The first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase. “I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which…
Onchain Data Shows Rising Bitcoin Whale Index Surpassing…
Onchain analytics from the research and analysis firm Glassnode shows that the number of bitcoin whales (addresses with at least 1,000 bitcoins) has surpassed 1,900 clusters. The number of network participants in terms of 1,000…
Defi Protocol Harvest Finance Hacked for $24 Million,…
Decentralized finance (defi protocol) Harvest Finance was hacked on Monday for $24 million. The attacker targeted the protocol’s liquidity pools, performing an arbitrage attack using a large flash loan – a type of uncollatarized loan…
Harvest Finance puts $100K bounty on alleged hacker
Harvest Finance, a major decentralized finance protocol, has seemingly issued a $100,000 bounty in the aftermath of a $24 millon attack targeting its liquidity pools. In an Oct. 26 tweet, Harvest Finance said that there…
How Hackers Exploited Twitter’s VPN Problems, Obtained God…
An investigation by the New York State Department of Financial Services has revealed how the great Twitter hack in July happened. A total of 130 high-profile, celebrity accounts were compromised and many were used to…
Charles Hoskinson calls for a different kind of…
“My first thought was he must have been hacked”, said Hoskinson, reflecting on opening an email he received from David Barrett, the CEO of Expensify, urging him to vote for Joe Biden: Source: Twitter.Hoskinson later…
For the first time since 2018 Bitcoin balances…
On October 20, 2020, the amount of Bitcoin (BTC) held at major exchanges fell below 2.5 million BTC for the first time in two years. Source: Glassnode.Nexo co-founder Antoni Trenchev opined to Cointelegraph that this…
Franklin Templeton Join Series A For Institutional Bitcoin…
Curv, an institutional crypto asset custody provider, today announced that global investment firm Franklin Templeton and fintech-focused venture capital firm Illuminante Financial Management have joined its Series A funding round — which already included CommerzVentures,…
Tether Still Dominates Stablecoins, but USDC and Dai…
While tether (USDT), with a market cap surpassing $16 billion, continues to hold the lion’s share of stablecoins in circulation, two smaller rivals are trouncing it in crypto’s hottest market this year, decentralized finance (DeFi). …
Prolonged DeFi Slump Impending? Uniswap Volume Drops 83%…
The decentralized finance (DeFi) market is slumping as large-cap tokens like Uniswap (UNI), Yearn.finance (YFI), and Maker (MKR) decline. Atop the lackluster performance of major tokens, the volume of the Uniswap decentralized exchange has substantially…
Closing Time for Bitcoin’s Iconic Room 77 –…
Tucked away on a quiet street in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, Room 77 had the look of your typical dive bar – until you paid attention to the details. If you did, you’d notice the grungy…
Why Apple Users are Diving into the Cryptocurrency…
Last year, Apple hinted that it has been following the development of the cryptocurrency industry intently, leading some to speculate that the global electronics and payment giant was preparing to launch its own cryptocurrency or…
First Mover: ‘Blue Wave’ in US Senate Could…
Bitcoin was lower, tracking what appears to be a new range between roughly $11,200 and $11,700. It’s a step up from levels that prevailed over most of September, between $10,100 and $11,000. “As the bulls…
‘Still so early’ — 7% of Americans have…
According to new data from Statista, only 7% of Americans have previously used Bitcoin (BTC). This means current investors in BTC are still in an early stage of growth. Dan Tapiero, the co-founder of 10T…
Big Bitcoin prediction, OKEx spooks markets, Ripple exec’s…
Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest tracks every important crypto news story from the previous week. Essential reading for all Hodlers! Top Stories This Week Calm before the storm? Analyst says $20,000 Bitcoin is…
Coinbase Received 1,900 Requests for Client Info From…
Coinbase has revealed that it received a total of 1,914 requests for customer data from global law enforcement agencies during the first six months of 2020. It is, however, not clear how many of the…
Record-high Bakkt Bitcoin delivery exposes institutional frenzy for…
Data from Arcane Research shows Bakkt Bitcoin exchange saw another record-high month from Sept. 20 to Oct. 20. This follows a noticeable rise in institutional demand for Bitcoin (BTC) from public companies in recent months.…
Blockchain Bites: OKEx Freezes Withdrawals, DeFi Audits Queue,…
OKEx has frozen withdrawals, audit firms are experiencing a backlog of DeFi projects and the Trump administration is examining DLT for national defense. Top shelf Audit (back)logsCrypto code audit firms say they are swamped with decentralized…
