These cryptocurrencies are up over 10% today despite Ethereum’s sharp 8% drop

Both Bitcoin and Ethereum have faced sharp declines over the past few hours despite the move to $40,000 on Thursday. BTC is down 10 percent in the past 24 hours while ETH has lost around eight percent over that same time frame. This drop comes amid two events: Developments indicate that Mt. Gox’s liquidators are…

Cosmos developer: “We have never thought of ourselves as Ethereum killers”

Cosmos is a network of blockchains that allow it to scale better. In a way, it is more similar to Polkadot than Ethereum, but the similarity among all three blockchains is that they support smart contract-using decentralized applications. The common misunderstanding of Cosmos and even Polkadot is that these blockchain protocols are in direct competition…

Polkadot surges 67% in the past week—what’s behind DOT’s rally?

Polkadot (DOT) has increased by over 67% in the past week as the best-performing top 100 cryptocurrency in the last seven days. There are two key reasons behind the immense rally of Polkadot. First, it broke out against Bitcoin, which likely led traders to increasingly accumulate DOT. Second, it is fundamentally improving as potentially the…