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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...
Bitcoin + Ether: An Investor’s Perspective
What are the different value propositions of bitcoin and ether? How do they behave in the market, and how does their infrastructure...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report February 2021
Kaiko’s monthly report for February looks at markets reaching all-time highs, institutions and new funds moving volumes, forced...
CryptoCompare: Digital Asset Management Review February 2021
CryptoCompare’s Digital Asset Management Review aims to provide an overview of the global digital asset investment products landscape,...
DappRadar: Dapp Industry Report February 2021
DappRadar’s latest report looks at the growth of decentralized applications (dapps) in February, looking at, among other things, Ethereum...
Stablecoins Like Tether Could Pose New Risks to Securities Markets, Warns Fitch
Stablecoins such as tether (USDT), now a significant investor in the $1.1 trillion commercial paper market, could introduce new risks into...
CoinDesk Quarterly Review 2021 Q1
Over 100+ slides, CoinDesk Research covers the main developments over Q1 2021 in crypto markets, covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi,...
Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 18, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Market Intel by Chainalysis.Today’s Stories:Bitcoin Faces Resistance Above $62K After...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report March 2021
Kaiko’s latest monthly report looks back at the milestones and trends of one of the most consequential quarters in the history of crypto...
DappRadar: Dapp Industry Report Q1 2021
This quarterly review of the decentralized application (dapp) industry shows astonishing growth (over 600%), as NFT excitement proved that...
Does Bitcoin Have an Energy Problem?
Is Bitcoin bad for the environment? This CoinDesk Research report looks at the data behind the most common critiques and shows that, while...
Cryptocurrency Exchange Bakkt Falls in First Day of Trading After SPAC Deal
Cryptocurrency exchange Bakkt, which is majority-owned by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), was trading down 2.4% in its first day of...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report April 2021
Kaiko’s latest monthly report looks at the divergence between BTC and ETH, Coinbase’s stock exchange debut, stablecoin tether’s...
CrossTower: A Look Into the Valuable Properties of NFTs
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have soared in popularity in just the last few months, but questions abound regarding NFT valuations....
TokenInsight: 2021Q1 Crypto Futures & Options Market
This report by TokenInsight looks at the evolution of cryptocurrency futures & options over 2021 Q1, highlighting growing volumes and...
TokenInsight: 2021 Polkadot Ecosystem
This report by TokenInsight looks into the projects built on Polkadot’s ecosystem and the underpinning market data of the Polkadot...
More Than $200M Lost to Crypto Fraud in the UK This Year
Crypto fraud has accounted for losses of over £146 million ($200 million) in the U.K. this year, according to the City of London...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report May 2021
Kaiko’s latest monthly report looks at crypto market volatility, record spot trading volumes, the rise of ETH, BTC's faltering "digital...
Cardano Subsidiary Emurgo in Partnership With Pan-African Venture Studio
Emurgo, the investment arm of Cardano, has partnered one of its subsidiaries with Adanian Labs, a pan-African venture studio that is...
EIP 1559: Ethereum's Fee Market Upgrade Explained
In July, Ethereum is expected to undergo a backwards-incompatible upgrade, also called a "hard fork." One of the most highly anticipated...
The Investor’s Perspective on the Bitcoin Taproot Upgrade
In June, Bitcoin miners signaled support for Taproot, a bundle of three upgrades to Bitcoin aimed at improving network security, privacy...
A New Crypto Bear Market Begins: CoinDesk Quarterly Review 2021 Q2
The second quarter of 2021 was characterized by price retracing in most crypto assets in the CoinDesk 20, signaling the early beginnings...
The First ‘Move-to-Earn’ NFT Game Just Raised $8.3M
Genopets, a Solana-based non-fungible token (NFT) “move-to-earn” game where players are rewarded for the steps they take in real life, has...
CoinFLEX AMM+ Arena: Bring Your Competitive Edge to the AMM Experience
PRESS RELEASE. CoinFLEX, a crypto futures exchange, is the first centralized exchange to launch a hybrid Automated Market Maker called...
Rosengren claims US CBDC will be separate from other digital assets
A digital currency may be coming to the US soon, but blockchain won’t play a crucial role in its development Former President of the...
Crypto tax rule will be decisive in South Korea’s upcoming election
South Korean presidential candidates have started calling for changes in the crypto tax rules to charm the younger generation The...
Where to buy Prince Floki Inu as PrinceFloki sees 1998% returns
The Prince Floki Inu token has registered huge gains in the past 14 hours and the token is trading at $0.0000013 at the time of writing....
BIT Mining Invests Another $11M in Ohio Crypto Mining Data Center
Cryptocurrency mining company BIT Mining (NYSE: BTCM) is investing a further $11 million in the Ohio site it is developing with Viking...
Where to buy Rabbit Finance as RABBIT gains by 254%
The Rabbit Finance token has seen a bull run in the past 24 hours and the token is trading at $0.13 at the time of writing. The RABBIT...
Where to buy Gooreo as the token rises by 130%
The Gooreo token has seen gains of 130% in the past 24 hours and the coin could possibly 2X if the bulls decide to extend the rally. The...
XRP price ‘unaffected’ by SEC case: Mike Novogratz
XRP's value rebounded off lows of $0.17 in January to reach highs near $2 despite negative sentiment around the SEC case The US Securities...
Where to buy Stacks as STX registers huge rally
The Stacks token is currently trading at $2.68 with 29% gains in a day. The STX coin could possibly rise by another 20-30% if the bulls...
Russia, Belarus Move to Introduce Special Electricity Tariffs for Crypto Miners
Authorities in Belarus and the Russian Federation are taking steps to separate cryptocurrency miners from other groups of power users and...
ProShares ETF to Start NYSE Trading on Tuesday: Report
ProShares will launch a bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) tomorrow, the New York Times reported, citing DealBook.The Securities...
Bitcoin Faces Resistance Above $62K After Record Weekly Close
Bitcoin ended Sunday (UTC) well above $61,000, confirming its highest weekly close on record and putting the lifetime price record of...
Indexed Finance ‘identifies’ attacker behind $16 million hack
The DeFi protocol was hacked on Thursday, with the attacker allegedly stealing $16 million Indexed Finance, a decentralised finance (DeFi)...
USDC Added to Hedera Hashgraph as Enterprise-Minded Network Eyes DeFi
USDC, the dollar-backed stablecoin used to grease the wheels of cryptocurrency trading, has made its way into the Hedera Hashgraph...
Grayscale Investments hints at possible Bitcoin ETF
The investment manager reportedly awaited SEC's approval for a futures-based Bitcoin ETF before filing an application for its GBTC fund...
All-time high weekly close — 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin (BTC) simply refuses to die this week as a dip below $60,000 barely lasts an hour and bears are burned yet again. After a fairly...
Liquidator of Defunct South African Crypto Exchange Says He Found a 54 BTC Discrepancy in Ice3’s Accounts
A court-appointed liquidator, Dewald Breytenbach of National Liquidators, recently claimed that out of the 76 bitcoins that belonged to...
CME Sees Record Open Interest in Bitcoin Futures Ahead of ETF Debut
The amount of money locked in the bitcoin futures contracts on the global derivatives giant Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) surged to...