On November 6, the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, won the United States elections, becoming the country’s 47th president. His victory triggered all forms of reaction across several financial assets as market participants rejoiced or expressed disappointment in the election outcome. A tweet by on-chain analytics firm Santiment has revealed that the crypto and equities...Read More
Bitcoin’s correlation with the U.S. equities market has been rising for more than a month, as seen in the collective plunge and rally across different asset classes during the Japanese yen crisis earlier this month and the Federal Reserve’s statements at the Jackson Hole symposium last week. According to the recent edition of the Bitfinex...Read More
The volatility in the cryptocurrency industry continues, with the leading digital asset plummeting from $65,600 to $62,300 for the second time in the past day or so. The main driver behind the latest price plunge could be attributed to the developments on US soil, as the jobs data was weaker than expected, and the stock...Read More
The cryptocurrency industry is often described as a risk-on asset class that tends to underperform in times of economic uncertainty. Although the stock market also falls in this category, at least to an extent, it has been on a wild run in the past few weeks, with multiple new all-time highs from the most prominent...Read More
BTC is up 80%+ from recent lows. ETH is up 60%. Meanwhile, some crypto stocks are up by quite a bit more. A U.S. court ruling this week siding with the SEC is an understandable time for markets to chill. Way back in July, US News suggested seven crypto stocks to buy. The paper touted...Read More
Fitch downgraded the U.S. government’s credit rating Tuesday, citing the national debt and deteriorating politics. Bitcoin is already looking good this year with the NFTs. But this really puts the shine on BTC. One of the “Big Three” credit ratings companies, Fitch, notched the United States’ rating down from AAA to AA+ this week. Only...Read More
While the BTC price cratered over Alameda-FTX and Genesis-Gemini news, it decoupled from the S&P 500 Index and NASDAQ Composite. But after crypto exchange markets priced in the news, they were ready to rally with equities. Because of the Bitcoin stocks correlation, the price on crypto exchange markets moves in tandem with tech stocks like...Read More
Stocks started off the week in a rally, with wide benchmarks like the S&P 500, NASDAQ Composite, and Dow Jones posting gains. But the rally fell off with a sharp pullback Friday on new worries of increasing Fed rate hikes. The retracement was nearly enough to wipe out the gains from earlier in the week,...Read More
Popular cryptocurrency ATM operator Bitcoin Depot is reportedly planning to become a publicly-traded company through a partnership with SPAC GSR II Meteora Acquisition Corp. A special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) is a public company established to merge or acquire an existing entity. Although SPACs raise capital from investors through IPOs, they don’t have active business operations,...Read More
A recent study conducted by MLIV Pulse revealed that 60% of the surveyed Wall Street investors believe bitcoin dropping to $10,000 is a more possible scenario than the asset rising to $30,000. The poll further estimated that professional investors are more supportive of the cryptocurrency industry than retail investors. Pessimism Reigns Among Wall Street Investors...Read More
Prior to the pandemic, Bitcoin appealed to many as an inflationary hedge due to its low (near zero) correlation with traditional assets such as stocks. However, in recent times, the narrative has taken a 180° turn, owing to macroeconomics shifts. According to a report by 21Shares, Bitcoin and the S&P 500 moved in sync, with...Read More
The past several weeks have been quite the negative turmoil for the cryptocurrency market, as it all started at the end of March. Interestingly, this coincides with a similar drop for the largest US-based stock market indexes, which led to a multi-month high in terms of correlations between Wall Street and crypto. The Market Meltdowns...Read More
Another cryptocurrency company with aspirations to become a publicly-traded firm on Wall Street – BlockchainCom – has confirmed its initial plans that it aims to do so by the end of 2022. Ever since Coinbase set up the trend in April last year, the number of crypto-related organizations indicating plans to go public has soared....Read More
Institutional clients of the New York-based independent investment bank will be able to get spot crypto trading services. This comes after multiple other Wall Street investment banks started offering various digital asset features, but not spot trading. Bloomberg reported on March 23 Cowen Inc’s new offering, allowing institutional investors to trade crypto, putting the bank...Read More
According to The Financial Stability Board, the growing appetite of large institutions and VC firms for cryptocurrency exposure could prove counterproductive not only for said financial giants but for the entire world. The watchdog called for exercising greater control over operations that involve significant money investments to avoid a potential financial crisis on a global...Read More
