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Most of the prices of the cryptocurrencies are still to the downside, with some exceptions.The price of bitcoin lost, on average, 2.25% in the course of the past 7 days.Between the 7 and the 13 of December the market of the cryptocurrencies has remained with ups and downs. Most of the criptoactivos presented losses in their prices, which reached, on average, up to 5% less. Bitcoin is still to the downside, and lost 2,25% of its value in the past seven days. Below is the picture that make up the 5 cryptocurrencies most appreciated.The price of BTC has continued to hover around the USD 7,000 from several weeks ago. At the time of writing this note is quoted in us $ 7.287 per unit, according to the statistics of Live Coin Watch. Other cryptocurrencies of importance also fall in price. Ether (ETH) drops on average by 2,24%, litecoin (LTC) decreased on 1,09%, bitcoin cash (BCH) up just 0.51 per cent, and XRP from Ripple lost 1,36%.In the top of the cryptocurrencies most appreciated are tezos (XTZ), beam (BEAM) and waves (WAVES), whose prices increased between 12% and 35%. We continue to criptoactivos as zcash (SACS) and grin (GRIN), with hikes ranging between 9% and 12%.
Tezos
XTZ, the criptomoneda native of the network of Tezos, has been among the most appreciated in several opportunities in the last few weeks. In these seven days, the price ranged between us $ 1,43 on the 7th of December, and USD 1,78 at the time of this writing, being its minimum value of USD 1.39 and the 10 of December. Since that date, recorded a sustained growth that brought the weekly average to 34,71%.The market capitalization is of about us $ 1089 million, and its daily trade of USD 80,7 million. This week, the platform launched a new version of its API (v005-2019-12-05). In the blog of the company explained the features that are added with this update, which includes an index of large map complete, as well as a set of features to access the contracts database smart.The API will also allow developers to write applications without the need to decode binary data, in addition to facilitating the exploration of the complete history of the status of a contract. On the other hand, in the Twitter account of the Foundation Tezos is pointed out that, to date, entities, and programs funded by the agency trained over 1,000 developers in 2019.Source: Live Coin Watch.
Beam
Beam, a criptomoneda focused on privacy and protocol-based MimbleWimble, has been several times in the top of the most appreciated ones from the past month of November. During this week the price ranged between us $ 0,5253 and USD 0,6037. Its growth was 15.9%.The highest value during the week was recorded on December 13, being the lowest value on the 10 of December, when it traded at USD 0,5173. After a few corrections, arrives at the current price. The market cap is $ 29.8 million. The trade in the last 24 hours has been of USD 39,1 millones.De according to the latest update of the newsletter of the criptomoneda, this week was the launch of Double Doppler 4.0, a portfolio of desktop with exchanges atomic (Atomic Swap). Through this tool offers the users the possibility of making exchanges BTC/BEAM, LTC/BEAM and QTUM directly from the portfolio, decentralized and private, as explained in the briefing note.Add that to Beam is the first step towards an ecosystem of finance, decentralized (DeFi) full, which will continue to build in the coming months. Beam is thus converted into the first currency based on MimbleWimble that can be traded through exchanges atomic.Source: Live Coin Watch.
Zcash
Zcash is another criptomoneda focused on privacy. This week recorded an increase of approximately 12.7%. Its value went from USD 29,58 7 December to USD 32,9 the 13th of December, this being its highest value in these 7 days. The price began a significant growth from the 9 of December when it was priced in USD 29,17. The market capitalization is USD 267 million and daily trading of USD 133 million.The date of increase in price of criptoactivo coincides with the moment in which the project Zcash successfully completed its third branch scheduled, called Blossom.The update, which had the support of both ECC as the Foundation Zcash, is produced in the block 653.600, extracted at 21:51 UTC on the 11th of December for the pool mining Poolin, as reflected in the explorer blocks Zchain. One of the main innovations of Zcash Blossom or NU2 (Network Upgrade 2), is the reduction to half of the time between blocks, which went from 150 seconds to 75 seconds.Source: Live Coin Watch.
Waves
Waves is a platform blockchain that provides a set of development tools for Web 3.0 applications and solutions on a decentralized basis. The price of the criptomoneda native, WAVES, recorded an increase from the December 11, when he climbed significantly to reach USD 0,6412, after having reached its lowest point of the week the 10 of December, when it was valued at us $ 0,5236. In the following days he presented several corrections and reached a maximum of USD 0,6567 this December 13, then falling to USD 0,6309 for this same date.The growth was 11.2%, while the market capitalization reached USD 53 million and the volume of trade in the last 24 hours was approximately $ 29.4 million.This week, the company announced the implementation of Gravity Hub during the meetup Waves Community meeting in Berlin on the 11th of December. The aim of this tool is to facilitate the link between all the blockchains and applications decentralized (Dapps) existing, seeking to solve the problem of interoperability, as explained on its corporate blog. Gravity Hub will also work as an oracle database, feeding information from the outside world to the chain of blocks, in accordance with the explanations outlined in the briefing note.Source: Live Coin Watch.
Grin
The criptomoneda, also focused on the privacy, again to be placed among the most appreciated. The price begins to increase significantly on the 9th of December, when it traded at USD 1.25, its highest of the week. The following days the price went down, recovering on the 13th of December, when it reached USD 1,20. In these seven days your growth averaging 9.6 per cent.The market capitalization is USD 34.3 million and the volume of daily trading is USD 32,5 million. Among the announcements made this week, Grin reported on the beta version of its wallet Green wallet 3.0.0-beta.1, which is currently ready for public testing before the full launch, planned for early January 2020.Among the new features of the new version of the portfolio mentions the exchange of transactions through TOR and proof of payment, in addition to improvements in synchronization of nodes. In his message, the team urges the community to help by participating in these tests.Source: Live Coin Watch