Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin recently commented on the maximum supply of ETH, stating that the current issuance schedule is approximately 4.7 million per year for the next 1-2 years, or however long it takes until the merge. After the same, it would be 0-2 million per year minus the burned fees which could be greater than...Read More
It has been a good few days for crypto-proponents. Not only Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, surged to height unseen since the heydey of the bull run, but the market’s altcoins have rallied too. Ethereum, the world’s largest altcoin, was among the cryptocurrencies to surge on the charts, with ETH climbing over $500 yesterday. However,...Read More
It’s safe to say that 2020 has been like no other. Not just in the real world, but in the Bitcoin market as well. The king coin began at $7,200, halved its price by March, halved its supply in May, and doubled its price by October. That’s one hell of a rollercoaster. Source: Coinstats Despite...Read More
If the crypto-market was a team, DeFi would be the tough guy. DeFi has recovered well from not just the bloodbath of September 2020, but also the hack of over $100M back in November 2020. Actually, recovered would be an understatement as DeFi’s TVL has noted an exponential rise since. In fact, the same has...Read More
Cardano Founder and IOHK’s Charles Hoskinson recently shared a few brief updates with the community, a few days after IOHK introduced the ‘Smash’ metadata server for the Cardano ecosystem. While the said development was received well by most in the community, Hoskinson implied that there are some good announcements he is saving for the end...Read More
There has been a lot of discussion around regulation in the crypto space, and perhaps more so now than ever before. This has also led to countries around the world beginning to better understand and regulate this emerging industry of digital assets. Switzerland, in particular, has implemented the Swiss Rule which states that financial institutions...Read More
Bitcoin’s price crossed the critical $18000 level recently and the weekly gain now stands at 11.44%. However, Bitcoin’s dominance is still at 66%. Since the price crossed $17000 without further resistance, the top 10 altcoins based on market capitalization have rallied. The weekly returns show gains in 9/10. Litecoin is leading the rally with 30%...Read More
“You are only as good as your last race”, the famous line is also quite applicable to the crypto-verse. After its stunning rise during mid-year, DeFi tokens have somewhat lost their shine due to a series of misfortunes over the past few weeks. Certain projects underwent massive depreciation and others exhibited rug-pulls, to the joy...Read More
Earlier this month, SNX witnessed its largest drop and lowest TVL to date at $420 million as the DeFi crash led to several SNX stakers being liquidated. Source: DeFi Pulse However, since then, the TVL has risen to $800 million at the time of writing, and the price of the SNX token has risen by...Read More
Bitcoin has continued its price rally to $18100 after crossing key resistance levels and this puts the year-to-date ROI of Bitcoin over 135% against the dollar. Six months post the halving of May 2020, the price is up 88%. As Bitcoin continues to rally, institutional investors and on-chain analysts are eyeing the all-time high price...Read More
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] has been coming down hard on crypto exchanges when it comes to compliance. BitMEX is still trying to deal with a double lawsuit by the US prosecutors. However, SEC has now approved Grayscale’s Ethereum Trust [ETHE] as the first public quoted ETH investment product in the United...Read More
The price of Ethereum has surged past its resistance close to $500 and was currently valued at $505.37. This not only marked an annual high for ETH but also was a price level unseen since July 2018. Source: ETH/USD on TradingView This run-up in the market could be contributed by the news of the United...Read More
Crypto derivatives exchange, FTX has added nine more tokenized stocks, available for spot and futures trading to the exchange. The newly added tokenized stock listings on FTX are Square, PayPal, MicroStrategy, Moderna, Zoom, Nio, Twitter, Uber, and NVIDIA. Users will also be able to get the actual shares transferred to them when applied for, as confirmed...Read More
Bitcoin has managed to turn many into ‘crypto-believers’ in 2020. As the year turned into a series of unbelievable events, the Bitcoin price has affirmed that the king coin is here to stay. But Bitcoin had already reached $18k or rather close to $20k in the past, so why is this surge so important? “…this...Read More
Deposits to the ETH 2.0’s deposit contract have grown considerably over the past few days, which witnessed the most growth since the contract launch recently. Source: Dune Analytics Over 102k ETH has now been sent to the ETH 2.0 deposit contract, however, despite this, considering the current pace of staking, many remain uncertain that the...Read More