Crypto exchanges are looking for ways to expand their domains, and it seems that the blockchain space is no longer enough. Now, the U.S. subsidiaries of FTX and Bitstamp could be about to start offering their customers support for equity trading. According to a report from Bloomberg, both exchanges are fine-tuning details to enter the...Read More
The preference towards the use of cryptocurrencies as an investment and store of value continues to maintain a generational gap, with Millennials at the forefront in the use of decentralized technologies – especially millionaire investors. According to the latest edition of the CNBC Millionaire Survey, the majority of millennial millionaires have invested in cryptocurrencies and...Read More
Mike Novogratz is not happy with U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to pick Jerome Powell to chair the Fed for a second term. And he’s speaking not as a Bitcoiner but as an overall investor: He believes Powell could be detrimental to the markets’ growth. In an interview for CNBC this week, Novogratz hinted that...Read More
The long-anticipated launch of a Bitcoin Futures ETF in the United States might be over as a more recent report claimed such a product will go live for trading on October 19th. The topic of whether or not the United States Securities and Exchange Commission will ever greenlight an exchange-traded fund tracking the performance of...Read More
Several months after initially outlining plans to become a publicly-traded firm, Bakkt has announced that the event will take place on Monday – October 18th. Thus, Bakkt will join the likes of Coinbase as a cryptocurrency-related company having its shares traded on giant stock exchanges. CryptoPotato reported at the start of this year Bakkt’s intentions...Read More
Blockchain.com —former Blockchain.info— one of the OGs of the crypto industry, announced today that as it nears its first decade in the market, it was able to process $1 Trillion in crypto transactions. Macrina Kgil, CFO of Blockchain.com, shared the news on her institutional blog, noting that this statistic only covers Bitcoin transactions between real...Read More
The massive cryptocurrency boom during the latter half of 2020 and the first half of 2021, coupled with a wave of institutional investors betting billions of dollars on the growth of the ecosystem, helped raise optimistic expectations around the approval of a Bitcoin ETF in the United States. But one of the previous (unsuccessful) applicants...Read More
Yesterday, the S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Market Digital Index (BDM) was launched by S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI). The new index is composed of multiple other subset indices. S&P DJI’s New Crypto Indices The BDM offers a general overview of how the broader cryptocurrency market is performing. At launch, it already tracks over 240 digital...Read More
SkyBridge Capital, the hedge fund founded by Anthony Scaramucci with over $7 billion in AUM, has doubled down on its support of Bitcoin. The organization’s Co-Chief Investment Officer, Troy Gayeski, said they believe in gold’s future but are more keen to invest in what many consider its digital alternative. Gold is Good, Bitcoin is Better...Read More
S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched three new cryptocurrency indices. The S&P Bitcoin Index, S&P Ethereum Index, and S&P Crypto Mega Cap Index (a combination of Bitcoin and Ethereum) will allow retail traders to easily gain exposure to these two behemoth cryptocurrencies. A Long-Awaited Move People have been waiting for a traditional finance product that...Read More
Mary Rich, the investment bank’s incoming global head of digital assets for the private wealth management division, told CNBC in an exclusive interview that they will launch the service in Q2 2021. ″We are working closely with teams across the firm to explore ways to offer thoughtful and appropriate access to the ecosystem for private...Read More
On this day, exactly one year ago, Bitcoin saw one of its worst trading sessions in history. The cryptocurrency lost around 50% of its value and tapped a low at around $3,800. That’s also true for every altcoin, as well as for the traditional financial markets. Nevertheless, it’s safe to say that the cryptocurrency market...Read More
Coinbase has yet to go public, and the markets are already on fire in anticipation of the most awaited direct listing in the cryptocurrency world and the what will be the first major listing ever recorded on the Nasdaq. An independent valuation based on the price of its shares in private markets determined that Coinbase...Read More
This week was tough across the board, not just in the cryptocurrency market. It was marked by a serious correlation between Bitcoin and the S&P 500, as well as the entire legacy market, in general. As CryptoPotato reported, the abovementioned correlation reached a 5-month high. While this seems to be bearish in the short term, given that...Read More
Reports on Reuters today revealed that American multinational investment bank, Goldman Sachs, will offer bitcoin futures and non-deliverable forwards on behalf of its clients starting next week. According to sources familiar with the matter, the move is part of the bank’s effort to take advantage of the fast-growing crypto space, which is gradually becoming an...Read More
