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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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Elon Musk Reaffirms Support for Dogecoin, Changes Profile Picture — DOGE Trading Volumes Jumped 1,250% in Q2

Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk has continued to tweet about the meme cryptocurrency dogecoin. He has changed his profile image on Twitter to include an image of the Shiba Inu dog that represents dogecoin. He also tweeted that his son is “hodling his Doge like a champ.” Meanwhile, dogecoin’s trading volumes soared 1,250% in the second quarter on the world’s major cryptocurrency exchanges, according to data by Coinbase.

Elon Musk’s Continued Support for Dogecoin

The Doge community was thrilled over the weekend when many people noticed that Elon Musk, whom they call the Dogefather, had changed his profile image on Twitter to one of him wearing sunglasses that have a Shiba Inu dog in the reflection.

Following his profile picture change, the price of dogecoin got a slight boost but has since fallen down, shedding all of its weekend gains. The DOGE price at the time of writing is $0.174 based on data from Bitcoin.com Markets.

Elon Musk’s Twitter profile page. Source: Twitter

Prior to Musk updating his profile picture on Twitter, he tweeted about dogecoin Saturday confirming that his baby son, named “X Æ A-12,” is not selling his DOGE. Musk wrote:

Lil X is hodling his DOGE like a champ. Literally never said the word ‘sell’ even once.

Musk has previously said he bought dogecoin for his son “so he can be a toddler hodler.” He also indicated that he owned DOGE himself but did not disclose how much, tweeting on May 20, “I haven’t & won’t sell any doge.”

Meanwhile, dogecoin’s trading volumes had increased rapidly. According to data compiled by Coinbase, as reported by the Insider:

Dogecoin’s trading volumes soared 1,250% in the second quarter of the year on the world’s major cryptocurrency exchanges.

Dogecoin’s average daily trading volume shot up to $995 million in the April to June period, from $74 million a day in the first quarter.

In comparison, Coinbase’s data shows that ether’s trading volumes rose 53% quarter-on-quarter to an average of $3.25 billion a day on global exchanges. Meanwhile, bitcoin’s daily volumes fell 14% to $4.01 billion.

What do you think about Elon Musk’s tweets about dogecoin and him changing his profile picture? Let us know in the comments section below.

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