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5 Exciting Altcoin News This Week Plus Some Other Major Altcoin Updates

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The cryptocurrency market has entered the new week calmly with a daily change of 0.7%. While Bitcoin dominance is hovering around 57.9%, there will be developments that may affect some altcoin prices this week.

The five altcoins we are focusing on for the week of March 29-April 4 are Cardano (ADA), Cosmos (ATOM), Avalanche (AVAX), Chiliz (CHZ) and Pundi X (NPXS), respectively, along with highlights of some other main coins events.


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Cardano (ADA)

News This Week: The IOHK Foundation announced that the update, known as D-Day, will be completed on March 31st.

Why to follow: Every block in the Cardano network was generated by IOHK-controlled nodes. But March 31 will be a turning point in decentralization for Cardano. Cardano blocks will be produced by user pools after that date.

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Cosmos (ATOM)

News This Week: The Cosmos community will receive information about Inter Blockchain Communication at the party to be held on the evening of March 29.

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Why to follow: Inter Blockchain Communication (IBC) will be used after 5 years of preparation. Users will be able to transfer IBC tokens between two different blockchains. Demos of transactions will be shared and IBC will be elaborated.

 

Avalanche (AVAX)

News This Week: Apricot Phase One will be launched on 31st March.

Why To Follow: The first phase of Apricot will save 50% transaction costs.

Other than this, AVAX has many great news this week. The summary of these news is shared below.

Chiliz (CHZ)

News This Week: Chiliz announced that fan tokens developed for the Professional Fighters League (PFL) will be added to the Socios.com app on March 31st.

Why to follow: While no league in the US has been actively involved in the Chiliz & Socios.com ecosystem so far, this scenario will change after March 31st.

Company CEO Alexandre Dreyfus often say “Nobody wants to be the first, but they don’t want to be the last.”

 

Pundi X (NPXS)

News This Week: Pundi X Labs will reduce the number of token on March 30.

Why To Follow: Pundi X, which is listed as NPXS on crypto exchanges, will start to use the name PUNDIX after March 30. As the number of tokens will be reduced, users will be able to exchange every 1,000 NPXS they hold for 1 PUNDIX token.

Other Altcoin News

Although not on the list, Fetch.ai, which will publish its mainnet on March 31, and ECOMI (OMI), which will be listed by Uniswap on March 31.

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Stellar (XLM)

  • 29 Mar 2021
  • Coineal Listing
  • “Trading: from 8:00 Mar 29 (UTC) | Pair: XLM/USDT, XLM/BTC”

Source: https://support.coineal.com/hc/en-001/articles/360062147494

Avalanche (AVAX)

  • 29 Mar 2021 (or earlier)
  • Avalanche Clubhouse
  • “The @AvaLabsOfficial Team Building Avalanche Is Hard at Work on the Latest Platform Upgrade Apricot…”

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Avalanche (AVAX) and BZX Protocol

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier)
  • AVAX/BZRX Partnership.
  • “Upon completion (set for Q1 2021), bZx applications will work seamlessly on Avalanche, enabling a new wave of growth for the bZx”

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Avalanche (AVAX)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier)
  • European Stablecoins.
  • “Digital Euros (EUR), Swiss Francs (CHF), and more coming to Avalanche in Q1 2021.”

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Avalanche (AVAX)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier)
  • Staking & NFT Support.
  • “$AVAX staking, NFT support, and @tusd_official support all in one app thanks to @FrontierDotXYZ. Coming to Avalanche in March 2021.”

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Avalanche (AVAX)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier)
  • Frontier Integration.
  • “Frontier is integrating with Avalanche to natively support AVAX staking, NFTs, and TrueUSD (TUSD) in the Frontier Application…”

Source: https://medium.com/avalancheavax/frontier-begins-multi-function-integration-to-serve-avalanches-defi-ecosystem-ca3b6b15ad86

Avalanche (AVAX)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier)
  • Velox Integration.
  • “Velox is bringing its algorithmic trading system for decentralized exchanges to Avalanche, further expanding the DeFi…”

Source: https://medium.com/avalancheavax/velox-brings-decentralized-high-frequency-trading-to-avalanche-4575be079c60

Cosmos (ATOM)

  • 29 Mar 2021.
  • IBC Transfer Vote Ends.
  • “The Proposal to enable transferring & receiving assets on the Cosmos Hub using #IBC’s ICS20 standard is here!”

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Terra (LUNA) And Thor Chain (Rune)

  • 29 Mar 2021.
  • LUNA Snapshot.
  • “LUNA will join the Sushiswap IL Protection pools… Join with $LUNA $RUNE here, first snapshot will be taken next Monday”

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NEO (NEO)

  • 29 Mar 2021.
  • AMA with Founders.
  • “Neo Founders Dahongfei and Erikzhang Are Coming to our Reddit Community!”

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Cardano (ADA)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier).
  • AdaPay on Shelley MainNet.
  • “AdaPay on Shelley MainNet,” during Q1 2021.

Cardano (ADA)

  • 31 Mar 2021.
  • Decentralized Block Gen..
  • “At the end of March… responsibility for block generation will be fully decentralized.”

Source: https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/03/04/not-long-till-d-0-day/

 

Chainlink (LINK)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier).
  • Integrate LINK Oracle.
  • “Chainlink Oracle integration,” during Q1 2021.

Pundi X (NPXS)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier).
  • XPOS DeFi Functionality.
  • “Explore DeFi functionalities on the XPOS®,” during Q1 2021.

Source: https://medium.com/pundix/pundi-x-roadmap-q4-2020-q2-2021-8af8ce6a1552

Pundi X (NPXS)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier).
  • XPOS Exansion to MPOS.
  • “Expand XPOS® platform to more Android-based MPOS devices,” during Q1 2021.

Source: https://medium.com/pundix/pundi-x-roadmap-q4-2020-q2-2021-8af8ce6a1552

Theta Network (THETA)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier).
  • DEX Release.
  • “Decentralized exchange (DEX) on Theta blockchain,” during Q1 2021.

Source: https://medium.com/theta-network/theta-network-2021-roadmap-69053f16a870

Theta Network (THETA)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier).
  • 1-Click Delegated Staking.
  • “1-Click Delegated staking within Theta wallet”

Source: https://medium.com/theta-network/theta-network-2021-roadmap-69053f16a870

Theta Network (THETA)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier).
  • NFT Marketplace.
  • “NFT marketplace on Theta blockchain,” during Q1 2021.

Source: https://medium.com/theta-network/theta-network-2021-roadmap-69053f16a870

Qtum (QTUM)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier).
  • Partnerships.
  • Multiple partnerships during Q1 2021.

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Qtum (QTUM)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier)
  • Janus Beta / Testnet
  • “Janus beta/Testnet,” during Q1 2021.

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Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier)
  • Token Service.
  • “Tokens can be issued on the Hedera Mainnet.”

Source: https://hedera.com/roadmap

Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR)

  • 31 Mar 2021 (or earlier).
  • HCS Scaling.
  • Hedera Consensus Service can scale to 10,000 transactions per second and above.”

Source: https://hedera.com/roadmap

 

Chainlink (LINK) and Konomi Network

  • 01 Apr 2021
  • KONO/LINK AMA
  • “We’re having a joint #AMA with @chainlink on their YouTube channel on April 1st, 8 a.m ET / 8 pm SGT”

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Compound (COMP) KNC And Maker

  • 03 Apr 2021 (or earlier)
  • BUX Listing.
  • “Next week we’ll list the three new crypto assets with Euro trading pair… Compound (COMP), Maker (MKR), and Kyber Network (KNC).”

Source: https://t.me/buxannouncements/187

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