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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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DOT flip: Polkadot overtakes XRP to become the fourth largest cryptocurrency

DOT is on fire today as it surges up the market cap charts to fourth spot.

There have been some big movers as the crypto market rally resumes and Polkadot’s DOT token is among them.

According to figures from leading analytics portal Coingecko, DOT has flipped Ripple’s XRP in terms of market capitalization following a massive gain of 26% over the past 24 hours. This makes it the new fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap.

The Polkadot token has surged from an intraday low of just below $11 to top out at an all-time high of $14.80 before retreating slightly to $14.45 at the time of writing. The big price move has pushed its market cap to $13.7 billion as reported by Coingecko.

XRP, conversely, has only managed a gain of 3.7% over the past 24 hours which has not been enough to take the cross-border transfer token above $0.30. Its market cap is currently just below DOT’s at $13.5 billion.

Stats from Polkadot’s own platform estimate it has an even higher market cap of $14.8 billion using a circulation figure of just over one billion tokens. Messari crypto stats are very similar to this and they also show DOT having flipped XRP with a $3 billion difference in market cap.

The Binance owned Coinmarketcap is the only site in disagreement as it reports the DOT supply as ten percent lower. CMC was late to list Polkadot, which is an Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain competitor.

Polkadot is essentially a multi-chain protocol which has a number of ‘parachains’ (called shards in Ethereum) and works on its own technology called ‘Substrate’, which is a blockchain framework. The platform is fully interoperable, allowing other blockchains to connect to the network as a sidechain and the blockchain protocol has the ability to process thousands of transactions per second, leading it to be dubbed the latest ‘Ethereum killer’.

The most recent update, which may be driving momentum, was the launch of its Rococo parachain testnet which went live in late December. It is now gaining more partners according to the Polkadot community;

Other factors driving momentum include the issues with DeFi on Ethereum as demand for scaling intensifies, along with a strong technical market structure.

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