In our “Altcoins” section, we cover news, updates, and market trends related to alternative cryptocurrencies beyond Bitcoin. Here you will find information about popular altcoins, new blockchain projects, and the technologies driving the altcoin ecosystem. Read the “Altcoins” section on ForkNews to stay updated on the latest developments across the crypto market.
Free distribution of tokens (airdrops) among owners of popular digital assets is becoming the norm in the world of cryptocurrency. This helps increase the number of holders of certain tokens and stimulate their turnover. The Tron token team recently distributed 30 million TRX tokens to Ethereum holders.
The popular messenger Kik, supported by its own cryptocurrency Kin, has developed a way to deploy Kin in parallel on the Stellar blockchain and the Ethereum blockchain. According to Netanel Lev, vice president of research and development at the Kin Ecosystem Foundation, the company itself developed a distributed registry for its cryptocurrency.
At the moment, hard forks are a fairly common occurrence in the world of cryptocurrencies. Although the Monero network has showcased several clone forks recently, it appears that work on the Monero V fork has not gone according to plan. In fact, the planned launch date for the network has already passed, but there is still no working code for the system.
Yesterday, BCH, EOS and LTC saw a recovery in small volumes. Today, after short-term consolidation, the decline may resume
Over the past week, IOTA has put in a tremendous amount of work to reach the next phase of its development. Announcements about MOBI and the launch of the IOTA ecosystem contributed to a significant increase in the price of the altcoin.
Bitcoin forks cause a lot of controversy, and some of them can become the most scandalous. Bitcoin Prime and Anonymous Bitcoin are considered brazen scams of funds through a pump-and-dump scheme orchestrated by enterprising developers.
Chengdu LiaAn Technology Co (Chain Security), a security auditing company through its VaaS (Verification as a Service) platform, discovered a bug similar to batchOverflow in EOS smart contracts.
Digital banking startup Revolut, which recently admitted Bitcoin, Ether and Litecoin to listing, will now support XRP and Bitcoin Cash.
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