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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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Every dog has its day: Dogecoin and Shiba Inu fetch 50% gains as altcoins rally

New use cases and a massive token burn signal that the dog days of summer could be over for DOGE and SHIB.

Momentum the wider cryptocurrency market appears to be on the upswing this week after bulls pushed Bitcoin price to the $46,700 and Ether price to $3,150 on Aug 9. 

The growing optimism has also translated into a bounce in dog-themed meme coins like Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB), which have both seen their prices rise by more than 55% over the past three weeks.

DOGE/USDT vs. SHIB/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView

Dog-themed meme coins caught fire earlier in the year after Dogecoin became the altcoin of choice for influencers like Elon Musk and Mark Cuban. Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin further rocked the boat on May 14 when he liquidated trillions of SHIB and donated the proceeds to charity. 

At the time, investors viewed this as further bullish validation but have both projects had been in a rut since the Bitcoin-led market crash that took place on May 19.

Dogecoin leads the pack

Dogecoin’s trend reversal began on July 20, the same day that Bitcoin price hit a bottom at $29,500, as the price of DOGE reached a low of $0.16 before correcting its course and heading higher.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that the price of Doge has rallied 78% from a low of $0.159 on July 20 to an swing high at $0.284 on Aug. 8 as its 24-hour trading volume surged to $9.3 billion.

DOGE/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView

Dogecoin’s recovery got off to a quick start on July 21 following an announcement from Coinbase Commerce that DOGE could now be used for payments.

Related: Oscar Mayer auctions one-off pack of ‘Hot DOGE’ Wieners

Shiba Inu developers implement a token burn

Shiba Inu’s recovery also began on July 20 after SHIB dropped to a low of $0.0000057 amid the market-wide sell-off.

In the three weeks since its price bottomed, SHIB has seen a three-fold increase in its 24-hour trading volume which was followed by a 56% price rally to weekly high at $0.00000888 on Aug 8.

SHIB/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView

The spike in price came after developers announced that a new burning mechanism will be included with new listings on the ShibaSwap exchange. The token burns aim to reduce the circulating supply of SHIB and the protocol's 'Doge Killer' (LEASH) token.

In conjunction with the listing of Perlin (PERL) and Ryoshi Token (RYO) on ShibaSwap, $25,000 worth of SHIB and LEASH were burned.

According to the Shiba Inu website, the current circulating supply of LEASH is 107,646 tokens, while the estimated supply of SHIB is 394.8 billion.

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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