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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...

Avalanche Value Surges Reaching an All-Time High, AVAX Joins the Top Ten Crypto Markets

Avalanche Value Surges Reaching an All-Time High, AVAX Joins the Top Ten Crypto Markets

Cryptocurrency markets have started to recuperate from last week’s losses as bitcoin, ethereum, and a slew of digital assets have seen slight gains. However, the cryptocurrency avalanche has seen its value skyrocket this past week 46.9% higher over the last seven days. Avalanche has also crept into the top ten digital asset market valuations with its $31.5 billion market cap. On November 21, avalanche tapped an all-time price high at $144 per unit as the crypto asset has gained a whopping 3,795% in 12 months.

Avalanche Value Spikes Over 20% Over the Last 24 Hours

The crypto asset avalanche (AVAX) has increased a great deal over the last 24 hours jumping in value more than 21%. Besides gala (GALA), avalanche is the biggest crypto asset gainer during the last day. On Sunday, AVAX reached an all-time high (ATH) at over $144 per unit and has entered the top ten cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. AVAX’s market is just below the stablecoin market usd coin’s (USDC) $36.2 billion capitalization.

Seven-day statistics indicate that AVAX has climbed 46.9% in seven days, 83% in two weeks, over 133% during the last three months, and year-to-date, AVAX is up 3,795%. Tether (USDT) commands 63.84% of today’s AVAX swaps while the U.S. dollar has around 14.23% of AVAX trades. This is followed by trading pairs such as BTC (9.58%), BUSD (5.56%), TRY (3.86%), ETH (1.33%), and BNB (0.79%).

Avalanche Value Surges Reaching an All-Time High, AVAX Joins the Top Ten Crypto Markets

The most active crypto trading platform exchanging avalanche (AVAX) on Sunday is Binance. The exchange Binance is followed by Okex, Trader Joe, Huobi Pro, Bitfinex, and Coinbase in terms of AVAX trades. Defillama metrics show that AVAX holds the fourth-largest total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) with $12.74 billion. In the last 24 hours, the TVL increased 10.85% and over the last week, it increased 20.95%.

The Avalanche-based decentralized exchange (dex) Trader Joe has seen a 34% increase in users over the last seven days and $1.1 billion in global trade volume. The dex Trader Joe is the second-largest platform in terms of trade volume below Uniswap’s $4.29 billion in weekly swaps. Trader Joe is also the sixth-largest defi protocol in terms of TVL with $2.59 billion total value locked on Sunday. Furthermore, Avalanche-based tokens like joe (JOE) and wonderland (TIME) have been rising in value alongside the native currency AVAX.

What do you think about Avalanche hitting an all-time high and making it into the top ten crypto assets in terms of market cap? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

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