Bitcoin’s price began to climb up the price ladder in November and has now been holding on to a good price level. The current price of the digital asset was $19,107, with the traders’ constant push and pull. However, with the rising price the long-term holders in the market have also begun to realize their...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice The XRP market has once again been moving higher up the price ladder and given the momentum witnessed in the Bitcoin market, the price could witness a boost. At press time, the XRP price...Read More
Bitcoin’s rapid institutionalization has raised many eyebrows, around the world. In addition to this, it has also raised the interest and investment of institutional investors, family offices, and HODL waves from retail. In the latest episode of the Pomp Podcast, Raoul Pal takes us to conversations that happened behind closed doors between Macro guys from...Read More
After hitting its latest ATH on the price charts, Bitcoin has fallen. However, optimism remains high, especially since at the time of writing, BTC was still trading at a level right above $19,000. With the world’s largest cryptocurrency consolidating on the charts, many of the market’s altcoins have chosen differing price trajectories. The likes of...Read More
Bitcoin has been evolving and so have the narratives around it. Most people view it as a currency, a store of value, peer-to-peer cash, etc. However, these are the narratives that have prevailed. Other narratives included e-cash proof-of-concept, darknet currency, programmable shared database, etc. It is clear that the narratives around bitcoin have been changing,...Read More
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index showed extreme greed with a reading of 93 for the day and has stayed above 80 since early November. MicroStrategy purchased another $50 million worth of BTC averaged to $19,474 per coin, while Grayscale added another $140 million to its Bitcoin holdings in the past 24 hours. Tron had...Read More
SBI Holdings announced on Saturday Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank’s decision to connect to its next-generation financial infrastructure, MoneyTap. The Bank has been working towards its users’ convenience and has opened 24-hour stores, drive-through stores, and even mobile stores took the decision to allow user-oriented transactions. SBI Holdings noted that the connection was a “multi-factor authentication of...Read More
Stellar Lumens was rising to test the level at $0.18 at resistance before retracing more gains from the previous month, where XLM made gains of nearly 200%. Decred was also moving lower on the charts, and it is expected to see a bounce upward at $24.3 support. Waves had a bullish outlook and traded within...Read More
Cryptocurrency regulation has been a widely discussed topic around the world. On the one hand, many nations are trying to find a balance between regulations and innovation, while on the other, there have been steps to stifle the growth and progress of crypto. Recently, the Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib with Congressmen Jesus García and Stephen...Read More
Injective Protocol announced the launch of their first synthetic commodity market on the Solistice Testnet. According to the announcement, users can now trade gold perpetual markets with up to 20x leverage. The price oracles utilized will enable real-time feeds which further allows traders to trade gold 24/7 on Injective. “We have chosen to begin with the introduction...Read More
China is leading the world in the development, implementation, and testing of its CBDC with the DCEP project, adding yet another city to the list of test runs. According to reports, Suzhou will give away 20 million Yuan worth $3 million in the new central bank digital currency. Similar to the pilot in Shenzhen, citizens...Read More
Bitcoin saw a dip from $19,500 to $18,500 in the past couple of days and was trading at $18,919 at the time of writing. Bitcoin Cash had a few days of calm sideways trading but could be headed lower in the coming hours. Ontology indicated a breakout was imminent, with the direction not yet confirmed....Read More
EIP-1559 is one of the most anticipated upgrades to the Ethereum blockchain, and according to reports, it is likely to be on the mainnet fairly soon. ETH devs handling the proposal are in the process of moving EIP to the mainnet, coming to an agreement that solutions to most research questions have been solved. Finally,...Read More
Ordinarily, Bitcoin’s price movements would have a uniform effect on the rest of the altcoin market. However, that wasn’t the case over the previous week since many of the market’s alts found alternate trajectories. While the likes of XRP and Polkadot surged on the charts on the back of their bullish movements, DigiByte failed to...Read More
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust may be the closest to a Bitcoin ETF in 2020. The daily GBTC trade volume has increased steadily since June 2020 and this is critical to Bitcoin’s price and liquidity. Grayscale Bitcoin Fund requires a minimum investment of $50000, and the trade volume in GBTC is a clear indicator of the demand...Read More
