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France Trials CBDC, Blockchain for Government Bond Deals: Report
France’s central bank has executed a series of bond transactions leveraging blockchain using its own digital currency as part of a...
Charity and Community Focused Project ‘TheFloorNFT’ Announces New Artistic Collectibles on Ethereum
PRESS RELEASE. The Floor NFT’s are fresh, hand-drawn, non-PFP (Profile Picture), artistic collectibles on the Ethereum Blockchain,...
Huobi Japan Gets Regulators’ Go-Ahead to Offer Derivatives
Huobi’s Japanese subsidiary received approval from the local Financial Services Agency to offer crypto derivatives, according to a...
Financial Advisors Managing $110 Trillion Can Now Offer Crypto Trading to Clients via Interactive Brokers
Registered investment advisors (RIAs) with about $110 trillion under management can now offer their clients cryptocurrency trading through...
Blockchain ‘Blank Check’ SPAC Announces $100M IPO to Fund Business Combinations
Blockchain Moon Acquisition Corp (BMAC), a newly formed special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) based in Florida, has been given the...
NY Attorney General Targets 5 Crypto Companies: 2 Lending Platforms Ordered to Shut Down
New York Attorney General Letitia James has ordered two cryptocurrency lending platforms to shut down and requested three other platforms...
Arbitrage bot’s spam attack on the Polygon network generated $6,800 per day
The growth of layer-two protocols has been one of the major stories of 2021 as the rising popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi) and...
Australia Has Third Highest Rate of Crypto Adoption in the World: Finder Survey
Australia is more bullish on cryptocurrencies than most other countries around the world, according to a survey published by comparison...
State of Blockchain: Q4 2017
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Crypto Sentiment Study
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Grayscale Confirms Plan to Convert GBTC Into Bitcoin ETF
Grayscale Investments has confirmed its plan to file for its bitcoin trust (GBTC) to be converted into a bitcoin exchange-traded fund...
Crypto Lending
The crypto lending sector has evolved to include a range of businesses, some now well-established and many trying to get off the ground,...
Bitcoin: The Halving and Why It Matters
In May of 2020, bitcoin is expected to undergo its third "halving," a programmed supply reduction that has in the past coincided with a...
Glassnode: Market Compass May 2020
Glassnode’s Market Compass Monthly provides a thorough overview of bitcoin development during the previous month, including an assessment...
Fidelity Digital Assets: The Institutional Investors Digital Assets Survey 2020 Review
Fidelity Digital Assets collaborated with Greenwich Associates to survey almost 800 investors in order to produce a deeper understanding...
US Treasury Department Says Cryptocurrencies Could Could Undermine Sanctions
The U.S. Treasury Department said on Monday in a report that cryptocurrencies could undermine the effectiveness of U.S. sanctions. The...
Fidelity Digital Assets: Applying the SOC Framework to Digital Assets
Fidelity Digital Assets looks at the adoption of the SOC reporting framework by digital asset service providers, which speaks to the...
Fidelity Digital Assets: The Omnibus Model for Custody
Fidelity Digital Assets describes the origins of the omnibus custody model in traditional finance and explores how and why digital asset...
DraftKings Steps Further Into Crypto With Plans to Become Polygon Validator
DraftKings tapped Polygon for its marquee non-fungible token (NFT) release with Tom Brady’s Autograph back in August.Now the sports...
Digital Asset Research: BTC Spot Price Discovery Update Q2 2020
Digital Asset Research offers its latest update of its quarterly lead-lag study, which evaluates price discovery in the bitcoin spot...
TokenInsight: Digital Assets Payment Industry Research Report
TokenInsight looks at the potential impact of blockchain technology on the global payments industry, and analyzes individual projects...
Price analysis 10/18: BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, XRP, SOL, DOT, DOGE, LUNA, UNI
ProShares Bitcoin Strategy exchange-traded fund (ETF) will enter the history books on Oct. 19 when it starts trading on the New York Stock...
Invesco Drops Efforts to Launch Bitcoin Futures ETF
Would-be bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) issuer Invesco is pulling out of the race to issue a bitcoin futures product.The company said...
