The decentralized applications (dApps) space tends to be dominated by two categories, DeFi and gaming. This is true if you look at the major blockchains like Ethereum, EOS or Tron. However, aggregator site app.com lists a diverse bunch of dApps based on Blockstack. Among these is a suite of decentralized office apps that claim to be an alternative to the likes of Google Docs.

We decided to investigate to see if they can live up to their claims.

The cryptocurrency market recovered dramatically today, as news from China sinks in that digital currencies are here to stay and Bitcoin soared by over $1,000.

In a pattern similar to the five stages of grief, cryptocurrencies appear to be going through the ‘five stages of acceptance’ in mainstream society. First there was pure ignorance; then dismissal; followed swiftly by skepticism; then limited or restrictive toleration; and finally (we hope) acceptance.

While few pundits (unless you’re FT Alphaville) would be so brazen as to dismiss crypto out of hand – Jamie Dimon’s likening of Bitcoin as “a fraud” has not aged well – most mainstream figures see themselves as healthy skeptics.

The San Francisco-based staking platform EON is sticking a fork in Tezos… Sadly, this baker is done. The service, touting itself as “the trusted staking provider for some of the best minds in crypto including network foundations, founders, and early investors” is discontinuing its support for the “baking” of Tezos (XTZ) digital assets. 

• EOS is still bearish over both the short and the medium-term
• The four-hour and daily time frames are both showing bearish head and shoulders pattern
• The EOS / USD pair needs to rally above the $3.00 level to change the bearish short-term outlook towards the cryptocurrency

EOS is attempting to recover recent losses, after the cryptocurrency fell to its weakest trading level since September 24th earlier this week. The EOS / USD pair has now recovered close to nine percent in value since falling towards the $2.54 level.

There was a time in crypto… long, long ago… before last week, even…  that if you wanted a Bitcoin option, the place to go was Deribit. But that could be changing, as the crypto futures institutional exchange Bakkt announces its intention to launch its own option contracts by the end of the year.

DeFi, and the wider crypto borrowing and lending segment of the market, has seen significant growth over the past year. Nexo has upped – or downed – the ante with borrowing rates reduced to 5.9 percent.

Decentralized finance is a development in blockchain wherein lenders earn interest on their crypto holdings and borrowers take out loans, using crypto deposits as collateral. Some of the players are more decentralized than others, but the premise remains similar. 

Like the day after a night of hard drinking, the crypto market today is resting in bed, hungover. Very little movement has been observed since yesterday’s crash, which showed strong signals of market manipulation.

Be that as it may, the decisive direction picked by the cryptocurrency market could strongly influence the upcoming trading weeks.

• Chainlink is bullish over both the short and the medium-term 
• The four-hour time is showing that a bullish inverted head and shoulders pattern has formed
• The daily time frame is showing that a large inverted head and shoulders patterns with double-digit potential could start to form

Chainlink is holding onto recent trading gains as the cryptocurrency continues to buck the bearish trend currently sweeping through the broader digital currency market.

A new oracle is in town, and it’s brought a few friends with it. Band Protocol has integrated financial data from CoinGecko, DeSquare, Woodstock Fund and a staking pool in China to its oracles feed.

Data oracles are an intermediary layer between blockchains and the external world. They provide a way for smart contracts to access external data in a secure way, utilizing the information in blockchain computations.