It is a known fact that Bitcoin has wiped the floor with all the other traditional assets in 2020. High turbulence notwithstanding, Bitcoin was still up by 48 percent at press time, a figure that was higher than Gold, the S&P 500, and WTI. Interestingly, one particular asset class has been rubbing shoulders with the...Read More
So, MicroStrategy bought millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin, without moving the price in any direction. Isn’t that a little surprising? At least for an asset where manipulation is said to be easy and present on a huge scale. It is weird how the news of a publicly-stated company buying $425 million worth of Bitcoin...Read More
Bitcoin is worth much more than what it is today. That’s not a rhetorical statement; in fact, it’s a practical one. If the metric you’re measuring Bitcoin against is potentially infinite, then to put a finite value of $10,600 on a cryptocurrency which has a fixed supply doesn’t make sense. Every fiat currency can be...Read More
After months of hype and activity, the DeFi space is finally facing some tough questions. This, after the space noted major price corrections over the past week, with the top ten DeFi assets sustaining an average loss of 23.4% and losing an average value of 27.44% over the past month. Source: DeFi Pulse Here, it...Read More
With many speculating the future of DeFi, given the rapid growth in the ecosystem, investment firm, Pantera Capital has announced that its Digital Asset Fund will actively invest into DeFi assets more, as Pantera Capital believed that DeFi was the future of finance and the sector is expected to grow as crypto prices go up. ...Read More
As global economies adapt to the Covid-19 pandemic, which is driving the need for contactless payments, federal authorities in the US have shared another update about the development of a digital currency. According to the Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich, U.S Treasury along with the Federal Reserve, “is studying” a government-sponsored digital currency or CBDC....Read More
Ethereum investors have been at a loss given the past 30-day movement of the coin registering a drop of 1.1%, and a 2.9% loss over its 7-day movement. Irrespective of the halted growth in decentralized finance [DeFi], the short-term market for the second-largest crypto appeared bearish given the choppy looks of the Bitcoin market, but...Read More
Four years after the infamous Bitfinex hack that resulted in one of the largest bitcoin thefts since the Mt Gox incident in 2014, notifications published by the Whale Alert twitter account today, stated that approximately 1,190 BTC ($12,645,059) of stolen funds from the BitFinex hack in 2016 has been moved to an unknown wallet. Whale...Read More
South Korea’s central bank, Bank of Korea (BOK) which had earlier established a central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot program, has now announced that it planned to speed up the process by starting to test its digital token from next year onwards. The central bank maintained its original stance that although it was hastening the...Read More
The community-led decentralized exchange, CoFiX, raised $500k in funding from investors like Huobi DeFi Labs, Dragonfly Capital, and Coinbase Ventures, among other DeFi angels, according to a release emailed to AMBCrypto today. The new DeFi protocol planned to use the funds to work on its protocol audits and cover early development costs. Like other DeFi...Read More
Have you been missing the price action in Bitcoin markets across exchanges lately? Based on WooBull’s Bitcoin volatility chart, 60-day volatility is 5.65 and 90-day volatility is 8.95. The recent drop in volatility can be attributed to the reduced inflow of Bitcoin into exchanges. Bitcoin Volatility || Source: Woobull Charts Trade volume on spot exchanges...Read More
The cryptocurrency market has come under a lot of pressure from regulators around the world. At the beginning of the final quarter, America’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] and federal prosecutors charged one of the largest Bitcoin trading platform BitMEX with facilitating unregistered trading among other violation. Now, the U.K. financial regulatory body, the Financial...Read More
The $3 Trillion Hedge Fund industry is likely to suffer more blow-ups than the 2008 financial crisis in the next few quarters. In the midst of the pandemic, hedge funds lost 7-8% in a month in March 2020. This drop left the 2008 crisis behind. The resulting dynamics have affected Bitcoin’s price and traders’ portfolios....Read More
When it comes to the DeFi ecosystem at large, there seems to be a lot of eagerness with regard to the growth of Bitcoin’s DeFi space and on those lines, another startup has taken up the expansion of BTC-backed DeFi products. RSK Infrastructure Framework (RIF), a Bitcoin-powered smart contract platform will make MakerDAO’s ERC-20 DAI...Read More
The recent losses were the aftermath of the US commodities and Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] coming down hard of BitMEX along with the expiry of futures contracts in the stock market. While Bitcoin was the only major currency to face the brunt of the news directly, altcoins soon followed given the correlation factor. However, as...Read More
