Binance Australia has more than 480,000 Australian users trading billions worth of AUD in crypto in the platform’s first year of operation.
During the financial year, flagship cryptocurrency bitcoin remained the most popular traded currency, with Ethereum and Tether in second and third place respectively.
“This time last year bitcoin was valued at $13,220 AUD. It has since peaked at more than $81,000, and recently has been sitting around $54,000,” says Binance Australia COO, Sam Teoh.
“Binance Australia has grown substantially over this time along with the market situation.
“In the crypto industry, there is a huge emphasis placed on HODLing, or ‘Holding On (to bitcoin) for Dear Life’.
“Our recent Crypto User Index Report also showed that Australians are more likely to buy and hold bitcoin than the rest of the world.
“According to the research, it seems Aussies have a longer-term outlook and are more willing to ride the volatile nature of the asset,” Sam says.
“We’ve also experienced firsthand the passion Australians have for cryptocurrencies, as well as the Binance Australia brand. Since launch, Binance Australia has been followed by more than 50,000 Aussies on various social channels.”
Binance Australia believes bitcoin growth has been tethered to a broader cultural shift in understanding and acceptance of digital assets.
The growth often can be seen through the size of the team.
“In year one, we knew Binance Australia would make a splash but no one could have predicted the company expanding at the rate that it did. In fact, our team headcount increased by 300 per cent in the first year and we’re looking to triple our headcount in year two,” Sam says.
Sam cites Binance Australia’s outperformance of the industry as largely due to its commitment to nurturing the growth of the Australian crypto ecosystem.
“We’ve become the go-to exchange for Australians getting serious about crypto thanks to our constant investment in those wanting to learn more about this amazing space.
“Binance Australia has aimed to build a sustainable crypto industry locally by hosting masterclasses. We are trying to inform and educate those who are new to the industry.
“Additionally, we committed over $1.3 million earlier this year to aid the recovery and rehabilitation of koalas from the Australian bushfires of 2019 and 2020.
“At Binance Australia, we are aware the world of cryptocurrency can seem tough to dip your toes into for newcomers, so we’ve made a point to educate Aussies through online content and also by hosting 18 hours of masterclass sessions viewed by 20,000 Australians.
“We’re active in online forums to ensure we’re there to help bring our level of expertise to the conversation happening online amongst Australians.
“We’re proud to be leading this space in facilitating Australia’s crypto endeavours and can’t wait for what FY22 has to offer.”
Binance just published 2021 Global Crypto User Index – a global survey on 61,000 crypto user around the world showing data on their motivations, behaviors and preferences.
Here are some of the main takeaways:
Crypto user demographics
95% of users were male
41% are qualified with at least an undergraduate degreee
Reason for buying crypto
52% consider crypto as a means of income
48% consider crypto investing as a hobby
38% own crypto because they distrust the current financial system
39% of cryptos are just bought and then HODL’ed
Only 3% of users regretted buying crypto
Portfolio
BTC is held by 66% of users who own any crypto (30% of which allocate only 1-20% to BTC)
35% of users held no BTC in their portfolio (and only 2% were 100% in BTC only)
BNB and ETH were the other popular coins held at 57% and 56% respectively
DeFi is most popular in Southeast Asia, where over 52% of users are using dApps
78% of users would rather use bank coins instead of stablecoins
Australian millionaires are popping up all over the place and it’s mostly thanks to Bitcoin. The king of cryptocurrency has been around for over 10 years now, and recently we have seen a growing number of savvy investors who have transformed themselves into self-made millionaires.
Disclaimer: Before you continue reading, this is a list of publicly available information collated to you for free entertainment purposes. Unless stated, we do not have any proof that these people made millions from Bitcoin so if you think any information is wrong, please let us know. Crypto News also has tried to make contact with everyone on the list to verify the details.
Now that institutions are hopping on the Bitcoin bandwagon, it’s the retail investors who are reaping the rewards from the best performing asset of all time. As the conservative go unconventional and alternative investments become mainstream, the Bitcoin millionaire phenomenon is growing at a sensational rate – who is next?
Here are some of the wealthy Australians who made their millions by investing in Bitcoin early: our list of 10 Australian BitcoinMillionaires.
Kain Warwick
Kain is a blockchain enthusiast and founder of Synthetix, a decentralised synthetic asset platform that supports multiple fiat currencies and commodities. Originally named Havven, it was a stablecoin project through an initial coin offering in February 2018. Havven rebranded itself to Synthetix in March 2020 and quickly became a prominent player in the decentralised finance market, with currently over $2 billion SNX marketcap. Before creating Synthetix, Warwick also co-founded Blueshyft – a cash payment gateway that supports over-the-counter Bitcoin purchases. He is an advisory council member of Blockchain Australia, promoting the adoption of blockchain technology in Australia. Back in the day, he was a tennis coach and also a touring musician with his band The Lie Society, based in Boston. Kain is from Sydney, where he now lives. According to realestate.com.au Warwick bought his parents a house for a whopping $12.2 million, and has over $34 million invested in other house deals. You can follow Warwick on Twitter: @kaiynne
Sergei Sergienko
Featured on 60 Minutes Australia “Crazy Rich”, Sergei Sergienko is a Russian-born self-declared Australian Bitcoin multimillionaire. He reckons he is worth a whopping $100 million! It is a dream come true, only possible thanks to the digital gold rush of Bitcoin, buying BTC from as low as $6, and Sergei has been accumulating and trading it ever since, taking his profits into the millions. According to the interview, Sergei took a punt when he secured a bank loan and invested into BTC. Being an early cryptocurrency pioneer has certainly paid off as Sergei continues to trade and invest in crypto and runs a handful of businesses. He is the founder and CEO of Chrono.tech, a global blockchain startup headquartered in Sydney; co-founder of MHC Digital Finance, a digital asset fund also based in Sydney; and the co-founder and director of Edway Group, one of Australia’s biggest recruitment companies. You can follow Sergei Sergienko on Twitter: @svsergienko.
