Making Cents
Making Cents

Making Cents

Bringing you perspectives in the cryptocurrency space, written by the community for the community!


It's time for Vite to shine!

21 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Making Cents

That’s right! Lunar Crush, a social intelligence platform for cryptocurrencies and NFTs with 285,000 Twitter followers, has rated Vite as a top 10 altcoin based on the LunarCrush Alt™️ AI algorithm! Not only do we see Vite as 9th best on this list, w...

Can Solana keep it up?

18 Oct 2022 2 minute read 3 comments Making Cents

Solana and its troubles On the 1st of October 2022, Solana had a major outage lasting a total of 6 hours and 19 minutes. During this time, the Solana network stopped processing transactions and went completely offline. This is not the first time Sola...

The Basics of Vite Tokenomics

17 Oct 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Making Cents

What is Vite? The Vite (vite.org) network uses a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) ledger structure, enabling fast and feeless transactions. Vite envisions a multi-chain future and seeks to bridge multiple blockchains via its decentralized cross-chain tr...

Crypto Weekly Highlights (Oct 15th)

15 Oct 2022 2 minute read 1 comment Making Cents

1. Solana-Based Decentralized Finance Platform Mango Hit by $100 Million Exploit 📰 Mango, a DeFi platform on the Solana blockchain, has been exploited for over $100 million. 📰 The hacker was able to drain funds from Mango via an oracle price manip...

Why is eth dumping post merge?

22 Sep 2022 2 minute read 4 comments Making Cents

The question on everyone’s mind. The merge was successful, the new ecosystem is running smoothly. Supply is decreasing. So why is the price dropping? As usual with crypto, there is no concrete answer. But we can go through a couple of theories.   Mac...

ETHEREUM 2.0 - The Merge

10 Sep 2022 2 minute read 33 comments Making Cents

The hot topic for the last few weeks in crypto has been the ETH merge. Now we know that there are a lot of people that own crypto without staying up to date with the latest news or knowing all the more complex technical details. So this article is fo...

Why is USTC and LUNC pumping?

4 Sep 2022 1 minute read 18 comments Making Cents

LUNC and USTC are up 107 and 26% respectively at the time of writing this post. So what is happening? The majority of the crypto community have already written off USTC and LUNC as a failed project. However, the LUNA community, also called Lunatics,...

Crypto Weekly Highlights

3 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Making Cents

1. Iranian Authorities Approve New Crypto Payments Bill 📰 The Iranian government has approved a bill that aims to make bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies legal tender for trade transactions and imports.📰 The bill includes among others the provisio...

Inside Terra's Collapse - An Investor's Perspective

22 Aug 2022 5 minute read 5 comments Making Cents

  Analysing Do Kwons first interview since LUNA crash To start off with, we are not going into details of LUNA UST here, but the video gives a nice introduction. Instead, I will be reviewing how the interview went. Spoilers ahead! If you haven't watc...

Crypto Weekly Highlights

21 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Making Cents

1. $32 Million stolen from BlueBenx 📰 BlueBenx, a Brazilian crypto lender, has fired employees after a $32 million theft. 22,000 accounts were blocked in an attempt to limit the magnitude of the theft.📰 It is still not known how the funds were stol...