Over the past year, portfolio diversification has been an ardent topic of discussion. The rise of Bitcoin led to various debates about its inclusion in present-day investment holdings. While many traditional analysts are skeptical of a massive allocation for the crypto, some Bitcoin proponents would come across as over-ambitious putting 100% of their capital in...Read More
Bitcoin is trading close to $38000, and the break from the rangebound price level came as a relief earlier this week. On Tuesday, the price hit $37000 and trading beyond $35000 allowed Bitcoin’s price rally to break away from the resistance. As traders gear up to predict the impact of the current price trend on...Read More
On the back of Bitcoin and Ethereum’s performances since the 28th of January, the altcoin market has surged. Bitcoin is currently trading at $37,641 with a 24-hour trading volume of $43 billion. Source: CoinStats For the markets altcoins, the surge was not uniform in any way, the likes of Chainlink, Cosmos, and Zcash have all...Read More
Bitcoin broke past the resistance at $35000 and is currently trading close to $38000. This break came with the standard reference and comparison with Gold, however, since GameStop’s nearly unstoppable price rally, #SilverSqueeze was breaking the internet. Following which there was a sizeable surge in interest and trading volume for silver, as traders expected the...Read More
Although Bitcoin’s volatility fluctuates, the altcoin market has been witnessing its individual rally. Cardano [ADA] has been one such altcoin witnessing its price rise almost throughout January 2021. At the time of writing, ADA was being traded at $0.4322, while its market capitalization remained high at $3.64 billion, as per CoinMarketCap’s list. Cardano 1-day chart...Read More
With over $32 billion of total value now locked into DeFi protocols, it is a well-established fact that 2020 has been the year of DeFi and this trajectory is only expected to continue into 2021. Maker accounts for 18% of this TVL and still remains the most actively developed DeFi protocol. However, those numbers are...Read More
Crypto-exchanges faced technical issues once again today, as system traffic reached all-time highs. CZ, CEO of Binance, took to Twitter to address connectivity issues on the platform, stating that all funds are SAFU. Binance also faced up to two-minute delays for account/trade data when queried from the API. All time high on system traffic again....Read More
Dogecoin has been called “people’s crypto” by the “former CEO” of the project, Elon Musk. Tesla’s CEO, Musk was waiting for the launch of Falcon 9, after which he had a glance at his newly found interest in cryptocurrencies. Despite favoring and supporting Bitcoin in front of the community, DOGE has been Musk’s first introduction...Read More
It’s been a good few days for the market’s leading cryptocurrencies. Not only did Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, break out of its previous rangebound pattern, but Ethereum too has been registering new ATHs on the price charts. BTC and ETH’s performances had a ripple effect on the larger altcoin market, with cryptos like Binance...Read More
XRP has been alleged to be a security by the United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] and this news has had a major impact on its standing in the US market. However, one of Ripple’s largest partners in Asia, the SBI Group, and its subsidiaries have continued to back the digital asset. To strengthen...Read More
Regardless of its volatility, and the criticism from prominent regulators, Bitcoin has garnered attention from the likes of Elon Musk and other mainstream influencers in the past few weeks. In the words of Marshall Hayner, CEO of Metal Pay, Bitcoin is on its “fourth wave” of adoption. The chief exec believed that the asset reached...Read More
Under the leadership of CEO Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy, which is a leading Bitcoin investor has been lauded for driving mainstream BTC adoption. It appears that the firm has been navigating Bitcoin markets using its own strategies. Almost every time Bitcoin dipped in price, the firm took advantage of market conditions and increased the value of...Read More
The price of Ether is still climbing. On 4 February, the world’s second-largest crypto asset by market cap breached another all-time high. Ether was trading well above $1,600 range, priced at $1,614.16 at press time, across all major crypto exchanges. In the past 24 hours, Ethereum hiked by 5%. Source: Trading View The phased upgrade...Read More
Months before the commencement of the bull run in December 2020, DeFi was receiving all the attention in the summer. Decentralized applications were building a new financial system on Ethereum, and the demand for block space on ETH was rapidly increasing. Soon, yield farming became a common term and the popularity of DeFi triggered further...Read More
Over the past couple of months, there has been a lot of discussion around how the Bitcoin rally is currently being driven by whale traders and institutions. The inclusion of long-term hodlers also comes into the picture, but from the perspective of long-term growth, widespread adoption remains vital. Amidst the current rally, keeping track of...Read More
