A few months following the soft-launch of the DBS Digital Exchange, the Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation announced the release of its digital asset trading venue. In addition, the investment holding company Singapore Exchange has announced it will take a 10% stake in the platform. DBS Digital Assets Officially Announced CryptoPotato reported in...Read More
As the DeFi space continues to grow, ConsenSys has now announced a new offering from the leading wallet provider MetaMask. It will enable cryptocurrency funds, professional traders, and custodians with institutional-grade controls and applications for decentralized finance. The blockchain technology solutions provider ConsenSys has announced today a new offering oriented toward the growing space of...Read More
The Ethereum Fund IPO is anticipated to close on December 10th, 2020 after which the Toronto Stock Exchange will list the asset under the symbol QETH.U. The news is big for Ethereum as noted by Gemini founder Tyler Winklevoss who added that all of the ETH raised by the fund will be held by Gemini...Read More
Bitcoin demand is not only expanding among individual traders and crypto enthusiasts, but has also managed to attract institutions, hedge funds, and corporates. Many traditional financing institutions have included Bitcoin in their portfolios and are increasing their hold on Bitcoin. Now that there is less than 2.434 million Bitcoin left to mine, the race to...Read More
One of the leading International banking groups, Standard Chartered has taken its first step towards cryptocurrency. Its innovation arm, SC Ventures announced a partnership with Northern Trust to launch an institutional-grade custody solution for cryptocurrencies, called Zodia Custody. Many banking groups around the world have already ventured into crypto in some form or another. Reports...Read More
The company’s Bitcoin and Ethereum stock traded products have seen $429 million invested last week. It added that this has been the second-highest crypto investment product inflow on record. The latest report from CoinShares stated that total assets under management now total a record $15 billion. It highlighted Ethereum, which stood out over the past...Read More
Will DeFi with its inverse BTC correlation eat Wall Street? In his latest tweet, Tyler Winklevoss of Gemini Exchange mentioned that “DeFi is the software that is starting to eat Wall Street”. Since DeFi’s market capitalization is still one-third of XRP’s market capitalization there may be room for growth. As Tyler argues, DeFi may eat...Read More
With the collective digital asset market showing little change over the past week, Ethereum too was victim to the same. Ether value ranged roughly between $565 and $620, maintaining position between the set of resistance and support. Indicative of another bearish turn, we analyzed Ethereum’s long-term chart to figure out its immediate trading range in...Read More
Ethereum is the most dominant cryptocurrency among the Top 4, based on activity, updates and the highest Github submission rate. The development team of Ethereum makes daily routine submissions that make it the busiest cryptocurrency that ranks #2 based on market capitalization. Despite its dominance, there are a few challenges facing ETH 2.0’s further growth. As...Read More
Ethereum, the market’s second-largest cryptocurrency and the king of the altcoins, exhibited bullish bias at the time of writing. For the same, there seemed to be more than two reasons behind it. With the cryptocurrency’s price trading at $600 per coin, more price appreciation may be incoming and here’s why, On-chain metrics Ethereum investors Source:...Read More
Ethereum registered its highest weekly close in the past 120 weeks with a price level of $601.95. While the short-term outlook and momentum remained neutral over the past few days, ETH bulls might be able to bounce off the $580-support and attempt to go past $620. NEM and FTX Token were also on a strong...Read More
Major cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether have all got a mention on the Season 11 premiere of the long-running American comedy-drama television series “Shameless” which features on Showtime. The first episode – ‘This Is Chicago’ shows how Kevin (Steve Howey) is confused about the plight of one cryptocurrency user who says: My Bitcoin. It’s down...Read More
With over 1 million ETH amounting to nearly $690 million being staked in the ETH 2.0 deposit contract, more and more exchanges and custodians are making staking services available to thousands of its users. In fact, Binance, Huobi, Kraken, OKEx, and Coinbase have already offered ETH 2.0 staking options to their users, with rewards ranging...Read More
The ratio of the 24-hour Open Interest [OI] change and market cap seemed to highlight an interesting trend on the question of which coin is the most leveraged in the market. Interestingly, the most leveraged cryptocurrency isn’t Bitcoin or any other crypto in the top 10 of CoinMarketCap’s charts. In fact, the most leveraged cryptos...Read More
Secret Network, a Layer 1 privacy-enabled blockchain, has announced that it will be bringing programmable privacy to the Ethereum blockchain on 14 December. The mainnet, scheduled to launch next week, will enable the Secret Ethereum Bridge that will create bridge mining opportunities for ETH and ERC-20 holders. This will also allow users to create synthetic...Read More