Bulls target $100 Filecoin (FIL) after data points to improving fundamentals
Some traders have said that Filecoin (FIL) has lost its momentum because its current price at $64 is more than 70% below its all-time high...
CoinShares: A little bitcoin goes a long way
CoinShares takes a big-picture look at bitcoin’s evolution as an asset class, and its prospective role in portfolios. Source
Here’s why analysts are saying ‘No FOMO’ ahead of Bitcoin’s ETF launch
The day the crypto traders have long-awaited is almost here. At the opening bell on Oct. 19, a ProShares futures-based BTC ETF is...
DeFi on the Ballot: Yearn Developer Matt West Is Running for Congress
First a MakerDAO lobbyist, now a Yearn candidate.As regulatory stormclouds gather over Washington and crypto advocates seek to obtain a...
Ghana Wants to Make Its CBDC Available for Use Offline: Report
Ghana wants its central bank digital currency (CBDC) to work offline, according to a report from Bloomberg on Monday.CBDCs are digital...
DraftKings Co-Founder Matt Kalish Explains Why the Betting Site Is Serious About NFTs
DraftKings co-founder Matt Kalish became personally infatuated with non-fungible tokens (NFT) earlier this year. He’s now helping his...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report August 2020
Kaiko’s latest monthly report looks at the momentum behind BTC and ETH, the explosive growth in decentralized finance, the relationship...
Top Ten Crypto Market Capitalizations Shifted a Great Deal Since the Last Time BTC Hit $60K
The price of bitcoin recently jumped above the $60,000 per unit mark on October 15, and the leading crypto asset has not seen prices this...
CoinShares: Executive Perspectives September 2020
In this weekly commentary, the CoinShares team shares their take on recent events in crypto markets, covering bitcoin’s downturn, macro...
DappRadar: Dapp Industry Review Q2 2020
DappRadar looks at the evolution of the decentralized application ecosystem, focusing on daily active wallets, transactions and trading...
DappRadar: Dapp Ecosystem Report August 2020
DappRadar covers the evolution of seven blockchains – Ethereum, TRON, EOS, Steem, Hive, ThunderCore and WAX – focusing on daily active...
BEUROP Launches DeFi Trading and Marketing Platform for Blockchain Startups
PRESS RELEASE. Blockchain Euro Project BEUROP has announced the launch of its DeFi trading and Marketing platform for cryptocurrency...
On-Chain Transactions: The Novelty of Crypto Assets
On-chain transaction data is a metric unique to crypto assets. In this report, we look at what this information means, how it can be...
Addresses: The Pseudonymity of the Blockchain
In this report, we continue our examination of principal crypto metrics, and look at what Bitcoin addresses can tell us about investor...
Put America’s Geeks to Work, Don’t Cage Them
As we progress into the digital age, America needs its computer geeks. Yet the U.S. government, rather than mine their ideas and talents,...
MVRV & SOPR: Insight into Investor Sentiment
In this Research Note, we look at the on-chain metrics of MVRV and SOPR – what are they, how are they calculated and what do they tell us...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Holds Above $60K as Crypto Market Cap Reaches New High
Bitcoin rose toward $62,000 as the first U.S. futures-based bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETF) was set to go live this week. The...
Digital Asset Research: ETP Report September 2020
Digital Asset Research has compiled an overview of exchange traded products backed by crypto assets, which shows a total market size of...
Former SEC Lawyer Expects More Bitcoin ETF Approvals
Lisa Bragança, a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission branch chief, said in an interview on CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” on...
Silvergate Bank: How Deep Is Its Moat?
CoinDesk Research presents an in-depth look at Silvergate Bank, one of the industry leaders within the U.S. for providing banking services...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report September 2020
Kaiko reviews the crypto asset markets of September, focusing on market movements, DeFi, stablecoins and macro correlations. Source
Ethereum Update October 2020
CoinDesk Research looks at recent developments in the Ethereum ecosystem, focusing on the performance of ETH, the impact of decentralized...
Huobi DeFiLabs: Price Oracle – A Must-Have Infrastructure
Huobi DeFiLabs highlights the crucial role of oracles in decentralized finance protocols, as well as some of the key obstacles to...
