Open interest for Bitcoin options almost touched $6 billion. Amid an ongoing bull run of Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin options are hitting a new historical milestone. Bitcoin options are derivative contracts that grant the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell BTC at a predetermined price. According to data from Skew, Bitcoin […]
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Newly launched DeFi derivatives platform Perpetual Protocol crosses open interest milestone in barely 24 hours. Perpetual Protocol, a new DeFi derivatives exchange, revealed that the platform had already crossed its $500,000 open interest (OI) cap for decentralized perpetual contracts. The announcement is coming less than 24 hours after the mainnet launch of the service on Wednesday. Following […]
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Institutions make mincemeat of the whales who just recently held huge sway over market sentiment below $20,000. Bitcoin (BTC) is seeing a new kind of “flippening” above $20,000 as its original whales keep selling their coins to bigger institutional buyers. Data from on-chain analytics service CryptoQuant shows that despite long-term investors rushing to offload BTC […]
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The price of BNT, the native token of the Bancor protocol, spiked by 86% in two days. The price of BNT, the native token of Bancor, surged 86% in merely two days from $1.02 to $1.919. The rally was fueled by a combination of Coinbase listing BNT and the growing volume of Bancor’s DEX. The […]
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Speaking at a DeFi summit, Compound Finance founder Robert Leshner is confident that CeFi will embrace DeFi. Compound Finance founder, Robert Leshner, says that CeFi will inevitably embrace DeFi and there are signs it is already occurring. Speaking at the REDeFiNE TOMORROW — Global DeFi and Blockchain Virtual Summit in Bangkok, Thailand today, Leshner aired […]
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A snapshot for the Spark airdrop may have caused a record spike in Ethereum address creation. Ethereum address creation hit a 35-month high on December 14 when 177,000 new addresses were added to the network according to analysts from Santiment. The analytics provider reported that its network growth metric showed Ethereum adding 177,500 addresses in […]
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A handful of DeFi tokens are producing double-digit gains as Bitcoin price fights to turn $19,500 to a strong support level. The world’s negative-yielding debt has soared to over $18 trillion according to Bloomberg. In such times, it is no surprise that the decentralized finance space, a place where mouth-watering yields can be found, has […]
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The exchange is hosted on a layer two platform and uses Dai for margin. Leverj, a non-custodial derivatives platform based on an Ethereum sidechain, announced on Tuesday their cooperation with leading industry participants to support the launch and marketing of its exchange. The exchange offers perpetual swaps for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), accepting both […]
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A new proof of concept shows how blockchain increases value across the supply chain. The World Economic Forum is progressing with its blockchain-based project tracking of greenhouse gas emissions. According to a Dec. 15 announcement, the WEF’s Mining and Metals Blockchain Initiative, or MMBI, has released a proof of concept to trace carbon emissions for […]
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Robert Kiyosaki, the best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, says Bitcoin is heading to $50,000 in 2021. The Bitcoin price (BTC) is heading to $50,000 in 2021, says the best-selling author of “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” Robert Kiyosaki. Kiyosaki pinpointed the “wall of institutional money” is coming to Bitcoin in 2021, which could push […]
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