Mimi Ho
According to a Financial Review interview, 36-year-old Mimi Ho, from Brisbane, started investing nine years ago, initially as a hobby, although she was prepared to put some coin behind it. She began investing $10,000 into Bitcoin and some other major altcoins and has continued to use her profits to build the portfolio into seven-digit figures. When she started out, she was a part-owner of an IT company, but says she is now turning over more cash than when she was running the business. Ms Ho believes crypto is the way of the future and that it has been her best investment to date. In the past nine years, she has amassed almost $8 million. You can follow Mimi Ho’s trading on Etoro’s copy trading.
Chris O’Shea
According to a Nine News interview, Chris O’Shea is a “self-made” millennial millionaire who has accumulated a fortune of around $20 million. O’Shea, 30, has totally transformed his life, initially investing $10,000 in 2013, much to the disbelief of friends and family who thought he’d gone mad. The former pub manager from Mount Druitt in Sydney’s west now enjoys a lavish lifestyle driving Range Rovers and cruising luxury yachts; sounds like the lifestyle.
Daniel Maegaard
According to an interview with The Hustle, Daniel Maegaard, a 30-year-old from Brisbane, has made a crypto fortune – not once, but twice. First when he was only 22, as he speculated $4k into Bitcoin in 2013 when it was worth around $150 per coin. After learning more about it, he said he was certain Bitcoin’s scarcity would lead to it increasing in price. He caught the crypto bug and got into other altcoins such as Ripple early, and is now also making a fortune in NFTs. From just a few thousand dollars eight years ago, Daniel now claims to be a happy crypto self-made millionaire, with approximately $10 million to his name. You can follow Daniel Maegaard on Twitter: @seedphrase
Craig Wright
Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright is the man who claims to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Though this has been debunked pretty heavily, he is, however, a Bitcoin millionaire. Craig now lives in a big house in London and is continuing his infamous ongoing court battle over the Bitcoin whitepaper copyright ownership. He has yet to provide any verifiable evidence of his authorship of the original Satoshi whitepaper or collaboration with known early developers. He also refuses, or is unable, to provide the one piece of evidence that would prove his claim: you guessed it – the original Satoshi Nakamoto private key. If he is Satoshi, then he is sitting on a 1,000,000 BTC fortune.
Craig Cobb
Craig Cobb is an experienced trader based in Sydney, Australia who first got into crypto in 2017 after a mate told him he needed to check it out. He found there was a gap in the market for quality courses on trading, so started to offer courses on Udemy and later founded Trader Cobb to teach his personal technical trading strategies to others, specialising in checklist-based trading. According to Udemy, he has not only made himself a millionaire, but he has also helped many others become millionaires too. Craig has a podcast called The Trader Cobb Crypto Podcast and an excellent library of video training resources on his YouTube channel. Aside from trading, he loves to surf and is an active volunteer lifesaver, currently patrolling Tamarama beach in Sydney’s east. You can follow Craig Cobb on Twitter: @tradercobb
Sam Karagiozis
Sam Karagiozis’s knuckles famously bear the tattooed words “self made” because up until his 2019 incarceration, he was usually pictured with luxury cars; he owned a Lamborghini and a Bentley with personalised plates that read, “MR BTC”. Sam founded a Bitcoin ATM startup called Auscoin Group and attempted to start the digital currency for Australia, but it failed. He was arrested for allegedly importing more than 100 packages of drugs through the mail in 2016 and 2017. In 2019 he was granted bail and is now fighting to regain control over his chain of souvlaki stores and his Bitcoin empire. According to news.com.au, police allege he was the boss of the Melbourne drug ring that used the dark web and Bitcoin accounts to source, buy and distribute drugs as part of a multimillion-dollar importation operation.
Kingsley Advani
Kingsley Advani became a Bitcoin millionaire at age 24, back in 2017 when he sold all his worldly possessions and emptied thousands of dollars from his bank account to seek the once-in-a-lifetime returns potential of Bitcoin. According to a CEO Magazine article, Advani invested $34,000 into Bitcoin and other emerging blockchains. His net worth ballooned into seven figures within six months. Technically, Advani is British and not Australian, but he did study for a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Economics at the University of Melbourne. You can follow Kingsley Advani on Twitter: @kadvani
Fred Schebesta
Fred Schebesta, 26, is one of the youngest Australian self-made millionaires, best known for co-founding the comparison website finder.com. While it’s not clear that his first millions were made in Bitcoin, he is a crypto evangelist, hosting a ‘daily crypto talk show’ from the offices of Finder. In February 2018, he and co-founder Frank Restuccia launched an Over-The-Counter (OTC) crypto exchange called HiveX, which facilitates trades between $50k to $100 million. He is currently focused on creating the very first crypto bank in Australia and launching Finder Crypto Mobile App. You can follow Fred Schebesta on Twitter: @Schebesta
What is a bull market and bear market? Whether talking about cryptocurrencies, equity, or real estate, all markets have periods where we can categorise them as either “bearish” or “bullish”. These terms refer to market conditions where a joint situation occurs over a medium or long-term period, usually lasting 1 year or more.
