The price of Binance Coin (BNB), the native cryptocurrency of Binance and Binance Smart Chain, rallied by more than 20% in the last 24 hours. The swift recovery comes after a market-wide correction on Sunday, during which major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) saw a sharp decline. ETH’s price, for instance, declined from $2,400 to as low as $1,900 in a sudden pullback as Bitcoin plunged below the $60,000 support level to as low as $52,000. Overheated futures market gets a reset The market saw a steep pullback in a short period because the futures market was extremely …

Binance Smart Chain (BSC) has rapidly risen to prominence in 2021 as high transaction costs and congestion on the Ethereum (ETH) network led smaller-size investors to search for cheaper alternatives. One of the top choices to earn a yield on the BSC is Venus (XVS), an algorithmic money market and synthetic stablecoin protocol that provides a lending and borrowing solution for the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView shows that the price of Venus catapulted 3,000% in the first two months of the year, going from a low of $3.20 on Jan. 1 to an all-time …

Binance Coin (BNB) saw its 15th burn to date on Friday. According to on-chain data, Binance burned nearly $600 million worth of BNB tokens. Historically, Binance has burned around 20% of the exchange’s profits. But in the last burn, Binance burned much more than 20%, and the exact percentage of the burn remains uncertain. Imagine burning half a billion dollars, wait, don’t imagine. It’s real. #BNB https://t.co/rMFbiufFSG — CZ Binance (@cz_binance) April 16, 2021 BNB fundamentals keep improving Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX — one of the top cryptocurrency futures exchanges alongside Binance — estimated that Binance possibly generated $1 …

While the past year has been marked by the rise of decentralized finance (DeFi), centralized entities like Coinbase and Binance continue to be some of the most important players in the industry as a whole, as they are essential in attracting attention to promising projects and pave the way for wider adoption. One protocol that has taken advantage of the "Binance bump" over the past week is IOST, a fully-fledged decentralized blockchain ecosystem that utilizes a unique proof-of-believability consensus protocol. Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView shows that the price of IOST has rallied 88% over the past week, going …

A crypto app has warned that Bitcoin is facing a liquidity crisis — and the lack of supply on the open market could have ramifications for buyers and sellers alike. According to SwissBorg, the amount of Bitcoin held in exchanges’ wallets has decreased markedly in recent months. This has resulted in a number of major trading platforms suffering outages — with some forced to impose temporary limits on buy orders. Whereas many crypto apps rely solely on one exchange, SwissBorg is connected to four leading platforms: Binance, Kraken, HitBTC and LMAX. The company says this means there is a much …

Issues with Ethereum congestion and high fees have led to many companies adopting layer-two solutions like Optimistic Rollups, OMG Network and many others. These platforms allow transactions to be created outside of the Ethereum network on what are known as “sidechains,” which then can be reconciled on the main Ethereum network in one simple transaction. These layer-two options are gaining a lot of traction in anticipation of the release of Ethereum 2.0, which aims to solve the current high gas fees through sharding and splitting transactions throughout multiple blockchains. Many projects have been adopting both layer-one and layer-two solutions to …

Major global cryptocurrency exchanges including Binance and FTX have announced the listing of Coinbase’s stock token ahead of its direct listing on Nasdaq. According to an announcement on Wednesday, Binance will list Coinbase’s stock token (COIN) today, allowing its users to trade fractional Coinbase stock on the Binance website. The new stock token will trade against Binance USD (BUSD), Binance’s stablecoin, which is pegged to the United States dollar and issued by Paxos Trust Company. Binance said that Coinbase stock tokens are zero-commission digital tokens fully backed by a depository portfolio of underlying securities representing the tokens. The exchange stated …

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is launching tradable stock tokens that aim to enable a wider section of the public to pocket capital returns on equities, including potential dividends, without having to purchase full, traditional shares. The first publicly tradable equity in the form of a Binance stock token will be Tesla, the share price of which currently hovers around the $700 mark. Rather than purchase a full, traditional share, for which custody of a physical share certificate is required, users can purchase as little as one one-hundredth of a Tesla share represented by a digital token. Binance stated: “Each digital token …

Despite Binance supporters celebrating Binance Coin’s (BNB) chart-topping performance for Q1 2021, concerns are growing regarding the centralization of the Binance ecosystem. On Monday, Messari researcher Ryan Watkins took aim at the centralization of Binance Smart Chain’s validators, stating: “Every cycle people get hoodwinked by the latest centralized solution to all blockchains problems.” “Every cycle influencers pump these narratives so they can dump on naïve retail traders when it’s over.” BSC uses proof-of-staked authority consensus, with its 21 active validators being chosen daily by Binance Chain — a network that is governed by just 11 validators. BSC validators stake BNB. …

2021 has been an impressive year for Binance Coin (BNB), which so far has rallied by more than 900%. One of the primary drivers of BNB's growth was continued congestion on the Ethereum network. As this struggle carried on, Binance Smart Chain (BSC) emerged as an alternative, meeting the rapidly growing decentralized finance (DeFi) sector's demands. As BNB reached a $64 billion market capitalization, it has surpassed traditional banks, including Santander, the Bank of Montreal, and UBS. Meanwhile, some analysts point to the estimated value and impact of Coinbase's upcoming direct listing ($100-billion valuation) as a catalyst for the BNB …

Centralized cryptocurrency exchanges (CEX) have received increased attention over the past couple of months as excitement builds over Coinbase's April 14 NASDAQ listing and the exchange's recent announcement that it pulled in $1.8 billion in revenue during the first quarter of 2021. Even as decentralized finance (DeFi) and popular decentralized exchanges (DEX) like Uniswap (UNI) and PancakeSwap (CAKE) attracted investors, high transaction costs and low liquidity on separate blockchain networks means that many crypto traders stick with CEXs for lower trading costs and the sense of security they offer. While Bitcoin, DeFi tokens and a selection of altcoins have garnered …

Decentralized finance platform 1inch announced on Thursday a rebrand to “1inch Network” — a facelift designed to better reflect the current and future state of the multichain, multiprotocol platform as it continues to grow, according to 1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz. “For us it is a logical move. Me and Anton started with just an aggregation protocol at the ETHNew York hackathon in 2019 and now we have the whole ecosystem of protocols, such as: 1inch Liquidity Protocol (prev. Mooniswap), 1inch Aggregation Protocol, instant governance and the 1INCH governance/utility token,” he said. Implementations of the various protocols have also expanded beyond …