In light of the fact that the crypto-industry is still in its nascent phase, various studies using different metrics have assessed the market’s trends and performances over the past few years. Although the market draws a common affinity to Bitcoin, other crypto-assets such as Ethereum and XRP have a strong user base and influence of...Read More
During the most recent slide in Bitcoin (BTC) prices, futures markets caught fire. The Bakkt physical delivery exchange has now reported a new record high in open interest on the platform. Bakkt Open Interest Signals Rapid Funds Inflow Bakkt futures allow for betting both on the upside and the downside of BTC. Now, a bearish...Read More
India has embraced blockchain technology and many tech-based companies have found use-cases for this decentralized and distributed digital ledger. Infosys, one of India’s premier technology services and consulting firms, announced on 18 December the launch of three comprehensive blockchain-powered distributed applications for government services, insurance, and supply chain management domains. The company defined these three...Read More
Back in October, prominent P2P payments technology company, Circle, made quite a buzz after cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex was delineated and terminated support for customers from the United States. The platform is making headlines again after it announced that it would be pivoting towards and concentrating solely on stablecoins. Stablecoins seem to be garnering immense attention...Read More
Cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinGecko’s Trust Score feature is a very effective one. Although, The feature was launched in May 2019, it has helped CoinGecko to combat fake trading volume. Poloniex is 5th most trustworthy exchange as per the List. As it is said, in traditional markets, exchanges with high volume equate to high liquidity. However,...Read More
Fidelity Investments is expanding its crypto services to European clients after seeing increasing potential in this market. The expansion builds upon the company’s U.S. crypto business. “We’ve seen significant interest and engagement by the institutional community, which show no signs of slowing,” the company revealed. Also read: Regulatory Roundup – Crypto ‘Inevitable’ in India, China...Read More
DeFi or decentralized finance has seen a new wave of adoption in 2019 and platforms have started to realize its potential and its ability to transform the financial ecosystem. The first and most dominant player has been MakerDAO in the still-nascent DeFi space. According to analytics and rankings website, DeFi Pulse, MakerDAO ruled the leaderboard...Read More
Ripple, Inc. looks to be on an expansion spree, despite the industry-wide layoffs with smaller crypto startups. Not even the price drop of XRP seems to faze the company, which is on a mission to offer a payment protocol to compete with SWIFT. Ripple Expanded Staff in December Ripple statistics show the latest hirings in...Read More
Bitcoin Jesus aka Roger Ver was under the crypto-spotlight recently after the cryptocurrency exchange Bitcoin.com listed an alleged scam token, HEX. While denying that HEX was a scam token, Ver went on to endorse it instead. Since then, many members of the community have listed out reasons as to why listing HEX was a bad...Read More
Ethereum’s price in 2019 has seen a mix of highs and lows. After registering a growth of over 170 percent from January to 26 June, the world’s largest altcoin has now lost all of its positive gains this year after it recorded a depreciation of 8% on 16 December. At press time, Ethereum was priced...Read More
The rapid slide in Bitcoin (BTC) prices led to more talks of calling the bottom on the most recent downward trend. Jacob Canfield, a leading Tradingview bitcoin analyst, believes $5,500 will be as far as the asset falls. Bitcoin Slid Under $6,900, Signalling Downward Pressures Bitcoin price fell by 4.31% in the past day, sinking...Read More
The Bitcoin (BTC) halving narrative remains one of the chief sources of price speculation going into 2020. Altana Digital CIO, Alistair Milne, says we’re likely to witness 5 events take place before the big day arrives. Pre-Halving Months Will See Bitcoin Accumulation The Bitcoin halving event is less than 150 days away, and while it...Read More
2019 has proven to be a year for the development of the stablecoin ecosystem. The launch of a China-backed stablecoin CBDC, dubbed DCEP [Digital Currency/Electronic Payments] is imminent, but the same cannot be said about its western counterparts. Facebook’s Libra is a prime example of the same, with uncertainty over its launch still looming large....Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) reached its all-time high on December 17, with an intra-day peak at $20,089.00. The coin arrived at that level after a turbulent month of exorbitant daily gains, but what’s different two years on? Bitcoin Only Spent a Moment at Peak Prices Soon after reaching the fabled $20,000 mark, Bitcoin’s parabolic trend turned for...Read More
On December 16, new court filings from the Kleiman v. Wright case show the plaintiffs have responded to Wright’s objections against the magistrate’s court order. Kleiman’s lawyer Velvel Freedman explained that Craig’s statements in court “lacked credibility,” his constant change of stories “demonstrates falsity” and Freedman claims Wright’s “trust documents are forgeries.” Also read: Plustoken...Read More
