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From a trio of XRP whales to the transition to a new milestone for the Bitcoin Lightning network, here are some of the stories that break in the world of Crypto.
Ripple and XRP
Cryptocurrency observers are monitoring a trio of massive XRP transfers.
A few hours ago, someone transferred 90,000,000 XRPs worth $ 33.5 million from one unknown portfolio to another. Shortly thereafter, another 30 million XRPs worth $ 11 million moved between two unknown portfolios.
Neither group seems to be directed towards an exchange.
This is not the case for another batch of 51,317,796 XRP that was sent on Friday. This transfer, worth about $ 22.3 million, was sent to Bitstamp, which indicates that it could be a trader who is preparing to sell.
Ripple, who regularly sells large quantities of XRP he owns, does not seem to be involved in any of the transfers, according to Whale Alert.
🚨 30,000,000 #XRP (11,001,663 USD) transferred from an unknown Portfolio to an unknown Portfolio
Tx: https://t.co/ZdAbWjxSgm
– Whale Alert (@whale_alert) December 27, 2018
.000 🚨 🚨 90,000,000 #XRP (33,493,911 USD) transferred from the unknown Portfolio to the Unknown Portfolio
Tx: https://t.co/lvhaafkjmH
– Whale Alert (@whale_alert) December 27, 2018
.3 🚨 51.317.796 #XRP (USD 22,301,662) transferred from unknown Portfolio to #Bitstamp
Tx: https://t.co/DmLRdXldGf
– Whale Alert (@whale_alert) 24 December 2018
Apart from these three large transfers and the recent transfer of $ 5 billion into cryptocurrencies, the whales at the end of the year have been relatively quiet.
Bitcoin
The capacity of the Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN) is increasing.
New statistics from 1ML show that the total capacity of the network is now just over 500 BTC, or nearly $ 2 million. Also the number of new nodes has increased by 32, about 68% in the last 24 hours.
Ethereum
The Amberdata team drafted a complete review of the progress of Ethereum in 2018.
Key points
- 239,564,725 total transactions this year
- 52.151.774 addresses
- 10,834,165 smart contracts
- 75,289 total tokens including 74,330 ERC20 tokens
- 1,201 non-fungible tokens
- CryptoKitties has passed the list of non-fungible tokens
- Ethermine has passed the list of mining pools
You can check the full report on Amberdata here.
Tron
MediShares has released a new overview of the Tron ecosystem. The image highlights a series of DApps on the Tron network, including games, exchanges and more.
IOTA, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, NEO, Dash
The Hard Fork by Next Web is releasing its cryptic vintages. You can check their reviews for IOTA, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, NEO and Dash.
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