Altcoin News

While Bitcoin is the most famous cryptocurrency, it is far from the only one, due to the existence of alt crypto. But what is an alt coin? In short, altcoins are all coins that originated following the launch of Bitcoin in 2009, including Litecoin, Dash, Monero, and many, many others – according to some estimates, there are more than 1400 altcoins you can trade with or use for other purposes.

Altcoins use the same underlying blockchain technology as Bitcoin while running on their own individual blockchain networks. Still, they vary greatly in many relevant factors, including mining characteristics, block size, transaction fees and speed, and even the coin’s purpose. Therefore, while categorized under the same umbrella term, it’s best to analyze and approach each altcoin on its own terms.

Without those differences, the crypto industry wouldn’t be what it is today — not only a sprawling trader’s market with many coins to invest in, but also the breeding ground for new ideas and use cases involving Bitcoin and unique altcoins.

TradeCrypto brings all the latest Altcoin News worth sharing. And for guides and other informative articles, feel free to check out our Altcoin Academy.

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1inch Airdropping 300,000 OP Tokens

1inch announced that it will airdrop free coins in its Merkle drop, in order to reward its Optimism users. 3,782 regular users of the 1inch DEX aggregator will equally receive 300,000 OP tokens in total. After 1inch was deployed on the Optimism layer-2 scaling solution last year, this resulted in faster transactions and increased activity. […]

07.09.2022 09:451 min read
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SafeDAO to Airdrop 50 Million SAFE Tokens

Ahead of the launch of SafeDAO, Gnosis Safe will airdrop 50 million SAFE tokens to over 45,000 eligible Ethereum addresses. The list of eligible addresses contains those users who created addresses before February 9, 2022, i.e. before the proposal to initiate SafeDAO. The company will send SAFE to just over half of those addresses, amounting […]

19.08.2022 08:451 min read
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aUSD Stablecoin Crashes After Acala Exploit

Another day, another crypto hack. This time, a bug in the aUSD stablecoin’s liquidity pool was exploited, as hackers minted 1.28 billion aUSD coins. aUSD is a stablecoin introduced by the DeFi platform Acala, which operates on Polkadot. Following the exploit, Acala quickly fixed the bug and identified the wallets which received the aUSD minted […]

16.08.2022 09:221 min read
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Curve Launching a Decentralized Stablecoin

Curve Finance, the company behind the Curve protocol, announced that it will be launching its own stablecoin. This will be an overcollateralized stablecoin, meaning that Curve is now competing in this area with other prominent DeFi protocols, such as Aave and Maker. Curve’s stablecoin will be decentralized. Unlike centralized stablecoins, such as USDC and USDT, […]

22.07.2022 09:461 min read
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Lido Finance Introducing New Layer 2 Scaling Solutions

The popular “liquid staking service”, Lido Finance, is expanding into new Ethereum-based layer 2 scaling solutions. This means that Lido Finance users will be enjoying lower fees and a range of DeFi applications that can increase the users’ staking yields. As part of its staking consensus mechanism, Ethereum requires at least 32 ETH for users […]

20.07.2022 09:331 min read
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Shiba Inu founder deletes social media posts, steps down from community

Similar to the Bitcoin (BTC) founder Satoshi Nakamoto, Ryoshi’s identity has remained unknown since the project launched in August 2020. Additionally, they have also held a hands-off approach to the memecoin, much like Dogecoin (DOGE) founders Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer. Lead developers such as Shytoshi Kusama have stated that the project will carry on […]

31.05.2022 08:291 min read
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ApeCoin for Fraction of a Price for BAYC’s NFT Holders

BAYC issued ApeCoin token with a drop for holders of their NFTs. For a monkey worth $250k at the current rate, they offer $80k somewhere.

18.03.2022 07:021 min read
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Expecting the Stader Coin Rate

Stader Labs is launching its coin today and everyone is wondering what the Stader coin rate will be. CEX trading is set to start at 13:00 UTC. In its ICO stage, the value was $4.5 with a total volume of 3 million tokens. Stader (SD) token is the native governance token for Stader protocol. SD […]

17.03.2022 14:271 min read
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