It would seem that Ethereum is back to square one. After registering a growth of over 170 percent from January to 26 June, the world’s largest altcoin has now lost all its positive gains this year after it recorded an 8% depreciation on 16 December. Ethereum and Bitcoin were the major crypto-assets responsible for the...Read More
You’ve probably heard of the Pareto principle, or the 80/20 rule. To put it briefly, it suggests that 80 percent of the effects come from 20 percent of the causes. For cryptocurrency trading, the principle should be redefined as the 95/5 rule, or the Bitwise principle. The crypto-asset management fund made headlines in the crypto-world...Read More
On Monday, the blockchain surveillance company Chainalysis published an excerpt from the firm’s upcoming crime report that will publish in January. According to the Chainalysis research, the Ponzi scheme called Plustoken not only defrauded investors out of $3 billion but the scam “may also be driving down the price of bitcoin.” Also read: Mystery Surrounds...Read More
When volatility picks up, Bakkt is never too far. Institutional investors are gearing up for an early-Christmas party, one which will see more positions in Bitcoin Futures contracts than ever before. Bakkt saw yet another high in its open interest [OI] on 16 December as the underlying cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, dipped below $7,000. According to Skew...Read More
On Tuesday, December 17th, the LTC cryptocurrency is declining, trading at $39.76. On D1, there is a downtrend developing. Upon reaching 76.0% and an attempt of a pullback to 61.8% Fibo, the quotations formed another declining wave. They have renewed the previous daily minimums and headed for the yearly fractal support line at $22.25. The...Read More
Since peaking on 26 June, Bitcoin‘s price has been on a consistent decline, having lost over 51 percent of its valuation, at press time. Many people in the crypto-community have pointed their fingers at various factors, seeking to find the reason behind such a price decline. While some claim price manipulation by whales and exchanges...Read More
An Ethereum wallet address loaded with 530k ETH from the ICO pre-sale has dumped over half since September 25. Prior to this date the tokens had been HODLed since the 2015 Initial Coin Offering. Pre-ICO ‘Whale’ Account The wallet address (and recent sell-off) was brought to the public attention in a tweet from D5 -Data Science...Read More
The crypto sector has gone through a turbulent year, with significant developments in the background. Despite the setbacks, there are expectations for significant trends that will shape the moods, attitudes, and decision-making in 2020. Report Lists Growth Vectors and Failing Crypto Trends The year 2020 comes with various predictions as the Bitcoin (BTC) market is...Read More
The Italian cabinet has decided to financially assist Popolare di Bari bank with a 900 million euro-large capital injection. The establishment is the biggest lender in the southern part of the country. According to new reports from Italy, this Sunday, the country’s government decided to approve an emergency decree regarding one of its major lenders,...Read More
There was a time when institutional investors were reluctant to enter the crypto-market owing to the high volatility and lack of regulatory clarity inherent to the market. However, things are changing for the better in 2019. There has been a proliferation of trading venues that have resulted in dramatic structural changes to the cryptocurrency industry....Read More
MakerDAO has been in the news lately for both good and bad reasons. The launch of Multi-Collateral Dai [MCD] put the platform under the spotlight, following which, a research piece by Coinmonks contested the governance system of MakerDAO that allows MKR token holders to be the decisive agent for the upgrades through votes. However, the...Read More
Ethereum Classic’s developers had previously revealed the roadmap for the much-awaited Agharta hard fork, which is touted to be the second half of the recently executed Atlantis hard fork. According to a recent development, ETC core developers and stakeholders participating in the ecosystem on 12 December have agreed on a target block number for mainnet...Read More
Blockstream recently revealed its plans to make multi-part payments interoperable on the Lightning Network, a development which essentially means that sending large Bitcoin transactions on top of the layer 2 network would be possible in the future. This development is instrumental in terms of the Bitcoin network which has been plagued with scalability woes for...Read More
A lot has been going on with the Ethereum network lately, with the Istanbul hard fork recently going live on the network and Muir Glacier expected to be rolled out by New Year’s Eve. Amid these updates, the Ethereum Core Developers in their 77th meeting discussed several other EIPs, along with Eligible for Inclusion [EFI]...Read More
The level of Bitcoin on-chain activity has declined since June, sliding just as market prices sank from their yearly peak. Transactions also saw a spike in October when BTC touched $10,000 again briefly. On-Chain Bitcoin Transactions Correlate with Exchange Price Action On-chain transactions for BTC often coincide with heightened trading interest. This led to slowing...Read More