Crypto Is Too Big for Partisan Politics
Every major American issue seems to get sucked into the “red vs. blue” political dichotomy these days, and now it is cryptocurrency’s turn...
Crypto Learns to Play the DC Influence Game
Facing a head-spinning array of new legislative and regulatory action out of Washington, D.C., the crypto industry is reacting the way any...
The NFT Market Is Already Centralized
One of the problems non-fungible tokens (NFTs) purport to solve is the idea of “platform risk.” Buy an in-game add-on for a video game and...
A Slew of Defi Tokens Outperform Bitcoin’s Weekly Gains, Defi TVL and NFT Sales Spike
October has been a strong month for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin but a number of decentralized finance (defi) tokens have seen higher...
This Ethereum price chart pattern suggests ETH can reach $6.5K in Q4
Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) has rallied by more than 415% this year to over $3,800, and two major bullish patterns...
Guggenheim’s Minerd Predicted Bitcoin at $15K and $400K. Now He’s Bowing Out Entirely
Guggenheim Chief Investment Officer Scott Minerd says he’s no longer invested in bitcoin after he predicted earlier this year that the...
Bitcoin RSI strength suggests BTC price is still far from its cycle top
Bitcoin (BTC) has barely started its run to new all-time highs if its relative strength index (RSI) repeats historical behavior. As noted...
It’s Here: Bitcoin Futures ETF to Begin Trading
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeToday on “The Breakdown,” NLW rounds out the story of the bitcoin futures ETF...
Ankr Network, Stacks and Kadena rally while most altcoins cool off
Even with Bitcoin price on the verge of a new all-time high, the cryptocurrency market projects an aura of anxious optimism on Oct. 18 as...
The TIE: What Moves the Prices of Cryptoassets, Q3 2020 Quarterly Report
The TIE and eToro present an analysis on what types of crypto news via which channels have the largest impact on the market, why the...
Digital Asset Research: Institutional Digital Asset Ecosystem Q3 2020
Digital Asset Research summarizes initiatives from both crypto firms and traditional financial companies relating to digital asset-related...
Société Générale Shopping for a Crypto Custodian: Sources
French banking major Société Générale is looking to acquire a cryptocurrency custodian or at least take a strategic stake in one,...
Fidelity Digital Assets: Bitcoin’s Role as an Alternative Investment
In this report, Fidelity Digital Assets focuses on the narrative that bitcoin is an uncorrelated asset that can serve a similar role as an...
Fundstrat: Horizen – Web 3.0 Platform Targeting Big Tech Super App Disruption
Fundstrat looks at Horizen, which is building the blockchain-based infrastructure for a decentralized internet. This report dives into the...
CoinDesk Monthly Review, October 2020
Our Monthly Review for October focuses on asset performance, Bitcoin’s congestion problem and Ethereum’s shifting metrics as the launch of...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report October 2020
Kaiko reviews the crypto asset markets of October, focusing on progress in institutional interest, bitcoin trading volume, DeFi’s pullback...
Accounts: Simplicity by Design
Ethereum’s transaction model is based on a simpler and more traditional understanding of record-keeping based on a system of accounts....
TokenInsight: 2020 Q3 Cryptocurrency Spot Exchange Industry Research Report
TokenInsight looks at spot crypto exchanges, their evolution over the past quarter, the dominance of bitcoin in trading volume, how...
TokenInsight: 2020 Q3 Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange Industry Research Report
TokenInsight looks at the Q3 performance and short-term outlook of the crypto derivatives market, focusing on transaction volumes and...
Total Value Locked: A Proxy for Investor Interest
This report on Total Value Locked (TVL) takes a closer look at one of the key metrics with which to monitor the health of the...
Huobi DeFi Labs: Automated Market Makers for Decentralized Finance
Huobi DeFi Labs dives into the inner workings of Automated Market Makers (AMMs), looking at liquidity, returns, industry structure and...
TokenInsight: 2020 DeFi Industry Research Report
TokenInsight dives into the state of the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry in 2020, with an overview of the general market, DEXs,...
