After a bearish week last week, most digital tokens are back in the green. The entire cryptocurrency market as a whole is making its way back to $300 billion. Bitcoin (available on Coinbase) (BTC) broke over the $7,000 mark, and Ethereum (available on Coinbase) (ETH) is now seeing prices over $400.
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Here are a few of the coins making the most gains on the market today.
DASH
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There hasn’t been any new foundational news from the DASH project, except a video surfacing from eToro. eToro specializes in cryptocurrency trading and currently holds nine million active community members. Just recently, they produced an educational video on DASH and its rise geared towards their crypto community.
Recently, the CEO of DASH, Ryan Taylor, told the media:
“Dash is in many ways a better Bitcoin (available on Coinbase). It has rapidly become the number-one digital currency for payments because of our cheap and instant transactions, anywhere in the world. It is quickly incorporating payments industry best-practices that the digital currency industry has lacked. Dash transactions lock within a couple of seconds due to our revolutionary second-tier masternode network, making Dash acceptance feasible at the point of sale and online, just like credit cards.”
While it may have taken a hit from being de-listed on CoinCheck, it seems it has a sTron (available on Binance)g backing by the eToro community, which has pushed it’s price up in the last 48 hours.
At press time, DASH is trading at $337.91 a coin, up 11.77%, in 24 hours. Will it reach back about $1,000, by the end of the year?
Verge [XVG]
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Verge is not new to the cryptocurrency community, as it first launched its ICO back in 2014. There haven’t been any improvements to its technology or groundbreaking announcements until now. Through the project’s official Twitter account, they just confirmed the first successful crowdfunding campaign.
The Verge team had baited their community that if they could collect 75 million XVG, the team would unveil a huge “mystery” partnership. 75 million XVG was raised in the course of a week, which has naturally increased the market cap and trading volume of XVG. Cleaver ploy? The team is being critiqued heavily for their desperate marketing tactics and supposedly revealed their new partnership.
Live with Verge’s Creator Sunerok talking about the huge partnership!: https://t.co/EuBPZ9MVDQ via @YouTube
— TheLarryandJoeShow (@LarryandJoeShow) April 1, 2018
Except it wasn’t an announcement at all, but more of just a marketing hype. The real partnership will be announced on the 17th of this month. Still, there were some positives that have come from the hour-long interview that is getting mixed reviews from the Twitter community.
This went really good. I m content with what I ve heard.
— Claudiu Florea (@ClaudiuFloreaPM) April 1, 2018
@vergecurrency “Massive potential partnership?” $580m mcap coin needs needs crowdfunding. Okay. If this company is so big and is so interested in blockchain why are verge donators paying for integration and marketing?Sounds like a crock of shit to me but I hope I am wrong.
— Kyle Perello (@KylePerello) April 1, 2018
ok ! i think everyone missed somETHing really big ! start from the 39 min mark he says there will be a side chain with ANOTHER COIN THAT WILL BE HAND IN HAND WITH VERGE !!!! THAT MEANS A DROP FOR A ONE TO ONE RATIO !!! boooom !!! listen to the video ! its right there
— Meaningful much (@meaningful_much) April 1, 2018
Almost feel bad for those naive enough to fall for this again
— Doctorthee (@Thomas_vEngelen) April 3, 2018
I’ll let you come to your own assumptions on the direction of this project. Verge is very similar to Monero, in the sense that it emphasizes secure and anonymous transactions. It used to be named DogeCoinDark but was rebranded to Verge last year.
At press time, XVG has skyrocketed to $0.0658, a coin, up 45.12%, in 24 hours and now leads the cryptocurrency market for most gains.