Articles for author: Dan Opondo
Bitcoin’s network looks emptier than it did in 2021, but the “31% of users vanished” claim doesn’t hold up. The real story is quieter and arguably more interesting. Scroll through crypto social media and you’ll get to see 31%, a number that seemingly scares many in Bitcoin corridors. It is said that 31% of Bitcoin ...
For years, exchange reserves was one of crypto’s simplest signals. If Bitcoin leaves exchanges, holders are hoarding. If it flows in, they’re getting ready to sell. That rule of thumb is breaking down, and the clearest evidence is the divide between the two biggest names on the list: Coinbase and Binance. Two giants, 60% Share ...
Deep in a CryptoQuant chart sits a line most traders never see, the 200-day average of Binance’s “Taker Buy/Sell Ratio. Interestingly, it has just done something it hasn’t done in years. It climbed from about 0.973 in February to 1.012. That moved it from a market led by sellers to one where aggressive Binance buyers ...
Bitcoin’s price chart now repeats the same patterns over and over. The rallies, the drawdowns, the headlines, all echoes of 2017 and 2021. But, one thing constantly changes, the people moving the coins. Fewer everyday users are actively transacting, and the coins landing on exchanges are increasingly coming from a small handful of very large ...
Scroll through social networks like X, or other on-chain dashboards any day, and you’ll see talks of Bitcoin’s daily active addresses, either surging or dropping. The number making rounds when writing this report is 689,939. This represents the count of unique Bitcoin addresses that sent or received a transaction in a single 24-hour window, as ...
If you look at Pump.fun on any given day, you’ll see a common pattern, a flood of new tokens, mostly with dog pictures or cartoon faces. The majority of the tokens trade for a few hours, then the chart just goes flat and dies. The pumpfun graduation rate is wanting, and no one really talks ...
Ethereum, said to be the world’s second largest blockchain ecosystem is shrinking. It’s not a shrink of the ecosystem, No. Rather, it is a vast drop in the network’s share of decentralized finance and units. Since mid 2024, Ethereum L2 activity is seemingly beating the transaction count on mainnet. Key takeaways Ethereum’s base chain, the ...
There is a major shift within the Bitcoin blockchain in 2026, and hardly anyone has been paying attention. While everyone is focusing on Bitcoin’s price changes, and the flow of monies to ETFs, something bigger, or better yet, smaller, is happening. The number of Bitcoin microtransactions has been surging. This is not a small mistake, ...
On Tuesday September 8, Visa, a global payment giant said that at the end of the second quarter 2026, over 160 stablecoin linked programs ran live on its global infrastructure. On top of everything, the payment volumes in the period surged by nearly 200%. Visa noted that stablecoin-linked card programs have seen immense expansion. Visa ...
Blockchain development used to be just for people into cryptography, but now it’s a big area of software engineering. It involves creating smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps). Maybe you’re someone deciding which blockchain to use, a developer looking for a career change, or a company wanting to see how blockchain can improve a specific ...
