Wrapped BTC aka WBTC locked in DeFi has hit a new high of 33,762 WBTC. At bitcoin’s current price this puts the total value of WBTC to about $400 million. The implications of this are many and the key factors are addressed in this article. Defi and Bitcoin With DeFi mania increasing every day it...Read More
The Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency and payment platform Crypto.com hired ex Visa International Asia-Pacific executive, Nobuyuki Nagahama, as General Manager of Japan. According to an official release, the company which serves over 3 million customers worldwide claimed that this move will allow the platform to launch strategic initiatives in the Japanese cryptocurrency market. At Crypto.com Nagahama...Read More
Ethereum has been a hotbed for emerging crypto projects like DeFi and yield farming. However, Vitalik Buterin seems to think that forking Maker is the best idea going forward. Maker was one of its kind when launched during the mania of 2017 and turned the game sideways. Maker’s governance protocols allowed people to vote to...Read More
Bitcoin’s tussle with $12,000 seems to be coming to an end but the premium for Grayscale Bitcoin Trust [GBTC] is still at 18.32% and that of Grayscale Ethereum Trust [ETHE] at 72.63%. This high premium on crypto products by Grayscale has been the talk of the town ever since the halving when the news of...Read More
BTC futures were first launched in December 2017, and their initial performance was contrary to the hype that surrounded it. Market expectations ranged from a sudden climb in BTC spot price to increase liquidity on spot exchanges. However, the two most popular Bitcoin futures exchanges – CME and CBOE faced two different fates. Before CME’s...Read More
Canaan Inc, a leading Chinese Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer published its unaudited second quarter (2020) financial results. As per the report, the company’s gross profit increased year over year and quarter over quarter, but Canaan still suffered a net loss. However, the firm’s gross margin expanded significantly last year as well as in the first...Read More
Institutional investors and their interest in Bitcoin Futures are driving growth on derivatives exchanges like the CME and Bakkt. In fact, just recently, Bakkt Bitcoin Futures volume hit a new high of $167M, while the CME clocked in a volume upwards of $930M on the same day, the 25th of August. Source: Skew Source: Skew...Read More
Daemon Technologies, a firm based in Hong Kong, will now drive the adoption of Stacks technology to support cryptocurrency mining communities in Asia according to its launch tweet. Excited to announce my next chapter in the @blockstack and #stacks ecosystem! https://t.co/JRdZPeDwhi — Xan Ditkoff (@XanDitkoff) August 31, 2020 The firm stated that Asian mining communities were...Read More
For the longest time, trust has always been missing from the digital asset industry. 2017’s ICO boom, during which innumerable altcoins and shitcoins were shilled, did little to reverse this sentiment in the minds of many. In fact, now, there is a common consensus that suggests that the industry has put the crypto-demons of 2017...Read More
Yes, Tron’s Justin Sun just named a meme coin after himself CEO of Tron Foundation, Justin Sun announced the launch of $SUN, Tron Network’s first meme coin that will be mined to fund Sun Genesis Mining, a community-driven decentralized (DeFi) potential of TRON that runs on open-source smart contracts. (1/5) I am glad to announce...Read More
Darwin’s theory of natural selection, and by extension, the idiom “Survival of the fittest,” is incredibly apt when it comes to describing the digital asset industry. For long, Bitcoin was considered to be the only ‘fit’ candidate in the crypto-ecosystem. Over the years, however, Ethereum has managed to carve out its own position of strength...Read More
The cryptocurrency portfolio manager and exchange, Coinbase has announced that Marc Andreessen, co-founder and operating partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the world’s leading venture capital firms has joined the Coinbase Board. Marc is followed by Gokul Rajaram, an executive at DoorDash who along with Andreessen will be Coinbase’s new Board members. We’re excited to...Read More
Over the course of 2020, institutional investors have been keen on investing in Bitcoin Futures on regulated markets. A popular choice among institutions has been the derivatives giant Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). The popularity of the same can be highlighted by the fact that Bitcoin Options volume on CME rose by 1000% in May 2020...Read More
With the defi and the yield farming frenzy spreading like wildfire, it feels like the start of a bull run. A number of parallels can be drawn between the upcoming rally and the 2017 bull run. But are we ready for the next bull run? As addressed in the previous article, there are three aspects...Read More
BitMEX the old? Once the OG and pioneer, BitMEX seems to be getting old, or at least the contracts listed on the exchange are. There are contracts for 8 coins – BTC, ADA, BCH, EOS, ETH, LTC, TRX, and XRP. Most of these coins were popular in 2017 but few seem to have survived and...Read More
