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Shiba Inu wins “Bitpay Brackets” championship
Shiba Inu The community has another reason to celebrate, as their favorite meme cryptocurrency won the “Bitpay Brackets”, a tournament recently organized by leading cryptocurrency payments processor BitPay. The contest consisted of four rounds with a total of 16 coins, including Binance Coin, Cardano, Solana, Polkadot and Dogecoin. During the first three rounds, Shiba Inu managed to top Terra, Solana and Cardano, and then won after facing Polygon in the grand finale.
Next week’s bitcoin mid-halving event
According to an article by Sentiment, the crypto market is about to face of bitcoin Next mid-stop improvement. Although the halving usually results in a huge increase in the price of BTC, the mid-halving may not be so encouraging for the market. As shown on the chart shared by Sentiment, each mid-halving event was marked with a local price top, after which the value of bitcoin dropped to the next halving. However, experts note that it is unclear whether bitcoin will follow the same pattern as it did before, as it is still in a local uptrend that began in mid-March.
Ripple partner to unlock $34 billion cross-border payments market in the Philippines
wave mate iRemit, which leverages Ripple’s ODL to process Australia-to-Philippines remittances, has partnered with Velo Lab to unlock a $34 billion cross-border payments market in the Philippines. Last year, Ripple’s global payments network was joined by the Novati Group to tap RippleNet’s ODL service. Through the partnership with iRemit, efforts by Ripple and Novatti target the Australia-Philippines corridor.
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson and Snoop Dogg’s “unacceptable conversation” opens up possibilities
Yesterday, the founder of Cardano Charles Hoskinson And famous rapper Snoop Dogg had a long-awaited conversation about the Cardano ecosystem at Cardano 360. Charles Hoskinson, Snoop Dogg and others joined Clay Nation on April 5 with collectibles, unreleased music, pitches and other items available only on the podcast. Both sides expressed their excitement ahead of the event as Charles Hoskinson told the community they had “the best job in the world.”