187,000 BTC Drained: Over $2 Billion in Bitcoin…
Cryptocurrency reserves held on digital asset exchanges have been dropping to new lows, as some of the top exchanges have seen significant bitcoin reserve balance drops. A few months ago trading platforms had a lot…
Analyst: 2021 a Perfect Time For Ethereum, Decentralized…
The third quarter of 2020 has seen the strong resurgence of decentralized finance (DeFi) on Ethereum. With it, the demand for decentralized exchanges (DEXes) surged, causing Uniswap to briefly overtake Coinbase Pro at one point.…
Foresight or folly? Data show 70% of exchanges…
A recent survey by cryptocurrency data aggregator, CryptoCompare, shows that centralized exchange operators do not see the emergence of decentralized trading venues like Uniswap as a threat despite growing volume and activity in the DeFi…
Coinbase Builds Into Bitcoin Ecosystem With Dev Grants,…
San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has revealed two separate contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem today. Here’s how the top crypto platform plans to boost the future of the first-ever cryptocurrency and make it more accessible,…
Alarming growth of difficult-to-detect ‘Lemon Duck’ crypto mining…
Since the end of August, cybersecurity researchers have identified increased activity on a crypto mining botnet called “Lemon Duck”. The botnet has been around since December 2018, however a big jump in activity over the…
First Mover: Privacy Is Litecoin’s Ace in the…
Litecoin (LTC), a nine-year-old cryptocurrency whose price returns have chronically underperformed the bigger and better-known bitcoin in recent years, is hitching its wagon to a new star: privacy. The blockchain industry subsector of “privacy coins” – cryptocurrencies with…
Centralized Exchange Operators Believe Low Liquidity on DEX…
Centralized cryptocurrency exchanges (CEX) operators say they are unfazed by the increasing trading volumes on decentralized exchanges (DEX) because the latter’s liquidity is still too insignificant to cause user mass migration. The majority of CEX…
Bitcoin volume unaffected by Tether’s (USDT) market dominance…
Tether’s (USDT) stablecoin has been the leading base pair for cryptocurrencies for over eighteen months. This is a rather impressive feat given the ongoing court case with the New York Attorney General and the other…
Ethereum’s Top Dapps Are Increasingly Turning to ‘Rollups’:…
Ethereum scaling solutions are heterogeneous, which, as a result, makes them hard to monitor. For those conversational about all things Ethereum, rollups are the newest need-to-know technology that largely made their debut one calendar year…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Bumps Close to $11.6K; Ether…
Bitcoin bounced close to $11,600 before retreating a bit while ether options traders are less active than they were in September. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $11,552 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 1.7%…
DeFi Hangover: Yearn.Finance Falls Nearly 20% From Weekend…
Yearn.Finance closed last week with a strong rebound that left DeFi investors hopeful a bottom was in. However, from this weekend’s high notes set on Friday and Saturday night, YFI has fallen over 20% and…
A “Cypher Pattern” Sets UNI For 100% Rally,…
Associating with the term “DeFi” worked in favor of many blockchain assets this year. UNI was one of them. The governance token, which landed in the hands of people who contributed to the progress and…
Q3 Crypto Volumes up by $155 Billion as…
The latest data from Coingecko shows that the combined trading volumes of cryptocurrency exchanges went up by $155 billion between July and September, from $175.7 billion to $330.6 billion. The new total volume represents a…
Andreessen Horowitz Publishes ‘Crypto Startup School’ Documentary
The California-based private American venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has published a documentary called “Crypto Startup School.” The documentary is different from other blockchain films, as the 30-minute video shows some of the procedures leveraged…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Tops $11.1K; Ether Traders Like…
Bitcoin is making gains Friday while ether options traders on the Deribit exchange love $400 strikes. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,050 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 1.4% over the previous 24 hours.…
Wrapped Bitcoin tops $1B after 900% increase in…
The recent DeFi bull-cycle has pushed the total value locked (TVL) of popular Bitcoin (BTC) tokenization protocol Wrapped BTC (WBTC) up by 900% to surpass $1 billion. The milestone comes four weeks after the TVL…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Regains $10.6K; High-Balance Ether Addresses…