In a surprise AMA, Charles Hoskinson answered viewers’ questions on a Livestream, talking mostly about the developments of Cardano and its progress over the past few months. One answer in particular, however, generated a lot of excitement from viewers. In a response to a question about how easy it is to convince projects to move...Read More
The United States watchdog, Securities Exchange Commissions charged cybersecurity software developer John McAfee for allegedly making over $23 million in the process of shilling seven initial coin offerings. The ICOs reportedly raised $41 million in the process with half of those proceeds pocketed by McAfee. The SEC indictment read: From at least November 2017 through...Read More
Chief Executive Office of Ripple Labs, Brad Garlinghouse announced in a tweet today the firm appointed two “longtime Ripplers” as General Managers of RippleNet and RippleX (previously Xpring) in an effort to evolve the brand and support Ripple’s “growing” customers. Calling it a “fresh take” on the Xpring brand, RippleX will now focus on utility...Read More
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the U.S Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) have yet again provided clarity on the cryptocurrency and blockchain regulations in a webinar. In the webinar, SEC Chairman, Jay Clayton, said that SEC’s “door was wide open” for entities to understand how to “tokenize the ETF...Read More
There are enough narratives of DeFi’s bullishness in response to every new development in the crypto space. Starting from the KuCoin hack to the recent CFTC charges on BitMEX, every event is known to have a positive impact on DeFi projects’ ROI in the long run. However, the immediate and short-term implications of DeFi are...Read More
A research conducted by Alex Manuskin, at ZenGo revealed today on twitter that “yield farming” project UniCats allegedly stole nearly $200,000 worth of Uniswap (UNI) tokens from several ethereum users. Manuskin believed that UniCats added a “backdoor” to the yield farming smart contract which allowed the platform to have complete control over its users’ tokens...Read More
A total of $29.85 billion has been erased from Bitcoin’s market capitalization since the last peak on August 18, 2020. This decline has led to speculation if the ongoing market is bullish and wild price swings have come from BitMEX or other top exchanges, or is it bearish. Bitcoin’s price is in the $10.3-$10.6k range...Read More
Bitcoin has many rivals. But the one it really wants to displace is gold. Gold has been an investing ‘safe-haven’ for centuries, but digital gold is challenging its claim. The cryptocurrency claims to have more real-world transact-able value than gold. And what’s more, it can be easily stored, sent across the globe, and used as...Read More
Ethereum 2.0, or the lack thereof thus far, has been making the news of late. For people actively following its progress, the ETH Online Kickoff Summit, which saw the likes of Vitalik Buterin and Danny Ryan discussing the development shed some light on the path to scaling ETH 2.0. Source: ETH Online Kickoff Summit A...Read More
Bitcoin active supply with a 1-day Moving Average has hit a 22-month low. The last time when BTC supply dropped to this level, the price was in the $3.5 to $3.7k range. Since the last week of September 2020, miners started HODLing and this has changed the dynamics of supply. At $409 million, BTC inflow...Read More
Tether’s market capitalization is 47% higher than XRP and it ranks third, after Bitcoin and Ethereum. Despite being shrouded in controversies, it has led the stablecoin market and added $100 million in market capitalization every day since July 2020. Tether reserves on exchanges dropped in August 2020, however, there was a recovery above the 1.5...Read More
According to data recently published by Santiment, the social volume of Ethereum is nearing six-month low levels across social discourse platforms. This would imply that traders are looking for volatility elsewhere to trade. Ethereum Social Volume vs Price Chart Source: Santiment It would appear that ETH’s social volume has been declining since its 2020 peak...Read More
September was an eventful month for the crypto-market, to say the least, with the month seeing a major crypto-exchange hack among a host of other developments. However, despite the quarter ending as it did, Bitcoin did witness its second-best Q3 close in history. $150M drained from KuCoin: BTC down 1% BitMEX charged by DOJ, CTO...Read More
BitMEX was in the eye of the storm this past week after U.S regulators took its case. The charges brought by the CFTC against BitMEX argue that the exchange facilitated cryptocurrency derivatives transactions with an aggregate notional value of trillions of dollars and failed to implement the most basic of compliance procedures required of financial...Read More
What’s the point of a safe-haven asset? Well, for starters, it’s to keep one’s portfolio safe. Gold has long been seen as the traditional safe-haven asset among traditional investment avenues. Despite Bitcoin being a year into the financial world, it still hasn’t managed to budge the yellow metal. But, is gold doing its job? Let’s...Read More
