Cryptocurrency News

On February 20, Binance launched testing of the Binance DEX decentralized trading platform on its own blockchain, whose token is Binance Coin (BNB) . This contributed to the growth of the Binance Coin cryptocurrency, and in just two days Binance Coin overtook two coins — TRON and Stellar, and now ranks eighth by market capitalization in the cryptocurrency rankings.

On February 28, the Constantinople hard fork took place at block #7280000 on the network of the second-largest cryptocurrency by capitalization, Ethereum. Simultaneously with Constantinople, the St. Petersburg hard fork was activated on the Ethereum network. Its task is to disable the EIP-1283 protocol, in which problems with a Reentrancy-type vulnerability were discovered. It was precisely because of these that the upgrade was canceled in January.

A recently conducted analytical study showed a decline in Bitcoin futures trading volumes. However, during the first quarter of 2019, the CME has noted steady growth in client interest in Bitcoin futures. At the same time, the number of futures contracts on the Chicago CME rose sharply, breaking previous records.

BitTorrent has announced the release of a card for storing and using the BTT token. The release of its own card by the BitTorrent torrent client, acquired by the organizers of the Tron blockchain project last year, will expand the capabilities of the recently released BTT token...

The TRX BTT Airdrop has also been supported by the cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and Bittrex. Everyone who held their TRON coins on these exchanges received some pleasant news today - traders were credited with BitTorrent coins at a ratio of 0.11 BTT per 1 TRX.