Bitcoin is recovering from Tuesday’s drop while there is a decrease in large-balance ether addresses. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,651 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 0.66% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s…
Coinbase Users Lose $25K On Yearn.Finance Since DeFi…
Timing when to buy in crypto or any market is a difficult task. Eager DeFi investors learned this the hard way if they rushed to buy Yearn.Finance (YFI) the moment it was listed on Coinbase.…
3 key on-chain metrics point to a bullish…
While Ether (ETH) price has been stuck between the $340-$350 range for the last month, multiple on-chain metrics suggest that a recovery may be building. Santiment, a cryptocurrency data analytics firm, recently noted that the…
Bitcoin Trump-Dumps to $10,500; MetaMask Hits 1 Million…
Bitcoin was able to hit $10,800 Tuesday before falling on U.S. Pres. Donald Trump’s stimulus tweet. Meanwhile, the DeFi ecosystem’s most popular wallet hit 1 million users. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,555 as of 20:00…
Sats-Earning Platform Carrot Wants To Reward The World…
Of its many potential applications, bitcoin as a medium for rewarding microtasks is one of its most exciting. This implementation takes advantage of the technology’s natively digital qualities, its relative freedom from borders and its…
DeFi indexes crash despite strong fundamentals
On August 28, Binance Futures launched its DeFi Composite Index, a basket of DeFi tokens that initially comprised 27% Chainlink (LINK) and 11% Aave (LEND) alongside nine other prominent DeFi tokens that made up between…
Lagging Bitcoin futures premium shows BitMEX is losing…
For BitMEX, 2020 has been quite a rough year and from the look of things it’s only set to get worse. The popular derivatives exchange is no longer as relevant and impactful on crypto market…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Gains Steadily to $10.7K; Ethereum…
Bitcoin’s price is steadily increasing after last week’s bad news dump; while Ethereum’s fees fall. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,734 as of 20:15 UTC (4:15 p.m. ET). Gaining 0.51% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s…
DeFi craze propels Uniswap monthly volume to $15.3B,…
Data from Dune Analytics shows that in the month of September Uniswap decentralized exchange processed $15.371 billion in volume. In the same period, reports indicate that Coinbase processed $13.6 billion. Monthly decentralized exchange volume. Source:…
Crypto Exchange Coinbase Hands Over Customer Data to…
Coinbase is handing over customer data to the British tax authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC). The measure affects customers with a U.K. address who received more than £5,000 ($6,450) worth of cryptocurrency during…
Three key reasons Dow plunge wont cause a…
The United States stock market plunged as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) dropped 358 points in pre-market trading. The Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped to as low as $10,374 across major exchanges, but a larger…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Rebounds to $10.5K; Stablecoin Market…
Bitcoin has performed well in the face of a bleak news cycle while stablecoin assets in the crypto ecosystem continue to grow. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,515 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping…
Why reduced Bitcoin futures volume may signal the…
Bitcoin (BTC) futures volume and open interest are declining rapidly. Data shows that since the September peak, BTC futures volume has dropped by 60% from over $25 billion to around $10 billion. Bitcoin futures volume…
Market Wrap: Blame BitMEX as Bitcoin Dumps to…
Derivative exchange BitMEX’s legal issues with U.S. regulators took a toll on bitcoin’s price while DeFi gave Ethereum miners more fee revenue than ever. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,582 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m.…
The Hard Forks That Didn’t Dilute Bitcoin
Some time ago, one of the more thoughtful critiques of Bitcoin went a little like this: “Sure, bitcoin is scarce in its supply, but since it’s effectively costless to clone the software and fork it,…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Retests $10.8K; Total Value Locked…
Bitcoin’s price tested $10,800 to close out September while despite some market deflation, investors continue pushing crypto into DeFi. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,701 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 0.27% over the…
Blockchain Bites: Coinbase’s Severance Offer, DeFi’s Latest Fund,…