Bitcoin’s recent surge that saw it climb to a new ATH on a few exchanges had a profound effect on the rest of the crypto-market. At press time BTC was being traded at $19,403 with a trading volume of $17.5 billion. Source: CoinStats Thanks to BTC’s high correlation with the rest of the market, many...Read More
Top derivatives exchange, Deribit has hit a new all-time high in terms of open interest for Ethereum options. The Exchange announced on 4 December that it hit this new peak as the value of the ETH options reached $826 million. With Ethereum’s value still being high at $589, at press time and returning 370% to...Read More
These are bullish times for Ethereum and its growing community. After all, why would anyone expect anything else? A week after the deposit contract was finally filled with a few hours to spare, the much-anticipated genesis block of the Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain was launched on 1 December. The said development came as a relief...Read More
Synthetix has been a prominent project in decentralized finance [DeFi] that allows derivatives trading. Its synthetic stablecoin asset, sUSD tracked the value of the USD Dollar and has also been experiencing a high demand on lending platforms, as noted by Synthetix. Looking at the rise in demand for sUSD [SUSD], Binance has announced to add...Read More
The past few days have been understandably bullish for the crypto-market. Not only did Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, climb to a new ATH on certain exchanges, but the past week also saw the launch of Ethereum 2.0’s beacon chain with its genesis block. The rest of the market’s altcoins, as expected, reciprocated, with many...Read More
Elysia, a tokenized real estate ownership protocol, has announced an upcoming integration with oracle solution Chainlink to price properties and calculate token distributions. Elysia’s decentralized real estate marketplace allows users to buy tokens representing property ownership and distributes rewards to token holders when the underlying properties generate income. The Elysia app will leverage Chainlink Price Feeds to...Read More
OMG Network, formerly known as OmiseGo network has been acquired by an investment company based in Hong Kong, Genesis Block. According to the announcement on 3 December, Genesis Block Ventures will work together with OMG Network to build lending and trading platforms for the DeFi sector. GBV has been an active participant in the DeFi...Read More
Only a few weeks ago it was revealed that Pakistan’s Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] was working towards introducing a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies. However, things have seemed to have escalated pretty quickly as, Sumera Shams, a member of the Provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly announced on 2 December the decision by the province’s parliament...Read More
Polkastarter, a Polkadot-based DEX built for cross-chain token pools and auctions, has partnered with Moonbeam, an Ethereum compatible parachain, to enable cross-chain interoperability. In an announcement, Polkastarter stated that the partnership would allow for easy integration between the Ethereum and Polkadot ecosystems. Moonbeam is able to transpile Solidity and other Ethereum-native logic & code to...Read More
Chainlink and C.R.E.A.M. Finance have been at the head of quite a few developments lately. Now, with the latter announcing a new integration associated with its oracle services, the two are bound to be in the headlines even more so. According to the said announcement, C.R.E.A.M. Finance has chosen Chainlink as its primary price oracle...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinions of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Bitcoin Cash, like EOS, has enjoyed a lousy YTD performance in the year 2020. In fact, BCH was up by only 33% at press time, while ADA was up 10x with respect to BCH....Read More
Bitcoin has never consolidated at a price range this high for so long in its history. While a recent revisit below $17k may have shaken away a few weak hands, the crypto-asset, at press time, was able to gather pace above $18,500 once again. In fact, the sentiment is distinctly different as well. The air...Read More
Ethereum continues to dominate the altcoin market, after having cemented its position as Bitcoin’s most notable rival. The last few weeks have been particularly exciting for the community since it saw the much-awaited launch of ETH 2.0, with the beacon chain going live on 01 December. However, on the question of Ethereum’s scalability, how many...Read More
Joining the tech and financial services bigwigs in the payments revolution, Spotify too is going the crypto way. The Swedish audio streaming and music services giant just put up a job offer for an Associate Director, Payments Strategy & Innovation. The desired candidate will play a key role in ‘navigating the company’s payments rudder’ through...Read More
While on one hand, the price of Bitcoin is proving that the cryptocurrency is a great investment asset, on the other, its technological and market advancements have attracted the attention of the wrong kind of crowd, specifically, hackers who demand their ransom in Bitcoin. This has turned out to be the case after popular insurance...Read More