Big Three Credit Agency Fitch Says Stablecoin Growth Could Be ‘Disruptive’ to Securities Markets
American credit rating agency Fitch Ratings, one of the ‘Big Three’ credit rating agencies, has published a report that says...
CoinDesk Monthly Review November 2020
The latest CoinDesk Monthly Review compares the difference in bitcoin’s November 2020 rally with the asset’s market and network...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report November 2020
Kaiko’s latest monthly review looks at the bitcoin price rally and picks apart what we mean by “all-time highs”, examines the surge in...
Rep. Tom Emmer Wants Stablecoins Over CBDCs – Interview
There’s nothing that screams techno-optimist about U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, the four-term Republican member of Congress from Minnesota. The...
GDA Capital: Cryptocurrency Mining on Blockchain Networks
This report from GDA Capital offers insight into the fundamentals of blockchain mining (with examples particularly pertinent to Bitcoin’s...
Coin Metrics: State of the Market December 2020
Coin Metrics' State of the Market provides an overview of the crypto asset markets, looking at spot, derivative and on-chain activity....
Crypto-Fund Assets Hit All-Time High With US Bitcoin Futures ETF on Cusp
Investors piled into crypto funds last week ahead of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approval of the nation’s first...
Argo Blockchain’s Texas Mining Facility Will Propel Shares Higher, Analysts Say
Five Wall Street firms including Jefferies and Barclays initiated research coverage of Argo Blockchain (NASDAQ: ARBK) on Monday, with buy...
The Bitwise/ETF Trends 2021 Benchmark Survey of Financial Advisor Attitudes Toward Cryptoassets
Crypto fund manager Bitwise and financial media site ETF Trends joined forces for the third consecutive year to benchmark how financial...
GDA Capital: Security Token Offerings (STOs)
GDA Capital takes a look at the state of security token offerings (STOs), focusing on what fundamentally constitutes security tokens/STOs,...
Brazilians Have Acquired $4B in Cryptocurrencies in 2021, Central Bank Says
Brazilians acquired $496 million in cryptocurrencies in August and have already acquired $4.27 billion so far in 2021, the country’s...
Report: Indonesia leads global surge in interest in crypto
Amid the ongoing growth in cryptocurrency adoption worldwide, countries like Indonesia and Chile have seen a significant influx of public...
DappRadar: 2020 Dapp Industry Report
DappRadar looks at the evolution of the decentralized finance ecosystem in 2020, at the major events and trends of the year, as well as...
Lushsux: A decade of ass-whoopin’ and skullduggery in a single NFT
Lushsux’s street art is celebrated by Banksy and Beeple; his NFTs have made millions; and he has a landmark auction planned for a “major...
Crypto 2022: Policy Week
For years officialdom wanted nothing to do with the crypto space. Whatever bitcoiners said about changing the world, policymakers largely...
Shiba Inu eyes ‘much wow’ 90% breakout as SHIB price paints a textbook bull pattern
The Shiba Inu (SHIB) market is in a very strong bull market in 2021, and one major continuation pattern on its longer timeframe charts...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report January 2021
Kaiko’s January 2021 report looks at the month’s BTC and ETH volume and volatility surge, liquidity issues, DeFi token performance, and...
TokenInsight: 2020 Cryptocurrency Options Industry Report
This report by TokenInsight looks at the evolution of cryptocurrency options over 2020, highlighting their growing volumes and premiums,...
New York Attorney General Directs Two Crypto Lending Platforms to Cease Activities
New York Attorney General Letitia James ordered two crypto lending platforms to cease their activities, which were determined to be...
Local Businesses in New York Urge Governor to Impose Statewide Bitcoin Mining Moratorium
The governor of New York state, Kathy Hochul, has been urged by a group of local companies to deny business permits to bitcoin miners. The...
Arcane Research: Banking on Bitcoin – The State of Bitcoin As Collateral
Arcane Research takes a deep dive into the crypto lending industry, focusing on bitcoin’s emerging role as an ideal collateral asset,...
DappRadar: How to Value Hashmask NFTs
A timely primer from DappRadar, given the intensifying media and investor attention on NFTs, on how to value Hashmasks, a relatively new...