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Crypto Long & Short: The Trouble With Ticker Symbols

Investors are apt to get confused when multiple projects can claim the same ticker without an industry standard for exchanges to assign identifiers.

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Solana’s SOL Replaces Dogecoin as 7th Largest Cryptocurrency

SOL hits fresh record high as NFT boom continues

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Cardano’s ADA Tops $3 for First Time as Smart Contracts Enter Test Mode

The token is getting close to $100 billion in market cap

Charles Hoskinson, CEO and founder of IOHK, the lead developer of Cardano.

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Solana’s SOL Token Nearly Tripled in August as Investors Bet on ‘Ethereum Killers’

Terra’s LUNA and Cardano’s ADA also surged as Ethereum’s scalability issues pushed investors to speculate on alternative DeFi base layers.

Among the CoinDesk 20 digital assets, Cardano's ADA token boasted the top performance in August, doubling in price. (CoinDesk)

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Ether Tops $3.5K After Record Daily Coin Burn; Bitcoin’s Rangeplay Continues

Ethereum destroyed 12,000 coins on Tuesday, the most in a single day since the EIP 1559 activation.

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Ether Poised for Biggest Monthly Price Gain Since April; Analysts Remain Bullish

Ether may face a supply squeeze, one analytics firm said.

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Crypto Long & Short: The End of Extreme Leverage

Lower systemwide leverage suggests the crypto markets, famous for their wild swings, might become a touch tamer.

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Solana, Boosted by Move Into NFTs, Enters List of Top 10 Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap

Institutional demand for SOL has increased in recent weeks.

Solana COO Raj Gokal, left, and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko

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Frothy NFT Market Remains ‘Healthy’ as Developers Hold ETH or Reinvest: Nansen

While the NFT market may look unsustainable, a look under the hood shows that the “drops” may keep rising.

Visa's price for CryptoPunk #7610 was more than double what one buyer paid less than a month ago.

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Bitcoin Rises Above $48K as Dollar Drops After Powell’s Dovish Comments

No news is good news for the bitcoin market as the Fed chairman avoids specifying a “tapering” time frame at virtual Jackson Hole symposium.

Bitcoin price chart over past week shows  jump on Friday after Fed Chair Jerome Powell's speech at Jackson Hole.

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