Today’s top headlines in the crypto roundup: CoinShares Bitcoin Mining Report estimates that renewables make up 74% of Bitcoin mining energy mix, Zilliqa launches first-ever smart contract platform built on sharding and Binance offers early access to ‘Last round of margin testing’.
Litecoin (LTC) has fared the best out of the top ten cryptoassets and is trading at $113.95 up 9.97% in the past 24 hours with a total volume of $1.13 billion. Litecoin’s halving event is estimated to take place on August 6th, 2019 and is thought to be the driving force behind LTC’s impressive run this year: the altcoin is up 428% in the last 6 months.
At the time of writing, bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) are trading at $7,935.7 (+2.76%) and $245.9 (+3.81%), respectively. The MVIS CryptoCompare Digital Assets 10 Index, it is currently tracking at 3,878.29 (-0.05%).