A Smart Contract Call Record Contract calls are interactions with smart contracts in the form of transactions. This is an important metric to see growth in the adoption rate of mainnet smart contracts. Since July 2020, the amount of contract calls has increased to 1,209% of the July total. Every month we’ve seen a new record…
Crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments filed new trusts for Aave, Cardano, Cosmos, Monero, and Polkadot in the Delaware corporate registry. As expected, each respective community is bullish over the news. However, filings do not necessarily mean Grayscale will follow through with them. The firm commented on the matter by saying filings relate to preparation for…
New York-based tech company TQ Tezos has announced Homebase—a new project that allows Tezos (XTZ) users to easily set up and interact with decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) to establish a community governance structure. The price of XTZ reacted quite positively to the news, surging by over 20% today on the heels of the announcement—up to…
Crypto custodian Fireblocks has announced the launch of new proof-of-stake capabilities on its platform, enabling its 165 enterprise and institutional clients to stake cryptocurrencies. The service rolled out with support for Polkadot (DOT), Tezos (XTZ), and Ethereum 2.0 (ETH) and promises a yield increase ranging between 5 and 15 percent. Fireblocks users can now stake…
Stably announced its collaboration with the Tezos ecosystem in a release this week. The move will bring the USD-backed stablecoin, USDS, to the latter. From Ethereum to Tezos Stablecoin development project Stably said in a release that its USD-pegged stablecoin, USDS, will be issued and deployed on the Tezos blockchain. The latter is a decentralized,…
Here’s why DeFi has struck a crippling blow to tokens like Tezos (XTZ) Throughout late-2019 and early-2020, protocol tokens with staking mechanisms garnered significant support amongst users, with tokens like Tezos (XTZ) drawing in massive inflows of investor capital due to lucrative monthly rewards. 2 min read →