Yield farming has been quite the rage lately, with some going as far as calling it the “rocket fuel” that DeFi needs. The hyperbole is well and good, but the question remains – Is Yield Farming the real deal? Or is it yet another one of those brief fancies that often catches the eye of...Read More
Cryptocurrencies and their proponents take a lot of pride in the former’s decentralized nature. In fact, if you ever hear someone pitching Bitcoin to someone else, you can be pretty sure that decentralization and a lack of central authority will be one of the first features he/she will highlight. A pitch like that is well...Read More
Growing institutional interest has been a driver for Bitcoin’s price since July 2020. However, in what is being termed as the bull run of the season, other drivers of growth such as increasing liquidity, demand by new buyers, and Bitcoin’s volatility on spot exchanges, are also rearing their heads. For Bakkt, institutional interest has contributed...Read More
The expiry of contracts worth $80M on 28 August 2020 was accompanied by a 3.29% change in Ethereum’s price on spot exchanges. Usually, major expiry events such as this affect the price of Ethereum since they bring about change in liquidity, Open Interest, and Put/Call ratios. However, off-late, the relationship between the expiry of contracts...Read More
Neo, a public blockchain and smart contracts platform announced that it has integrated with the Coinbase-led open-source project Rosetta. Neo integrates with #Rosetta, an open-source project led by Coinbase. We look forward to work together with Rosetta improving protocol integration processes in order to build the next-gen Internet.https://t.co/Nl8nF3OW4G — Neo Smart Economy (@Neo_Blockchain) August 28,...Read More
The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged two Maryland based companies over a Ponzi scheme that allegedly defrauded approximately 1,200 investors, of more than $27 million by promising to trade their money on crypto exchanges. SEC charges Ponzi scheme targeting African immigrants https://t.co/lyrs3RSViJ — SEC_News (@SEC_News) August 28, 2020 The illegitimate companies involved in...Read More
SBI Holdings, a financial services company based in Japan announced addition of CFDs for premiere cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and XRP. The trading will begin on 31 August on SBI FX which is SBI Holdings’ retail forex brokerage platform. These contracts for differences or CFDs allow traders to settle the differences between the...Read More
Halvings are important events in Bitcoin’s price cycle, especially because a lot of expectations are tied to these events. However, while Bitcoin’s price did end up higher post the first two halvings, it did take quite a few months for the price to do the same. Post the first halving, the price rose by over...Read More
U.S. officials like the FBI, US Treasury, US Cyber Command, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a warning against North Korean hacker group ‘BeagleBoyz,’ which have resumed its attacks on banks and ATMs around the world. The officials also revealed that the hacker group was behind lucrative cryptocurrency thefts. The alert said that...Read More
DCG, the venture capitalist firm that invests, buys and builds blockchain companies has entered the bitcoin mining sector. According to reports, DCG committed to investing $100 million into DCG’s wholly-owned subsidiary Foundry. The company will support staking and mining operations in North America to mine Bitcoin. Foundry said it will provide the miners with market intelligence...Read More
Sygnum, a digital assets bank in Switzerland announced in a release that it enabled the world’s first e-commerce transaction that involved using a stable coin. The transaction took place on the shopping site Galaxus which is one of the biggest retailers in Switzerland. The stablecoin which is known as DCHF or Digital Swiss Franc was...Read More
Lately altcoins have been the talk of the town. From ICOs to defi tokens, altcoins are plenty in number and perhaps Asian traders are to thank for that. FTX is well-known for its listing of new tokens and so is Binance, which listed Nexus Mutual token earlier today [NXM]. (Any common thread you recognize there?)...Read More
Since the start of 2020, Bitcoin market cap dominance has been challenged valiantly by the altcoins. Their performance, led by the likes of Ethereum, Chainlink, and Cardano, cannot be undermined, and neither can DeFi’s growth be ignored. Source: Arcane Research According to Arcane Research, Bitcoin’s dominance is currently at a yearly low since amassing a 70%...Read More
The period of altseason has been predicted by many and there has been growing interest visible for crypto. Binance recently added Indian Rupees [INR] on its peer-to-peer trading platform to attract Indian traders but the payment method still posed a problem. On 21 August, Binance added 58 new payment methods, and India’s e-commerce payment system...Read More
Altcoin prices were making a comeback this week, while Bitcoin and Ethereum price trends were mixed. Among the top 25 altcoins by market capitalization, only 7 showed positive 24h change in their price. Altcoins with large market capitalization may slow down the ongoing rally. On Deribit (an exchange that commands over 70% of open interest),...Read More
