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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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New Kind of Network (NKN) gains 340% to become ‘the biggest blockchain in the world’

NKN price rallied to a new all-time high as the number of full consensus nodes on the network surpassed 67,000.

One telltale sign of a growing altcoin season is when obscure and lesser-known projects start putting on face-melting gains as traders scramble to jump on the rising price. 

New Kind of Network (NKN) has emerged over the past month as one of these surprise gainers, increasing 1,400% from a low of $0.052 on March 8 to a new all-time high of $0.779 on April 6.

NKN/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView

NKN is a peer-to-peer network connectivity protocol and ecosystem that uses economic incentives to “motivate internet users to share network connections and utilize unused bandwidth.”

Since its launch in January 2018, the project has steadily grown its active community to quietly become the “biggest blockchain network in the world in terms of full consensus nodes” according to the project’s website, with 67,266 nodes currently operating on the network and the capability of supporting millions of full consensus nodes.

Binance staking helps ignite NKN price

The price action for NKN really began to pick up following Binance's March 11 announcement that NKN holders could earn 20% APY on their holdings if they deposited them into their Binance savings account.

Momentum for the project continued to build over the following weeks as movements in the token price began to attract additional attention.

The solutions offered by the network have also helped increase its user base, with products like the nMobile messenger which offers a private messaging service capable of competing with WhatsApp and nConnect which is a unique remote access solution with a focus on maintaining security and privacy.

According to NKN co-founder and co-CEO Bruce Li, the performance of NKN over the past month is largely tied to the overall bullish sentiment of the wider crypto market and the recent focus on Web 3.0 infrastructure-related projects like Filecoin (FIL) and Storj.

Li also highlighted the impact that miners have on the market and pointed to NKN’s strong mining community and its focus on Web 3.0 as driving forces behind the recent growth of the protocol.

Li said:

“NKN happens to be both Web 3.0 infra (networking and data transmission) and have a strong mining community. 30% of NKN tokens are mined or to be mined.”

For those who prefer to see institutional investment into a project to validity its contender status, Li highlighted the fact that Coinbase Custody offers support for NKN, which according to him indicates a "certain level of quality for the project.”

As the foundation for Web 3.0 continues to be laid and decentralized projects step into mainstream awareness, NKN has quietly positioned itself to see further upside as blockchain technology becomes further integrated with technical and financial infrastructure.

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.

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