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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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Anyswap, Keep3rV1, WEMIX follow Bitcoin’s move to $44K with double-digit rallies

ANY, KP3R and WEMIX lead Jan. 12’s altcoin charge after BTC price broke out of range higher with a surge to $44,000.

The cryptocurrency community is back in high spirits on Jan. 12 after a majority of tokens in the top 200 flashed green following Bitcoin's (BTC) spike to $44,000.

The return of bullish momentum has come as a boon to several altcoin projects, with multiple tokens seeing gains in excess of 20%.

Top 7 coins with the highest 24-hour price change. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that the biggest gainers over the past 24-hours were Anyswap (ANY), Keep3rV1 (KP3R) and WEMIX (WEMIX).

Anyswap expands its list of supported networks

Gains in the altcoin market were led by Anyswap, a decentralized exchange that specializes in allowing users to transfer and swap tokens between 25 distinct networks.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that since falling to a low of $15.16 on Jan. 10, the price of ANY ripped 77.67% higher to a daily high of $26.93 on Jan. 12 as its 24-hour trading volume spiked 525% to $114.5 million.

ANY/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView

The sudden spike in activity and price for ANY come as the protocol recently added two new networks to its list of supported chains including a FomoETH bridge and Moonbeam, which just officially launched on Polkadot.

Keep3rV1 branches out to other networks

Keep3rV1 is a project focused on creating a decentralized job board designed to help projects connect with external developers that can provide specialized services.

VORTECS™ data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro began to detect a bullish outlook for KP3R on Jan. 7, prior to the recent price rise.

The VORTECS™ Score, exclusive to Cointelegraph, is an algorithmic comparison of historical and current market conditions derived from a combination of data points including market sentiment, trading volume, recent price movements and Twitter activity.

VORTECS™ Score (green) vs. KP3R price. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

As seen in the chart above, the VORTECS™ Score for KP3R climbed into the green zone on Jan. 7 and hit a high of 80 roughly 79 hours before the price rallied 79.64% over the next two days.

The bullish move higher for KP3R comes following a tease released by the project indicating that KP3R will soon have cross-chain functionality between Ethereum (ETH), Fantom (FTM) and layer-two solution Optimism.

Related: QuickSwap founder: L2s are the path to mass adoption

WEMIX lists at Upbit

WEMIX is a global blockchain gaming platform developed by Wemade Tree that is designed specifically for gaming DApps and includes a marketplace for digital assets and nonfungible tokens (NFTs).

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and CoinGecko shows that after sliding to a low of $3.96 on Jan. 10, the price of WEMIX rebounded 106% to a daily high at $8.16 on Jan. 12 as its 24-hour trading volume spiked to $1.2 billion.

WEMIX/USD 1-hour chart. Source: CoinGecko

The surge in interest and trading volume for WEMIX comes as the token listed on the popular Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit on Jan. 10 and announced the details for the next WEMIX NFT auction drop.

The overall cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $2.073 trillion and Bitcoin’s dominance rate is 39.8%.

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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