Coinbase will offer non-aligned employees a severance package, Kadena looks to cut into the DeFi market with a new decentralized exchange and Sushiswap is hemorrhaging liquidity. Top shelf Severance offerCoinbase CEO Brian Armstrong sent his…
ATOM Enters “Trouble Area” as Price Rallies Another…
ATOM was among the biggest gainers on cryptocurrency boards this Wednesday as traders assessed its integration into the US-regulated crypto exchange Coinbase. The Cosmos’ native token rallied 9 percent on a 24-hour adjusted timeframe, touching…
Analysts Explain Why UniSwap (UNI) Could Surge Higher…
UNI is among those decentralized finance tokens that debuted with a bang but slowly rolled over to the bearish side on higher profit-taking sentiment. The UniSwap exchange’s governance cryptocurrency plunged by another 5 percent on…
Uniswap Captures $2 Billion Locked, Dex Volume Outpaces…
The decentralized exchange (dex) built on Ethereum, Uniswap has accumulated a whopping $2 billion in total value locked (TVL) this week. Tuesday’s data shows out of all the decentralized finance (defi) application’s Uniswap dominates the…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Holds at $10.7K; Uniswap Volume…
As bitcoin struggles to hold the $10,700 price range Uniswap’s September volume set records but appears to be declining. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,757 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 1% over the…
Matic Takes Step Towards Solving High Ethereum Gas…
Matic has just announced that Tether is now available on their network. The Matic team tweeted that this would help Ethereum immensely by diverting activity away from the mainchain. 1/ The industry’s leading stablecoin, Tether…
First Mover: Binance CEO Sees Future in DeFi…
It might be part of every job in crypto to anticipate and react to fast-moving developments that seemingly change the industry’s direction overnight. And apparently not even Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, the high-profile leader of Binance,…
Binance CEO Says He Fully Expects DeFi to…
Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao acknowledges the contradictions inherent in trying to tap into the fast-growing business of decentralized finance, or DeFi, while trying to defend his company’s reign as the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.…
Soaring decentralized exchange volume suggests the DeFi craze…
Uniswap, the most widely utilized decentralized exchange on Ethereum, has seen explosive growth throughout the second quarter. In fact, less than a month ago, Uniswap’s trading volume surpassed Coinbase Pro as the exchange processed $426…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Hits $10.9K; Ether Options Signal…
An early rally Monday almost pushed bitcoin over $11,000; the ether options market expects volatility in the short term. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,874 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. EDT). Gaining 1% over the…
Blockchain Bites: DeFi Meets NFTs, TSLA Beats Bitcoin…
Bitcoin is moving off exchanges, has been less volatile than TLSA and broke its record for longest streak trading above five figures. Also: Bitwise’s bitcoin fund has more than doubled in size, KuCoin was hacked…
DEX With Cross-Chain Swaps and Governance
The first quarter of 2020 saw $5.1 billion added in volume to decentralized exchanges, 500% increase from the first 6 months in 2019. Data obtained from coindex This is made possible due to the recent…
Uniswap’s UNI Token Gains Gemini Listing: Here’s What…
Uniswap’s UNI token has seen its price stagnate in the time following its rebound from lows of $3.75. Shortly after being announced, the token gained listings on a plethora of exchanges, including Coinbase, Binance, and…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Sticks to $10.7K; DeFi Site…
Buying volume is pushing bitcoin higher. Meanwhile, DeFi investors continue to seek places to park crypto for steady yield. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading around $10,730 as of 20:30 UTC (4:30 p.m. EDT). Gaining 0.50% over…
Fintech Giant Plaid Has a Hidden Passion for…
Fintech enabler Plaid, which connects traditional bank accounts to thousands of digital platforms, including crypto exchange Coinbase, is quietly working with at least two decentralized finance (DeFi) startups. Plaid’s head of UK, Keith Grose, a…
Visa-Owned Plaid Has a Hidden Passion for DeFi
Visa-owned fintech enabler Plaid, which connects traditional bank accounts to thousands of digital platforms, including crypto exchange Coinbase, is quietly working with at least two decentralized finance (DeFi) startups. Plaid’s head of UK, Keith Grose,…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Hits $10.7K; Options Market Likes…
