Ethereum’s spot has remained unfazed by the expiry of nearly 460,000 ETH Options contracts on Friday. The contracts that made up for almost $450 million in Open Interest, on expiration, dropped to $342 million, as highlighted by the data provider Skew. Source: Skew Although the drop in Open Interest was normal after such a huge...Read More
Over the past ten years, crypto-exchanges have emerged to become extremely crucial, not just with regard to adoption levels, but also when it comes to directing the overall growth of the industry. The previous year saw a lot of interest in greater levels of decentralization, an interest that contributed to the DeFi boom and renewed...Read More
“Just like locking the door doesn’t guarantee the safety of your home, TrustToken’s team token lock doesn’t guarantee liquidity won’t be pulled.” This was the statement made by Jeff Kirdeikis, CEO of TrustSwap, after he took to Twitter to respond to criticism after a company, HatchDAO, allegedly used TrustToken’s technology to exit scam users by...Read More
China-based Babel Finance has been a prominent crypto-lending company for a while now. However, it has been in troubled waters recently. The trouble, in fact, came in full force after the Black Thursday crash in March. Tether trouble According to an investigative report by Colin Wu, Babel Finance was badly affected by the crypto-market crash...Read More
Cardano registered a bearish pattern on the charts, one that validated the previous pattern to some extent, before the markets shifted dramatically to spur ADA upwards. Waves was in the oversold territory and might be forced to drop further in the coming hours. Enjin, however, appeared directionless in the market as buyers and sellers each...Read More
Ethereum bounced off its level of support, but this bounce did not hint at a reversal in downtrend from the $481-highs of late-August. It is likely that this bounce will reverse itself in the coming days. Further down the crypto-ladder, Algorand broke out of its bearish trend and could be primed to surge upwards. Decred...Read More
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Decentralized Finance has been all the rage for the past few months, and its tokens’ prices are a testament to the excitement. But while the objective of decentralized finance is a financial world which is without a centralized authority, one administered through efficient and seamless smart contracts...Read More
ETH inflows to exchanges have dropped by 53% in less than a week, a development that may sound alarming to DeFi traders. The inflows to exchanges dropped from $3.15M on 21 September 2020 to $1.48M, at the time of writing. While a drop in ETH held on exchanges may be perceived as a bearish signal,...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in Litecoin’s long-term market and its impact on the price The crypto-market has been volatile since the beginning of this week, with the same resulting in price swings in either direction. At the time of writing, the prices of most major crypto-assets...Read More
Binance Coin showed signs of being on a healthy long-term uptrend as it retraced recent gains made. In the short-term also, it appeared likely to move north. Polkadot bounced off its support and might be headed for more gains, although it could also exhibit ranging action in the coming days. Verge has been in a...Read More
Bitcoin’s price has seen quite a few ups and downs over the past month, with the world’s largest cryptocurrency exerting considerable influence on the altcoin market. This hasn’t necessarily translated well for coins like XRP, a crypto that has been noting lower lows and lower highs over the past two months. While an upward breakout...Read More
Tron had been bearish over the past few weeks, but its recent surge on the charts could indicate the reversal of a downtrend. The next few trading sessions for TRX, therefore, will be crucial. NEM appeared to be at the beginning of a significant uptrend as it attempted to flip a level of resistance to...Read More
Monero was noting a bullish divergence on the charts, with XMR trading beneath an important level of resistance, at press time. Synthetix, however, showed indecision in the markets and could see a drop in price over the next few hours. DigiByte bulls and bears were in equilibrium, but bears could force another minor pullback in...Read More
On 25 September, crypto-trading firm Alameda Research minted the largest-ever quantity of Wrapped Bitcoin [WBTC]. News of the development was shared on Twitter by WBTC, with the tweet going on to note that the mint was worth 2,317 BTC, equivalent to $25 million. Source: Etherscan In fact, Alameda Research beat the previous record set by...Read More
KuCoin, one of the world’s most prominent crypto-exchanges by trading volume, was reportedly hacked earlier today. While exact details are yet to be known, $150 million worth of funds were moved out of KuCoin to an unknown address. The unknown address in question has since been doing test transactions, with the funds still with the...Read More
