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Revolut Launches Commission-Free Crypto Trading for US Investors
Revolut, a fintech company with a $33 billion valuation that offers cryptocurrency buying as part of its services, is allowing U.S....
‘League of Legends’ Vets Launch $90M Gaming Seed Fund
Two veterans of Riot Games have launched Patron, an early stage venture firm focusing on the convergence of games and consumer startups, a...
Grayscale Files With SEC to Convert Its Bitcoin Trust Into an ETF
Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager, has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to...
Hindu Paramilitary Group Calls on Indian Government to Regulate Cryptocurrencies
Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has called on the Indian government to regulate cryptocurrencies. “The...
Facebook’s Novi Taps Paxos, Coinbase Ahead of Diem Rollout
Facebook’s Novi wallet is ready to launch – but it won’t be launching with the Diem (formerly Libra) stablecoin.Novi, a digital wallet...
How Riot Plans to Add Hashrate Without Adding Miners
Riot Blockchain plans to increase its crypto mining hashrate potentially by up to 50% through adopting 200 megawatts of immersion-cooling...
Decentralization’s Challenge to Policymakers Is Coming
“Decentralization theater” is something which crops up in my inbox on an almost daily basis. By this I mean the development, release and...
Atlas Taps Compute North to Expand ESG-Focused Bitcoin Mining
Atlas, which aims to be 100% carbon-free, signed a 100-megawatt “colocation capacity” deal with Compute North to expand its U.S. mining...
ZoidPay Chrome Extension Lets Shoppers Buy with Crypto on Amazon, eBay and 40M+ Online Retailers
PRESS RELEASE. The ZoidPay Chrome extension will allow users to spend their cryptocurrencies on products, pay subscriptions, and even book...
Bullish Bitcoin Market Easily Digests Spike in Trading Volume
The bitcoin market sentiment appears quite bullish as evidenced from the quick absorption of a huge sell order on crypto exchange OKEx...
Silvergate Capital 3Q EPS Beats Estimates; Digital Currency Deposits Grew to $11.2B
Silvergate Capital’s 3Q net income rose 12% to $23.5 million, or 88 cents a share, topping FactSet estimates of 71 cents.Average digital...
Huobi approved to deal crypto derivatives in Japan
Weeks after announcing its exit from the Chinese market, Huobi has confirmed it is licensed to offer crypto derivative services in...
India’s Newest Crypto ‘Unicorn’ CoinSwitch Kuber in Talks with Government over Regulation: Report
Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinSwitch Kuber is in ongoing talks with the government over regulation of the industry, CEO Ashish...
UK authorities report crypto-related fraud is on the rise
The sum of money lost in reported incidents of crypto fraud so far has increased by 30% compared to last year’s figures The first...
Galaxy Digital’s Entertainment Arm Raises $325M Fund for NFT, Gaming Bets
Galaxy Digital re-stocked its crypto-culture warchest earlier this year with a $325 million venture fund focused on digital...
Invesco abandons its BTC Futures ETF, plans for spot BTC ETF
The company's futures-backed Bitcoin ETF was largely tipped to get SEC approval following a nod for the ProShares product Invesco, a major...
Fraud-Accused South African Bitcoin Trader to Turn Himself Over to Police: Report
Sandile Shezi, the young South African bitcoin trader who is facing fraud charges, has denied allegations he scammed shareholders in his...
Bitcoin Equilibrium Price Likely to Top $168,000 Following ETF Approval, FSInsight Says
Bitcoin will extend gains following the approval of the first bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the U.S., according to Tom...
BTC price is up 50% since China ‘selflessly’ banned Bitcoin mining
It’s been 150 days since China banned Bitcoin (BTC) mining — and BTC price action has only benefited as a result. Five months ago, China...
Signature Bank’s Q3 Deposits Grow by $10B to $95.57B
Signature Bank added $10 billion in deposits in the third quarter, which included “notable contributions” from its digital assets...
Polkadot announces $777M development fund for network growth
Gavin Wood's announcement comes weeks before the launch of parachain auctions, set for 11 November Polkadot founder Gavin Wood has...
Brazilian Asset Manager Kinea Makes Exploratory Investment in Ethereum
One of the biggest asset managers in Brazil, Kinea, disclosed it made an exploratory investment in Ethereum. The announcement was made by...
Crypto lobby says stablecoins should not be subjected to new rules
The lobby group says regulators should not treat stablecoins as investment products A US-based cryptocurrency lobby group has called on US...
Analysts Divided on Prospects of Sell-The-Fact Move As Bitcoin ETF Listing Nears
There is an old saying on Wall Street: buy the rumor, sell the news. The adage is based on the belief that market participants, being...
National Police in Spain Warn of Surge in Cryptocurrency-Related Scams
The National Police have issued a warning for a wave of cryptocurrency-related investment scams in Spain. The amount that has been lost in...
‘All bears will die’ — Bitcoin metric prepares to flip green for the first time in 6 months
A “favorite” Bitcoin (BTC) price signal could be about to turn bullish — and upside has always resulted, data shows. As noted...
FinCEN Links More Than $5 Billion in Bitcoin Transactions to Ransomware
FinCEN, the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, linked more than $5 billion in bitcoin transactions to the most common ransomware...
The Associated Press Launches NFT Collection on Binance Marketplace
News agency The Associated Press launched a collection of non-fungible tokens on Binance’s marketplace, according to a Binance press...
Microstrategy CEO Advises Nigeria and Zimbabwe to Adopt Bitcoin Standard, Says BTC Is ‘Kingmaker’
Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor has suggested Nigeria and Zimbabwe issue currencies that are backed by bitcoin if they want to fix their...
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...