What is a Bull Market?
A bull market is where most assets surge in price gradually. Supply is big and investors are buying more as demand rises. We can say that the market is bullish when most assets of a specific market are in an uptrend.
When investors say they’re bullish on a market, they expect prices to rise for a long period. However, no one knows exactly how much a bull run can last, but they are usually longer than bearish markets and are less volatile.
How to Identify a Bull Market Trend
Trends are never straightforward, they have periods of fluctuation and price drops categorised as higher highs and higher lows.
It’s reasonable for a trader to follow the trend and not go against it. This is why it’s important to pay attention to price declines or consolidations when they appear. They don’t usually break the current trend (unless a big event occurs that completely flips it) but they can give you a window of opportunity to enter the market.
What Factors Can Create a Bull Market?
Several forces drive demand up or down. Take for example how the COVID-19 pandemic boosted the crypto market and practically shut down the global economy. What did happen during that time of crisis? Well, to name a few things:
Small, mid-size businesses started closing and unemployment rates skyrocketed.
Governments started sending relief packs embedded as monthly checks and injected trillions of dollars trying to help their citizens in the time of crisis.
Global central banks started printing trillions of dollars to help stabilise their respective countries.
Remote jobs became a priority for most companies globally, and people were forgetting about physical cash and paying for things using digital money on the Internet, like e-commerce websites. This reinforced and highlighted the benefits of cryptocurrencies, not only in times of financial crisis but in general.
How Did Institutional Capital Boosted the Crypto Market?
Investors knew that as central banks printed more and more money, so they wanted to hedge against fiat hyperinflation, and cryptocurrencies became an attractive alternative for them. Thus institutional capital flocked to the crypto market as more clients demanded alternative assets that could make up for a better store of value.
Investment banks like JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley; Payment Giants like Visa, Mastercard and PayPal; Hedge funds and institutional investors —the list goes on. They all at first condemned cryptocurrencies and their usefulness in real-time situations, and now most of these companies support them.
Investment banks started offering Bitcoin trading services among other crypto-related services to their clients. JP Morgan even offered job positions for Ethereum blockchain developers. PayPal allowed crypto custody and crypto-payments just like Visa and Mastercard.
News, adoption, and the overall benefits of crypto during these periods gave the crypto market and the decentralised finances (DeFi) ecosystem, which is now over US$60 million in total value locked, a dramatic boost.
Crypto Adoption is Accelerating
In January 2020, BTC was priced at over $7,000. By December, it was breaking one of the toughest psychological barriers: $20k, reaching over $24,000 that month. This is an increase of 224%. When institutional capital came into play and cryptocurrencies were all over the news, Bitcoin surpassed astronomical price records of over $40,000 in January 2021.
This doesn’t mean the market didn’t experience fluctuations during its bull run. The most notorious price corrections happened on February 21, when it dropped more than 20% between February 21 and 23, shortly after reaching a price record of US$58,322.
However, crypto adoption only accelerated with time, and now most institutional investors plan to own crypto by 2026.
What is a Bear Market?
Within a bear market, most assets are in a downward trend. Demand is low and most investors are selling their positions, further pushing the downtrend. However, most investors won’t call it a real bear market unless it loses 20% from recent highs. In essence:
Bearish periods apply to every market
Most assets move in a downtrend
Negative investors’ sentiment takes over
We all know The COVID-19 outburst shut down the entire economy and caused one of the toughest stock market crash in history. However, it accelerated Bitcoin’s rise to the eye of investors and amplified the narrative of Bitcoin as a safe store of value against the decaying purchasing power of the U.S. Dollar.
Bitcoin’s market performance in 2017 and 2020
Large price drops will trigger weak hands. This is usually called “panic selling.” There’s an interesting feature within the crypto market when this happens: most crypto holders (called HODLers) would look at this as an opportunity to buy as many coins as they can and profit from the next bull run. Interest is low and the usual buyers in these periods are miners and Bitcoin maximalists who want to stack as many BTC as they can.
And why do crypto traders do this? Because the crypto market has a finite supply in contrast to the infinite supply of fiat currency.
On the other hand, bullish crypto markets are dynamic with supply and demand in a perpetual state of flux as new participants and older HODLers compete for block-space, testing each other’s resolve to HODL in the face of parabolic price growth.
Let’s take Bitcoin as an example. While Bitcoin has surged in value over 9000% since 2015 it doesn’t mean the market hasn’t experienced bearish periods. In December 2017, it had one of the largest bearish runs that extended to mid-2019.
