Altcoin News

The Bank for International Settlements keeps bashing cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin (BTC), and stablecoins, while preparing the ground for central bank digital currencies (CBDC), saying that they "open a new chapter for the monetary system."

Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by crypto exchanges that we found last week and today.

Bitcoin price is facing resistance near USD 23,500. Ethereum could rally if it clears USD 1,680, XRP eyes a test of USD 0.40. The best performer today, FLOW, increased its gains to more than 50%.

Cross-chain messaging protocol Nomad announced a bounty of up to 10% for the return of the (majority of the) USD 190m stolen from the Nomad bridge on August 1.

It’s already October, and the world has now left both the month of September and the third quarter of the year behind. And as expected, lots of things have happened in the crypto space over the past quarter.

Tamadoge meme coin has raised more than $10 million in its presale, beating move-to-earn phenomenon STEPN on $9.2 million.

Bitcoin price failed to clear USD 40,000 and trimmed gains. Ethereum dropped below USD 2,600 before recovering, XRP is finding bids above USD 0.700. VGX rallied 17%, AAVE is up 15%.

The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible token (NFT) collection’s new utility and governance token ApeCoin (APE) was airdropped to holders of NFTs in the BAYC ecosystem on Thursday, soaring in price as major exchanges rushed to list it.

We are already a few weeks into 2021, but it is still not too late for predictions – especially in the crypto world, with Ripple’s team taking a break from its battle with American financial regulators to present its forecast for the year ahead.

Another Terra (LUNA) ecosystem revival plan by Terraform Labs (TFL) CEO and Co-founder Do Kwon seems to have the support of at least some Terra developers, while trust issues still pose serious challenges to this plan.