First and foremost, BITCOIN DID NOT CRASH THE MARKET! This really is major news for all of us, mostly positive too. If interested in reading/learning more about the recent Bitcoin network fork, read here.

Onto an update on the market. We have green candles almost across the board today, despite the Bitcoin network fork issue. Top 3 is looking solid as usual with some big growth in the last 24 hours for Ethereum.

24–hour Volume

Ethereum’s 24-hour volume is greater than Bitcoin, something we don’t see too often. Considering the recent Bitcoin fork, it makes sense that people may have been purchasing more Ethereum with Bitcoin. At the same time, many Ethereum blockchain network projects are growing rapidly.

One of which, is District0x project. Their team just closed the District0x ICO, resulting in 43,169 ETH or roughly $9.4M. District0x is a virtual community creation and governance platform run on the Ethereum blockchain with governance powered by Aragon Network. I’m especially excited about this project because it will bring greater visibility to the Ethereum ENS domains (.eth) which, I believe, is the first major step toward the commercialization of the Ethereum blokchain. This project is called NameBazaar and will allow ENS domain holders to essentially lease out their domain and sub-domains to other users for various uses. Considering the switch over to Proof-of-Stake, it may be a prime time to pick up your Ethereum before PoS is implemented and it becomes harder to find!

7-day Growth

Ethereum, NEM, and Stratis have strong 7-day growth with all three in the double digits. NEM has been in the top 5 for some time now and has been extremely stable. It was down the last few weeks, but has come out of the Bitcoin fork on top. According to NEM’s Twitter account, a Chinese report puts NEM above many blockchain projects.

According to a recent Tweet by Stratis Platform, the $STR token can be staked on a Raspberry Pi, a credit card sized computer that plugs into a TV and Keyboard. Very, very basic hardware device that is very affordable and is making a big trend in the gaming industry. Stratis is also Microsoft’s proprietary blockchain solution….I cannot imagine this one failing anytime soon. Specially because blockchain and cryptocurrency is the beginning of the next generation of the internet and hardware technologies.

Wrapping this up, anybody in the cryptocurrency world should be happy right now because we have a strong and growing community. Yeah, each one of these blockchains is its own community with individuals leading the way, together; but we have to remember that blockchain technology is still the underdog.

Cryptocurrency and blockchain will fail unless we continue rallying together around this amazing, innovative technology that is truly disrupting the world before our very eyes. Follow along for more updates and please share to empower others and grow our cryptocurrency community!