Bitcoin had a small rally Thursday. Meanwhile, the ether options market is giving some investors protection from decentralized finance downsides. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,653 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. EDT). Gaining 3.3% over…
Blockchain Bites: MakerDAO’s Do or Dai Moment, Bitcoin…
MakerDAO has voted not to compensate victims of the “Black Thursday” flash crash, a former Pantera partner is launching a new crypto-focused hedge fund and bitcoin may be headed to the doldrums as the U.S.…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Drops to $10.2K; Scaling Solution…
The bitcoin market continues to display weakness; xDai total value locked shows interest in Ethereum scaling solutions. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,285 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. EDT). Slipping 1.8% over the previous 24…
First Mover: Bitcoins Hit Exchanges as Bloomberg Touts…
The upcoming U.S. presidential election has become one of the most contentious in history, fraught with searing divisions over everything from the economy to race to the continued health of democracy itself. So it’s not…
Crypto Hedge Fund Looks for $50M to Buy…
The cryptocurrency money manager Panxora seeks to raise up to $50 million for a new hedge fund to buy digital tokens associated with the fast-growing decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. DeFi is a segment of the…
You won’t believe the depths to which crypto…
Last Friday night, crypto YouTuber Ivan on Tech messaged me on Twitter. Shortly into our conversation, he graciously offered me an investment opportunity in “Bitcoin trading/mining”, courtesy of a platform that he alleged was associated…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Clings to $10.4K; Ether in…
Bitcoin stuck around $10,400 for most of Tuesday. Meanwhile, ether holders are increasingly choosing smart contracts to park the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,494 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. EDT). Gaining 0.10% over…
DEX Token UNI Trims Gains by Half in…
UNI logged a rollercoaster opening session last week after rising by almost 2800 percent in just less than 24 hours. The token reached a record level of $8.59 following its free distribution among the users…
DeFi plummets: 3 reasons for the 46% correction…
After outperforming Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) strongly in August, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) tokens are now plummeting as many registered losses of up to 50%. Cryptocurrency daily market performance snapshot. Source: Coin360 At the moment,…
“Intense” Bitcoin Whale Exchange Flow Could Be Behind…
Bitcoin went into the weekend on a strong note, taking out $11,000 and holding above it. But after the cryptocurrency made an attempt at $11,200 a rejection has the asset’s price back to $10,500 where…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Dips to $10.1K, Ether Drops…
Bitcoin and ether both dropped Monday as global markets conducted a selling session. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,492 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. EDT). Slipping 3.6% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range:…
Uniswap payday, ETH transactions hit record high, EU…
Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest tracks every important crypto news story from the previous week. Essential reading for all Hodlers! Top Stories This Week Frenzy as Uniswap launches new governance token Uniswap stole…
Did Ethereum Learn Anything From the $55M DAO…
Up until it collapsed, The DAO represented the highest technological achievement – and the coming wave of innovation – that the Ethereum blockchain has enabled. The smart contract and blockchain were interlinked ideas. In Vitalik…
Ethereum’s Gas Spike Forces Coinbase Pro to Pass…
While Ethereum network fees have jumped to new highs this year, the popular cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase Pro, announced that the trading platform would be passing network fees onto customers. The move followed the exchange listing…
Is USDC’s Billion Dollar Growth A Sign Crypto…
The talk of the crypto market recently has been the sudden substantial increase of Tether printed and its potential impact on Bitcoin. But what they’ve failed to realize, is that the USDC supply has also…
Yearn.Finance (YFI) Flies 15% Percent From Local Price…
Yearn.Finance continues to defy all other DeFi tokens and gravity itself with its unstoppable rise to stardom. The crypto token has bounced over 15% from its local bottom, but a fractal playing out could send…
Uniswap’s Token UNI Stable Above $5.50 as Negative…
Uniswap’s recently released token – called UNI – has seen massive inflows of investments throughout the past day, with the large buy-side orders far outweighing the relatively small sell orders from users who received 400…
