📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary
Current Bitcoin Price: $9,617
Bitcoin price has ranged in the mid $9,000s today, as price appears to find some stability following its fake-out earlier this week.
Top-20 altcoins appear to have appreciated the stability, as Ethereum rises 2.5%, XRP gains 1%, and Cardano continues its pump with a rise of yet another 10%.
Top Stories for June 4, 2020 🔥
👉 Coinbase Slashes USDC Stablecoin Rewards by Almost 90%
America’s top cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, has cut its rewards for users’ USDC stablecoin holdings, by almost 90%.
Prior to the interest rate cut, USDC holders on the exchange were earning 1.25% annually on their balances, now just a unimpressive 0.15% per year.
The USDC rewards service was launched in October 2019, with US customers receiving interest pay-outs on a monthly basis.
👉 Numerai Successfully Completes $3M Token Sale
Crypto-based investments project Numerai has successfully completed a sale of an additional $3 million of its NMR tokens, with Union Square Ventures leading the round.
Numerai is based on a real-life hedge fund, which is attempting to leverage market predictions on the blockchain. Their flagship dApp, Erasure, is the 17th-largest dApp on Ethereum, with $2.1 million worth of crypto currently active in the protocol.
👉 Bittrex and Poloniex Tied Up in Tether-Focused Lawsuit
Bittrex and Poloniex have found themselves as part of a class-action lawsuit focused primarily on Tether and their USDT stabletoken, relating to the 2017 bull market.
The lawsuit alleges that both exchanges played a role in Tether’s scheme – which involved the issuance of USDT tokens out of thin air – saying that Bittrex and Poloniex coordinated large buy orders to manipulate markets.