With Bitcoin’s price rallying, altcoins that are strongly correlated to the world’s largest cryptocurrency are set to benefit immensely from it. However, one unusual category of projects, DeFi, may benefit from Bitcoin’s rally too, despite its top projects being inversely correlated with Bitcoin. Correlation of cryptocurrency projects with BTC || Source: Cryptowatch Based on data...Read More
Polkadot announced that a new trustless wrapped Bitcoin – PolkaBTC- will be released on its blockchain in early 2021. This will be Polkadot’s first trustless wrapped Bitcoin which the platform deemed as a critical step toward an interoperable ecosystem. The tokenized bitcoin, which will enable users to mint 1:1 bitcoin-backed assets onto Polkadot, is being...Read More
While DeFi has been one of the keywords of the year for the digital asset industry, Wrapped Bitcoins or WBTC has been one of the definite highlights of the Decentralized Finance space. The growth of WBTC has been nothing less than extraordinary, and at the time of writing the total valued locked in WBTC is...Read More
The Bitcoin spot market may be wrestling with the resistances and support, but synthetic Bitcoin tokens have been increasing. According to reports there were over $700 million worth of synthetic bitcoin tokens circulating on the Ethereum blockchain and Wrapped Bitcoin [WBTC] commanded a large number of coins amounting to almost 63%. WBTC has been witnessing...Read More
Bitcoin has set on a rally with the beginning of the last month of the quarter. The largest asset’s price increased from $11,515 at midnight to $11,966.84, until an hour back, which could be due to the interest flowing into the BTC market. Even though the beginning of September was looking strong, the final week...Read More
Wrapped BTC aka WBTC locked in DeFi has hit a new high of 33,762 WBTC. At bitcoin’s current price this puts the total value of WBTC to about $400 million. The implications of this are many and the key factors are addressed in this article. Defi and Bitcoin With DeFi mania increasing every day it...Read More
Last week, when Arcane Research reported that the number of Bitcoin transactions going up was not met by high transaction fees on-chain, people shifted their attention to SegWit. It was soon found that SegWit usage in 2020 is becoming popular again and 65 percent of the transactions are using digital signatures. It was a monumental...Read More