More pump than dump: 22% UniSwap (UNI) price…
Earlier today Yearn.finance (YFI) and Ether (ETH) rose sharply after Uniswap’s governance token UNI plunged 22% from $8.00 to $6.80. Cryptocurrency daily market performance snapshot. Source: Coin360 UNI, which launched less than 48 hours ago,…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Tests $11K; Uniswap Passes $1.5B…
Bitcoin has lost its market momentum. Meanwhile, the amount of cryptocurrency locked in decentralized exchange Uniswap was nearly doubled on Friday. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,867 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 0.42%…
First Mover: Uniswap’s Sudden $5B Token Valuation Cements…
Earlier this week, analysts with the cryptocurrency analysis firm Arcane Research were musing that new developments appeared to have slowed in the fast-growing blockchain arena of decentralized finance, known as DeFi. But they predicted any…
First Mover: Uniswap’s Sudden $5B Token Valuation Cements…
Earlier this week, analysts with the cryptocurrency analysis firm Arcane Research were musing that new developments appeared to have slowed in the fast-growing blockchain arena of decentralized finance, known as DeFi. But they predicted that…
KuCoin Has Just Announced a New Project Listed,…
Scheduled as the next phase of the SaTT progress, the token would be listed on several top tier exchanges namely Kucoin and Uniswap the 24th September, opening it up to a big audience of users,…
How Do Blockchain Projects Cultivate a Star-like Following?
Some crypto projects fail to lift off. Others generate enormous traction and turn into industry’s rock stars. How do they do it? Leading crypto start-ups don’t get into community-building for the warm, fuzzy feelings. They…
Coinbase Pro passes gas fees to users as…
Ethereum miners’ hourly revenue has hit a five-year record, with fees currently bringing in 2,275 ETH ($880K) per hour. The spike was triggered by yesterday’s announcement that Uniswap would airdrop it’s governance token UNI to…
Defi Economy Rebounds: Total-Value Locked Jumps 28% Capturing…
,The total-value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) economy has recaptured much of the value lost during the Sushiswap fiasco last week. At the time, the defi TVL tumbled down to $6.8 billion from the…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Slumps to $10.7K; Ethereum Fees…
Bitcoin lost momentum Thursday while DeFi delirium pushes fees on Ethereum back up. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,920 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 0.73% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range:…
Is Uniswap’s UNI The Crypto Version of a…
Overnight, crypto Twitter exploded in chatter about what is essentially free money. Liquidity swap platform Uniswap that’s recently enjoyed enormous growth rewarded early users with a distribution share of UNI tokens. The price per token…
Ethereum Price Drop Below This Level Could Mean…
The price of Ethereum (ETH) has dropped from $488 on September 2 to below $380, falling by over 22%. If the correction of ETH continues, traders say decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens could further suffer. Despite…
First Mover: Federal Reserve Does What It Wants…
Every time the Federal Reserve meets, it’s important to remember that the only real monetary policy tradition at the 107-year-old institution is that a bunch of people will get together and talk about markets and the economy and…
Market Wrap: With Fed Rate Policy Unchanged, Bitcoin…
Bitcoin’s price continues to move up, with a little help from the U.S. Federal Reserve, while ether traders are hedging in the options market. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,979 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m.…
Bitcoin price finally breaks $11K as traders assess…
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) broke above $11,000 at last, after 13 days within a tight range. But this time, the market dynamic is different because Ether (ETH) and most decentralized finance tokens are declining. …
3 reasons Bitcoin price just hit $11,000 despite…
Within the last hour, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) surpassed $11,000 across major exchanges, including Coinbase and Binance. This comes after nearly two weeks of low volatility as the cryptocurrency market remained stagnant and Bitcoin…
First Mover: Binance’s CZ Doesn’t Even Dispute That…
Blockchain-based lending and trading systems known as “decentralized finance,” or DeFi, have dominated recent cryptocurrency-market headlines, with collateral locked into the semi-automated platforms surging 10-fold this year to more than $9 billion. DeFi trading platforms like Uniswap, Curve and Balancer have…