grow.” What The Basho Era Promises To Solve The optimization and scalability improvements have been divided in the report between “on-chain solutions” and “off-chain solutions”. Here is what they intend to solve: For on-chain solutions: Block size increase: the network recently increased the block size by 12.5% to 72KB and “further increases will be applied over time”. Pipelining: intends to propagate blocks “to at least 95% of peers within five seconds” to provide “the headroom to make more aggressive scaling changes”. Input Endorsers: “This improves the consistency of block propagation times and allows higher transaction rates.” Memory /CPU parameters for Plutus: improves the efficiency of memory usage across the chain. Plutus script enhancements: a “more effective usage of the powerful EUTXO model through smart contract optimization,” Node enhancements: intends to “help even distribution of stake and reward computations across the epochs”. The new node version “reduces peak load at critical points,” On-disk storage: “RAM-constrained systems will be able to run nodes (…) and memory will no longer be a bottleneck on scalability.” For off-chain solutions: Sidechains: “Assets can be moved between chains as needed.” Hydra: “provides a more efficient means to process transactions off-chain,” Off-chain computing: “Transactions occur outside of the blockchain itself, yet can offer fast, cheap transactions via a trust model.” Mithril: results in “Multi-signature aggregation that is fast and efficient without compromising security features.” Related Reading | Cardano’s Ecosystem Explodes, Why ADA Could Be Quick To Resume Bullish Trend ADA’s Price ADA trades at $1,28 at the time of writing, up 3.74% in the last 24 hours, but 59.1% down from its last peak in September 2021. ADA trading at $1,28 in the daily chart | Source: ADAUSD on TradingView.com

Cryptocurrency trader Justin Bennett is revealing where he sees Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and two altcoins heading in the coming days and weeks. Starting with Bitcoin, Bennett tells his 7,820 YouTube subscribers that the first resistance level the flagship cryptocurrency will come up against if it keeps going up is at $45,600. According to Bennett, […]

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Shark tank star and billionaire Mark Cuban is revealing his crypto portfolio, which includes several non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and altcoins built on Ethereum (ETH). According to ETH search engine EtherScan, Cuban’s top altcoin holdings include data exchange platform Ocean Protocol (OCEAN), cross-chain smart contract protocol Rarible (RARI), the governance token of the Olympus DAO (gOHM), […]

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