The much-anticipated Mary hard fork will take place today on the Cardano testnet at 20:20:16 UTC, according to an announcement made by IOHK a few hours ago. Via the said announcement, IOHK also confirmed that the Goguen native token upgrade will take place at the next testnet epoch rollover, transforming Cardano into a multi-asset network....Read More
Litecoin steered clear of its 200-SMA, with a broader market rally likely to push the crypto’s price north of its $154.7-resistance level. NEO could move within a fixed channel over the next few sessions, especially since the trading volumes were subdued across the market. Finally, UNI’s consolidation phase could last for a few more sessions...Read More
DeFi’s market cap hit an all-time high in excess of $40 billion earlier today, with TVL in DeFi protocols touching $30 billion. Despite the $40 billion dollar market cap, however, many argue that it is still relatively early days for the DeFi space. The same was recently highlighted by the DeFi Alliance’s Qiao Wang. Kinda...Read More
Tron was trading within an ascending triangle at the time of writing, but the indicators did not favor a breakout over the next few trading sessions. Aave flashed bullish signals and looked to snap newer highs on the charts while COMP was projected to rise above record levels after a bullish divergence formed on the...Read More
MicroStrategy has been buying consistently throughout Bitcoin’s journey to $40,000 and beyond. What’s different this time, however, is that as of 31 January, cumulative treasury holdings captured a total of 5.85 percent of Bitcoin’s supply. So, how will this influence the current market cycle and the next? Source: Ecoinometrics Before adding Bitcoin to its balance...Read More
If we entertain entities like Robinhood, Coinbase, and SushiSwap in the same bracket, it would hardly make sense to an average listener. After all, these are independent organizations running on their own accord. However, the concept of ripple effect is sound, and currently, something similar might be unraveling in the financial industry. Let us start...Read More
Despite many of the market’s altcoins registering gains on the price charts, cryptos such as Tezos, Ontology, and Verge exhibited some bearishness, at the time of writing. XTZ could shift towards the selling side if the price moves below the 20-SMA (light red). ONT presented the possibility of a southbound breakout, but the bulls could...Read More
Ethereum’s price tested its resistance level for a few weeks, before hitting a new all-time high of $1,540 on the charts, based on data from Santiment. In fact, at the time of writing, on-chain and technical analysis pointed to a short-term top ahead of the CME Futures listing. Another positive sign observed on the charts...Read More
Ethereum [ETH], the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, hit a new all-time high earlier today, with the crypto valued at $1,571, at the time of writing. That wasn’t the only notable development in the crypto’s ecosystem, however, since amidst the rising demand for the digital asset, Grayscale revealed that it had added $38 million worth...Read More
Chainlink has been the center of attention lately, with the protocol in the news following a host of recent integrations and collaborations. It is in the news again after an official announcement revealed that Chainlink has officially joined UNESCO’s Global Education Coalition. According to the said announcement, the aim of this partnership is to “increase...Read More
With market leaders Bitcoin and Ethereum rising by 7.6% and 11.9%, respectively, at the time of writing, altcoins such as Bitcoin Cash, NEM, and DASH rode the bullish wave and recorded gains on the charts. However, BCH and NEM formed bearish divergences and were predicted to fall in the short-term, barring a further rally in...Read More
South Africa is the latest country to come down on cryptocurrency investors, with the South African Revenue Service (SARS) sending audit requests to taxpayers, requesting them to disclose cryptocurrency trades and purchases. The audit request contains questions relating to the purpose for which the taxpayers purchased cryptocurrencies, with SARS also requesting a letter from the...Read More
Over the past year, institutional investment is what many believe drove Bitcoin’s price to reach new ATHs. Moreover, new research found that the asset’s price surges seem to be driven less by hype and have instead gained more trust, based on data from 2017. Among its many conclusions, ARK Invest stated in its “Bitcoin: Preparing...Read More
A new study found that in 2020, darknet markets that offer illegal goods and commodities such as drugs received a total of $1.7 billion worth of cryptocurrency. Specifically, with regard to value sent to or received from darknet markets last year, United States ranked second in Chainalysis’ 2021 Crypto Crime Report. Residents based in US...Read More
On 2 February, Ethereum reached a new all-time high above $1,500, across major exchanges, just days before the launch of the CME Ethereum futures contracts, which is slated for 8 February. The surge in price could have been a result of several positive announcements about the second-largest crypto by market cap. Source: TradingView Recently, asset...Read More
