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Band Protocol has selected Router Protocol as the first Data Tunnel provider for the upcoming Band v3 upgrade. The Data Tunnel is one of the three main components of Band v3, which aims to broadcast the accumulated price data from BandChain to other blockchains and smart contract platforms. This mechanism improves cross-chain communication and allows developers to easily access real-time decentralized asset prices. We’re thrilled to announce @routerprotocol as the first Data Tunnel provider for Band v3! This collaboration is set to revolutionize how price data flows across blockchains and the Web3 Ecosystem.👉 Full Announcement: https://t.co/HGoNheQrbE pic.twitter.com/qEQfYpwkWx — Band Protocol…

With the Bitcoin price back above $100,000, there have been discussions about what could mark the cycle top for the flagship crypto. Crypto analyst Tony Severino has provided some insights on this, revealing around what price target the market top could be considered. Potential Cycle Top For The Bitcoin Price In an X post, Tony Severino suggested that the cycle top for the Bitcoin price could be around $170,000. This came as he noted that a 90% surge could take the flagship crypto to this price level. He added that it is at this level that the cycle tops can…

Institutional interest in Ethereum (ETH), the second cryptocurrency by market cap, may be heating up again, according to a recent tweet by on-chain analytics platform Spot On Chain. Five wallets suspected of belonging to the same entity made significant movements within 19 hours, depositing $29.2 million in USDT to HTX (previously Huobi) and withdrawing 9,018 ETH at an average price of nearly $3,237.50 during the recent market drop. More institutions are accumulating $ETH!In the past 19 hours, 5 wallets (likely one entity) deposited 29.2M $USDT to #HTX and withdrew 9,018 $ETH at ~$3,237.5 during the dip.Interestingly, these wallets withdrew the…

ARKW, also dubbed “Trump 2.0”, is up +31% since the election Bitcoin is now the largest holding in terms of market cap in Cathie Wood’s ARK Next Generation Internet ETF, an investment product that focuses on Internet and tech-focused businesses and assets. As the hosts of the Bloomberg ETF IQ noted in their latest show, BTC now accounts for 12% of the fund’s $1.8 billion market cap. Interestingly, the fund’s 2,033 BTC allocation is not even close to breaking the top of the Bitcoin rich list despite the massive $215 million valuation at current rates. 📈 $BTC leads all holdings…

Stellar Validators propose a new upgrade to significantly increase its ledger read or write limit while improving the event size limit. A successful implementation is expected to improve longer swap routes and the exchange rate of tokens in Soroswap. In our last update, we discussed the groundbreaking launch of the Soroban Smart Contract capability on the Stellar mainnet. Fascinatingly, the Stellar Validators have indicated their plans to enhance its functions through a proposal called SLP-0001. Analyzing the release, CNF discovered that the complete upgrade would enable more advanced Decentralized Applications (DApps) on the Stellar network. In doing so, the performance…

‘’We’re embracing the future with crypto and leaving the slow and outdated big banks behind’’, President Donald Trump declared, signaling a shift in his administration’s approach to digital assets. The vision was formalized on Thursday, when signed an executive order establishing a working group on digital asset markets. The order reaffirms the administration’s commitment to key crypto principles, including coding transparency, self-custody, and fair banking access, aiming to integrate blockchain technology responsibly into the U.S. financial system. This idea of blending blockchain with traditional financial systems is bold, and Graphite Network offers the means to make it happen with its…

Bitcoin’s mysterious creator(s), Satoshi Nakamoto, continues to inspire the cryptocurrency community even several years after Bitcoin was launched and the BTC creator exited the scene. Bitcoin historian Pete Rizzo recently shared on X (formerly Twitter) a statement made exactly 16 years ago by the Bitcoin creator, on Jan. 16, 2009: “I might make some sense just to get some in case it catches on.” “Satoshi Nakamoto on Bitcoin when the price was $0, exactly 16 years ago. Legendary,” Rizzo wrote, highlighting Bitcoin’s creator statement. ✨ Satoshi Nakamoto on #Bitcoin when the price was $0, exactly 16 years ago. Legendary 🔥…

Justin Sun, a crypto billionaire and the founder of the Tron blockchain platform, has published a tweet to offer crucial advice to Ethereum co-founder Buterin as he published a paper describing Ethereum Layer-1 and Layer-2 scaling as he sees it happening this year. This coincides with Sun’s ideas about how to drive the ETH price to $10,000 that he posted on his X social media account earlier this week. Sun’s advice to Vitalik Buterin While today, Vitalik suggested putting an explicit focus on the ETC economics, making sure that “ETH continues to accrue value even in an L2-heavy world,” Justin…

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said the Fed could cut interest rates in the near term, but a future rate hike is on the horizon if the U.S. economy remains strong. Speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Fink said “I see possibilities” for an increase beyond the next 12 months, but he noted that this scenario was not his “baseline forecast.” Fink noted several factors that could contribute to persistent inflation, including a labor shortage and rising wages. “We’re going to have a labor shortage, and that’s going to push wages up,” he…

The Department of Government Efficiency is still the DOGE, but the DOGE agency website no longer features the iconic Doge meme imagery shared with Dogecoin—and the original meme coin is now sinking. The price of Dogecoin jumped Tuesday once fans and investors noticed that the website for the Elon Musk-led government initiative featured the likeness of Kabosu, the late Shiba Inu pup who inspired the internet meme that Dogecoin is based on. Dogecoin rose as high as $0.385 on Tuesday, recovering some ground after plunging following last Friday’s launch of Donald Trump’s official Solana meme coin, TRUMP. Dogecoin had been…