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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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Shibu Inu (SHIB) DEX ShibaSwap surpasses $1B TVL 24-hours after launch

24-hours after launching, SHIB’s new ShibaSwap DeFi platform surpassed $1 billion in total value locked and it is raising fees on the Ethereum network.

Dogecoin (DOGE) has proven to the world that even a project that started as a joke can gain value and notoriety in the cryptocurrency space. This phenomenon opened the door for multiple ‘meme’ cryptocurrencies to gain a foothold and a quick look at the trending tokens list on CoinMarketCap shows the meme effect has found a s foothold.

The latest meme coin to capture investors' attention is Shiba Inu (SHIB), a project that originally gained notoriety when Ethereum (ETH) creator Vitalik Buterin donated more than $1 billion worth of SHIB to the India Covid relief fund.

SHIB/USDT daily chart. Source: TradingView

While many analysts thought the project would just fade away along with the other meme coins that mooned and then crashed, Shiba Inu has instead emerged as a growing project complete with its own swap interface, yield farm and budding DAO structure.

ShibaSwap launch raises gas costs

Excitement in the Shiba Inu community was ignited on July 6 with the release of ShibaSwap, a newly created swap interface for token holders to utilize.

Ethereum gas fees had been near unprecedented lows since the Berlin upgrade but the launch of ShibaSwap resulted in a noticeable uptick in gas costs, a phenomenon highlighted by crypto Twitter trader Joe McCann. 

While the statistics have changed slightly since this tweet was posted, the three contract addresses identified by McCann remain in the top ten gas guzzlers and the Shiba migrator now rank third in terms of fees generated in the last three hours.

Top 9 Ethereum gas guzzlers. Source: Etherscan

As seen in the table above, the only other contract that generated more Ether fees over the past 24 hours is Uniswap V2, and the three SHIBrelated contracts combined have generated more than $1.7 million in fees over the past 24 hours.

Total value locked in ShibaSwa surpasses $1 billion

While some networks have been accused of using spam transactions to increase on-chain activity, this is not the case with Shiba Inu as the total value locked on the platform surpassed $1 billion  just one day after its launch.

This is a strong sign of support for the newly released interface which now ranks in the top 30 in terms of total value locked according to data from Defi Llama.

At the time of writing, the project holds more value than Quickswap (QUICK) and Mdex (MDX).

The initial excitement following the release of Shibaswap led to a 14% spike in the price of SHIB on July 6, but the price has since drifted lower to its current value of $0.00000867, which is 78% below its all-time high of $0.0000388.

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