Altcoin News Official Today TheBitTimes.com

XRP surged to $2.5 early Monday, overtaking BNB and Solana to become the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization on CoinMarketCap. This rally reflects growing optimism in the market, fueled by increased adoption of digital assets by governments and institutions. The shift highlights rising demand for cryptocurrencies as they gain broader recognition. The bullish momentum extends beyond XRP, with several altcoins also experiencing notable gains. This wave of positive market sentiment has reignited interest in digital assets. As conditions appear favorable for altcoins and emerging cryptocurrencies, investors are exploring top cryptocurrencies to buy now . Top Cryptocurrencies to Buy Now XRP’s price recently surged past $2, driving its market capitalization above $100 billion. Meanwhile, Uniswap achieved a significant milestone in November by recording $38 billion in trading volume across Ethereum’s leading layer-2 scaling solutions, highlighting increased ac...

1. Optimism Opens Claims for Fifth Season Airdrop, Distributing Over 10 Million OP link Ethereum Layer 2 network Optimism has announced the opening of its fifth season airdrop, distributing over 10 million OP tokens to 54,000 unique addresses. Users who interacted with at least 20 independent contracts on the Superchain between March and September 2024, with a contract-to-transaction ratio of at least 10%, are eligible to claim the airdrop. Different airdrop multipliers will be matched based on the level of interaction. 2. Swell Network: Users Can Now Check Eligibility for SWELL Token Distribution link Swell Network has announced that users can check their eligibility for claiming SWELL tokens through its platform and encourages users to collect “White Pearls.” Users can visit Swell’s DAO page for specific details. Additionally, Swell introduced the re-staking feature for SWELL tokens, allowing users to stake them as rSWELL to help secure the Swell Layer 2 network. 3. Puffer Airdrop Se...

PEPE price risks losing 20% in May due to shaky technicals, waning retail interest, and too many risks of market manipulation. New meme-coin Pepe (PEPE) has entered a sharp correction phase after surging by more than 2,000% since its debut a few weeks ago. On May 3, the PEPE price dropped to $0.00000089, down about 35% from its record high of $0.00000138 established two days ago. As a result of the correction, its market capitalization slipped by nearly $80 million, thus pushing it out of the top-100 top cryptocurrency index.  Pepe price performance since market debut. Source: CoinGecko A mix of technical and fundamental indicators hint at further downside for PEPE price .  Retail interest falls PEPE's daily trading volumes declined across centralized (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX) as price s fell. The same happened to the Google trends for the keyword "Pepe Coin," whose score is down from 100 to 7 in a day, suggesting that the retail hype has subsided in the pa...

In November 2018, Uniswap debuted its services. It offers decentralized financial services that are built on the Ethereum blockchain. The exchange had evolved into one of the most significant decentralized exchanges. Uniswap has recently unveiled a new feature that has made the purchase of NFTs way easier. According to the details from the announcement, the latest feature is in an effort to unify the NFT and ERC-20 experiences. Also read: Binance Accidentally Closes Derivative Positions of Few Australian Users Source: Coinmama Uniswap NFT buyers can use any ERC-20 token Uniswap has addressed the fact that NFT buyers can now purchase NFTs on its marketplace using any ERC-20 tokens, including UNI, SHIB, and others. According to the details, here is how the feature works: “This feature is made possible by our new Universal Router contract, which, for the first time, unifies token and NFT trades into a flexible and gas-optimized swap router.” Al...