Bitcoin’s market performance in 2017 and 2020
Why Timeframes are Important
Using time frames properly is key to understanding the current state of the market so you trade it accordingly. Time frames can be classified as primary (longer periods), intermediate, and short-term, and each one will give you a different perspective of the market.
A rule of thumb is to always trade the primary time frame as market signals are more reliable. On shorter time frames, traders might find cluttered charts with exaggerated long spreads. However, this time frame works well for short-positions, so everything depends on the trader and the way he wants to trade.
Ideally, a trader bases his first technical analysis by studying the longer time frame to define in what direction the market is going. Bull markets usually last months or years, so to do a proper market analysis, setting a higher timeframe will help you have a better notion of what’s happening.
How Long Do Bear and Bull Markets Last?
Nobody knows how long these periods last. Usually, bull markets have greater and stronger rallies —they could last one year or exceed 10 years. On the other hand, bear markets have a shorter duration, but they come with more abrupt movements and volatility.
In the case of the stock market, assets don’t usually fluctuate by high points of percentage. Fiat currencies, for instance, are not stable —the degree to which they fluctuate is small and that’s why people consider them stable.
The Volatility of the Crypto Market
In contrast, the crypto market is volatile. Crypto assets can fluctuate by hundreds or thousands of points per day, and as crypto becomes mainstream and financial institutions start digging into crypto and blockchain technology, the price has been subject to harsh market corrections and explosive price surges.
News, institutional adoption, major events (like the China FUD), or even a comment from a wealthy influencer can cause powerful price surges or corrections that either boosts the market or stagger it, shrouding investors’ sentiment with pessimism or optimism.
Closing Thoughts
bull and bear markets can always be traded. Identifying what are the market conditions will help you to better manage your capital and invest more smartly.
During a bull run, most traders would follow the trend by applying their trading strategy. Traders entering the market set lower time frames after identifying the primary trend to define their next position.
During bear markets, traders are wary and try to protect themselves from larger price drops. It’s advisable to stay in cash during these periods, wait and study the market to catch an opportunity to trade it.
Zipmex is on a mission to make crypto easy for Australians with a vision to become the most trusted cryptocurrency exchange in the Asia Pacific Region. With more than 3 billion USD in trades and 300,000 registered users across Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia, they are well on the way.
After phenomenal success across South East Asia, Zipmex has recently launched into Australia. To celebrate this launch they are giving away 3 Bitcoin. To enter, simply purchase $250 worth of any crypto currency through Zipmex to go into the draw.
With two clicks on the phone, Aussies can install the Zipmex iOS and Google Play app and start trading digital currencies in the palm of their hand. Zipmex provides the comfort of knowing that the trading platform is AUSTRAC registered in Australia and that up to $100 Million of funds are insured by BitGo Digital Asset Insurance.
Depositing and withdrawing funds in AUD through a Zipmex account is quick and incredibly easy. They have some of the lowest trading fees in the market at 0.2% with further discounts available if you hold Zipmex Token (ZMT). Zipmex Customers also have the ability to earn interest paid daily on their digital assets.
Security is core to Zipmex, they use the most advanced tech solutions to ensure the security of their trading platform and its users. This is possible because of the decades of tech and financial experience from the Zipmex team.
Zipmex Co-Founder and CEO Marcus Lim grew up in Australia and graduated from the University of New South Wales. He worked as an Australian Management Consultant for Deloitte before founding Oneflare.com.au. Oneflare was Australia’s fastest-growing marketplace connecting customers with local service providers which sold to Fairfax Group in 2015.
Marcus founded Zipmex three years ago and leads the Zipmex team from its Singapore HQ. With a senior management team of fellow Aussies, including Jonathan Low (Chief Operating Officer), Ken Tabuki (Chief Product Officer), James Tippet (Chief Technology Officer), and a dedicated Australian HQ in Sydney led by Nathan Halliday (Australian Country Manager) Zipmex is in a unique position to lead Australians to a prosperous crypto future.
There isn’t long left until the first Bitcoin is drawn on 30th of July so get in quick. For more details on this giveaway and the full terms and conditions please visit zipmex.com/au/
Its great to see so many new games are integrating blockchain technology to power features such as in-game cryptocurrency, native tokens, digital collectables, asset trading, enhanced randomness and more.
Lets take a look at some of the most exciting blockchain enabled games to hit the gaming industry this year.
CSC | Space MMO
CSC is one of the most visually stunning blockhain supported games available at the moment, as you take an adventure on a space ship through the cosmos. It is essentially a deep space MMO fast-paced combat game, where you will find a robust player economy and an un-paralleled crafting experience. Players can travel through the cosmo space, jumping into the star systems, and discover mines, treasures, steller bodies, and more random things. In the game you may also encounter random pirate ships and battle against other players online for resources and control. The in-game trading system called “GFC” token is backed by Ethereum ERC-721 and supports buying/selling of all items including ships, ship skins, module upgrades, supplies, weapons, and armour. The game is free to download and play on Steam.
AxieInfinity
AxieInfinity lets you enjoy multiplayer battle gaming a beautiful pixie type environment, where each Axie is a delicate looking mythical creature that has so many hidden traits. This game has over 250,000 players and wholeheartedly promotes and runs using the Ethereum cryptocurrency. Axies are digital pets that have 6 different body parts – each part can be selected from hundreds of different types, having their own unique powers so every Axie posses 6 powers combined. There are categories of Axie based on power level, rarity, and traits and you can raise them on farmland in-game that involves pet raising, breeding, and battling, allowing you to play this all day without getting bored. As it is a blockchain-enabled game, you own your data, nobody has any access to your game data, not even the company itself.
