| Excerpts: With cryptocurrency markets seeing bearish momentum today, most coins registered single-digit percent price drops. However, with all the blood in the market, NEAR Protocol’s price increased by over 36% in the past week. What is NEAR, and why is the price rising? Let’s find out. What Is NEAR Protocol? NEAR describes itself as a collective, a foundation, and a development platform built on a new layer-one blockchain. According to its official website: “The NEAR Foundation ("NF") is a unique kind of organization. It helped to launch both a technological platform — the NEAR Protocol — and the ecosystem around it.” The post NEAR Protocol Price Up 36% In the Past Week, Exploring Metaverse and Web3 Is Paying Off appeared first on The Merkle News.
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During the pandemic many patients began using telehealth services in order to receive care while also complying with stay at home orders. Telehealth is the subset of healthcare that is provided online through remote doctors appointments or private messaging. The problem with telehealth though is that with so much information being shared remotely, patients are vulnerable to their information being compromised by third parties. In order to solve this issue, many telehealth providers are encouraging patients to begin using non- fungible tokens. Let’s look at how blockchain and health can work together. NFTs and Health Non-fungible tokens are used to The post Blockchain and Health: Increasing Trust appeared first on The Merkle News.
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Avalanche is one of the most popular blockchains for Dapps and DeFi platforms. With a market cap of over $21.7 billion, it ranks as the 12th largest cryptocurrency on the market. This article looks at the top five most popular Dapps on the Avalanche network, ordered by 30-day user count, lowest to highest. 5. Lydia Finance (LYD) – 9.2k Lydia Finance is an Automated Market Maker (AMM), Yield Farming, Staking, and Launchpad platform on the Avalanche network. Lydia allows users to trade, stake, pool, and earn LYD as a reward. Avalance is known for its Yielf Farming platforms, and Lydia The post Top 5 Most Popular dApps on the Avalanche Network appeared first on The Merkle News.
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With the global crypto market cap hovering at $2.2 trillion, there’s no shortage of new projects that are blowing up with popularity. As one of the most popular platforms for finding new cryptocurrencies, CoinMarketCap makes for a great outlet to find up and coming projects. This article lists the top five most trending coins on CoinMarketCap today, December 13th. 5. HalfPizza (PIZA) Half Pizza is a Binance Smart Chain platform that describes itself as a decentralized rewarding autonomous community (DRAC). According to Half Pizza’s official whitepaper: “Half Pizza is a decentralized and autonomous community with a complete ecology. HalfPizza provides The post Top 5 Trending Cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap (December 13th) appeared first on The Merkle News.
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With Metaverse coins rising in popularity, there are dozens of platforms available for projects to build their next-generation virtual universe. Some of the more popular options for Metaverse coins include Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon. This article will explore the top GameFi / Metaverse coins built on the Binance Smart Chain, ordered by active users in the past 30 days, from lowest to highest. 5. BinaryX (BNX) – 96k BinaryX is the team behind Cyber Dragon, a Play-to-earn Metaverse on-chain game built on the Binance Smart Chain. Cyber Dragon allows players to create characters, collect rare equipment, and receive dragon treasure The post Top 5 Metaverse Coins Built on the Binance Smart Chain appeared first on The Merkle News.
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