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Cointelegraph Consulting: Ethereum’s on-chain activity surges and bullish sentiment spikes

October 15, 2020cashtechnews

Is Ethereum’s recent bullish online sentiment good or bad? Short-term holders are now in the black, is a ‘sell zone’ approaching? The latest findings by Santiment, published in Cointelegraph Consulting’s biweekly newsletter, indicates that discussions around Ethereum have switched from highly bearish to predominantly bullish. Historically, this hasn’t meant good news for the token’s price. […]

Escalating DeFi scams tarnishing the crypto yield farming market niche

October 15, 2020cashtechnews

With DeFi scams multiplying by the day, industry stakeholders urge investors to prioritize due diligence before investing in any project. For those active in the decentralized finance arena, hardly a day goes by without a report of one project or another “exit scamming” its investors. From rug-pulling to fake presales, DeFi experts and novice traders […]

Surging Bitcoin futures volume highlights increasing institutional interest

October 14, 2020cashtechnews

Futures volume and open interest spiked at derivatives exchanges after Bitcoin price hit $11.7K, highlighting increasing participation from institutional investors. On Oct. 12 Bitcoin price (BTC) pushed above $11,700 on Binance and data shows trading at derivatives exchanges also began to spike. According to data from Skew, CME Bitcoin futures open interest has started to […]

Why didn’t the Kucoin hack or legal action against BitMEX seem to impact Bitcoin?

October 14, 2020cashtechnews

Bitcoin may have solidified a price base due to big player purchases. BitMEX recently faced major U.S. legal action, and KuCoin suffered a significant hack, all inside a several-day span — but why did these events not affect Bitcoin’s price in a more negative way? Aleks Svetski, CEO of Bitcoin investment app Amber, said it […]

Multiple data points suggest Bitcoin’s 2017-style bull run has begun

October 14, 2020cashtechnews

Social sentiment data, strengthening fundamentals and on-chain analysis suggest Bitcoin is on the verge of a 2017-style bull run. Last week, Bitcoin (BTC) saw its price rise 6.95%, rising from $10,804 on October 5 to $11,555 by October 12. The surge marked the best performing week for the price of Bitcoin since July and data […]

UK FCA crypto derivatives ban ignored 97% of consultation respondents

October 14, 2020cashtechnews

The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority is accused of ignoring its own consultation and cherry-picking data. Last week’s blanket banning of cryptocurrency derivatives by the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority ignored 97% of respondents to its consultation, according to the FCA’s own policy statement. The 527 respondents included exchanges and companies involved in crypto assets and […]

Competition for global crypto derivatives market dominance heats up

October 13, 2020cashtechnews

Despite Binance recording the highest crypto derivatives volume in September, OKEx seems to be fighting back. At the start of October, the crypto market was faced with extremely tumultuous financial conditions, thanks in large part to the recent filings against BitMEX, which saw the company’s top brass being indicted by the United States Commodity Futures […]

Bitcoin price dump ‘not going to happen’ as whales stay off exchanges

October 13, 2020cashtechnews

The post-BitMEX trading arena is not skewed to selling despite BTC/USD nearing $11,500, CryptoQuant data shows. A Bitcoin (BTC) sell-off and associated price fall are “not going to happen,” a well-known the CEO of a well-known analytics tool has said. In a tweet on Oct. 12, Ki Young Ju, CEO of CryptoQuant, noted that average […]

CFTC chairman admits regulation must keep up with innovation

October 12, 2020cashtechnews

The U.S. government is behind on innovation by a wide margin, says official. Speaking at the digital LA Blockchain Summit, Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman, Heath Tarbert, said U.S. regulation lags behind crypto and blockchain. “I would be the first to agree with you that innovation is unlikely to come from the government,” Tarbert told interviewer […]

DeFi market fall showcases how rising TVL doesn’t tell the full story

October 12, 2020cashtechnews

Could the DeFi market be a bubble as both market capitalization and indices crash? The decentralized finance market seems to be deflating after the DeFi summer craze when tokenized versions of Bitcoin and protocols, such as Uniswap and SushiSwap, outperformed the rest of the market. Earlier in October, the two main DeFi indices, Binance’s DeFi […]

Tag: derivatives

Surging Bitcoin futures volume highlights increasing institutional interest

Why didn’t the Kucoin hack or legal action against BitMEX seem to impact Bitcoin?

Multiple data points suggest Bitcoin’s 2017-style bull run has begun

UK FCA crypto derivatives ban ignored 97% of consultation respondents

Competition for global crypto derivatives market dominance heats up

Bitcoin price dump ‘not going to happen’ as whales stay off exchanges

CFTC chairman admits regulation must keep up with innovation

DeFi market fall showcases how rising TVL doesn’t tell the full story

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