SandBox
SandBox is one of the most awesome open-world experiences that you will ever play. It is a community-driven “Minecraft like” game platform where gamers can monetise voxel assets and experience gaming on the blockchain. What makes this game so great is the freedom to design your character in any way you like, and you can earn money from almost anything in-game. Characters, clothing and other assets can be bought and sold using the SAND cryptocurrency on the Sandbox marketplace, or you can transfer it to others and still earn points, and if you get enough accumulated points, you can withdraw it for real cash.
Dissolution
Dissolution is a free-to-play FPS game that will take you into a world full of rogue AI, 400 years into the future. The solar system is invaded by numerous rouge group of powers are in chaos, and players from all around the world are thrown into this chaotic deep space environment. Each player is placed into desolate places surrounded by hostile environments to compete for resources and territory. It has both PVP and PVE features with real-world simulations allowing you to team up with your friends and rage into this epic game. Most importantly, this game is blockchain-enabled so whatever you achieve through your journey with Dissolution, you earned it yourself and get to own it yourself. They have recently announced the game will be going live on Google Play as a mobile game too.
9 Lives Arena
9 Lives Arena is a highly competitive and fast paced online RPG game that solely focused on FPS “hack’n’slash” gaming. This skill-based PVP game is packed with tonnes of adrenaline rush as you survive and defeat other players with special weapons and spells. In the shop you can buy anything from a samurai sword to a wingsuit to power up your character ready for battle. All items are uniquely customised and tradable on the Ethereum blockchain.
Blankos
Blankos aka Blankos Block Party is a mischievous MMO RPG online game, multiplayer epic battle royal game modes. With this game you can go on solo quests and unlock new rewards to trick out your Blankos, or grab a squad and compete in epic block parties. Features let you race, jump, play, and shoot with your friends. The producers made a stunning vibrant gaming world that resembles a giant block party with custom art designs, world-building & exploration, and collector avatars. You can play Blankos online using cryptos and it’s now available on Windows 10.
Evolution Land
Evolution Land is a virtual simulation blockchain game that supports cross-chain interactions. The game will have up to 26 continents, each of which is deployed on a different public chain. Two continents have been built so far and have been deployed on Ethereum (Atlantis Continent) and Tron (Byzantine). On your land, your apostles can be deployed to manage mines, farms, and can even be doctors or musicians. What makes this game interesting is that it has an open SDK so developers can build their own Dapp’s which can be deployed on Evolution land.
WarRiders
WarRiders is the first blockchain enabled MMO RPG game where people can earn cryptos by destroying opponent’s cars. It is a full-fledge 3D game with tonnes of dangerous rides and weapons, where each player gets to choose his ride. Rides can be bought with Benzene, the only cryptocurrency available on the chaos and bloodstains and integrated with the MetaMask browser extension. The currency converts approximately 1 BZN = AUS$0.8 USD allowing you to equip yourself with the most powerful weapons and destroy through enemy lines. You can also earn money through hardcore playing with WarRiders’s in-game currency.
Age Of Rust
Age Of Rust is a blockchain enabled far future world apocalyptic game that will take you into an android robotic age in 4424. The game plot opens a sci-fi premise on a stasis gone wrong on a colony ship, as you wake up in an unfamiliar world surrounded by rogue machines and monstrous weaponry. Half post-apocalyptic and half cyberpunk, Age Of Rust takes adrenaline on your nerves on every scene. It is a single-player 1st person shooting game with stunning graphics and physics. You can use Ethereum as the game currency as it supports crypto wallet and ETH tokens to fight and and earn coins. Age of Rust Season 1 game is now available on Steam.
Crypto Kitties
Crypto Kitties game is fun, full of surprises, and lots of collectible things around as a fully blockchain enabled MMO game with RPG fighting stimulations. CryptoKitties was one of the first blockchain-based games, where you can bring any two cats together (male & female) and breed a new cat. The new cat is one-of-a-kind, and 100% yours, stored on the Ethereum Blockchain, and can you can buy & sell your cats with the community.
Gods Unchained
God Unchained game is a free-to-play trading card based game which uses blockchain to store your cards and collections. This game was invented by ex-Google and Riot engineers, founded by the largest gaming investor in the world. If you are a lover of magical cards, surely you can’t resist Gods Unchained as it has thousands of characters as cards, each presents a unique power within a certain power division. The game has made a world record in 2019 where millions of players have spent $85 billion dollars in this super high-level graphic 3D trading card game.
Hash Rush
Hash Rush is an online sci-fi/fantasy RTS game plotted on the fictional Hermeian Galaxy, where you can play, build, fight, and trade your commodities for ‘Galaxy Points’. Then, you can trade those points for skins and Ethereum or Bitcoin. As you proceed further into the game, you will unlock the mining colony, monster battles, and crystal trading. The most difficult task on Hash Rush is Crypto crystal mining, as successful miners will receive tokenised blockchain rewards as well as in-game items, bonuses, and prizes.
