Elrond (EGLD) Sees Higher Interest Than Bitcoin, Dogecoin On Twitter: What's Going On?

Elrond EGLD/USD was trending on Twitter at press time ahead of major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin BTC, Ethereum ETH/USD, and Dogecoin DOGE/USD.

What Happened: EGLD was mentioned in 7,128 tweets, while BTC, ETH, and DOGE were mentioned in 5,251, 4,112, and 3,964 tweets, respectively, as per data from Cointrendz.

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EGLD led in terms of favorites and retweets as well on Twitter ahead of other major cryptocurrencies.

At press time, over 24 hours, EGLD traded 3.91% lower at $84.06. The cryptocurrency declined 14.51% over a seven-day trailing period.

Against BTC — EGLD declined 0.46% over 24 hours, while it rose 3.09% against ETH.

Since the year began, EGLD has risen 222.37%.

Why It Matters: On Tuesday, Maiar, a digital wallet and global payments app, tweeted that its Elrond-powered wallet allows users to create non-custodial wallets for BTC in seconds.

Thanks to the @ElrondNetwork powering the Maiar app, anyone can create a new, secure and non-custodial #Bitcoin wallet in just a few seconds. Maiar supports both SegWit and legacy addresses, making it fit for all your Bitcoin usecases.

https://t.co/tG3bWqkyr2 pic.twitter.com/NU26OTubKc

— Maiar: Crypto & eGold Wallet (@getMaiar) July 13, 2021

The Elrond project was founded in 2017 by brothers Beniamin and Lucian Mincu along with Lucian Todea with the aim of addressing blockchain scalability. 

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The project is focused on sharding as a solution and claims its smart contracts execution platform can process 15,000 transactions per second with a six-second latency and $0.001 cost.

Last week, the project announced a partnership with a United Kingdom-based fintech firm, Aurus, which would allow for gold, silver, and platinum tokens to be issued on the Elrond blockchain.

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