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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...

$350B lost in crypto bloodbath as Bitcoin and Co sink 15–30%

The cryptocurrency market is painted red after numerous coins lost more than 30% in the past 24 hours.

The global cryptocurrency market cap lost in excess of $350 billion overnight leading into Wednesday, May 19, as Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and a majority of the altcoin market lost between 15–30%.

Tuesday night’s plunge leaves the global market cap more than $750 billion worse off than it was this time last week. That figure equates to 30% of the $2.5 trillion peak reached by the combined market cap one week ago on May 12.

Bitcoin lost 15% on the day as the coin price sank from $45,632 to $38,787 in a matter of hours. That takes the coin’s weekly losses to over 32%. The only time Bitcoin lost as much as this in such short a time frame was in late 2017, just as BTC’s bull run at the time came to a screeching halt.

Ether lost more than 19% on the day, as it fell from $3,562 to $2,881, and added to weekly losses of 33.8%.

Other altcoins, particularly recent gainers, were subject to even worse reversals. Internet Computer (ICP) lost 32% during the past 24 hours, which took weekly losses to over 61%, and sent the coin crashing out of the market cap top 10, after appearing there so suddenly less than a month ago.

Other tokens that hit all-time highs during the past week saw similar losses to ICP. Nexo (NEXO) lost 30% of its market value last night, taking the weekly pullback to 43%.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) lost 29% on the day, which added to weekly losses of 66%. Shiba Inu’s sharp reversal predictably followed a barking mad surge which saw the Dogecoin (DOGE) imitator’s perceived value increase by over 2,000,000% since the start of the year.

Inflows of Bitcoin to major centralized exchanges soared during the past 24 hours. More coins were sent to trading posts than at any time since the “Black Friday” crash of 2020 — a fact that led CIO at Moskovski Capital, Lex Moskovski, to conclude, “People are scared.”

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