The impact of the world’s largest cryptocurrency’s price movement was evident this week after many of the crypto-market’s alts followed BTC’s lead to record gains of their own on their charts. Interestingly, while Bitcoin was continuing to consolidate after failing to sustain a breach of the much-anticipated $18K-mark, most alts were already starting to see...Read More
The root cause of IOTA’S mainnet incident that took place last week was identified to be related to the infrastructure and deployed software which was unable to process all the transactions into the network. In a Github report published by Jakub Cech, the Director of Engineering at the IOTA foundation, the incident was addressed as...Read More
For all the talk about an incoming altseason, Bitcoin’s movement is the one that catches the imagination of most in the crypto-market. Owing to its market share and the high correlation stats it shares with most altcoins, BTC’s hikes and falls usually determine the direction of the general market movement. The same was evident when...Read More
The decentralized finance [DeFi] ecosystem has been booming. Its total market capitalization has reached $17.662 billion, while Ethereum’s market cap has been close to $53.994 billion, at press time. DeFi market cap is over 30% that of Ethereum and it does not seem to stop here. Many projects have contributed to the growth of DeFi...Read More
Bitcoin’s price performance over the past week seemed to have a uniform effect across most of the crypto-market after altcoins like EOS, Zcash, and Tron rallied across the board. At press time BTC was being traded at $17,675 with a trading volume of $26.7 billion. Source: CoinStats While corrections had already started setting in at...Read More
The prominent cryptocurrency exchange, BitMEX has been tightening the loose compliance ends within the exchange. The exchange has been assessing and introducing new tools to keep the compliance in check and the latest addition to the toolbox has been Refinitiv’s World-Check One tools. This new tool will allow the exchange’s compliance team to monitor for...Read More
After almost a month of zero completed withdrawals, OKEx has announced that it is opening its withdrawal services. There were rumors about the release of founder Xu Mingxing after which the OKB token experienced a 13% jump. However, there was no confirmation about it. Today, as per the announcement by OKEX, one of its “private...Read More
Earlier today, TrustSwap disclosed that they are currently working on an acquisition of another crypto company. The announcement states that TrustSwap is set to buy out another crypto company and onboard all of their assets, team, IP, etc to grow TrustSwap into an ‘absolute monolith’. TrustSwap anticipates that they will have all the details and...Read More
Bitcoin’s brief breach of $18,000 and its sustained consolidation above $17,000 has renewed the bullishness in the market, with many of the industry’s alts climbing on the charts on the back of BTC’s performance. The cases of Monero, Ontology, and DigiByte followed this template, with their price performances replicating the general optimism in the market....Read More
French international banking group BNP Paribas is in the news after the conglomerate, along with the French bank CA CIB and the French investing company Caisse des Dépôts, announced the launch of a project exploring a digital interbank currency (DIBC). The venture in question will also include tokenizing solutions firm Tokeny and The Blockchain XDEV...Read More
Bitcoin’s price and its surge in market cap call for a celebration, however, what most people have been missing is the surge in stablecoins. As of Wednesday, Bitcoin hit a new high not seen in the last two years and this is only for the price, in fact, the all-time high [ATH] is only 9%...Read More
In this final article of the three-part look at Bitcoin in bearish-2018, we look at which investing period gives you the least loss. The reason for looking at such a pessimistic year while the market is on a bull-run currently is to bring some perspective. Let’s do a quick recap before the summary. Firstly, we...Read More
Bitcoin’s price crossed $18k on November 18, 2020, and this has led to bullish sentiments all across spot and derivatives exchanges. In the daily price chart, Bitcoin has rallied over 4.5% in less than 24 hours, marking a new high for 2020. The current bullish sentiment reflected in the price chart may also be dubbed...Read More
Bitcoin has gathered more criticism than any other asset class in the past decade. However, one of the most popular and oldest arguments is that “Bitcoin could fail if it becomes a threat to national currencies it will simply get banned”. If you have heard this a bunch of times, let’s dive into why Bitcoin...Read More
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) will now avail blockchain services from smart contract platform TomoChain following a recent partnership. The Ministry would make use of blockchain’s core features such as transparency and having an immutable verification of data. According to a release shared with AMBCrypto, the Ministry’s National Qualifications Archive program will ensure...Read More
