AnChain is a new analytics startup, and it’s on a mission: to uncover dApp bots wherever they hide. During Q1 of 2019, the firm surveyed TRON’s top ten gambling dApps and found a large number of bots. Roughly 31% of surveyed accounts and 19% of transactions were bot-driven, accounting for a whopping $270 million of dApp volume.

The cryptocurrency market continues to creep sideways like Wile E. Coyote on the trail of a wabbit, across a varied landscape of gains, losses, and the occasional ACME anvil in the form of another possible ETF rejection.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin is trading back above the $8,000 level, with top altcoins such as ETH, EOS and BNB closely following.

Cosmos, Chainlink and 0x posted the largest gains at 7-9%, while Monero and IOTA have the largest loss at -2.5%

• Cardano remains bearish over the short and medium-term horizon
• The four-hour time and daily time frames both show bearish head and shoulders patterns in play
• The ADA / USD pair has returned to its January 2019 opening price after recently suffering triple-digit losses

Cardano is attempting to stage a short-term upside recovery, as a much-needed rally across the broader digital currency market helped to boost the embattled cryptocurrency.

At Crypto Briefing, we spend all day with our heads buried in the crypto markets and even for us, it’s sometimes still a challenge to keep track of all the comings and goings. Today’s hot new startup can quickly become tomorrow’s deadcoin. There have been so many forks of Bitcoin and Ethereum, they could fill a cutlery drawer.

Added to this, crypto rebrands are also fairly a fairly commonplace occurrence.

DApps are only gaining traction slowly – and in some cases losing ground – but DeFi may accelerate the use of blockchain. That’s the TLDR of Dapp.com‘s Decentralized Application Trends Report for Q3 2019, released today.

Bitcoin emerged from the ashes of the global financial crisis, with the genesis block created in January, 2009. The American economy emerged from the same ashes around the same time, with GDP soaring immediately following the GFC and continuing to deliver a historically long period of expansion.

The sudden uptick in the value of XRP has left many traders and analysts scratching their heads. In what is otherwise a very quiet market at the start of the week, an 8% surge in a top-ten coin catches one’s attention.

XRP’s price had been flat-lining prior today’s move, trading within a very tight range of around $0.01 over the weekend. Things began to change in the small hours of Monday morning with a sudden surge taking the market cap up by $500M in the space of an hour.

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Today Bitcoin has recovered slightly, but the struggle continues. Altcoins are looking much better, as XRP, TRON, ADA and LINK post sharp gains. A full commentary on Bitcoin is below.

• RIF Token has a bullish short and medium-term trading bias
• The four-hour time frame shows that a bearish head and shoulders pattern has formed
• The daily time frame shows a huge inverted head and shoulders pattern that could propel the cryptocurrency back towards its all-time price high.

With many digital assets recently turning technically bearish and remaining under downside pressure, RIF Token, which focuses on bringing smart contracts to the Bitcoin blockchain, shows strong near-term upside potential over the medium-term and is also holding firm abo