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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...

Bitcoin bulls return after BTC bounces at a key support level

Bitcoin price appears to be gaining bullish momentum after BTC bounced off the lower Bollinger Band.

A wave of selling took command of the cryptocurrency market on April 7 after Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped below $56,000.

The market-wide sell-off led to $1.4 billion in liquidations and some analysts suggested that this could be the final sweep out of overleveraged long traders before Bitcoin can make a run higher to the $70,000 level. 

BTC/USDT daily chart. Source: TradingView

One sign that the market had moved ahead of itself over the past week was the rapidly rising Kimchi premium, which was followed by a seven percent decline in BTC price on April 7 as traders worried that it might be the signal for a market top.

Despite the market downturn, analysis of on-chain data suggests that Bitcoin could soon see a rally to a new all-time high as whales, miners and long-term holders have decreased or stopped selling altogether and institutional demand remains high.

Traditional markets near record highs

Equities markets traded near their all-time highs on Tuesday as accelerating job growth, record levels of service sector activity and an expansion in manufacturing resulted in unexpected optimism that pushed stock prices higher.

Despite this positive news, the Dow and NASDAQ closed down 0.06% and 0.16% respectively, while the S&P 500 managed to end the day with a 0.06% gain.

Coinbase listing provides a little relief

A few altcoins did manage to rally throughout the day after Coinbase revealed that it would list 1INCH, Enjin (ENJ), New Kind of Network (NKN) and Origin Protocol (OGN) on Coinbase Pro. 

Following the announcement, the price of 1INCH and ENJ saw modest gains of 5% while Origin Protocol saw a 10% increase and NKN rallied 27%.

Solana (SOL) also rallied 10% and Ethereum (ETH) declined 7% to trade below $2,000.

Daily cryptocurrency market performance. Source: Coin360

The overall cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $1.90 trillion and Bitcoin’s dominance rate is 55.6%.

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