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Avalanche struggles near $12 as Grayscale files updated form for ETF
Avalanche trades close to $12 by press time on Wednesday, extending the nearly 2% drop from the previous day. Grayscale filed an updated form to convert its Avalanche-focused Trust into an ETF with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Bitcoin slips below $87,000 as ETF outflows intensify, whale participation declines
Bitcoin price continues to trade around $86,770 on Wednesday, after failing to break above the $90,000 resistance. US-listed spot ETFs record an outflow of $188.64 million on Tuesday, marking the fourth consecutive day of withdrawals.
Michael Selig assumes role as new CFTC Chair, what does this mean for crypto?
Michael Selig has been sworn in to serve as the 16th Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Selig was confirmed by the US Senate to head the commission last week, following his October nomination by the US President Donald Trump.
Crypto.com hires sports trader for event prediction market-making
Crypto.com plans to recruit a quant trader for the sports market-making team to buy and sell financial contracts related to these events. Opponents argue that internal trading desks put operators or their affiliates on the opposite side of customer trades.
Crypto Today: Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP tilt toward breakout on risk-on sentiment
Bitcoin (BTC) kicked off October on a strong note, with the price breaking above $116,000 on Wednesday. Despite a market-wide expectation that September is usually a bearish month for cryptocurrencies, BTC posted gains of 5.31%.
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WHAT IS STELLAR?
According to the Stellar Development Foundation, Stellar is an open-source network for currencies and payments. It’s native token, XLM, makes it possible to create, send and trade digital representations of all forms of money — dollars, pesos, Bitcoin, pretty much anything. It’s designed so all the world’s financial systems can work together on a single network. Learn more in our Stellar lumens Guide.
The software runs across a decentralized, open network and handles millions of transactions each day. Like Bitcoin and Ethereum, Stellar relies on blockchain to keep the network in sync, but the end-user experience is more like cash — Stellar is much faster, cheaper and more energy-efficient than typical blockchain-based systems.
Characteristics of Stellar
Stellar (XLM) was launched in July 2014 as a decentralized open-source protocol to allow performing crypto transfers to fiat and vice versa.
- Decentralized control, allowing anyone to participate without a central authority.
- Low latency, reaching an unanimous consensus in only a few seconds.
- Flexible trust, the user is free to trust any combination of parts.
- Asymptotic security, avoiding 51% of the attacks based on digital signatures and hash families.
Differences between Bitcoin and Stellar
Which are the main differences between XLM and BTC?
- XLM transactions are faster than BTC.
- Transaction fees are lower on the Stellar network.
- XLM's supply increases annually at a fixed interest rate of 1%.
- Stellar network allows users to transact freely in their choice either with fiat or cryptocurrency.