UpLand
UpLand is a google map powered parallel world where users play, operate businesses, and connect with more Uplanders. This virtual game is kind of based on the concept of the classical Monopoly game where users can buy, sell, trade, and navigate virtual properties that are pointed using the real-world reference. As it’s a blockchain enabled game, the owner of the virtual assets are real people and the digital assets are stored on the Blockchain as NFTs. The UPX cryptocurrency fuels an open market economy in the game as users buy and sell NFT properties. This game is available on both Google and Apple platforms.
Neon District
Neon District is the cyberpunk role-playing adventure and flagship game developed by Blockade. Leveraging the latest in decentralized technologies, players battle to progress through a sci-fi dystopia and earn in-game NFT (non-fungible token) items. You can buy and sell items such as characters, gear, craft, level up teams, swords, hats and more than 1 billion NFT items are available for purchase on OpenSea NFT marketplace.
The Six Dragons
The Six Dragons is a fantasy open-world RPG game filled with rich graphics and resources inside a stunning 64 square kilometre digital world. The game takes you into a decentralized environment where swords and magic are your main weapons to survive. You can build safe houses with over 300 different crafting options, make vaults, collect weapons, and roam around the villages to hunt monsters. The Six Dragons game allows you to trade items between players or sell them in an online “Blockchain Blacksmith” cash store. The game has also recently introduced cryptocurrency Chainlink Oracles for on-chain verified randomness for in-game interactions.
Crypto Wars
Crypto Wars game is a Japanese based blockchain enabled game with a decentralized civilization theme. It is free to play world MMO game with thousands of unique skins and armory, where you can build houses, workstations, cattle-farms, and more on your village as well as customizing everything. You can go for war with others and take command of their territories to earn ETH crypto as everything you obtain will be stored in your blockchain wallet, completely sealed from others. Who thought you could earn money playing a strategy game?
Blockchain Cuties
Blockchain Cuties is a new multi-blockchain enabled online game based on crypto collectibles and adventures. You can play this game with puppies, lizards, bear cubs, cats, and other real & fantasy world creatures called “Cuties”. You can collect them, breed them, test their battle skills, train their attire, equip them with a ton of arms, and more. Each Cutie is 100% unique and is owned by you only as stored on the Ethereum blockchain as an NFT.
EGamers.io
EGamers.io is a crypto gaming community for seasoned gamers, where thousands of gamers collaborate together from every part of the world. It gives latest news feeds about gaming market updates and existing blockchain games as well as dApps. You can visit their website to find lots of cool stuff which support blockchain technology.
Epix Industries
Epix Industries (formerly PixEOS) is a new NFT community for brands, artists and their fans. Everything on here is fully digital, which means each piece of art doesn’t exist in the real world, but exists on the Blockchain as a token. Epix is creating NFT collections for digital fashion, cyber myths, hip hop music icons and other interesting topics.
My Crypto Heroes
My Crypto Heroes is an RPG battle enabled game that is built on the Ethereum blockchain. The game is inspired by mythical world heroes where you can run quests, search for rare items, and battle against other players for dazzling rewards and fame. My Crypto Heros was the world’s number one blockchain enabled game based on daily activities in 2019 as voted by DappRadar.
Brave Frontier Heros
Brave Frontier Heroes is the partner game to My Crypto Heroes as it combines the proven gameplay of Brave Frontier with the proven game economy of My Crypto Heroes. By playing the game, you will own Brave Frontier characters (Units) and weapons (Spheres) as digital assets, secured by blockchain technology. This allows you to freely buy and sell those assets to others, or even use them between other worlds.
Splinter Lands
Splinter Lands is a fantasy world next generation online collectable card game, aiming to replace traditional physical cards. The idea of this game is to collect cards, trade and earn rewards through tournaments, ranked play, and quests – with over $275,000 dollars in prizes so far. Splinter Lands supports cross-conpatiability blokchains to Ethereum, Tron and WAX so you can earn HIVE tokens and trade them.
Sky Weaver
Sky Weaver is a new Ether-powered trading card game set to be launched in late 2021, with a BETA game already live in action to try. One fan described the game as “SkyWeaver is a brand new gaming experience that resurrects all the fun of childhood collectible card games – in a browser – and with the ability to trade cards just like in the old days”. The game is available on Windows, Apple macOS, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Android.
Crypto Emoji
Crypto Emoji is a unique game built on the concept of “Emojinomics” which give you the freedom to design and create emojis and compete with other players. Unfortunatelty, it looks like this game is now discontinued.
CropBytes
CropBytes is a decentralized farm simulator game with an open world feature, allowing you to can earn crypto real-time from your in-game NFTs. The game launched in 2018 and now has over 80,000 players world wide. This game lets you enjoy your free time by building farmlands, growing crops, and raising cattle. You’ll need to feed your animals once by purchasing fruit coins (FRF) from the market and water them daily, similar to a Tamagotchi (if anybody is old enough to remember those – if you forget to feed them they die!). It is important to note that the in-game assets (Game Coins) are currently not stored on a blockchain, but they so offer up to 500 TRX tokens for referring a friend to join.
Here are what we think are the Best Crypto Blockchain Explorers to help you explore, track and verify your Bitcoin & cryptocurrency blockchain transactions online.
