Articles for author: Dan Opondo
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 ...
On September 13, 2026, 248,655 New Bitcoin addresses joined the BTC blockchain for the very first time. As you read this article, there are newer and newer bitcoin addresses joining the bitcoin blockchain, contributing to the daily count. Since January 2009 when the first ever new address was recorded in the chain this has been ...
On Monday September 7, Banca d’Italia directed crypto asset service providers to verify if every transfer that goes through their systems, however small, underwent a sanction screen. In the release, The central bank sent a direct warning to crypto firms to stop setting minimum transaction thresholds in their screening systems. Direct Mandate on Sanctions Compliance ...
Crypto markets boast of offering 24/7 access to services for every trader. Bitcoin in its very nature never sleeps. However, despite offering year round access, did you know that Bitcoin has rush hours? Key Takeaways In our analysis, which includes research from sites like Maketo, Kaiko and other market trackers, we discovered a daily trend ...