Hauck & Aufhäuser, one of the oldest German banks is making a play for the emerging cryptocurrency space with the launch of a crypto fund early next year. Commercial banks in the country continue to show a significant appetite for virtual currencies on the back of a firm but a favorable regulatory mandate from government...Read More
Confirmed ‘Bearish’ signal for ETH The Exponential Moving Average(EMA) which is the average of the closing prices for a specific number of days divided by the number of days considered, is falling with the Ethereum(ETH) price. According to analysts, the EMA is below 10 which signifies a confirmed bearish trend for the ETH price. The...Read More
EIP-1559 is one of the most anticipated upgrades to the Ethereum blockchain, and according to reports, it is likely to be on the mainnet fairly soon. ETH devs handling the proposal are in the process of moving EIP to the mainnet, coming to an agreement that solutions to most research questions have been solved. Finally,...Read More
Top derivatives exchange, Deribit has hit a new all-time high in terms of open interest for Ethereum options. The Exchange announced on 4 December that it hit this new peak as the value of the ETH options reached $826 million. With Ethereum’s value still being high at $589, at press time and returning 370% to...Read More
These are bullish times for Ethereum and its growing community. After all, why would anyone expect anything else? A week after the deposit contract was finally filled with a few hours to spare, the much-anticipated genesis block of the Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain was launched on 1 December. The said development came as a relief...Read More
Ethereum continues to dominate the altcoin market, after having cemented its position as Bitcoin’s most notable rival. The last few weeks have been particularly exciting for the community since it saw the much-awaited launch of ETH 2.0, with the beacon chain going live on 01 December. However, on the question of Ethereum’s scalability, how many...Read More
While much of the community is still elated after the beacon chain went live on 1 December, it would seem that something else entirely grabbed its attention today. With the amount of ETH staked on the deposit contract nearing almost a million and worth over $500M, the first ‘validator slashing’ took place today. Eth2 slashed...Read More
Quartz Devkit, a blockchain developer toolkit backed by leading Indian IT service provider, Tata Consultancy Services, has just announced its support for the Ethereum Blockchain. The development platform will now enable decentralized applications and the deployment of smart contracts on three blockchain platforms – Hyperledger Fabric, R3/Corda, and Ethereum. Quartz DevKit claims to allow programmers...Read More
The memory of November 2020 will remain in the minds of Bitcoin investors and the collective crypto-industry for a long time. A rally ignited in mid-October finally realized its full potential in the penultimate month of the year, with many of the market’s premier crypto-assets climbing to new highs. While most digital asset sectors pictured...Read More
From what happened in the last couple of weeks, it appears that the crypto bull market is upon us. Bitcoin has been consistent with its volatility-induced rallies, and this is infusing confidence in investors. So much, so that VIP clients in Kraken’s latest Crypto Sentiment Survey say that BTC will skyrocket to about $36,000 in...Read More
Ethereum recently took its first steps towards Ethereum 2.0 after the Beacon Chain went live, with many centralized exchanges soon extending support for staking too. Joining them now is a publicly-traded company, Ether Capital Corporation, after it revealed that it began staking on the Ethereum 2.0 network back on 1 December. That’s not all either...Read More
While Ethereum exhibited a massive drop below $500 on the 26th of November, a sharp recovery has brought back the asset above $600. While the price is currently hovering under the range, the short-term analysis indicated a rather uncertain trend. Ethereum 1-hour chart Source: ETH/USD on Trading View On 24th November, Ethereum’s value topped at...Read More
Ethereum’s mining difficulty has noted a significant drop over the past 24-hours, after having reached an all-time high. The Ethereum difficulty decreased to 3,430 terahashes on 2 December. This was a 9.6% fall from its all-time high of 3,794 terahashes, according to data provider, Glassnode. The mining difficulty showed how hard it is to mine...Read More
In the past 24 hours, Bitcoin has had a high of $19915 and a low of $18,100. This volatility saw some altcoins shed a few percentage points worth in value. Ethereum dipped from $620 and moved beneath the $580 support, although it remains to be seen if that level will be flipped to resistance in...Read More
Ethereum has taken its first step towards Proof of Stake [PoS] today, with the Beacon Chain going live. The excitement was visible all across Twitter as people celebrated the new beginning for ETH. Adding to this celebration, Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, launched ETH 2.0 Staking service from 2 December. The announcement noted:...Read More
