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Markets

Polkadot Leads Altcoin Losses After Bitcoin Is Rejected at $52K

Markets saw a pullback on Tuesday after a relatively flat weekend.

Rejection. (Shutterstock)

Markets

Cardano, Polkadot Jump as Bitcoin Holds Above $50K

Major cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and ether regained price levels from Friday after seeing a slight dip over an otherwise quiet Christmas weekend.

Price chart for Cardano's ADA token over past month. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Polkadot Is Deutsche Telekom’s Latest Crypto Experiment

Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems purchased a “significant” amount of DOT tokens “to put its money where its mouth is,” according to blockchain lead Andreas Dittrich.

It's a DOT thing. (Kirsten Neumann/Getty Images)

Videos

Polkadot Parachains Go Live, Capping Yearslong Tech Build for Ambitious Blockchain Project

After several years in development, Polkadot, an underlying framework for connecting various blockchains, now has five live parachains, or “parallelized chains”: Acala, Moonbeam, Parallel Finance, Astar, and Clover. Polkadot will ultimately offer 100 parachain slots. “The Hash” team discusses where this update puts Polkadot in the layer 1 blockchain conversation as it competes with Ethereum.

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Tech

Gear Technologies Raises $12M to Boost Smart-Contract Development on Polkadot

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood and Three Arrows Capital were among those investing.

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Tech

Polkadot Parachains Go Live, Capping Yearslong Tech Build for Ambitious Blockchain Project

The first five parachains are Acala, Moonbeam, Parallel Finance, Astar and Clover.

An installation in Berlin, Germany, by the polkadot-inspired artist Yayoi Kusama, after whom the Polkadot blockchain's canary network is named. (Adam Berry/Getty Images)

Videos

Get Ready for the 2022 Metaverse Real Estate Boom

Today's most popular metaverse projects are built on Ethereum, such as Decentraland, Axie Infinity, and The Sandbox, but will they see more growth elsewhere next year? Irina Karagyaur, head of Metaverse Growth at Unique Network, an NFT platform on the Polkadot chain, shares insights into Ethereum's limitations and where virtual real estate could head in 2022.

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Opinion

Get Ready for the 2022 Metaverse Real Estate Boom

It won’t be confined to Ethereum.

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Markets

Alts Find It Tough to Beat Layer 1 King Ethereum

Big investors looking beyond bitcoin may take their first baby steps into ether, which has so far outperformed its layer 1 alternatives. But for how long?

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Markets

Polkadot, Solana, Terra, Lead Large-Cap Losses Amid Broader Market Drop

Cryptocurrencies fall heading into the weekend following a global sell-off in risk assets.

Solana/USD chart on Dec. 10 (TradingView)