The importance of this current week has been fairly downplayed. Years down the line, the global payments system might look back at this particular period and suggest that this is where it all started. Let’s jog our memories on what actually happened. In two ‘un-correlated’ announcements, the People’s Bank of China-controlled finance magazine stated the importance...Read More
The last 48 hours came as a respite to many of the market’s altcoins, especially after most were pulled down by Bitcoin’s own depreciation on the charts. Thanks to BTC’s recovery, many of these alts recovered too, with the likes of XRP, STEEM, and Ontology among them. However, whether the recent bullishness is enough to...Read More
Samsung SDS, the IT arm of the South Korean multinational business Samsung group will begin testing a blockchain-powered distribution system that will offer better management of pharmaceutical drugs, according to a local news source, Yakup. The pilot project which is called ‘Disruptive innovation technology for tracking drug distribution history’ will be rolled out in November...Read More
Bitcoin has shown immense promise to the investors over the years, even though its growth may have currently been restricted due to a consolidating market. Despite the stagnated growth period, the coin has been returning 49% in YTD. Due to a strong correlation between BTC and most major alts along with other cryptocurrencies, the overall...Read More
Blockchain-backed, decentralized video platform, Theta Network will collaborate with Chainlink to build a new blockchain-based platform to solve the “multi-billion dollar Ad fraud problem” one that scams people through coin giveaways, the firm said in an announcement today. The project which is currently live on its testnet, uses Google’s Big Data solution, BigQuery, and would...Read More
It is an interesting period in the digital asset industry. While prices were indicating a series of pullbacks, many suggested that the bottom is near or possibly nearing with time. At the moment, Bitcoin continues to hold fort around the $10,000 range, bouncing consistently from the $10,200 mark. With the king coin holding its grounds,...Read More
Bitcoin’s on-chain metrics suggest that the market is overly bearish. This has been the case for most of 2020. Source: Coinmarketcap Up till now, on-chain metrics are considered a reliable source of data for predicting Bitcoin’s market sentiment and price. It is assumed that the Bitcoin Network needs sufficient on-chain volume in order to fuel...Read More
Blockchain tech company ConsenSys announced that it would work on the second phase of ‘Project Inthanon-LionRock,’ which will allow the firm to design a proof-of-concept for CBDCs. This project was launched in 2019 by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Bank of Thailand (BOT) to “study the application of a CBDC to cross-border...Read More
Following a week that saw Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, fall dramatically, BTC was soon in recovery mode. In fact, at the time of writing, it was valued at just under $10,700, with the cryptocurrency’s performance giving impetus to the market’s altcoins too. Taking BTC’s lead, many of these alts, including the likes of Tezos,...Read More
DeFi is the latest hype machine in the crypto-market. It has evolved from simply earning interest by locking crypto to Governance tokens and being able to trade these derivatives. As of 01 January 2020, the total value locked [TVL] in DeFi was just around $675 million. However, as DeFi, governance tokens, and yield farming mania...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini announced that the platform will now enable trading and custody for seven new DeFi tokens such as Balancer (BAL), Curve (CRV), Ren Network (REN), Synthetix Network (SNX), Uma (UMA), Uniswap (UNI), and Yearn.finance (YFI). In addition to this, Gemini stated that five other tokens namely, Decentraland (MANA), Kyber Network (KNC), Maker (MKR),...Read More
Binance exchange has added another important asset to Cross Collaterals- Ethereum [ETH]. Ethereum was the third asset to be added to this list after Bitcoin [BTC] and Binance USD [BUSD]. With Ethereum as another option to choose from, it would allow users to collateralize their crypto assets to borrow against ETH. The release from Binance...Read More
Bitcoin‘s price has moved an awful lot in the past 24-hours but the entire community was on market watch. With analysts tracking different metrics and changes in volume, CryptoQuant CEO observed a bit of activity from the whale’s side, or dare I say, a lack of activity. Ki Yong Ju indicated on twitter that the...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article attempts to analyze the emerging pattern in the Ethereum short-term market and its impact on price. Another push to the upside boosted Ethereum’s price by 9% on 24 September. This spike in the price had managed to surpass its resistance at $345.33 and be valued at $353.14. However, the price immediately...Read More
The last few weeks have only supported the argument that Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, remains highly correlated to the market’s altcoins. This, despite the fact that over the past few months, these alts have all recorded strong performances, some independent of BTC’s own movement. However, when BTC fell on 2-3rd September, so did the...Read More