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Blockchain.com
Blockchain.com is a website providing blockchain transaction information for Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Ethereum (ETH) including historical prices, the most recently mined blocks, the mempool size of unconfirmed transactions, and data for the latest transactions.
Blockstream
Blockstream was founded in 2014, and has since been a leading provider of blockchain technologies and has remained on the forefront of work in cryptography and distributed systems.
Blockchair
Blockchair is a Blockchain explorer website providing analytics and web services, where you can explore data stored on 17 blockchains. Some applications such as Exodus use Blockchair links to show the status of their transactions.
Chainz
Chainz is a website which provides blockchain explorers for over 100 cryptocurrencies including only public blockchain data. The service mainly targets lower end coins which have marketcaps lower than $100 million.
TokenView
TokenView is a website providing one-stop blockchain services to promote the development and application of blockchain technology. The data platform providing 100+ blockchains hash search and smart contract details while covering all the chain data in the current block chain field.
BTC.com Explorer
Btc.com explorer website offers professional data services for global Blockchain enthusiasts, covering four main blockchains: BTC, ETH, BCH, and LTC.
BlockCypher
BlockCyther is a website showing Bitcoin transactions across five blockchains including BTC, ETH, LTC, DOGE, and DASH. The service is powered by BlockCypher services, the infrastructure fabric for blockchain applications used to build reliable blockchain apps with our APIs and Blockchain Web Services.
SmartBit
SmartBit was made in Melbourne, Australia to act as a full-time Bitcoin blockchain explorer. It shows useful information about the network, including: Block count, transaction count, bitcoins in circulation, mining pools, average block interval, transaction fees, mining hash rate difficuly and rewards.
If you’re looking to use crypto while surfing the web, then checkout some of the cool cryptocurrency enabled browsers and apps to bring your dreams into reality.
These browsers support payments using your web browser, including buying and selling NFTs using DeFi protocols such as the Ethereum blockchain.
Brave Browser
Brave Browser is a free modern web browser very similar to Google Chrome but it has automatic ads blocking, and extra security features. Brave is also up to three times faster than Chrome and uses 35% less battery when used on mobile devices.
The Brave browser is crypto-enabled by default by supporting a native crypto wallet and in-house BAT token currency to reward you for using it.
CryptoTab Browser
CryptoTab Browser is the world’s first web browser with integrated crypto mining features. You can earn bitcoin by using it, searching, watching videos, chatting, or gaming online. Join the community of more than 20 million users all over the world already enjoying CryptoTab Browser.
Opera Browser
Opera Browser is a popular web browser on Apple Mac devices and now supports a built-in crypto wallet in Opera Touch on iOS and Opera for Android. The browser is also promoting Web3 technology which is an umbrella term for a set of emerging technologies intersecting cryptocurrencies, blockchains and distributed systems that, together, extend the capabilities of the web we all use today in important and meaningful ways.
MetaMask Extension
MetaMask Extension is a browser extension aimed to help you seamlessly connect with the cryptocurrency market places. This is one of the easiest gateways to the decentralized web enabling on-chain crypto payments. You can use it to send Ethereum, tokens, or collectibles anywhere, within seconds. And your digital private keys always stay safe in your pocket with MetaMask.
Crypto Browser App
Crypto Browser App is a mobile app which provides Blockchain, crypto news, charts and events from around the world. You can use the app to stay updated with the latest ICO and STO releases and coins trading information.
TokenPocket Wallet
TokenPocket Wallet is a multi-chain wallet that supports some of the main coins on the market, allowing you to buy, sell and trade them using your mobile device. It currently supports Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), EOS, TRON (TRX), IOST, Cosmos and Binance Coin (BNB).
With its powerful Web3 browser, you can interact with Decentralized Applications (DApp) and trade your ERC20 tokens, BTC and EOS in decentralized exchanges (DEX), play blockchain games directly inside the wallet. You can also get free airdrop, get your staking reward through some (PoS) mining pools and join the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) like MakerDAO.
MinerBlock Extension
MinerBlock Extension is a free browser extension that helps protect you against malicious script attacks where hackers use your web browser to mine cryptocurrency.
The extension uses two different approaches to block miners. The first one is based on blocking requests/scripts loaded from a blacklist, this is the traditional approach adopted by most ad-blockers and other mining blockers. The other approach which makes MinerBlock more efficient against cryptojacking is detecting potential mining behavior inside loaded scripts and kills them immediately.
Quicrypto App
Quicrypto App is a mobile app which offers a perfect solution for people who want to earn Bitcoin (BTC) and other crypto without spending any money. You can earn free crypto in many unique ways including playing games and completing surveys.
Purse: Shop Browser App
Purse: Shop App is a browser extension which provides you with discounts when shopping on Amazon with Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash.
The Purse: Shop button brings the power of the Purse.io marketplace directly to your Amazon shopping experience. While browsing products on Amazon simply click the Purse button, underneath the Amazon price, to add the item to your Purse list. When you’re ready to post your order using Bitcoin (or Bitcoin Cash), simply click the “Finalize” button in the Purse shop popup. Once we verify your order, an earner will purchase the items for you on Amazon and they’ll arrive right to your door.
