π 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price: $54,954 Bitcoin price continues to range around the $55,000 level, as price bounces from a dive toward $52,000 overnight. Top-20 altcoins are looking strong over the last 24 hours, as Ethereum gains 15%, XRP rises 2% and Uniswap leads the pack with a 23% jump. Top Stories for April 22, 2021 π₯ PancakeSwap, the leading decentralized exchange on Binance Smart Chain, has passed the entire Ethereum network in daily transactions. Data from DappRadar has shown more than 2 million transactions for PancakeSwap - almost half a million more than Ethereum's transactions for the same day. PancakeSwap recently announced a migration to the second version of its protocol, which will take place on Friday at 5:00 am UTC. MKR, the governance token of the MakerDAO platform, has passed $4,000 for the first time ever, not long after minting stablecoins to finance a mortgage loan. The crypto-funded mortgage loan may be one of the first to ever happen in the decentralized finance world, as the MakerDAO protocol accepted ERC20 tokens backed by real estate as collateral. Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX has announced plans to expand its business to provide multiple new services, including a crypto custody service. The plans were made public in a blog post which outlined a new spot exchange, custody service and educational platform for cryptocurrency. |