Status.im App
Status.im App is a secure messaging app, crypto wallet, and Web3 browser built with state of the art technology. It’s similar to Telegram app but offers more crypto support to send, store and receive cryptocurrencies including ERC20 and ERC721 tokens. Only you hold the keys to your funds through Status’ intuitive design that protects you and your funds from attacks.
Online trading tools can help you perform tasks quicker to save time, especially on repetitive tasks which can be automated such as: placing stop losses, crypto watchlists, limit buy price alarms, multiple exchanges support, execute trades and DeFi wallet support.
Here is our list of the best crypto online tools to help you become a better trader.
1. TradingView
TradingView is the most popular crypto technical analysis tool for tracking market prices for cryptocurrencies. Its brilliance for charting is unmatched as it not only tracks your portfolio on watch lists in real-time, it supports multiple stock exchanges and offers a robust suite of trading and charting tools.
Along with charting, TradingView also has other tools available such as the Bitcoin Timeline which shows the events happening around Bitcoin over the years mapped against the price to see any correlations.
2. CoinMarketCap
CoinMarketCap is one of the most popular price-tracking websites for crypto assets in the rapidly growing cryptocurrency economy. It draws the latest updates on the crypto market from every location worldwide. Its mission is to provide solid, high-quality information to the people to empower retail users efficiently with the crypto stock exchange markets.
Tracking 1000’s of new coins, tokens and exchanges is not a simple task, so the power of CoinMarketCap’s intelligent network is not to be underestimated, as it creates data logs for all those market pairs and transactions and shows them in separate categories together all on one website.
CoinMarketCap was acquired by Binance in April 2020, since then it has shared a common goal to make crypto accessible to people all around the world.
3. Coinigy
Coinigy is an automatic cryptocurrency portfolio tracker and management system. Do you have too many crypto investments running at the same time on multiple exchanges? If so, it would be next to impossible to manage all of that alone. Thankfully, Coinigy solves this problem by providing one place to manage all of your crypto trading – all of these tasks are monitored and performed automatically for you. It has a superfast response time with its brilliantly built algorithm which draws out all the necessary data for your crypto investments into profit & loss reports.
4. Blockfolio
Blockfolio is the leading mobile app cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and management since 2017, gaining over six million users. Crypto traders love to check their portfolio, some even check it multiple times per hour. That is why the Blockfolio team has made a smart tracking app for all of your favourite cryptocurrencies including BTC, ETH, LTC and 1000’s more all managed by your mobile phone. And lastly, the best thing about this app is it’s free to use!
5. Signals
Signals is a wonderful crypto market tool built for the seasoned crypto warrior. If you know how hard it is to manage multiple trades at the same time, then you will appreciate this app to take care of it for you.
Signals have made their platform acts both as an auto-trader and custom data analyzer, which can trade and create analysis data with “Signals”. Just that you need to pick indicators to build your custom algorithms.
The Signals platform is also free to use, and you pay fees every time you trade, a small amount of transaction fee. Simply sign up to Signals platform and forget your trading worries.
6. CryptoCompare
CryptoCompare is a global cryptocurrency market data analyzer and provider, which provides a central authority for clear and concise information about the crypto market.
It offers free account services for over 5,000 coin listings and over 240,000 currency pairs. And also offers a paid premium API service consisting of 40,000+ calls per second, 800+ trades per second, and 40+ news providers.
The company is developed by a group of professionals who provide a comprehensive, holistic overview of the market, ensuring the safety of data acquisition and distribution.
7. Brave Browser
Brave is a commonly known name among the users of google chrome browsers as it runs off the same open sourced Chromium engine. The Brave browser is not just a simple browser as it has other features such as an in-built cryptocurrency called Basic Attention Token (BAT). It also has a new search engine for surfing the digital crypto network without any privacy leaks. It has enforced maximum security for individual user data, creating a solid shield against cyberattacks, your wallet is safe with Brave. Extensions as available (same as Chrome) to help you use it as an essential crypto market tool for retail investors worldwide.
8. Exodus Hot Wallet
Exodus crypto wallet is one of the most popular platforms to manage your cryptocurrencies on your desktop computer and laptop. It’s simple user interface is designed for easy crypto trading directly from within the app. The Exodus app has many cool features including cryptocurrency exchanging, sending, receiving and earning.
9. MetaMask DeFi Wallet
MetaMask is a browser plugin that is designed to allow users to make crypto transactions through regular websites through a secure decentralised crypto wallet.
Its main focus is on Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens as a plugin to bridge the gap between traditional Ethereum supported interfaces like Mist browser and regular web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, etc. The aim here is to make Ethereum mainstream, because regular websites don’t support payments with cryptos.
The code is written by the developers that allow regular pages to make requests on the blockchain with the existing Ethereum protocol. In a nutshell, you get to make transactions in Ethereum with just a single browser plugin.
10. BlockChain Explorer
BlockChain is a powerful online platform that allows you to view Blockchain transactions on Bitcoin and other main networks. It shares information including historical prices, the most recently mined blocks, the mempool size of unconfirmed transactions, and data for the latest transactions.
Blockchain.com also provides a live feed on the current market prices, a crypto exchange and hosted wallet solutions. It’s crazy how they have over $800 billion in crypto transactions recorded.
